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Okay, so this podcast we will talk about the houses, house number one to house number 12 and what they mean in Vedic Astrology terms.
Right out the back you got to understand that Vedic Astrology interprets the house even in physical terms, the physical parts of the body, organs of the body.
For example, the first house represents the head and 12th house it goes all the way till feet.
So even the health issues that one may get you can determine from the houses and the planets deposited etc. etc.
So the first house let's take the first house. We will discuss the house again in terms of energies that they carry and the karaka or the doer of the house.
Karaka means one who does in Sanskrit, one who provides the energy for that house as in planetary terms here we speak of.
So we will go through the house, the characteristics of the house, which part of the body it represents, who is the karaka or the doer of the house and what is the maturity age of the house.
Three things. We will even visit the energies of the house itself.
Meaning we will talk about energies, we will talk about karaka and we will talk about the maturity of the house, maturity age.
When does it mature? At what age of a person's life does a house mature? These are concepts from Vedic Astrology.
So the first house represents the self, the psyche, the entire physiology and constitution of the body, the innate nature, the personality, the character, temperament, ego, power and status as felt by the individual.
The empirical sense of self, self-worth, dignity, fame, splendor, general welfare, happiness, status in society, complexion of the individual, vitality, longevity and victory over enemies, strength, vigor and even represents the place of birth and part of birth.
The first house is the karaka, the sun. The energies are of Rajas and Dharma, which means the need to find a path and purpose.
And the maturity age of the house is 31 to 33 years old. So really speaking, the self or the person's mind, head, matures at 31 to 33 years as per the Vedic text.
So you are going to understand a couple of things right out the back here. If you are talking in terms of head maturity, the head is given the most prime importance, the driver of the soul as the sun being the karaka, meaning even your 4 out of 5 senses reside in the head, think about that.
Only the touch sense goes to the rest of the body. That's how powerful the soul's significator of the head is. It depends. The sun acts, your soul acts through the mind, through the intellect, predominantly for everyone.
So that's the first house. The second house, we move from head downwards, we go all the way till feet. So the second house represents face, your face.
The house type of energy is Rajas, Artha, Artha meaning the means, the need to acquire necessary resources and abilities to provide ourselves. What do we want to provide the ourselves for to fulfill our path and purpose?
The karaka is Jupiter. Jupiter is the provider of many houses. We shall see a pattern with Jupiter later. The maturity age of the house is 34 to 36 years.
So what is the second house? It stands for the face. It stands for deliberate actions, motivation, interest, hobbies. It stands for speech. It stands for facial features. It stands for right eye for the male and left eye for the female.
In general, eyesight, it also stands for all the senses of which are in the head like nose, like lips, like eyes, the facial part of it, where our prime facial features are.
The second house also stands for elder siblings, our immediate family, self or the created family. You see, you have born into one family and then you have your own family, husband, wife or children.
It stands for your immediate family. You see how the graduation takes place. The first house is you. The second house is what you immediately have in your circle.
Even the circle of the people around you expands in the context as you go from one house to the other.
So the second house is your immediate family. You are elder siblings. You are born and let's say there are already some siblings you have, they become elder siblings.
Your family, what is the energy of your family that can be told from the second house? The third house is the house of hobbies, of sports, of things with the hand because now we have come from the face to the hands, the shoulders, the arms.
So the third house represents think of everything that arms can do. It represents short term travel. It represents communication as in writing.
The second house for speech, third house for communication, even writing abilities. Social media, correspondence, strength and courage, stamina, physical stamina because arms have to do with physical stuff.
What do you do in the world? It's the beginning of initiation into spiritual practices. All things heard. It can be talents and hobbies that you have.
You can be playing on musical instruments which require manual skills, computer skills, writing skills. You can be a writer with a powerful third house. Short distance travel.
It also represents the beginning of sexual prowess. Sexual life does begin in the third house.
So the energies of the house itself is Rajasthan Kama. Kama means desires and it's a moving energy as we spoke of in Satva Rajasthan Thomas.
