Jupiter in the 4th house: the house the text reads for your home, land, vehicles, kin and the mother's happiness.An illustration of the placement, not your chart.
Jupiter in the 4th house reads as good news for your happiness, in the house of your home, in Vedic astrology. A centuries-old Sanskrit text, the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, judges happiness from Jupiter17.61, and Jupiter sitting in a corner of your chart is one of the ways it says that happiness grows17.63. How far it goes depends on your rising sign: Aries rising puts Jupiter at its exalted high point in Cancer3.38, and Libra rising puts it at its low point in Capricorn3.39.
Still, this Jupiter is one sentence in a longer story. The planets beside it, the sign your Moon landed in and whichever planet's years you're living now could each rewrite what it means. Your free personal reading follows that whole story and sends back a page on what it finds in you.
What a 4th-house Jupiter looks like at home
Picture the place where people end up staying later than they planned. There's food, someone's asleep on the couch, and a shelf of books that actually get read. That's one way this placement can look today. Jupiter is the planet of knowledge and happiness3.2, and in the old court of planets it's a minister, an adviser to the throne3.3. Here the adviser works from your kitchen table.
Your 4th house covers vehicles, kin, the mother's happiness, buried treasure, fields and the house itself17.4. So this Jupiter works on concrete things: the roof, the car, the land, who you count as family. "Buried treasure" can mean savings you forgot you had, or a family story that turns out to be worth keeping.
Take every line here as an old book's reading to reflect on, never a forecast. Signing a lease, taking a loan or moving a parent in gets decided with someone who knows your finances and with the family it touches.
Why this house turns up your happiness
You may know someone who has less than their friends and seems fine about it anyway. This placement speaks to that, and it comes down to two lines read together. In the passage on the 4th, the matter of fields is judged from the ruler of the house, and the matter of happiness from Jupiter17.61. Then the rule: when these significators stand in an angle or a trine, the things they stand for increase17.63. Your 4th is an angle, a corner of the chart like the 1st, 7th and 10th; the two trines are your 5th and 9th.
So the planet that carries happiness is standing in a corner, and in a house read for happiness too: another chapter pairs the 4th and the 10th as the special houses of happiness16.1.
That tie runs through happiness alone. When the text assigns one standing significator to each house, the 4th goes to the Moon, and Jupiter gets the 2nd, 5th, 9th and 11th12.37.
Where Jupiter looks from the 4th house
The usual shorthand for Jupiter's look from the 4th is your 8th, 10th and 12th. The grading in these verses is finer, and it changes what you'd expect from your career. Jupiter sees with a quarter at the 4th and 8th signs from itself, with half at the 7th, with three quarters at the 3rd and 10th, and in full at the 5th and 9th9.20. Most other planets save their full look for the 7th9.22. Count that out from your 4th:
The surprise is the 10th, which gets half. Your own rising sign, by contrast, gets three quarters. These verses grade how much Jupiter sees and leave the outcome for each house unspoken, so treat this table as a map of attention. Our guide to Vedic aspects has the same grades for every planet.
How far Jupiter's strength reaches in the 4th
Think of a talented person working from a side office: good at the job, a little away from the stage. Every planet has a strongest direction, and Jupiter's is the east, your rising sign3.24. Its directional strength is counted by distance from your 7th house42.13, which leaves it about halfway to its peak in the 4th. The planets at their directional best here are Venus and the Moon, the north's two3.24, which is why Venus in the 4th house gets a different write-up.
Being in a corner brings other things. In the passage on misfortune and what undoes it, any one of Mercury, Jupiter or Venus in a corner from your rising sign clears the whole of the affliction5.44. Jupiter gone to such a corner also has you "endowed with royal marks"17.28, which today can look like the quiet authority people grant you before you've said much.
Your mother, your schooling, your partner, your work
Start with your mother. Here's the plain answer: she is read from the 4th house counted from your Moon12.32, and the Moon is her significator17.62. Your 4th does hold "the mother's happiness" on its list17.4, so Jupiter sits among that, but a reading of who she is starts at your Moon. That sign may be a long way from your Jupiter.
