When the lord of the ascendant is in the 7th, the wife does not live, or the native is detached, or a wanderer, or poor, or even a king.

Venus in the ascendant gives skill in love, happiness, beauty of body and eyes, prosperity, and long life.

When the lord of the ascendant is in the 3rd, the native is lion-like in valor, prosperous, proud, intelligent and happy, and has two wives.

When the ascendant lord, Jupiter or Venus is in a kendra, the native's son is long-lived, wealthy and dear to kings.

When the ascendant and the 5th sign are each hemmed between malefics, and the lords of both and their kārakas Jupiter and Mars are in the 6th, 8th or 12th, sons are harmed through a brother's curse.

When the ascendant lord is in the 5th, the native is proud, quick to anger, and enters royal service. His joy in children is moderate, and the first child is in danger.

When the lord of the ascendant is in the 2nd, the native gets gains, suffers affliction, follows right conduct, understands dharma, is proud, and has many fine qualities.

When the lagna lord is in the eleventh, the native has gains yet is afflicted. He is well-conducted, knows dharma, is proud, and has many noble qualities.

When the ascendant lord, the ruler of the navamsha occupied by it, or the eleventh lord is placed in the second house, comfort and happiness arise after age twenty.

When the ascendant lord goes to the eighth and the lord of death joins it there, the native becomes poor.

Abundant gain of wealth comes when the lord of the sign occupied by the navamsha lord of the ascendant lord is strong, is in a special varga portion, and is under benefic aspect, with abundant yoga.

The Moon in the ascendant, with Cancer, Aries, or Taurus rising, makes the native wealthy with many sons.

When the ascendant lord is in the sixth, eighth, or twelfth with a malefic, and the lord of death joins or aspects it, even one of royal birth is poor.

A weak ascendant lord in the 2nd, 10th, or 11th still gives wealth and a rise in career, though health remains poor.

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If at least two among the ascendant, the Sun, and the Moon are strong, fortune remains steady.

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Saturn in the ascendant, with a sign of Jupiter, his own sign, or Libra rising, makes the native like a king and lord of a village or town. He is very learned and handsome, has vehicles and comforts, is very intelligent and generous, and is happy in marriage and valiant.

A well-placed ascendant lord with planets in the tenth gives a lasting rise in fortune.

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A chart is very forceful when many planets are placed in the first and tenth houses.

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When the lord of the ascendant is in the ascendant, the native is strong in body and arms, high-spirited, and very restless. The person has two wives or approaches another's wife.

When the ascendant lord is joined with a malefic, health suffers. When it is joined with malefics in the sixth, eighth, or twelfth, bodily happiness is destroyed.

When the ascendant lord is joined with a malefic or sits in the eighth, a benefic aspect on it removes the ill health that placement shows.

When the ascendant lord is powerless and malefics occupy the ascendant, the body suffers from disease.

Bodily well-being is declared when the ascendant lord is strong, placed in a kendra or trikoṇa, and free of malefic aspect.

When Rahu, Mars and Saturn all occupy the ascendant, the native suffers swelling of the testicles.

If the ascendant lord is in a movable sign and aspected by benefics, the native has fame and prosperity, greatly enjoys pleasures, and has a well-nourished body.

If the ascendant lord is in the eighth, health suffers. If it has benefic aspect, that evil is not to be predicted.

If the lord of the sign occupied by the ascendant lord is placed in the sixth, eighth, or twelfth, the native has a sickly constitution.

If Saturn or Rahu occupies the ascendant, the person suffers from devils or evil spirits.

With the Sun, the wound is on the head. With the Moon, it is on the face and throat, and with Mars and Mercury, it is in the navel region.

If the Sun is in the ascendant and Mars aspects it, the native suffers from asthma, consumption, enlargement of the spleen, disease in the anus, abdominal tumor, and difficulty in breathing.

If Mars is in the ascendant and the Sun and Saturn aspect it, the person is struck by weapons and suffers venereal disease.

When the ascendant lord is weak, health is poor even if the lord is placed in a kendra or trikoṇa.

The Moon in the ascendant makes the native dumb, mad, dull, blind, defective, deaf or a servant.

Mars in the ascendant gives wounds on the body, cruelty, short life, and rashness about money.

Saturn in the ascendant leaves the native without wealth, sickly, ruled by desire, very dirty, ill in childhood and slow of speech. He is unjust over money, later lives in another land, and is lazy and distressed.

Ketu in the ascendant gives long life, wealth and strength. It also brings affliction to the upper limbs, harsh speech, disease of the face, compassion, and wealth through rulers.

When the ascendant lord is in a bad place, its period brings confinement, living in disguise, fear, disease, dependence on others, loss of position and calamity.

The Sun is the significator of the first house.

If the ascendant, the Sun, and the Moon all have full strength, Satya's method is preferred; otherwise another dasha is used.

When the ascendant lord is in the ascendant with the lords of the sixth, eighth or twelfth, the body is subject to constant complaints.

Bodily well-being is declared when the ascendant lord is in its own division, exalted division, or friendly division, or in its own navāṁśa, and benefics join or aspect it.

