Lagna
The lagna is the degree of the zodiac rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth, and it is the point from which the whole chart is counted: the 1st bhava is the lagna and every other house is numbered from it.
In whole-sign Jyotish the lagna is a degree inside the first bhava, not its cusp: the whole rising sign is the 1st bhava and the lagna degree merely marks where the horizon cut it. In a Western quadrant chart the Ascendant is the 1st cusp and the houses are measured from it as an arc, which is the same point used a different way. The lagna is computed from the sidereal zodiac after the ayanamsha is applied, so a tropical ascendant is not a Vedic lagna. The lagna lord is read as the native; a chart is habitually judged from three points at once - the lagna, the Moon and the Sun.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- AscendantUdaya lagnathe rising signLagna bhava
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Concept
- Sanskrit
- लग्न
- English
- the ascendant
- Meaning
The lagna is the degree of the zodiac rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth, and it is the point from which the whole chart is counted: the 1st bhava is the lagna and every other house is numbered from it. The sign the lagna falls in is the rising sign, and the graha that rules it is the lagna lord, the chart's own ruler.
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