Dharma Bhava
The ninth bhava is the father, the guru, dharma, fortune, long journeys and higher learning. It is the best of the trikonas after the lagna and the house from which 'fortune' in the ordinary sense is read; the tradition treats its strength as the measure of grace in a chart rather than of effort.
Bhava karaka of the 9th: Jupiter and the Sun. Whole-sign rule: the bhava is the whole sign, so every planet in the same sign as the lagna is in this bhava whatever its degree, and the bhava cusps are the sign boundaries. A Western quadrant house (Placidus, Koch, Campanus, equal) divides the day into arcs instead and can push a planet into a neighbouring house or leave a sign intercepted; the two answers differ and the difference is not a defect. The corrective used by some Jyotish schools is the bhava chalit chart, which re-draws the cusps by the Sripati method.
Sacred timing
- Sign
- Sagittarius
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- DharmaBhagyaPitrithe ninth bhavathe ninth house
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Bhava
- Sanskrit
- धर्म
- English
- fortune and dharma; the ninth house
- Nature
- ApoklimaTrikonaDharma trikona
- Meaning
The ninth bhava is the father, the guru, dharma, fortune, long journeys and higher learning. It is the best of the trikonas after the lagna and the house from which 'fortune' in the ordinary sense is read; the tradition treats its strength as the measure of grace in a chart rather than of effort.
Details
- Karaka
- FatherGuruDharmaFortuneLong journeysHigher learningReligionPilgrimageThighsHipsBlessingsLuckLaw
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