The body is lean when dry planets occupy the ascendant, when a dry sign rises, or when the ascendant lord joins dry planets or is in their signs. Malefics in a dry rising sign make it emaciated.

The body is stout when a strong watery ascendant lord is joined with benefics, when benefics occupy a watery rising sign, or when the navāṁśa lord of the ascendant lord is in a watery sign free of malefic aspect.

Jupiter in a watery sign, occupying the ascendant or aspecting it, makes the body unusually stout.

When all seven classical planets aspect the ascendant, the native has a strong body, wealth, and long life.

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Planets rising or setting, and those joined with the Moon, show the disease and the kind of accident to be feared.

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When the nodes occupy angular houses and the luminaries are in Aries, Taurus, Scorpio, or Capricorn, bodily deformity is indicated.

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The Moon together with Saturn in Aries indicates mental derangement.

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The daśā of the ascendant lord should also be judged by the nature of the planet that rules the ascendant, since each ruler colors bodily condition and temperament in its own way.

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In Saturn daśā, confinement comes when the 6th lord or the 8th lord sits in the ascendant.

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If the ascendant lord is placed in the sixth, eighth, or twelfth from its natal sign in the navamsha, the good results of that house placement are reversed.

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Mutual aspect between malefics worsens the chart and should be judged unfavorably.

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When malefics occupy the 12th and the 2nd, the ascendant is hemmed between them and immediate death is declared.

When the ascendant lord aspects the ascendant from a kendra, strong benefics in the navāṁśa also aspect the ascendant, and benefics aspect the lord, the native is long-lived even with the 8th empty.

Death comes in the daśās and subperiods of the marakas when such periods fall within the span of life. If none of those periods falls within it, death comes in the daśās of the 12th lord.

If the Sun, Moon, and ascendant are all heavily afflicted by malefics, the chart points to violent death.

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When the ascendant is a movable sign, the native is a traveller. The same holds when its lord is in a movable sign or the ascendant's navāṁśa is movable.

With a movable ascendant whose lord is in a movable sign and which is aspected by movable planets, the native gains wealth from foreign lands. With a fixed ascendant aspected from fixed signs, the native gains wealth in his own country, and with a dual ascendant whose lord and aspects are in dual signs, the native gains wealth from many countries, some of it by dishonest means.

If the ascendant lord falls in the twelfth place in navamsa, its period brings wandering and distress.

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If the ascendant lord is weaker than the seventh lord, travel brings no profit.

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When the ascendant lord is in the tenth, the native has the happiness of father and mother, many brothers, passion, virtue and beauty.

When the lord of the ascendant is in the 4th, the native has the happiness of father and mother, many brothers, passion, virtue and beauty.

Mercury in the ascendant makes one learned, long-lived, sweet and clever in speech, and knowing the meaning of the shastras.

Jupiter in the ascendant makes the native learned, handsome, virtuous, long-lived, fearless, eloquent, pleasing-faced, fond of substantial food, and possessed of children.

When the lord of the ascendant is in the 9th, the native is fortunate, beloved by people, devoted to Vishnu, and performs righteous acts.

If the lagna lord is in the ninth house, or the ninth lord is in the fifth house, happiness comes after the sixteenth year.

Fortune is read from the 9th house counted from the ascendant or from the Moon, whichever of the two is the stronger.

When the lord of the ascendant is in the 6th, the native is lion-like in valor, endowed with prosperity, proud, intelligent and happy, and has two wives.

If the ascendant lord is joined with a malefic and Rahu occupies the ascendant, there is fear from deception and thieves. If Saturn also joins or aspects, there is fear from cheats, thieves, and rulers.

Trouble from thieves and enemies comes in the daśā or subperiod of a malefic, and in the period of the lord of the third, fifth, or seventh star from the birth star. Great distress comes in the subperiod of the lord of the eighth from the birth sign.

When the ascendant lord and the sixth lord are together in the sixth, and the sixth lord is debilitated in the navamsha, the native gains victory over enemies and obstacles.

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If Ketu is in the ascendant and it has evil influence, the person suffers from thieves and evil spirits.

In practice, Rahu in the second is judged more harmful than Rahu in the twelfth, while Saturn in the twelfth is judged more harmful than Saturn in the second.

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A planet gives the full result of a house when it is exactly on that house cusp, no result when it is at a junction, and proportional result when it lies between. Even an exalted or very strong planet gives no result from a junction, and this should be considered in judging periods.

Each planet signifies its own set of matters, the Sun the self and the father, the Moon the mind and the mother, and so on through Ketu. Each house has its own significators as well, the Sun for the first.

From the ascendant one should judge the body, appearance, knowledge, complexion, strength, weakness, character, and disposition.

When the lagna lord is in the 1st and the 9th lord is in the 9th, each joined by a benefic, the person gains great reputation.

When the lord of the ascendant is in the 8th, the native is skilled in occult arts, a gambler, a thief, very wrathful, and much given to other men's women.

When the lagna lord is in the twelfth, the native is skilled in occult arts, a gambler, a thief, very wrathful, and much given to other men's women.

