Which house is the business house in a birth chart?

The seventh. BPHS ch. 11 v. 8 gives the seventh bhava as the spouse, travel, trade, loss of sight and death, so trade sits in the seventh, not the tenth. The tenth (v. 11) is livelihood and profession, and the eleventh (v. 12) is income and prosperity. This page reads all three separately, says which house each statement came from, and never averages them into a single verdict.

Is the 10th house not the business house?

The tenth is the house of livelihood and profession. BPHS ch. 11 v. 11 gives it as authority, place, livelihood and profession, honour, the father, living in foreign lands, and debts. That covers how a profession goes, which is a genuine and important question, but it is not the same question as whether to trade on your own account. Trade is named in the seventh by v. 8, which is why a business reading here is built on the seventh, the tenth and the eleventh together.

Does this page tell me whether to quit my job and start a business?

No. It compares two independently cited readings, the seventh house's three legs and the tenth house's three legs, and flags when they point in different directions. It does not recommend either. No text in the corpus this app has read tells a native to be self-employed, and inventing that instruction to make the page feel decisive would be exactly the kind of fabrication this app is built to refuse.

What is the Dasamsa (D10) and does it give an industry?

The Dasamsa is the tenth division. BPHS ch. 6 v. 13 cuts each sign into ten parts of 3 degrees, counted from the sign itself in an odd sign and from its ninth in an even sign, and names the ten dikpalas as their lords. That construction is classical. The assignment of profession as the D10's subject matter is modern attribution, not verse-attested in the corpus read here, so no industry list is generated from it. What is shown is the D10's own seventh and tenth read as houses of a chart.

Which periods of my life are the business periods?

Phaladeepika ch. XX reads a dasha by what its lord rules, so on this page the business-shaped periods are the dashas of the lords of the seventh, tenth and eleventh houses, which fall differently for every ascendant. Each window shows both halves of the chapter, favourable and adverse, and the chapter's own six-clause strength test selects between them. Where that test does not decide, the window is reported as undetermined rather than being forced to a verdict.

Does this page give a good date to start a business?

No. Choosing a date is muhurta, which is a different technique with a different engine, and it has its own page on this site. This page reads a birth chart: which houses the classical chapter assigns to trade, profession and income, how each of those houses stands in your chart, through whom the wealth material says wealth arrives, and which dasha periods belong to those house lords.

Why is there no business score or rating?

Because no classical text supplies one. Phaladeepika ch. 15 judges a house in three legs and gives a count of coinciding conditions as its own measure of intensity, and a count is not a weight. Turning three legs and several houses into a single number would require an exchange rate between them that no source provides, so the page reports each house's verdict separately and stops there.

Business Astrology

Business astrology - trade, partnership and the timing of both

Self-employment read as its own question, against the verses that separate trade from profession.

Trade is the seventh house, not the tenth

BPHS ch. 11 v. 8 puts trade in the seventh house, alongside the spouse and travel. The tenth (v. 11) is authority, place, livelihood and profession, honour, the father, living in foreign lands, and debts. The eleventh (v. 12) is articles of every kind, income, prosperity and four-footed animals. A business reading built only on the tenth is therefore reading the wrong house against that chapter, and this page reads all three side by side and never merges them: three bhavas, three verdicts, no average.

That separation is what lets the page answer a business question rather than a career question. Those are different questions in the texts themselves. How a salaried profession will go is a tenth-house matter; whether to trade on one's own account is a seventh-house matter; and what actually arrives as income is an eleventh-house matter. Merging them into one verdict would hide which house each statement came from, which is precisely the information a reader needs in order to check it.

Trade against service: the same test run on two houses

The comparison the page draws is between the seventh's three legs and the tenth's three legs, judged by Phaladeepika ch. 15 exactly as every other house in this app is judged. 15.3 on the lord standing in the eighth; 15.4-15.5 on malefics in the sixth, eighth and twelfth counted from the house itself; 15.25 when house, lord and karaka are all strong; 15.6 when all three are weak, with the chapter's own counted intensity rather than a weight.

The output is a comparison of two independently cited readings, plus a flag when they diverge. It is not a recommendation. No text in this corpus tells a native to be self-employed, and this app does not invent one; what the texts do is describe how a house stands, and how a house stands is a fact about a chart.

Where 15.25 speaks of strength without defining it, the six-clause test from Phaladeepika ch. XX is borrowed and the borrowing is disclosed, because that test is stated of a dasha lord and applying it outside a dasha is this application's extension.

Through whom the wealth comes: Brihat Jataka X.1

The most business-shaped statement in the classical career material is about a counterparty, and a page that prints only an occupation list throws it away. Brihat Jataka ch.

X v. 1 says that the graha occupying the tenth rasi from the lagna, or the tenth from the Moon, names the relation through whom wealth is acquired: the Sun the father, the Moon the mother, Mars an enemy, Mercury a friend, Jupiter a brother, Venus the wife, Saturn a servant. Iyer's 1885 translation is in the public domain, so the verse's own words ship beside the reading.

Both tenths are checked, and the chapter's own note is honoured rather than simplified: if the tenth from the ascendant and the tenth from the Moon are both occupied, wealth comes from both sources, and several planets in a tenth give several sources.