So this becomes the need for desires and enjoyment. There has to be that enjoyment factor in our life. If you want to get anywhere, one cannot have a dry life.
Nobody wants a dry purpose filled life with no enjoyment in it. You have to like what you do. The Karaka of the house or the doer providing energies to this house is Mars.
Depending upon what Mars is placed in your chart, this house will gain strength or it will become weak.
Maturity age of the house is 37 to 39 years of age.
The fourth house, now we come down from the arms. What comes after the arms below? The chest. The heart. Fourth house is the heart energy.
It stands for the mother, the motherland. The vehicles, fixed property, real estate, land, houses, agriculture and otherwise.
Emotions and happiness, the emotional world. We come to the fourth house, we come to the emotions. One of the key houses in Vedic astrology.
One, four, seven and ten are considered the key and they are the most important houses in a person's chart. So we come to the second one of the prime houses.
The fourth house stands for the heart. Guess what is important to us human beings? It's the heart. It also stands for everything that mother is represented by in your life.
Mother, or stepmother, or motherland, your native home, your town, your country. It stands for underground treasures.
Everything to do with houses, gardens, the earth, Gaia is represented by fourth house, the heart.
It also represents moral virtues, piety, righteous conduct, character, good name, reputation. It's the ultimate place of residence.
Suppose some planets are placed, the lord of the fourth house is placed in let's say 12th house or the ninth house you might have had abroad from the place of residence.
That might be your home. Chest and lungs area, heart and upper spine are represented as physical parts on the body which are governed by the fourth house.
The energies of the fourth house is Satva and Moksha. Moksha is the need to find liberation and enlightenment from the world.
It is a Satvik house. That means whatever it provides goes directly to the soul energy.
The Karaka, there are three Karaka's for this house. Moon, Venus and Mars. Wherever moon, Venus and Mars houses and planets are placed in your chart,
we'll show you what kind of a sense one you have for the mother, for the motherland, for the heart, all these areas of the fourth house.
The maturity age of the house is 40 to 45 years of age. Mature is quite late. Between 40 to 45 a person really has come into one's own heart, one might say.
The fifth house we go further down from the chest area, we come to the stomach, the belly. You can even go take this further up to the chakra's level.
The fifth house becomes a naval chakra and the stomach as the organ, as the body part that is governed by the fifth house.
What does it stand for? Naval chakra, what does it stand for? It stands for creative intelligence, knowledge, education, sense of self, memory, talents, judgment, discretion, merits from the past life.
Knowledge as in education, your degrees, your college degree, etc. It represents creative intelligence or your creativity, maybe in hobbies, maybe in other fields.
Whatever your hobbies and whatever your sense of creativity is, remember hobbies we read on the third house, but creative intelligence that provides that energy comes from your belly, comes from the gut. It's the creative intelligence.
It's also stuff where you study, do college degrees, education, your basic education. It's also the house of romance and love. How you perceive romance and how you perceive love is represented in the fifth house.
It is also a house of speculation, prosperity and nature of spouse. It's a house of speculation in terms of you want, you are a gambler or you take calculators in the stock market, etc.
That kind of a speculation we are talking about. Financial speculation. The past life good karma or bad one is represented in the fifth house also.
So it's the belly energy. That's why we have a gut feeling about many things. It's a powerful representation of self in the world, in the external world.
It's also college or higher education like we talked about. It is represented in stomach, lower heart, liver, spleen, lower back and kidneys.
The energies of the house are Satva and Dharma. Dharma what does it mean? The need to find path and purpose. So this is second one of the Satvik houses.
And therefore it is ruled by a Satvik Karaka, Jupiter. All Satvik houses will be ruled by Satvik planets. The Tamasic houses will be ruled by Tamasic planets. That's simple.
So the Karaka is Jupiter and the age of maturity of the fifth house becomes 46 to 51 years. That's when a person really knows what their creative intelligence is and what they can do with it.
Sixth house is the house or now we come further from the stomach which becomes in intestines, urinary bladder, lower back, lower waist level, pancreas, small intestine.
So we are going again physically downwards also of the human body. That's the sixth house. So what does it represent?