On learning, the line is conditional and generous. Jupiter and Mercury are the lords of learning, and in an angle or trine, in their own house or exaltation, they swiftly bestow flawless learning17.35. That's Cancer, Sagittarius or Pisces in your 4th. In the other nine signs, this verse has nothing to say about you either way.
For love, the verse judges "a fine wife" from Venus, along with vehicles, goods and ornaments17.62, so for a partner today, look to Venus as well as Jupiter's quarter look at your 7th. For work, the half look at your 10th above is what you've got here, and Jupiter in the 10th house is a different reading altogether.
How a Western 4th-house Jupiter differs from this one
If you've met this placement in a Western chart, it probably came as a big family, a big house, a warm childhood, a lot of feeling about roots. That picture isn't far off in spirit, which makes this one of the gentler translations between the two systems.
Vedic astrology casts your chart in a different zodiac, so check first that Jupiter really is in your 4th there. Our sidereal vs tropical guide explains how a placement can move.
Then the two part ways on method. A Western reading tends to describe a mood, and this one sets tests: which sign, who rules it, how Jupiter stands for your rising sign, and which planet's years you're in. Two people with this same placement can come away with quite different answers, and the table below shows why. More placements read this way are collected in the Vedic astrology guides.
Your rising sign decides this Jupiter: all twelve
Begin at your rising sign and count it as one. Three signs on is your 4th, and that's Jupiter's sign. Then two separate tests apply. The first is how much good a planet can hand out from that sign: all of it when exalted, three quarters in its root stretch (for Jupiter, the first 10° of Sagittarius), half in its own sign, a quarter in a friend's3.51. A neutral's sign gives an eighth, and an enemy's sign or debilitation gives none3.52. Jupiter counts Mercury and Venus as enemies, Saturn as neutral and the rest as friends3.46.
The second test is whether Jupiter is named kind or hard for your rising sign.
not named alone; named with Mars as a maker of good combinations16.36
Aries rising is the row everyone hopes for, with Jupiter exalted and named kind. Libra rising is the row to read carefully, since it fails both tests. Several rows split the two: Virgo rising has the strong sign and the hard name, Cancer rising the reverse, and no verse here ranks one test over the other.
One more rule bears on Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces rising, where Jupiter rules corner houses. Kind planets that rule corners don't give kind results16.3, and this fault grows from the Moon to Mercury to Jupiter to Venus, in that order16.9.
Those rows take Jupiter's fixed friendships. Your chart can add temporary ones, made by the houses two planets hold from one another3.48, and a fixed enemy who is a temporary friend counts as neutral3.50. That can lift an enemy-sign row from nothing to an eighth.
With Virgo or Sagittarius rising, Jupiter also rules your 4th, and one line is yours. A 4th-house ruler resting there in its own sign brings more happiness and vehicles, along with conches, drums and other festive instruments17.64. Today that can look like a house that hosts the party. Sagittarius rising adds a curious case: a verse reads gain of a house when the 4th holds both its own ruler and the ruler of your rising sign17.60, and your Jupiter is both, though the verse doesn't say whether one planet can fill two seats.
When a 4th-house Jupiter reads hard
Some versions of this placement read rough, and the verses say so. The conditions come first: Jupiter debilitated, as it is with Libra rising, or combust, burned out by sitting too near the Sun37.113, or joined with malefics, the chart's hard planets. In the season Jupiter runs inside the Moon's years, that brings inauspicious action, the loss of a teacher, of sons and the like, loss of position, sorrow of mind and, certainly, sudden quarrels37.114. It goes on to the loss of house, land, vehicles and clothes37.115.
Inside Jupiter's own years, debilitation gets its own list for Jupiter's own season: great sorrow, conflict with kin over inheritance, quarrels and poor judgment37.317. Then a parting from sons and wife, and loss of wealth and grain37.318. The first of those verses also has a longevity line; we leave that out. The second adds bodily trouble through a flawed 7th-house ruler, which is a matter for a doctor if it's ever real for you.
Today that can look like a family fight over a will, or a stretch where you can't trust your own read on people. What these years can ask of you is slower decisions about property and family, and more outside advice. Each of these verses describes one season of a life.
