Bhava (House)draftschool: jyotisha· Frawley — Astrology of the Seers

Fourth House (House of Home and Happiness)

सुख भावsukha bhāva

also: 4th-house, sukha-bhava, home-house, nadir-house

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Definition

The house of home and happiness — house, environment (outer and inner/mind), mother, domestic life and the basic emotional nature (heart, feelings). It is the nadir of the chart (its lowest point), and for Frawley "the psychological house per se" and "probably the most sensitive house," whose afflictions are hardest to overcome.
Traditional

Prāṇa relevance

The emotional/psychological seat: grouped (with 3rd & 5th) as the lower-self triad representing our "emotional state" (book p.145); afflictions here "show emotional and mental disorders and lack of peace." Mind/emotion proximity to prana via the manas, but no physiological prana chain is drawn. Not yet traced.

Cross-book attributes (2) — fill / concur / diverge

Body CorrespondenceDiverges

Sources differ — both values shown; never overwritten.

ownTraditional
chest / stomach (front chest, elbows, breasts) — book p.219 [Medical table]
txt-frawley-astrology-seersbook p.219Modern
chest/stomach (front chest, elbows, breasts)
Chakra CorrespondenceFilledper txt-frawley-astrology-seers
Third Eye (Ajna) — like the 4th sign Cancer

Connections (2)

governs · 1
  • ←Moon (Chandra)Traditional
    The Moon is the karaka of the 4th house as significator of mind, emotions and the mother (book p.154).
maps-to · 1
  • ↔Third Eye (Ajna chakra)Modern
    Frawley draws a house-chart relative to the chakras by using the houses the signs correspond to: the 4th house (like the 4th sign Cancer) maps to the third eye.

Sources

  • txt-frawley-astrology-seersThe Fourth House (book p.147–148)Modern✓ verifiedhouse of home, happiness, mother, emotional nature, property, the masses; the psychological & most sensitive house; the nadir
  • txt-frawley-astrology-seersHouse Significators (book p.154)Traditional✓ verifiedthe Moon is the karaka of the 4th house

Other attributes

Index
4
Significations
home, environment (outer & the inner environment of the mind), mother, domestic situation; emotional nature, heart/feelings, joy and aesthetic sense, love of beauty, capacity for art; land and property, vehicles, the masses & public popularity; rest and relaxation; faith, family religious background, devotion, contemplation (benefics → good for meditation); the nadir (what is internal, hidden, personal) (book p.147–148, p.162)
Bhava Class
["kendra (angular/quadrant — 3rd-strongest angle)","apachaya (house of decrease)","moksha-group"]
Natural Karaka Graha
[{"graha":"gra-chandra","role":"significator of mind, emotions, mother","tag":"TRADITIONAL"}]
Purushartha
moksha
Element Group
water (with 8th & 12th)
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