Remember whenever you are too worried you always get a belly ache or an upset stomach because of the intestine energy going south there.
So what is the fifth sixth house? Stand for that right. They give you the hint. It stands for worries, anxieties, obstacles, enemies, thieves, vices or challenges, tests.
Your daily work, your daily routine is also in the sixth house. It's called the Dushan house or the bad house because there's all bad stuff in it.
It's obstacles to opportunities. It's a difference of opinion. It's debts and diseases, suffering, daily job, everyday you have to go and do something.
That's the sixth house. Nobody wants to do a work. Everybody wants to chill. But daily routine or daily job which you go to in a work or business or something requires grind.
It's a daily grind. Day to day grind of work is the sixth house.
Okay. This is also a house of criticism, critical thoughts being critical to others.
So the energies of the house is Thomas as you can see. It's all dense. It's all producing work and opposition in the world, in the external world.
So sixth house really starts your external work in the world, be it in the house or outside of the house. The place doesn't matter but it's your interaction as a self with the rest of the world.
That's what sixth house represents. So, the energies of the house are Thomas and Artha. Artha is the need to acquire resources, abilities to provide for the path and purpose.
So if you want to do something in the world, if you want to get something done in the world, you have to produce your work. Like our own individual contribution to the collective or to the family as the case may be is represented in the sixth house.
The Karaka of the house, as you might have guessed, is Mars because Mars wants to deal with enemies. It wants to deal with work. It wants, it's a soldier.
Remember we talked about the planetary energies. So Mars is the first of the Thomasic planets. It rules this. It's a Karaka of this.
The maturity of the house is 52 to 57 years of age. So this is where really a person starts knowing what their daily routine was, what are their enemies about.
And it requires quite a bit of maturity in terms of heart, mind and age if you think about it to understand what your enemies were in life. Be it in your family, siblings, external, social media, anywhere in your circle.
It really requires that much age. 52 to 57 years is when sixth house matures. Coming to the seventh house, we come lower than the intestine. What is there after the intestine?
It's the external sexual organs, its sexuality, its sexual habits. It's a large intestine in the anal area. You're coming down physically in the human body also.
So what does seventh house stands for? It stands for the spouse, the husband or the wife or the partner or the lover or the marriage, sexual affairs, medium term desires.
It also stands for the business partner, cooperation, trade and commerce and travel, journeys, litigation, living abroad, nature of spouse. What kind of spouse will you have?
The relationship with others, the world is large, at large can be seen from the seventh house. So seventh to twelfth houses is where a person really goes externally directed or focused.
The first to sixth houses are basically you're growing up in the house. The circumstances, the talent you were born with, kind of personality you were born with, etc. as we saw.
Seventh house onwards, you really start going externally. When you talk spouse, it's the first external closest interaction, isn't it?
So the energies of the house are rages and karma desires. Again, we come to the second of the desiring houses.
The karaka of the house, because it is rages, it is ruled by Venus. Venus wants all this. Venus wants a partner, a husband or a wife or a lover.
So the maturity age of the house is 58 to 65 years. If you look at it one way, this is the age the person is really suited to have a spouse.
It's funny, it works out that way. Never mind.
So now we go further down from the sexual organs. Eighth house. Eighth house stands for what? It goes to internal sexual organs, anal area, testis for male, uterus for female, chronic or long term diseases, incurable diseases.
This is another one of the Dushetana houses or the bad house, because what does the eighth house stand for? It provides longevity, transformation.
Mechanics of nature is understood. The cognition and structure and dynamics of consciousness is understood in the eighth house. It's the house of occult.
It's the house of mysticism, the experience of the universe, the knowledge of the past, present and future, transcendence, regeneration, rebirth or it can always be chronic ailments, agonies, accidents, sudden ups and downs is the eighth house.
Mode of death, wealth of spouse. Now this is an interesting aspect, wealth of spouse. Why? Because it stands opposite the second house. Second house is wealth earned by you.
Eighth house becomes wealth of others, in this case after marriage. It's also the life of marriage, eighth house. You got married to a person, you fell in love.
