The 3rd is journeys (BPHS 11. · Seven days (saptāha) - a summary, not a classical period
This reading is reckoned from your MOON sign - the sign the Moon occupied at your birth - and not from your Sun sign. Phaladeepika 26.1 says that of all the lagnas it is the Moon's alone that governs a transit reading, and every reading in Bṛhat Saṁhitā chapter 104 is worded 'from the sign occupied by the Moon at the time of birth'.
No place was supplied, so the civil calendar day stands in for the vāra. Sūrya Siddhānta XIV.18 puts the true boundary at sunrise.
There is no classical unit of seven days for prediction. Sūrya Siddhānta ch. XIV enumerates the nine modes of reckoning time and none of them is a week; the seven-day LORDSHIP cycle is Indian and old, but a seven-day period of prediction has no locus in any text consulted. What follows is two things and says which: the seven vāra-lords with the acts each governs, which is cited and ELECTIONAL, and a seven-day envelope over the cited daily reading, which is this application's own arithmetic.
The 3rd is journeys (BPHS 11.4) and the 7th is travel (11.8). BPHS 11.11 puts living in foreign lands in the TENTH - counter-intuitive, and it must not be quietly moved to the 12th. Mars is the 3rd's kāraka and Venus the 7th's.
valour, attendants, brothers and sisters, the instruction received at initiation, journeys, and the death of the parents
the spouse, travel, trade, loss of sight, and death
authority, place, livelihood and profession, honour, the father, living in foreign lands, and debts
courage, disease, personal qualities, younger siblings, land, foes and the paternal line
the spouse, vehicles, ornaments, love affairs and pleasures
Phaladeepika 15.25 wants the bhāva, its lord and its kāraka to be strong together, and 15.2's answer is already three-valued - ample, decays, or mixed. No score, no percentage.
Only a sign was supplied, so the bhāva-strength and bhāva-lord legs cannot be formed and the verdict is “insufficient input” - not filled in by guesswork.
The topic reading is taken inside this window, so the window itself is shown here too.
Phaladeepika 26.9-11
a new position, honour, wealth and freedom from diseases
Prasna Marga XXII.2-4
promotion to an elevated position, general prosperity, recovery from diseases and tendency to do good actions
Brihat Samhita 104.5-45: Bṛhat Saṁhitā 104.5-45 carries all seven grahas across the twelve houses in a public-domain translation. Two of its eighty-four cells were read verbatim off the scan and ship; the rest have not been transcribed.
Where the recensions differ, the difference is the data - they are never merged into a third sentence that no text contains.
Acts of this day-lord: jewels, pearls, produce of the waters, silver, food, women, milk, agriculture, the king, popular favour, flowers and clothes(excerpt - the printed list is longer)
Condition: the verse offers the day OR a position: on Mondays, or when the Moon occupies the rising sign, or when she occupies one of the kendras. Checked from the janma rāśi (the natal Moon's sign), which is the reference point this reading has.
Acts of this day-lord: mines, gold, fire, corals, weapons, command over armies, red and pungent substances, and physicians(excerpt - the printed list is longer)
Acts of this day-lord: emeralds, lands, perfumes, clothes, plays, knowledge of science, skill in work, literary performances, arts, a law suit, articles for sale, messengers and important works(excerpt - the printed list is longer)
Condition: the verse adds a condition: on Wednesdays, and when Mercury occupies the rising sign. Checked from the janma rāśi (the natal Moon's sign), which is the reference point this reading has.