Jupiter's own years carry a similar passage, naming debilitation, combustion, hard company and the 6th, 8th or 12th house together36.42, a list your 4th-house Jupiter can only partly meet. It reads loss of position, mental distress, affliction to children, great fear, and loss of cattle and wealth36.43. Its last line turns: hardship at the start, then happiness, honor and prosperity in the middle and at the end36.44.
If Jupiter rules your 4th, as with Virgo or Sagittarius rising, one more test applies. A house ruler that is combust or joined with the rulers of your 6th, 8th or 12th17.13, or that fails to look at its own house, or sits in a dead, aged, asleep or afflicted state, leaves the happiness of that house destroyed and its fruit doubtful17.14.
What about a hard planet sharing the house? There the verse runs the other way. A malefic in the 4th is offset when Jupiter holds an angle or trine, and the birth then favors both sides of the family, with health; the verse also speaks of longevity, and we leave that out5.51.
Your sixteen Jupiter years with Jupiter in the 4th
Jupiter's stretch of a life runs sixteen years35.15, and it comes fifth in the order of the nine planets35.14. Our page on Jupiter's years covers all sixteen.
The list of conditions for good Jupiter years is long: its exaltation or own sign, in an angle, the 11th or a trine, or its root sign or the 11th, or an exalted or own navamsa36.38. A navamsa is a finer slice of a sign, read in its own chart (the D9). The 4th is an angle, so your placement stands on that list, and Cancer, Sagittarius and Pisces add the sign as well. Those years read as gain of a kingdom, great happiness, royal honor and renown36.39, with happiness through wife and children and new vehicles and clothes36.40. For you, "kingdom" can mean being given real say over something of your own.
This placement also has its own short passage, written for the years a planet runs. Wherever Jupiter or Venus stands, that house's own results come through36.99. With a kind planet in the 4th, the years read celebration, festivity and prosperity36.100. Vehicles and villages follow, with plenty of cattle36.101. Then Jupiter gets its own line: a palanquin, "certainly a golden one," when the rulers of your rising sign, 10th and 9th all stand exalted36.103. A palanquin was a seat carried on the shoulders of others, the luxury car of its day. That's a rare chart. Without those three, the plainer lines on festivity and vehicles are the ones that stand.
With Virgo or Sagittarius rising, you also have the years of your 4th's ruler, which bring a dwelling36.78. And in Jupiter's own season inside those sixteen, if it's exalted or in its own sign as well as in this angle37.313, the reading includes a new dwelling, with a mansion and its surrounding wall37.314.
Each of the other planets' years holds a shorter Jupiter season too. These four speak most directly to your placement:
In Mars's years, with Jupiter in an angle, trine, the 11th or 2nd, or in an exalted or own navamsa37.169, its season reads good fame, and well-being and prosperity at home37.170.
In Rahu's years, an angle or trine from your rising sign is enough37.237 for position and a steadier mind37.238, with growth "like the moon in the bright fortnight"37.239.
In Ketu's years, an angle, trine or the 11th qualifies37.582, and the season adds well-being at home and pilgrimage37.584.
In Venus's years, a corner qualifies37.653, and the season reads a reunion with a beloved relative and comfort for your parents37.656.
Which Jupiter-in-the-4th do you have?
Four questions will separate your version from the rest.
Which sign is Jupiter in? Exaltation in Cancer gives it the full share of good3.51, and Capricorn gives it none3.52.
Is your Moon in a corner from Jupiter? Jupiter in an angle from the Moon is called Gajakesari20.1, read as radiant, wealthy, intelligent and in a ruler's favor20.2. With Jupiter in the 4th, that means a Moon in the 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th of your chart.
Is the ruler of your 4th in a corner too? If it and Jupiter stand in angles from each other, and the ruler of your rising sign is strong, you get a combination called Kahala20.9. The verse is funny about it: vigorous, bold, yet foolish, commanding an army, lord of some village or other20.10.
Where do the rulers of your 1st and 4th sit? Together in the 4th, the verse reads gain of a house; joined with your 6th, 8th or 12th instead, it reads the reverse, no house obtained17.60.