Now what happens after marriage? The intimacy aspects, the physical aspects, the secrets of the spouse, everything is buried in the eighth house. Eighth house is a deep dive.
It's occult and metaphysics. Okay. Trying to uncover hidden things. Eighth house is a Scorpio house. That's why everything is hidden.
So it also represents inheritance, legacies, change of lifestyle, residence, job or other activities in a person's life.
Organs we already talked of, the energy is of moksha. When you go a deep dive into these aspects of occult, that's when you begin your direction of as soul towards moksha, towards liberation.
You change the direction, doesn't mean you necessarily attain it. But you change the direction and path, that itself is a huge thing.
So it's a moksha house, the need to find liberation and enlightenment. The karaka of this house, because it provides all kinds of ups and downs in life, is Saturn, the Tamas planet.
Saturn also governs everything mystical. Okay. And the age of the majority of the house is 66 years onwards.
So you really understand all these aspects, deep aspects of human living after 66.
Ninth house stands for dharma, support of nature, merits from past lives.
Fortune, wisdom, higher education and learning, higher education and learning, training takes place in the fifth ninth house.
So let us see more details about how the ninth house plays out. Ninth house is for your thais. Now we have come to the thai area.
It stands for dharma. Dharma means the path and the purpose, the true purpose of our existence as individuals.
The support of nature merits from the past lives. Whatever your past life, good deeds or fortunes show up in the ninth house, how well your ninth house is doing.
It's wisdom, it's meditation, it's philosophy, it's a world view, it's cross cultural views, accepting people of all faiths, good morality, higher education, professional training.
Your education of your children, higher education of your children, remember fifth house was for basic education, ninth house is for higher education.
Let's say you just want to do a science college degree and then later you want to do PhD or doctorate in December.
That comes from the ninth house, how well your ninth house is doing.
It's solution to problems, foreign travels, air travels, destiny and luck.
It stands for university's research, crystallized wisdom. This implies belief in faith, religion, spirituality, etc.
It's crossing the intellectual boundaries, crossing mercury into Jupiter. Mercury is intellect, Jupiter is wisdom.
That's why the Karaka of this house is Jupiter and it's a Dharma house. This is where you learn, it's a house of higher learning of all kinds.
It's also the place of foreign residence, publishing, import, export.
It's all the organs stands for the hips, the thighs and the tailbone area in physical body.
We've already come to that part of the body.
The maturity age of the house is 1 to 24 years. Ninth house is where all these matures, the learning part of the human matures.
The ninth house, now I come to the tenth house, the house of carriers, the house of occupation, fame, reputation, prestige, success and status in society.
What you gain from the learning, you give it away into the society in the form of your work or your business.
It stands for promotion, rank, renown, fame, ambition, authority, royalty, ruling power, sense of importance.
The self-desire gets all these things from the world, the family, your education, everything is provided to you. Now you're giving it back.
It's an externally directed energy. It stands for the government, your image at work, your recognition from government, etc.
So it's an artha house, the three karakas for it, or three doership for it.
How well your satan is placed, mercury is placed and sun is placed to determine the rank and position one gets as a result in their life.
So satan, mercury and sun are the karakas of the doership of this house.
Maturity age of the house is 25, 26, that's when your real work in the external world begins. Maturity is when it starts.
It's not the end point of things, it's the start of things.
Start of the age of maturity of the house.
So 11th house, we now we come to the 10th house for knees, so now we come to the calves, everything below the knees, up till the ankles, calves and ankles.
So 11th house stands for gains, income, rewards from job, promotion, wealth. It's a house of gaining wealth.
Second house was for wealth you gain by your work.
11th house is the house of rewards, long term desires in your bucket list fulfillment.
It also stands for the elder siblings, ears and hearing.
Social media, people want presents in social media a lot. Everybody wants followers for everything.
So this is the followership, how much followers of popularity you have will be in the 11th house.
It stands for good news or species events, elder brothers and sisters, elder siblings, air travel, circle of friends, community, your club life.
So the Lord of the Karaka of the 11th house is Jupiter.
