Jagannath Hora

Ask why somebody settled abroad and the chart answer usually offered is a strong 12th house, or Rahu, or a well-placed 9th. Ask why somebody with all of those never left, and the answer is almost always sitting in the house nobody checked. The 4th. The 4th house is the base: home, mother, land, the … Read more

The 9th house has a reputation problem in foreign settlement readings. It is the house of long journeys, so every kundali with a busy 9th gets told it will settle abroad, and a large fraction of them never do. They travel superbly. They study overseas, attend conferences on three continents, hold stamps from twenty countries, … Read more

Every kundali carries two ascendants. The lagna, fixed by the birth time, describes circumstance: what actually happens, which doors open, where the body ends up living. The Moon, taken as a second ascendant, describes the same life from the inside: what the mind consents to, what it grieves for, what it can actually inhabit. Parashari … Read more

A great many charts show foreign travel. Far fewer show foreign settlement. The two look similar from the outside and they are read from different houses, which is why a person can spend twenty years crossing borders for work, study and conferences and still find that living abroad permanently never quite happens. This page sets … Read more