Each question moves the picture, and no single one finishes it. A debilitated Jupiter can still have a Moon in a corner, and a Cancer Jupiter can sit next to Rahu. All four, and everything else you were born with, go into your free personal reading, which comes back as one page about you.
Questions to sit with about home
Who comes to your home to feel better, and who do you go to?
What would "enough" look like for the place you live now?
Which piece of family knowledge do you want to keep, and which do you want to end with you?
When did you last feel happy for no reason you could explain, and where were you?
Jupiter in the 4th house: your questions
Is Jupiter in the 4th house good?
By the verses, it starts well: Jupiter carries happiness17.61, and an angle increases what a significator stands for17.63. After that it comes down to your row in the table above.
Does Jupiter in the 4th mean owning property?
There's no flat yes here. The verses give you conditions: the rulers of your 1st and 4th joined in the 4th for a house17.60, and Jupiter's own season for a new dwelling if the sign qualifies37.314. The planet sitting there doesn't settle it alone.
What about Jupiter debilitated in the 4th house, for Libra rising?
Capricorn gives it nothing to hand out3.52, and its seasons carry the hard readings above37.113. Its other test goes the same way: it is named hard for Libra rising16.26. Whatever else your chart holds could still move this reading.
Does Jupiter in the 4th form Hamsa yoga?
You'll see that name given to Jupiter in Cancer, Sagittarius or Pisces in a corner. We searched this book's Sanskrit and English for the name and its neighbors: it appears as a combination once, in a passing verse we leave out, and that verse doesn't define it53.19. We found no verse defining Hamsa as that placement. For that case, what you do have is a season read as lord of many kingdoms, prosperous and honored by the king37.313.
What does it say about transits, remedies or a retrograde Jupiter?
None of the verses this page draws on takes up a transit, a retrograde Jupiter or a remedy. Transits are a separate question, and we'd rather say so than guess.
From the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, with our plain-English reading. Where a verse is in the public-domain Bombay 1899 printing, the page link opens the scan, so you can read it there yourself.
If both [the 4th-lord and lagna-lord] are in a kendra or trikona joined with a benefic, an excellent house is obtained; the matter of fields should be judged from the house-lord, and the matter of happiness from Jupiter.
The matter of intellect should be judged from Mercury; when these karakas are in their respective houses joined with the house-lords, or have gone to kendras/trikonas, or are seen by [a graha] in its own exaltation, the corresponding significations increase.
BPHS 3.38
अजो वृषो मृगः कन्या कुलीरझषतौलिकाः । सूर्यादीनां क्रमादेतास्तुङ्गसंज्ञाः प्रकीर्तिताः ॥३८॥
Aries, Taurus, Capricorn, Virgo, Cancer, Pisces, and Libra are declared, in order, to be the signs of exaltation (uchcha) of the Sun and the other grahas.
The precise degree of exaltation for each graha is given by a series of word-numerals; the sign of debilitation (nicha) is the seventh from the exaltation sign, at the same degree already stated (the exact numeric values encoded by the word-numerals in this verse are not fully certain without further cross-reference).
Sun, Jupiter, Mars, Moon, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn — these are the bhava-karakas [of the twelve houses in order].
Jupiter [sees with] a quarter at the chaturasra, and half at the seventh; three-quarter at the tridasha, O brahmin; full it sees at the kona [trikona].
The discerning should examine from the 8th house (randhra) the giving and taking of debts, the anus, and all such matters as origins and successive states.
BPHS 17.12
व्ययं च वैरिवृत्तान्तं फलमन्त्यादिकं तथा । व्ययभावाच्च तत्सर्वं ज्ञातव्यं हि विपश्चिता ॥१२॥
The wise should know from the 12th house (vyaya) expenditure, the affairs of enemies, and results relating to one's final end and the like.
BPHS 17.1
तनोरूपं च ज्ञानं च वर्णं चैव बलाबलम् । शीलं वै प्रकृतिं चैव तनुस्थानाद्विचारयेत् ॥१॥
From the 1st house one should examine the body, its form, knowledge, caste/class, strength and weakness, character, and constitution.
From the 10th house (the house of the sky) one should examine kingship, a livelihood connected with the sky, honor, the father, foreign residence, and debt.