Jupiter will provide the energy for how much you gain in life and the maturity age of the house starts at 27 to 28 years old.
The last one after the gains, the loss of gains, last one 12th house or the feet stands for expenses, losses, wastes, loss of relativity, gain of spirituality.
So this is the ironical thing of how the Vedic texts put it, loss of one is gain of something else.
There is always gain of something else in life. It's not just about losing money, it's not just about losing health, it's about gain of spirituality.
A person or a soul comes to spirituality only usually when losses happen.
When a person is having a lot of externally focused desires and achievement like money, like good partnership, like love and sex and romance and creativity,
it's all externally directed and it's more ego centric. The loss of ego happens only in the 12th house.
Because there are losses of all kinds, there may be death, there may be loss of attachment, loss of identification, donations and charity, journey to far off lands, ashrams, lonely places, monasteries.
Okay, so it's a hidden life like the 8th house, it has similar qualities of the 8th house. That's why this is the second of the moksha houses.
This also includes sleep and sexual activity, foreign residence, hidden strengths and weaknesses, hidden enemies, hidden intuition.
Inclusion is hidden from the world. Its feet stands for the feet, left eye for the males, right eye for the females.
So it might relate to sleep related diseases like insomnia. It's a moksha house. It provides you liberation from the material aspects.
The last of the house, the feet and the karaka therefore becomes satan, satan being the tamasic planet.
So satan also rules the house of 8 and rules the house of 12, karaka.
So it provides energy for your true hidden meanings of life, what you're really hidden for.
Sorry, what is the hidden meaning behind what you came here for? Getting into the energy of satan.
Satan will last to go deep underground, dig for stuff which is hidden, just subconscious. Everything comes in 8th and 12th house.
So satan is the karaka. Age of the house, maturity starts at 29 to 30 years.
So these are the 12 houses which go from right from head till the feet of a human being.
And they provide different kind of maturity, a different age segments in a person's life.
And what they are about is very significant and how the planets are placed.
Different planets are actually deposited in different houses will determine the actual karmic imprint of a person and what they bring to this life.
Remember the houses all carry their own energy by default for everyone.
But specifically when the planets are deposited in your chart will determine what you are here to do, what will give you joy.
Irrespective of what you gain and lose, remember gaining and losing is very 3D kind of concept.
From the time you are born, take the first breath till the last breath.
We are constantly quote unquote losing energy all the time in one or the other things.
It might be relationships, it might be in putting our efforts in education, it might be putting efforts in job, in spouse, in marriage, in children, in siblings.
In family, in society at large you are constantly losing energy no matter what.
If you want to think in terms of winning or gaining or losing, you are losing it.
In terms of spirituality when one goes inward, it's basically you are gaining and withdrawing your energy from everything, all these aspects of your life.
If you are withdrawing, you are pulling your energy back. When you pull your energy back, then you really go inward, then you really become self-ish, you become directed at the self.
That's the whole picture of the 12 houses of winning astrology and how they play out in every single person's life.
Now the only question we are trying to drive at and do here is what will you do next?
Where will you put your energy and the best foot forward so to speak?
Will you put it in the houses which you are good at, where your ascendant is and how the planets are showing up in your chart?
That would be the best way to begin with. You can grow from there on, of course there is always growth.
But predominantly you would want to put your energy in one place to begin with.
The start of the journey in my opinion should be in taking a conscious cognizance of your chart, your ascendant, your moon, sun, Jupiter, all these planets and see what would be working best for you.
And from there on we move forward. That's the purpose of progressive astrology. It's not for just for predictive astrology as opposed to progressive.
Progressive astrology is about knowing yourself first. It's like if I want to go from Los Angeles to San Diego, I need to take a specific route on the road.
I need to take a specific directional path, plot on my GPS and then start driving my car.
But if I am going from Miami to Los Angeles, the path will become very different as you know.
So if you know the direction of your start point which is the chart, then you can better plot your GPS to achieve your destination.
It's that simple folks to make it too complicated.
Alright folks, enough for today and we will tomorrow discuss about some other deeper aspects of astrology.
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