Hello everyone, since we came to an end with the ascendant series, I would like to start with another series of articles and this time on the house lords for various ascendants. These articles will focus a lot more on the intrinsic details of how each planet being the lord of a particular house would behave for a particular ascendant.
This is going to be pretty intensive even if I try to keep it to the basics. Most probably we will have two to three articles for each ascendant covering Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Saturn and Jupiter rulerships and how they would affect that particular ascendant person.
Just as an introduction/refresher, for every sign occupying the first house (making it the ascendant) the following zodiac signs get placed in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and so on houses in the equal house division system. Each of these signs is ruled by a planet in the traditional vedic system, which intern allows them to rule the particular house the sign is in. Eg, For Aires ascendant, as Taurus and Libra fall in the 2nd and 7th house respectively, Venus becomes the ruler of those houses. What this implies is, for matters concerning the 2nd house – family life, wealth, speech etc, and 7th house – marriage, spouse, business partners etc we need to look at Venus and how its placed in the natal chart.
In addition to this, another very interesting approach I learnt is about the exaltation/ debilitation placements of the planets with respect to the ascendant. Meaning, for the above aries ascendant, Venus gets debilitated in 6th house and exalted in the 12th house. What this implies is, that for Aries ascendant people they need to deal with 6th house matter in a very “non-venusian” way. If they deploy Venusian behavior of diplomacy to solving daily life issues and conflicts they will be in trouble. Hence the head-on characteristic of Aries comes up. Similarly how they deal with 12th house issues should be best dealt with maximum utilization of venus. We will continue this more in the coming articles as how 7th lord/2nd lord exalted in 12th builds up an Aries ascendant personality.
There will be many insights and small details that if you pay attention you will release why a certain ascendant is the way it is. Its not only the first house but all the other houses combined that makes up a personality. So stay tuned for more information on each sign.
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