Hora
D2 divides each sign into two horas of fifteen degrees. In the Parashari scheme the two horas are the Sun's (Leo) and the Moon's (Cancer): the first half of an odd sign is the Sun's hora and of an even sign the Moon's, and the planet's varga sign is Leo or Cancer accordingly.
The word hora also means 'hour' and is the root of the English word; the hora of the Western planetary-hours tables is a different thing with the same name, and the two must not be merged. Some schools assign the hora to the sign's own lord in the first half instead of to the Sun and Moon; the Parashari scheme is the one given here.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- D2the wealth chart
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Varga
- Sanskrit
- होरा
- English
- the half-sign chart; wealth
- Meaning
D2 divides each sign into two horas of fifteen degrees. In the Parashari scheme the two horas are the Sun's (Leo) and the Moon's (Cancer): the first half of an odd sign is the Sun's hora and of an even sign the Moon's, and the planet's varga sign is Leo or Cancer accordingly. Wealth is read from which of the two it falls in, the solar hora being self-earned and the lunar hora inherited or given.
Details
- Division
- D2
- Vimshopaka Shadvarga
- 2
- Vimshopaka Shodashavarga
- 1
- Use
Wealth, sustenance and the means of living: what a person has to live on and how it comes. It is read with the 2nd and 11th bhavas rather than instead of them.
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