Tips To Assess Strength Of Horoscope

By Suchitra Das

To begin with, 10 simple steps are as follow.

• The strength of Lagna/Lagna Lord, Sun & Moon who are the tripods of a horoscope need to be seen first.
• Concentration of planets in Kendra houses (1, 4, 7 & 10). More the numbers of these houses are occupied by natural benefics or by the lord of these houses, more the strength to the horoscope.
• Concentration of planets in Trikone houses (5^th & 9^th houses) which are the abode of Goddess Lakshmi. Lagna is both Kendra & Trikone.
• Spread of planets in Upachaya houses (3, 6, 10 & 11) as these houses indicate the extent of success a person is likely to get in his toil and his courage.
• Benefic yogas exist in the horoscope, more the number of these yogas, more the strength to the horoscope. Yogas should also be seen in Divisional Charts.
• Parashari Dasha sequences. Planets with strength participating in Raj Yogas/Dhan Yogas in Birth Horoscope and Divisional Horoscopes confer these results during their Dashas. Position of Dasha Planets from the respective Karakas (significators).
• Placement of planets especially in Navamsha Chart with reference to the Navamsha Lagna, Birth Lagna and their respective position in Natal Horoscope. Planets in Pushkar Navamsha.
• Successive benefic placement of planets in Shodashvarga (in 16 important Divisional Charts). More such benefic placements, more the strength to the horoscope.
• Planets related to 64^th Navamsha, 22^nd Drekkana & Mrityu Bhaga inflicts death like suffering especially during their Dasha periods. Similarly, planets related to Trika houses (6, 8 & 12) are supposed to give evil result.
• Asthakavarga strength of each houses of horoscope. Positive number of bindu contribution of each planet to a particular house through their Binna-Asthakavarga charts.

Under this 10 simple beginning steps, let me analyse the childhood of a nativity of the given model horoscope. The birth details have been withdrawn for the obvious reason of anonymity.

Model Horoscope in tabular format of a male nativity

• First note, three planets viz. Mercury, Venus & Saturn who are natural friends of Lagna Lord and Lagna Lord itself are retrograde. Jupiter is in its last degrees. None of the planets are exalted or in own house or in a friendly house other than Sun and Mars are in friendly signs with 9^th lord Mercury being combust. Mutual aspects among the planets are absent other than Saturn aspecting Rahu in 12^th house and Mars aspecting Ketu in 6^th house carrying hardly any positive meaning for him. All these resulted in an initial pulling down effect on his luck. The native born to an average family with a humble start of life.
• Born in Rahu Dasha, which continued upto July 1961 followed by Jupiter Dasha upto July 1977.
• Lagna is occupied by Jupiter (3^rd & 6^th lord) & Moon (10^th lord). Gajkesari Yoga in Lagna and Jupiter has directional strength added strength to the Lagna. But, Jupiter as a weak 6^th lord being in last degrees and his placement in an airy sign with watery planet Moon has given him chronic asthmatic problem. As soon as Jupiter Dasha began, the native developed the Asthmatic problem. However, still with his chronic asthmatic problem the native is living normal life and handsome to look at because of Jupiter’s involvement in Gajkesari Yoga and placement of 10^th lord Moon in Lagna negated the adverse result to some extent.
• Lagna lord Venus in 11^th house with 7^th & 2^nd lord Mars and hence afflicted. However, placement of Mars as 2^nd lord in 11^th house is Dhan Yoga, which is a planetary protection against penury for him. Moreover, conjunction of Mars, a youthful planet with Lagna Lord Venus, the Karaka of beauty made him looking youthful and younger to his actual age.
• Sun is in 10^th house having directional strength and being with Mercury given rise to Budhaditya Yoga. Combination of 11^th lord Sun and 9^th lord Mercury (though combust) is Dhan Yoga, too, in the house of profession, which is one more planetary protection against penury through profession.
• The native has also got Parijata Yoga, as the dispositor of Lagna Lord Venus is Sun who is in 10^th house, which is a Kendra. Native with such a yoga struggle in his early life but fate starts blooming gradually as the age progresses. Presently, the native is a Gazetted Officer with the Government.
• Two Kendras (Lagna & 10^th house), three Upachaya houses (3, 6 & 11) and one Trikone (Lagna) are occupied by 8 planets with only Rahu in Trika house (12^th house). Sum of all these are clear indication that the native has the planetary support atleast to sail out from any struggling situations how grave they could be for him.
• Rahu in 12^th house indicates hospitalization. The native had undergone major hernia operation during his infancy in Rahu – Mars. (Mars is the significator of surgery afflicting his Lagna Lord Venus, the functional significator of health/body).
• The native had his school education in a boarding school, which is expensive. The expenses in boarding school is clearly seen in the horoscope because of the placement of 4^th lord Saturn in 3^rd house, which is 12^th house from 4^th house indicating expenses on boarding schooling. Moreover, the strength of Sun (significator of father) and 9^th house (though afflicted by Saturn, 5^th lord) is a clear indication of father’s ability to garner finance and intention to give better education to his son.
• 4^th house has double affliction of Sun & retrograde Saturn indicating staying away from home, which was through boarding schooling but for a better purpose because of the favourable lordships of the afflicting planets in the horoscope.
• The native lost his father at his teen because of the affliction to 9^th house in birth chart and affliction to Sun in D-12 during the fag end of Jupiter Dasha, which is influencing his 9^th house of father.
• The native is a man of wisdom because of the aspect of 5^th lord Saturn on 5^th house as also due to the aspect of Venus (Lagna & 8^th lord), Jupiter (3^rd & 6^th lord) and Mars (2^nd & 7^th lord) thus making the 5^th house strong. He has a spiritual as well as inquisitiveness/research oriented bent of mind and successful in communicative pursuits.
• The native is a man of average luck. But, through his saner efforts he is gradually climbing the ladder of his success as his age is progressing. See the benefic yogas in the horoscope especially, the Parijata Yoga, which exists both in the Natal Horoscope and Navamsha Horoscope confirming result giving capability of the yoga.