
This is the 3rd house of any birth chart. This is the house from where you see your younger siblings, your courage (parakram) and communication.
This house represents your ability to use hands, short distance travels, visa, passport, driving licence, IT & communication industry, interviews, Self-purpose long distance travels, writing, journalism, media, performing creative arts, roads, giving advice, gain of family’s wealth, neighbours, moving away from home, instability of your mind, gains of your first child, wishes desires of your first child, documentation work, documents, professional debts, emergencies, transformations in life, subconscious mind, desires, efforts, hard work (purusharta), correspondence, writing, change of address, contracts, agreement, rumours carrying tales, away from home, lawyer, author.
Benefic planets placed well in the 3rd house give good results for the above significations. While Malefic planets place not so well in the 3rd house will create problems is the fructification of the above significations.
This house also plays a very prominent role in understanding what might lead you to your Moksha (liberation).
Relatives it signifies are – Siblings, neighbours, Father-in-law.
The body parts signified by this house are Ears, Hands, Arms, Shoulders, Throat, Collar bones, nervous system.
Placements of different planets and lords of different houses in the 2nd house play a very crucial role to judge the entire well being of the house.
Below are the basic and general permutation and combinations, as given in the texts, if the 3rd lord is placed in the 12 different houses. This is at a very basic and mundane level. The actual impact can be judged when we combine the Lord placement with the sign and planet placements. But from a basic comprehension aspect, this will be helpful to understand as we go along. So, this is not to be taken literally as full diagnosis is required. You also have to understand, that these texts were written when our society and culture had much different values and norms. You have to be intelligent enough to interpret these according to today’s time place and condition. These are just excerpts. We shall cover this in details a different series on “Lords in the Houses”.
3rd Lord in the 1st house: Native will have self-made wealth, be disposed to worship, be valorous and be intelligent, although devoid of learning.
3rd Lord in the 2nd house: Native will be corpulent (Fat, obese), devoid of valour, will not make much efforts, be not happy and will have an eye on others’ wives and others’ wealth.
3rd Lord in the 3rd house: Native will be endowed with happiness through co-born and will have wealth and sons, be cheerful and extremely happy.
3rd Lord in the 4th house: Native will be happy, wealthy and intelligent, but will acquire a not so good spouse.
3rd Lord in the 5th house: Native will have sons and be virtuous. If in the process 3rd Lord be conjunct (yuti) with, or receives an aspect (Drishti) from a malefic, the native will have a formidable (fear inspiring) wife.
3rd Lord in the 6th house: Native will be inimical to his co-born, be affluent, will not be well disposed to his maternal uncle and be dear to his maternal aunt.
3rd Lord in the 7th house: Native will be interested in serving the king. He will not be happy during boyhood, but the end of his life he will be happy.
3rd Lord in the 8th house: Native will be a thief, will derive his livelihood serving others and will die at the gate of the royal palace.
3rd Lord in the 9th house: Native will lack paternal bliss, will make fortunes through wife and will enjoy progenic and other pleasures.
3rd Lord in the 10th house: Native will have all lands of happiness and self-made wealth and be interested in nurturing wicked females.
3rd Lord in the 11th house: Native will always gain in trading, be intelligent, although not literate, be adventurous and will serve others.
3rd Lord in the 12th house: Native will spend on evil deeds, will have a wicked father and will be fortunate through a female.
By now you would have started to get an idea of what would your 3rd house means? Hold on, do not reach to conclusions. There is much more to come. In the next article I shall take you through the 4th House.
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