The native is always happy when the ascendant lord is vargottama, in its exaltation navāṁśa, or in its own or a friend's drekkāṇa, or when it joins a benefic or receives its aspect.

The native has happiness in childhood and in middle age when benefics join or aspect the ascendant, the 2nd, and the 3rd, the ascendant lord is a natural benefic, and Venus is in a pārāvatāṁśa.

If Jupiter is powerful in a kendra and the ascendant lord is in Iravatamsa, the person is happy from the beginning of life.

Each planet has its own bodily form. The Sun is square-bodied and has tawny eyes, the Moon is slender and round, Mars is slender-waisted, Jupiter is large-bodied, Venus has fine eyes and curly hair, and Saturn is lean and long.

What is said of the rising sign is said of the Moon's sign as well. A planet in exaltation brings wealth and praise from kings, in its own sign stable residence and favour, in a friend's sign success through friends, in an enemy's sign dependence and poverty. A combust planet brings loss, a retrograde one the result of exaltation, and a vargottama one the result of its own sign.

The Sun in the ascendant makes the native brave, proud, angry, harsh-eyed, thin-bodied, scant-haired, lazy in action, and cruel. In Aries it makes the eyes defective, in Leo he is night-blind, and in its fall in Libra he is poor and without sons.

Planets placed in their own, friendly or exalted signs, in strong divisions, or in angles and moolatrikonas, give good results in their daśās and antardaśās according to their strength. For the ascendant, body and other houses, benefics increase results and malefics diminish them, while in the 12th, 6th and 8th the reverse is to be judged.

Planets give their results in periods and subperiods according to house placement, lordship, aspects, conjunctions and the signs they occupy. The strongest connected influences in a house are to be judged as giving their results in their own periods and subperiods.

A connection is of five kinds: being in the same sign, mutual conjunction, aspect, residence in an angle, or residence in a trine.

When a planet rules two houses, the result of its moolatrikona sign is chief and the result of its other sign is secondary. In its daśā, the house that comes first is judged in the first half and the other in the latter half.

The ascendant lord joined with the lord of any house and occupying any house gives the result of that house. If that house and its lord are strong there is happiness through it, and if they lack strength there is distress.

Navāṁśas give good results when they are vargottama, fall in the sign of the name's first letter, or are at the beginning, middle or end of a sign.

With Aries rising, the native has round eyes and weak knees. The native is fierce, afraid of water, a light eater, very lustful, fond of wandering, fickle, untruthful and marked with wounds.

With Taurus rising, the native has broad thighs and face, works the land, and is happy at midday. The native is fond of women, generous, patient, enduring and rich in cattle, with marks on the back, face and sides.

Born with Gemini rising, the native has dark eyes, curly hair and a high nose, delights in women's play, song and dance, reads others' gestures and keeps to the house.

Born with Cancer rising, the native has a thick neck and prominent hips, is short and quick, ruled by women, rich in friends, houses and wealth, intelligent, fond of water and has few sons.

Born with Leo rising, the native has tawny eyes, a large jaw, and a broad face. He is proud and valiant, is quick to anger at wrong, roams forests and hills, obeys his mother, and is steady in judgement.

Born with Virgo rising, the native has drooping shoulders and bashful, languid eyes. The native lives on others' wealth and houses, is truthful and pleasant spoken, is fond of love, is learned in the śāstras, and has few children.

Born with Libra rising, the native has thin, restless limbs and is tall. The native is devout, given to visiting gods and brahmins, known by two names, skilled in trade, steadfast, pitiless and impartial, and has few children.

Born with Scorpio rising, the native has round thighs and broad eyes and chest. The native is sickly in childhood, loses teacher and father, is cruel in deeds and drawn to the royal court, and has lotus lines on hands and feet.

Born with Sagittarius rising, the native has a long face and neck, with broad ears and nose. The native is a hard worker, bent in body, dear to kings, bold in speech, generous, a destroyer of foes, won by kindness alone, honoured, and very strong.

Born with Capricorn rising, the native has a lean lower body. The native is brave, believed, lazy, drawn to the forbidden and to older women, a hypocrite in religion, fortunate, a wanderer, windy in constitution, and shameless.

Born with Aquarius rising, the native has a pot-shaped body and hides his faults. He is skilled in harm, bears travel well, has little wealth, covets others' property, rises and falls in fortune, and loves fragrant flowers.

Born with Pisces rising, the native has a very handsome body and auspicious eyes. He drinks much water, keeps to his own wife, gains wealth quickly, is learned and grateful, and overcomes his enemies.

A powerless ascendant lord makes the native dull, unless benefics join or aspect it.

An ascendant joined or aspected by benefics and free of malefics gives happiness from infancy.

A strong ascendant lord in its sign of exaltation makes the native very dignified in conduct.

Planets placed second and twelfth from one another bring misfortune.

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A strong ascendant lord in the third, fifth or seventh star from the birth star still has its good results lessened.

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Saturn in the ascendant is good with Capricorn or Aquarius rising and unfortunate with Leo rising.

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A planet tied to a house through at least two relevant links carries special weight in producing that house's results.

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When two planets are separated by about eighteen to twenty degrees, their conjunction does not operate fully.

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