Different Houses and their Significance according to Indian Astrology

First House stands for: Health, conduct, thinness or fatness of the body, color, qualities, self-confidence, fame, features, caste, longevity, comforts and sorrow, brain, shape, temperament. Gemini, Libra, Aquarius and Virgo are considered strong in this house.

Second House stands for: Wealth, treasure and treasury, family, friends, animals, eyes, nose, voice, beauty, love of music, material possessions and their enjoyment, accumulated wealth, capital sale and purchase.

Third House stands for: Brothers, sisters, servants, valour, courage, actions, labour, efforts, ornaments, daring, bravery, patience, asthma, cough, consumption, breathing, practice of yoga.

Fourth House stands for: Maternal and paternal longevity, house, village, domestic animals, relatives, comfort and peace of mind, friends, mind, motherland, conveyance, transport, house, property, orchard, diseases of chest, liver, amusement, paternal property, cheating, hypocrisy, pity, liberality. This house is special for mother. Cancer, Pisces and Capricorn are the signs that get strengthened in this house.

Fifth House stands for: Education, progeny, intellect, ability for management, integrity, humility, devotion to defty, elder brother to wife, pregnancy, losing a job, means of income, unexpected gains, digestive power, qualities, speech, and fame for laborious deeds it represents.

Sixth House stands for: Enemy, worry, fear, disease, disputes, litigation, dependence, injury, younger brother to mother, pains.

Seventh House stands for: Wife, health of wife, amorous acts, daily routine, gambling, sensuous enjoyments, sex desires, private organ, trade, marriage, plies. Scorpio gets strength in this house.

Eighth House stands for: Longevity, mental anxiety, death, love of antiques, foreign travel, subtle plans, inherited property or wealth, debts, war, lost wealth, mode of death, sea travel, rectum, and its diseases.

Ninth House stands for: Luck, religion, God realization, guru, tapas, fate, divinity, sin and religious merit, luxuries, mental proclivities, start of career, pilgrimages, father, and charity. The location of Sun or Jupiter in this house is considered good in general.

Tenth House stands for: Ruling powers, honour, service, name, father, business or profession, wealth of father, Karmas good and bad, Samaj (society), government, power, enjoyment of ruling powers and leadership. Aries, Taurus and Leo are the signs that get strengthened in this house.

Eleventh House stands for: Profit, income, satisfaction of needs, hidden wealth, and wealth of government, ornaments, clothes, elephants, horses, high-class conveyances, wealth and power.

Twelfth House stands for: Loss, charity, expenditure, punishment, addiction, and relation with external things, and places, opposition from and to enemy, eye-trouble.