The 12 Houses (Bhavas)

The Ascendant represents your physical body, personality, and how others perceive you.

Governs accumulated wealth, family bonds, and the quality of your speech.

Represents courage, younger siblings, and all forms of communication and writing.

The foundation of your life - home, mother, emotional security, and inner peace.

Represents children, creative intelligence, past-life merits, and romantic affairs.

Challenges in life - enemies, illnesses, debts, but also service and healing abilities.

All partnerships - marriage, business, and your public dealings with others.

The mysterious 8th house - longevity, transformation, hidden knowledge, and legacies.

The house of luck, dharma, higher learning, and spiritual inclinations.

Your profession, social status, achievements, and contribution to society.

Fulfillment of desires, income, friendships, and elder siblings.

Expenditure, foreign settlement, spiritual liberation, and final emancipation.