Mercury and Jupiter are strong in the east; the Sun and Mars in the south; Saturn in the west; and Venus and the Moon in the north — the directional strengths of the grahas.
Subtract the 4th house from the Sun and Mars, the 7th from Jupiter and Mercury, the lagna from Saturn, and the 10th (midheaven) from Venus and the Moon; if the remainder exceeds 6 signs, subtract from 12, convert to degrees, and divide by 3 — this gives the dig-bala (directional strength).
From the Sun, in the punya-bhava [9th], the father; from the Moon, in the 4th, the mother; from Mars, in the 3rd, the brother; the maternal uncle from the ripu-bhava [6th] from Mercury.
दिव्याङ्गनावाहनवस्तुभूषा चिन्ता तु कार्या भृगुणा बुधैद्रैः । तमः शनिभ्यामभिचिन्त्यमायुरर्केण तातःशशिना च माता ॥६२॥
The matter of a fine wife, vehicles, goods, and ornaments should be judged from Venus; longevity from Rahu and Saturn; the father from the Sun; and the mother from the Moon.
Jupiter and Mercury, the lords of learning, situated in the 6th, 8th, or 12th, produce ignorance; but if they are instead in a kendra or trikona, in their own house or exaltation, they swiftly bestow flawless learning.
In its own exaltation, a graha's auspicious strength is full; in its moolatrikona, it is full less a quarter; in its own sign it is half; in a friend's sign it is declared to be only a quarter.
In a neutral's sign it is declared to be an eighth; it is void in debilitation, combustion, or an enemy's sign. Likewise the wise should state malefic/inauspicious strength in the reverse order.
To Jupiter: Mercury and Venus are enemies, Saturn is neutral, and the others are friends. To Venus: Mercury and Saturn are friends, Mars and Jupiter are neutral, and the rest are enemies.
मन्दसौम्यसिताः पापाः शुभौ गुरुदिवाकरौ । न शुभं योगमात्रेण प्रभवेच्छनिजीवयोः ॥१३॥
For Mesha (Aries) lagna: Saturn, Mercury, and Venus are malefic; Jupiter and the Sun are benefic. The mere combination of Saturn and Jupiter does not by itself produce an auspicious result.
Leo, ruled by the Sun, is of sattva-guna, quadruped, of the kshatriya class, strong, rising by its head, large-bodied, pale/tawny, and strong in the earlier part of the day.
For Vrishabha (Taurus) lagna: Jupiter, Venus, and the Moon are malefic; Saturn and the Sun are benefic. The one Raja-yoga-karaka is Saturn (रवेः सुतः, "son of the Sun") alone, directly.
Associated with grain and fire, of the vaishya class, of variegated color, windy (restless) in nature; a maiden, joined with tamas, of youthful disposition, and ruled by Mercury.
For Mithuna (Gemini) lagna: Mars, Jupiter, and the Sun are malefic; Venus alone is benefic. The combination of Saturn and Jupiter [here] gives results the same way as [described] for one born in Mesha lagna.
Head-rising, endowed with strength by day, of the shudra class, of rajo-guna; ruled by Venus, lord of the west, of medium body, and biped — this is Tula (Libra).
For Karka (Cancer) lagna: Venus and Mercury are malefic; Mars, Jupiter, and the Moon are benefic. Mars (महीसुत, "son of the earth") alone becomes the Raja-yoga-karaka, directly.
Head-rising, small-bodied, many-legged, of the brahmin class, strong, associated with the benefics, strong by day, tawny-colored, moving through water and earth; abundant in bristles and extremely sharp-limbed — this is Vrishchika (Scorpio), ruled by Mars.
बुधशुक्रार्कजाः पापाः भौमेज्यार्काः शुभप्रदाः । प्रभवेद्योगमात्रेण न शुभं गुरुशुक्रयोः ॥२२॥
For Simha (Leo) lagna: Mercury, Venus, and Saturn (अर्कज, "son of the Sun") are malefic; Mars, Jupiter, and the Sun give auspicious results. The mere combination of Jupiter and Venus does not by itself produce an auspicious result.
