The 1st lord in the 6th house puts the planet ruling your ascendant into the house of service, competition, obstacles, debt and disease. This is the placement that generates more alarm than any other in the set, and most of that alarm is misplaced. The 6th is a dusthana, which is why people worry about … Read more
The 1st lord in the 5th house puts the planet ruling your ascendant into the house of children, intelligence, creativity and romance. Both houses are trikonas, the dharma trine of 1, 5 and 9, so this is a trikona lord placed in another trikona, which classical tradition treats as one of the more constructive arrangements … Read more
The 1st lord in the 4th house puts the planet ruling your ascendant into the house of home, mother, land and emotional foundation. The self gets routed through where a person belongs, which produces someone identified with their place in a way most people are not. The 4th is a kendra and it is also … Read more
The 1st lord in the 3rd house puts the planet ruling your ascendant into the house of effort, courage, siblings and communication. The self gets routed through what a person does for themselves rather than through what they are given, which makes this one of the more self-made placements in the chart. The 3rd is … Read more
The 1st lord in the 2nd house puts the planet ruling your ascendant into the house of wealth, family and speech. The self gets routed through what a person holds and what they say, which is a specific and recognisable arrangement: identity built on resources, on the family one came from, and very often on … Read more
The 1st lord in the 1st house means the planet ruling your ascendant sign is sitting in the ascendant itself. This placement has a property no other lord-and-house combination has, and it is worth stating before anything else: it is the same planet in its own sign for every one of the twelve ascendants, without … Read more
Ketu in Revati means Ketu was placed between 16 degrees 40 minutes and 30 degrees of Pisces at your birth, in the twenty-seventh and final nakshatra, ruled by Mercury and presided over by Pushan, the nourisher and guide of roads. Pisces belongs to Jupiter, so the character being concentrated and then released is faith, breadth … Read more
Ketu in Uttara Bhadrapada means Ketu was placed between 3 degrees 20 minutes and 16 degrees 40 minutes of Pisces at your birth, in the twenty-sixth nakshatra, ruled by Saturn and presided over by Ahir Budhnya, the serpent of the deep. Pisces belongs to Jupiter, so the character being concentrated and then released is faith, … Read more
Ketu in Purva Bhadrapada means Ketu was placed between 20 degrees of Aquarius and 3 degrees 20 minutes of Pisces at your birth, in the twenty-fifth nakshatra, ruled by Jupiter and presided over by Aja Ekapada, the unborn one-footed one. The dispositor is Saturn for the first three quarters and Jupiter for the fourth, and … Read more
Ketu in Shatabhisha means Ketu was placed between 6 degrees 40 minutes and 20 degrees of Aquarius at your birth, in the twenty-fourth nakshatra, ruled by Rahu and presided over by Varuna. Aquarius belongs to Saturn, so the character being concentrated and then released is system, patience and structure. This is the third and last … Read more