Principle / Ruledraft· Frawley — Astrology of the Seers

Natural house significators (karakas) — the standing planet per house

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Prāṇa relevance

Couples the disease/vitality/longevity houses to specific grahas — Saturn↔6th(disease)/8th(longevity), Mars↔6th(injury), Sun↔1st(self/body) — so the karaka roster is the planet-to-body-house map on the medical axis. Gross level.

Sources

txt-frawley-astrology-seersHouse Significators (book p.154–155, table verified visually p149.png/p150.png)Modern✓ verifiedthe full per-house karaka roster; aspect-good/occupation-bad rule; Jupiter→2·5·7·9·11, Saturn→6·8·12; nodes as joint significators; Venus→art via 2/4/5

Other attributes

Rule Class: doctrine
Statement: Beyond the lord of the sign on a house cusp, the Vedic system assigns each house a standing natural SIGNIFICATOR (karaka), the same for all charts, whose chart position is read for that house's affairs. The roster: 1st = Sun (self); 2nd = Jupiter (earning capacity) & Mercury (childhood, speech, education); 3rd = Mars (energy, prowess); 4th = Moon (mind, emotions, mother); 5th = Jupiter (children, creativity, intelligence); 6th = Mars (enmity, injury, theft) & Saturn (disease); 7th = Venus (wife, male chart) & Jupiter (husband, female chart); 8th = Saturn (death, longevity); 9th = Jupiter (dharma) & Sun (father); 10th = Mercury & Jupiter (profession) & Sun (fame, prestige); 11th = Jupiter (gain); 12th = Saturn (loss). Jupiter significates houses 2·5·7·9·11; Saturn houses 6·8·12. Rahu & Ketu act as joint significators (Rahu with Saturn, Ketu with Mars), with Rahu the special significator of foreigners (via the 6th) and Ketu of liberation (via the 12th).
Tag: TRADITIONAL
Conditions: it is good if a house's significator ASPECTS that house, but NOT good if it is LOCATED in it (e.g. Jupiter in the 5th is bad for children); a planet in a house/sign it owns or significates doubles any negative aspect
Exceptions: some affairs have no single-house karaka — Venus significates ART, judged via the 2nd (poetry), 4th (pathos/drama) and 5th (general creativity), book p.155
Claimed Classical: Jyotisha — the karaka roster is standard Vedic doctrine; Frawley transmits it (table, book p.154–155), noting the significators are NOT the lords of the analogous signs

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