BPHS 2.17
अश्वजङ्घो त्वथ धनुर्गुरू स्वामी च सात्त्विकः ॥१७॥
Having the shanks of a horse (the sign Dhanu, Sagittarius); ruled by Jupiter, and of sattva-guna.
Mercury's moolatrikona extends for a further five degrees beyond its exaltation zone, its own sign following after; Jupiter's moolatrikona extends to ten degrees of Sagittarius, its own sign thereafter.
Dhanu, continued: situated in the east, roaming the earth, radiant, and rising by its back. Then, for Makara (Capricorn): ruled by Saturn, of tamas, earthy, south-dwelling, and strong by night.
For Tula (Libra) lagna: Jupiter, the Sun, and Mars are malefic; Saturn and Mercury are benefic. The Moon and its "son" (Mercury) become the karakas of Raja-yoga.
Venus's moolatrikona spans fifteen degrees of Libra, the rest of Libra being its own sign; Saturn's moolatrikona spans twenty degrees of Aquarius, the rest being its own sign.
For Vrishchika (Scorpio) lagna: Mercury, Mars, and Venus are malefic; Jupiter and the Moon are benefic. The Sun and the Moon together become the Yoga-karakas.
सुराचार्याधिपश्चास्य राशीनां गदितं मया । त्रिंशद्भागात्मकः स्थूलसूक्ष्माकरफलाय च ॥२४॥
Its ruler is Jupiter (suracharya, teacher of the gods). Thus have the natures of the signs been declared; each consists of thirty degrees, for the purpose of both gross and subtle results.
For Dhanu (Sagittarius) lagna: Venus alone is malefic; Mercury and the Sun are benefic. Their combination (Sun and Mercury) is a Raja-yoga; the maraka is Saturn (भास्करसुत, "son of the Sun").
Dwelling in the east, of royal kinship, roaming the mountains, of rajo-guna, rising by its back (prishthodaya), and of fiery nature — the sign Aries is ruled by Mars.
For Makara (Capricorn) lagna: Mars, Jupiter, and the Moon are malefic; Venus and Mercury (चन्द्रज, "son of the Moon") are benefic. Saturn is itself the maraka; Mars and the other [aforesaid malefics act as marakas] through association.
White, ruled by Venus, long-bodied, quadruped, strong by night, dwelling in the south, domesticated, of the merchant class, earthy, female, and rising by its back — this is Taurus.
For Kumbha (Aquarius) lagna: Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars are malefic; Venus (दैत्यगुरु, "teacher of the demons") alone is benefic. Venus is the Raja-yoga-karaka, together with Mars and Jupiter.
शीर्षोदयी नृमिथुनं सगदं च सवीणकम् । प्रत्यक्स्वामी द्विपाद्रात्रिबली ग्राम्याग्रगोऽनिली ॥९॥
Rising by its head, depicted as a pair of humans — one bearing a mace, the other a vina — ruled by Mercury (whose direction is west), biped, strong by night, foremost among domesticated creatures, and of airy nature — this is Gemini.
For Meena (Pisces) lagna: Saturn, Venus, and the Sun are malefic; Mercury, Mars, and the Moon are benefic. Mars (महीसुत) and Jupiter together become the Yoga-karakas.
Benefics that are lords of kendras (1st/4th/7th/10th) do not give auspicious results; malefics that are lords of kendras do not give inauspicious results; the lords of the two konas (5th/9th) [always] give auspicious results.
According to these houses, the measure [of strength] of the grahas should be reckoned; the kendra-dosha (kendra-lordship affliction) of the Moon, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus increases in that order.
Grahas occupying certain houses relative to one another (per the scheme given) are to be known as temporary (tatkalika) friends at that time; in the remaining houses they are temporary non-friends.
When enmity and friendship combine, the result is neutral; when enemy and enemy combine, it becomes a 'great enemy' (adhishatru). Thus the wise describe five grades of relationship (panchadha-maitri) among the grahas.
BPHS 17.64
स्वकीये स्वांशगे स्वोच्चे सुखस्थानस्थितो यदि । सुखवाहनवृद्धिः स्याच्छङ्खभेर्यादिवाद्ययुक् ॥६४॥
If [the 4th-lord] is situated in the house of happiness in its own sign, its own navamsha, or its own exaltation, there is an increase of happiness and vehicles, accompanied by conches, drums, and other festive instruments.
