Bhavas — The 12 Houses

Practical — Read a House Off Your Chart

Count whole signs from the lagna to find which sign sits in a given house.

House to sign

Before you can find a house's lord, you need the sign sitting in it. In whole-sign houses that's just counting: the lagna's sign is the 1st house, the next sign the 2nd, and so on. The 10th house is the tenth sign from the lagna.

Now you try

Read the chart below and tell us which sign sits in the 10th house — the house of career. Count ten signs around from the lagna.

Terms introduced here

Houses 10-12

10th = career/status, 11th = gains/networks/elder siblings, 12th = loss, letting go & liberation.