What is a horoscope? How to read and predict?

A horoscope is a geo-centric view of grahas.

A vedic horoscope is sidereal, taking into account the ayanamsa.

Using a good software one can create a horoscope using accurate birth information namely date of birth, time and place of birth.

Read a horoscope as per vedic astrology as follows

1. Ascertain Lagna or ascendant and its lord.
2. Chandra and Surya sign lord
3. With the above one can ascertain the personality of the person, by applying the gunas of ascendant, its lord, grahas in lagna.
4. Gunas of Chandra sign, its lord and grahas, to be read,for the person’s mind and emotions.
5. Gunas of Surya sign, its lord and grahas in that sign, to be read, to know the ego of that person.

To read a particular house, eg. 2nd house. This house signifies wealth and speech. The sign, its lord and grahas in it, to be read, to knows ones wealth.

1. 6th, 8th and 12th sign lords and its placement adversely affect the house they are in and associated with.
2. Special drishti of grahas to be applied to read properly. eg. Guru looks at 5th, 9th and 7th.
3. The different balas has to be ascertained. eg. Exaltation and Debilitation.
4. Combinations of grahas (yogas) to be ascertained.

The above is just of one house. This has to be repeated for all houses.

For more detailed analysis, I use the nakshatra in which the grahas are placed. This gives more insight into the intricacy of the house lord.

1. To get more accuracy of the lagna chart, divisional charts has to be read.
2. Navamsa (eg) is for karmic power of each graha and spouse. This gives a deeper understanding of spouse related information, which is generic in lagna chart.
3. The relationship of 7th lord to navamsa should be read to know accurately about spouse.

The above is just of one divisional chart. This has to be repeated for all house and its connected divisional chart.

Once the understanding is got, with experience, data and intuition, one can predict events. For a experienced astrologer the horoscope is just a map, prediction comes out of intuition, guided by the analysis done as above.

Timing

Many astrologers follow different methodology. The true test of an astrologer’s prediction is the timing part with the prediction happening.

I find on quora many method which are absurd, as below

1. Jaimini and its karakas which are house based are mixed with nakshatra-base vimshottari dasha or with varshapal.
2. Percentage house based predictions with nakshatra based vimshottari dasha.
3. Using Vimshottari dasha as it is, which is based on Chandra, but predictions from house-based grahas.

One should ascertain the relationship of Chandra-nakshatra with Graha-nakshatra and then use Vimshottari Dasha.

For quick reference of house significance

First House
Birth, head, physical body, limb, physical features, livelihood

Second House
Wealth, food, right eye, what one eats or drinks, face, eye, speech, family, property

Third House
Courage, firmness, bad thoughts, breast, ear, especially right ear, prowess, brother or sister — younger one, heroism, mental strength

Fourth house
House, home, land, relation, mother, vehicle, happiness, water, learning

Fifth House
Intellect, children, son, belly, traditional law, virtuous acts previously done

Sixth House
Debt, wounds, disease, enemy, sin, a wicked act, fear, humiliation

Seventh House
Desire, love, passion, cohabitation, partner, public, wife or husband, dowry

Eighth House
Life, longevity, mental pain, defeat or insult, sorrow, scandal, ill-repute, death, impurity, obstacle, danger

Ninth House
Guru or preceptor, father, auspicious, previous life , worship, penance, virtue, grandson, prayer, spiritual initiation, noble family, fortune

Tenth House
Livelihood, kingdom, work, commerce, trade, business, rank or position, good conduct, honor, sacrifice, command, quality, wealth, occupation

Eleventh House
Profit or gain, income, all kinds of receipts, acquisition, gain, desire, passion, fulfillment of one’s desire, wealth or riches, brothers and sisters — elder one, friends

Twelfth House
House of disappearance, bondage, loss, negation, bed, sin, poverty, penury, loss, decline, misery, left eye, leg, defect

More to follow…

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