If the house of happiness (4th) is joined with its own lord and with the lagna-lord, gain of a house results; if the 4th-lord and lagna-lord are joined with the 6th/8th/12th instead, the reverse — no house is obtained.
Through the great king's favor, one's desired aim is accomplished, bringing happiness. But if Jupiter is in the 6th, 8th, or 12th, or debilitated, or combust —
— or joined with malefics, there is inauspicious action, loss of guru, sons, and the like; loss of position, mental sorrow, and certainly sudden quarrels.
BPHS 37.115
गृहक्षेत्रादिनाशं च वाहनाम्बरनाशनम्। दायेशाद्विपुरन्ध्रस्थे व्यये वा बलवर्जिते।।११५।।
There is loss of house, land, and the like, and loss of vehicles and garments; when Jupiter is in the 6th, 8th, or 12th from the dasha-lord and devoid of strength —
BPHS 37.317
नीचसंज्ञं महादुःखं दायादजनविग्रहम्। कलहो न विचारोऽस्य स्वप्रभुह्यपमृत्युकृत्।।५।।
[If Jupiter is] in debilitation, great sorrow, conflict with kinsmen over inheritance, quarrel, and lack of judgment; it causes untimely death to its own lord (svaprabhu).
BPHS 37.318
पुत्रदारवियोगं च धनधान्यार्थहानिकृत्। सप्तमाधिपदोषेण देहबाधा भविष्यति।।६।।
There is separation from sons and wife, and loss of wealth and grain; through the defect of the 7th-lord, there will be bodily affliction.
पुत्रदारादिलाभश्च अन्नदानं महत्रियम्। नीचास्तपापसंयुक्ते जावे रिष्फाष्टसंयुते।।४२।।
Gain of sons and wife, and great merit through the gift of food [occur, closing the strong-Jupiter results]. If Jupiter is debilitated, combust, conjoined with malefics, and in the 6th, 8th, or 12th house —
At the beginning, hardship results, [though] bringing the gain of quadrupeds; in the middle and at the end, one attains happiness, royal honor, and prosperity.
— or does not properly aspect its own house, or is in a "dead" state, or is an aged graha, or asleep, or afflicted — then the happiness born of that house should be declared destroyed, its fruit doubtful.
[Their dasha periods, encoded as number-words, are, in order:] six, ten, seven, eighteen, sixteen, nineteen, seventeen, seven, and twenty years, respectively held [as the dasha-years for Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Ketu, and Venus].
The Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu (tamas), Jupiter (vakpati), Saturn, Mercury (manda-chandra-ja), Ketu, and Venus — these, in order, should be known as the dasha-lords.
Now the results of Jupiter's dasha: when Jupiter is in its own exaltation or own sign, situated in a kendra, the 11th, or a trikona, or in its mulatrikona or the 11th, or in an exaltation-navamsha or its own navamsha —
[Such a dasha brings] gain of kingdom, great happiness, royal honor and renown; being endowed with elephants and horses, and the worship of gods and brahmins.
दारपुत्रादि सौख्यं च वाहनाम्बरलाभदम्। यज्ञादिकर्मसिद्धिः स्याद्वेदान्तश्रवणादिकम्।।४०।।
Happiness through wife and children, and the gain of vehicles and garments [occur]; success in yajnas and other rites, and the hearing and study of Vedanta and the like, come about.
तत्तद्भावार्थसिद्धिः स्याच्छ्रेयो योगानुसारतः। यस्मिन्गुरुर्वा शुक्रो वा शुभेशो वापि संस्थितः।।९९।।
There is accomplishment of the specific results of that respective house, and further benefit according to the yoga formed, wherever Jupiter, Venus, or a benefic house-lord is situated.
There is celebration, festivity, prosperity, and worship of gods and brahmins, when in the 4th house there are exalted planets, or the lord of a benefic house, or any benefic planet.
There is gain of vehicles and villages, and abundant increase of cattle; if it is the Moon there, there is attainment of one's desire, accompanied by much grain and produce.
