Karma Bhava
The tenth bhava is the career, the work done in the world, status and authority. It is the highest point of the chart (the midheaven in Western terms) and a kendra, and it is also an upachaya house, so the career grows with time. The 10th from the Moon and the 10th from the lagna are both read, and they need not agree.
Bhava karaka of the 10th: the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn. The 10th bhava's cusp is the MC only in a quadrant system; in whole-sign Jyotish the 10th bhava is the whole tenth sign from the lagna, and the Western MC degree can fall in the 9th or the 11th sign instead. 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
- Capricorn
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- KarmaAmshaRajyathe tenth bhavathe tenth house
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Bhava
- Sanskrit
- कर्म
- English
- action and career; the tenth house
- Nature
- KendraUpachaya
- Meaning
The tenth bhava is the career, the work done in the world, status and authority. It is the highest point of the chart (the midheaven in Western terms) and a kendra, and it is also an upachaya house, so the career grows with time. The 10th from the Moon and the 10th from the lagna are both read, and they need not agree.
Details
- Karaka
- CareerKarmaStatusAuthorityGovernmentProfessionHonourFather in some readingsKneesPublic actionReputationCommand
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