When no graha occupies either tenth, the chapter's second limb applies instead, and it works from the lord of the tenth reckoned from the lagna, from the Moon and from the Sun, then from the navamsa each of those three lords occupies. The determinant is always the lord of the tenth, never the lagna, Moon or Sun itself.

Partnership: the seventh read as the house of the other party

For a partnership the seventh is read as the house of the other party: its lord, its occupants, and Venus as its karaka by Phaladeepika 15.17. That makes Venus in the seventh the single most discussed configuration in the chapter, because 15.26 records the minority view that a karaka standing in its own bhava distresses that bhava, and Venus in the seventh is exactly that case.

BPHS ch. 7 vv. 39-43 ships beside it with the opposite valence: the seventh may also be known from Venus, where the word also makes it corroboration rather than a penalty. The two texts genuinely disagree, so both are rendered and neither is chosen. This is the same disagreement the progeny page shows for Jupiter in the fifth, computed by the same shared routine so that the two surfaces can never drift into answering it differently.

Timing, and the four things this page deliberately does not do

Phaladeepika ch. XX reads a dasha by what its lord rules, so the dashas of the seventh, tenth and eleventh lords are the business-shaped periods of a life, and they fall in a different order for every ascendant. Each window carries both halves of the chapter, favourable and adverse, with the chapter's own six-clause strength test selecting between them and reporting the result as undetermined when the test does not decide, which this app also does not.

Four things are absent on purpose. There is no date on which to start a business, because that is muhurta, a different engine, and it already has its own page. There is no industry list keyed to the Dasamsa: the D10's construction is BPHS ch. 6 v. 13, which cuts each sign into ten parts of 3 degrees counted from the sign itself in an odd sign and from its ninth in an even sign, but the assignment of profession as the D10's subject is modern attribution and is labelled as such, so what ships is the D10's own three legs on its seventh and tenth.

There is no score, because not one number in this reading is a weighting. And there is no prediction of profit or loss, because no verse read for this feature supplies one.

Frequently asked questions

Which house is the business house in a birth chart?: The seventh. BPHS ch. 11 v. 8 gives the seventh bhava as the spouse, travel, trade, loss of sight and death, so trade sits in the seventh, not the tenth. The tenth (v. 11) is livelihood and profession, and the eleventh (v. 12) is income and prosperity. This page reads all three separately, says which house each statement came from, and never averages them into a single verdict.
Is the 10th house not the business house?: The tenth is the house of livelihood and profession. BPHS ch. 11 v. 11 gives it as authority, place, livelihood and profession, honour, the father, living in foreign lands, and debts. That covers how a profession goes, which is a genuine and important question, but it is not the same question as whether to trade on your own account. Trade is named in the seventh by v. 8, which is why a business reading here is built on the seventh, the tenth and the eleventh together.
Does this page tell me whether to quit my job and start a business?: No. It compares two independently cited readings, the seventh house's three legs and the tenth house's three legs, and flags when they point in different directions. It does not recommend either. No text in the corpus this app has read tells a native to be self-employed, and inventing that instruction to make the page feel decisive would be exactly the kind of fabrication this app is built to refuse.
What does Brihat Jataka mean by the source of wealth?: Brihat Jataka ch. X v. 1 says that a graha occupying the tenth rasi from the lagna, or the tenth from the Moon, names the relation through whom wealth is acquired: the Sun the father, the Moon the mother, Mars an enemy, Mercury a friend, Jupiter a brother, Venus the wife, Saturn a servant. The chapter's own note adds that if both tenths are occupied wealth comes from both, and that several planets give several sources. When neither tenth is occupied, the chapter's navamsa limb applies instead.
What is the Dasamsa (D10) and does it give an industry?: The Dasamsa is the tenth division. BPHS ch. 6 v. 13 cuts each sign into ten parts of 3 degrees, counted from the sign itself in an odd sign and from its ninth in an even sign, and names the ten dikpalas as their lords. That construction is classical. The assignment of profession as the D10's subject matter is modern attribution, not verse-attested in the corpus read here, so no industry list is generated from it. What is shown is the D10's own seventh and tenth read as houses of a chart.
Which periods of my life are the business periods?: Phaladeepika ch. XX reads a dasha by what its lord rules, so on this page the business-shaped periods are the dashas of the lords of the seventh, tenth and eleventh houses, which fall differently for every ascendant. Each window shows both halves of the chapter, favourable and adverse, and the chapter's own six-clause strength test selects between them. Where that test does not decide, the window is reported as undetermined rather than being forced to a verdict.
Does this page give a good date to start a business?: No. Choosing a date is muhurta, which is a different technique with a different engine, and it has its own page on this site. This page reads a birth chart: which houses the classical chapter assigns to trade, profession and income, how each of those houses stands in your chart, through whom the wealth material says wealth arrives, and which dasha periods belong to those house lords.
Why is there no business score or rating?: Because no classical text supplies one. Phaladeepika ch. 15 judges a house in three legs and gives a count of coinciding conditions as its own measure of intensity, and a count is not a weight. Turning three legs and several houses into a single number would require an exchange rate between them that no source provides, so the page reports each house's verdict separately and stops there.