Jyotish — the science of light · door 5 of 11
The twelve bhavas
Houses — the twelve fields of a life
Match the sky
0 of 6 matchedTap one on the left, then its partner on the right.
Three questions to seal this door
1. The tenth house speaks of —
2. The kendras (angular houses) are —
3. The houses are counted from —
The rishi's scroll — read more, if you wish
A rashi is a piece of the sky; a bhava is a piece of your life. Counted from the lagna — the rashi rising at your birth — the twelve houses are twelve fields: the self, wealth, courage, home, children, service, partnership, the hidden, dharma, work, gains, and release.
Four houses are kendras — 1, 4, 7 and 10, the pillars of a chart. Three are trikonas — 1, 5 and 9, the houses of dharma and grace. A graha in a kendra acts strongly; a graha in a trikona acts kindly.
Reading a chart is reading which graha sits in which house, in which rashi. That one sentence is most of the craft — and the rest of this course is how to say it without fear.
| House | Speaks of |
|---|---|
| 1 | the body and the self you arrive as |
| 2 | speech, family wealth, what you hold |
| 3 | courage, effort, siblings, your own hands |
| 4 | the heart, mother, home, the ground under you |
| 5 | intelligence, children, purva-punya — what you brought with you |
| 6 | service, obstacles overcome, discipline, health kept by work |
| 7 | the partner, and every agreement you make |
| 8 | what is hidden, inherited, endured, and transformed |
| 9 | dharma, the guru, the father, the long road |
| 10 | karma — your work in the world, and what it is for |
| 11 | gains, the wider circle, what comes back to you |
| 12 | release, retreat, what you give away, and moksha |
The tables on this page are drawn from the same data VEDAUM reads charts with. The teaching text awaits a jyotishi's review, like every teaching page here.