If it is Jupiter, there is attainment of a palanquin — certainly a golden palanquin — when the lords of the lagna, 10th (karmesha), and 9th (bhagyesha) are situated in exaltation, through the auspicious yoga thus formed.
The dasha of the lagna-lord gives strength and abundant wealth; that of the 2nd lord (vitteshitu), death or hardship; that of the brother-house's lord (3rd), malefic results for the most part. The dasha of the 4th lord brings [domestic] dwelling; that of the wisdom-house's lord (5th), the happiness of learning; that of the disease-house's lord (6th), fear from enemies; that of the wife-house's lord (7th), grief.
In Jupiter's mahadasha, Jupiter's own antardasha: when Jupiter, in its own exaltation or own sign, is in a kendra or trikona from the lagna, one becomes lord of many kingdoms, prosperous, and honored by the king.
Gain of cows, buffaloes, and the like, along with clothes, vehicles, and ornaments; construction of a new dwelling, together with a mansion and its surrounding wall.
In Mars's mahadasha, Jupiter's antardasha: when Jupiter is in a trikona or kendra, or joined with the 11th or 2nd house, or in its exaltation-navamsha or own navamsha —
In Rahu's mahadasha, Jupiter's antardasha: when Jupiter is in a kendra or trikona from the lagna, or in its own exaltation, own sign, exaltation-navamsha, or own navamsha —
— there is gain of position, steadiness of mind, destruction of enemies, great happiness; one enjoys great comfort brought by royal favor.
BPHS 37.239
दिने दिने वृद्धिरपि शुक्लपक्षे शशी यथा। वाहनादि धनं भूरि गृहे गोधनसंकुलम्।।२३९।।
There is increase day by day, like the moon in the bright fortnight; abundant wealth in the form of vehicles and the like, and the household abounds in cattle-wealth.
In Ketu's mahadasha, Jupiter's antardasha: when Jupiter is in a kendra, the 11th, or a trikona, or in its own exaltation or own sign, or joined with the lagna-lord —
शुक्रस्यान्तर्गते जीवे स्वोच्चे स्वक्षेत्रकेन्द्रगे। दायेशाच्छुभराशिस्थे भाग्ये वा कर्मराशिगे।।४४।।
In Venus's mahadasha, Jupiter's antardasha: when Jupiter is in its own exaltation, own sign, or a kendra, or from the dasha-lord in an auspicious sign, the 9th, or the 10th —
There is contentment through celebrations for sons, and reunion with a beloved kinsman; attainment of comfort for one's parents, and happiness through brothers and sons.
If Jupiter is in a kendra from the Moon, that is called Gajakesari-yoga; or if the Moon — itself not debilitated or combust — is aspected by Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury, themselves not debilitated or combust, that too is Gajakesari.
अन्यो न्यकेन्द्रगृहगौ गुरुबन्धुनाथौ लग्नाधिपे बलयुते यदि काहलः स्यात् । कर्मेश्वरेण सहिते तु विलोकिते वा स्वोच्चे स्वके सुखपतौ यदि काहलः स्यात् ॥९॥
If Jupiter and the 4th-lord are mutually in kendras from each other and the lagna-lord is strong, Kahala-yoga results; or if the 4th-lord, in its own exaltation or own sign, is joined with or seen by the 10th-lord, Kahala-yoga likewise results.
The man born in Kahala-yoga is vigorous, bold, [yet] foolish, endowed with the strength of a fourfold army [i.e. commands one], and lord of some village or other.
If the Sun is in its exaltation and the other grahas are strong or in their own moolatrikona, or if all grahas are strong and in exaltation (as in the Shasha or Hamsa yoga), [use pindayu].
This page explains what one old text, the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, says, with its verses and where they were printed. It describes tendencies the text names; it does not predict events in anyone's life. It is not medical, legal, financial or psychological advice. For health, money, legal or family decisions, speak to a qualified professional. Written by Er. Anish Wagle; how the text was entered and checked is on the about page.
Newsletter
One verse, explained, in your inbox.
New articles on what the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra actually says. No predictions for sale, no spam, leave any time.