Acts of this day-lord: gold, silver, elephants, physicians, medicinal plants, brāhmaṇas, kings, temples, alms-houses, auspicious deeds, science, truthful words, the sacred fire and wealth(excerpt - the printed list is longer)
Acts of this day-lord: painting, clothes, the pleasures of youth, beautiful places, crystals, silver, flowers, perfumes, conveyances, cows, tradesmen, farmers and medicine(excerpt - the printed list is longer)
Acts of this day-lord: buffalo, goat, camel, black metal, servants, the old, low deeds, thieves, rope-work and obstructions(excerpt - the printed list is longer)
Acts of this day-lord: work connected with gold, copper, horses, medicine, weapons, a valiant fight, and anything to do with fire(excerpt - the printed list is longer)
Condition: the verse adds a condition: the Sun must occupy an upachaya sign - the 3rd, 6th, 10th or 11th - and it closes by allowing the same work when the Sun occupies the rising sign. Checked from the janma rāśi (the natal Moon's sign), which is the reference point this reading has.
These lists are electional: they say what a day is fit for, not what will happen to you.
The lattā and adverse-tārā days were not counted for this window - both are reckoned from the birth star, which a sign alone cannot supply. See “what this page cannot compute” below.
This is a summary over 7 sample days taken every 1 - it contains no sentence the daily rule has not already said.
| Graha | Sign | House | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Leo | 11 | Favourable, but obstructed (vedha) vedha from house 5 - active (Rahu) |
| Moon | Leo | 11 | Favourable vedha from house 8 - that house is unoccupied |
| Mercury | Virgo | 12 | Unfavourable, with relief (vipareeta vedha) vipareeta vedha from house 11 - active (Sun) |
| Venus | Libra | 1 | Favourable vedha from house 8 - that house is unoccupied |
| Mars | Gemini | 9 | Unfavourable, with relief (vipareeta vedha) vipareeta vedha from house 6 - active (Saturn) |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 10 | Unfavourable, with relief (vipareeta vedha) vipareeta vedha from house 9 - active (Mars) |
| Saturn(R) | Pisces | 6 | Favourable, but obstructed (vedha) vedha from house 9 - active (Mars) The two texts disagree on ripening: Phaladeepika 26.25 makes it not yet ripe in decanate 2, and Bṛhat Saṁhitā 104.49-50 makes it ripe in half 2. The disagreement is the data. |
| Rahu(R) | Aquarius | 5 | Unfavourable Neither a vedha nor a relief is possible for this graha in this house - a real feature of the tables, not missing data. |
| Ketu(R) | Leo | 11 | Favourable, but obstructed (vedha) vedha from house 5 - active (Rahu) |
“Unfavourable, with relief” is still unfavourable. No source quantifies the relief, so it is a state and never a number.
“When the Sun passes through the 6th, 3rd and 10th signs from the sign occupied by the Moon at the time of birth of a person, the effects will be benefic; when the Moon passes through the 3rd, 6th, 10th, 7th, and 1st signs from the Moon, the effects will also be benefic; when Jupiter passes through the 7th, 9th, 2nd and 5th signs or when Mars and Saturn pass through the 6th and 3rd signs or when Mercury passes through the 6th, 2nd, 4th, 10th and 8th signs from the Moon, the effects will be benefic. But when Venus passes through the 7th, 6th and 10th signs from the Moon, the effects will be malefic. All the planets produce benefic effects when they pass through the 11th house from the Moon.”
The transiting Moon stands in house 11 from your janma rāśi - Candra Bala is favourable.
This is not a separate doctrine: it is the Moon's own row of the same gochara table, and it is independently attested at Bṛhat Saṁhitā 104.4.
The transiting Moon is in house 11 from your janma rāśi, not the 8th.
This is the ungraded flag. Kālaprakāśikā XXXIV divides it into six named kinds - that grading needs a janma nakṣatra, which a sign alone cannot supply.
“Though a planet might be benefic to a person, he produces benefic effects only according to the nature of the Dasa periods and the rank of the person in life, just in the same way as the quantity of rain falling into a small cup cannot but be small though the rain be excessive.”
Though a planet might be benefic to a person, he produces benefic effects only according to the nature of the Dasa periods and the rank of the person in life, just in the same way as the quantity of rain falling into a small cup cannot but be small though the rain be excessive.
From a single rāśi the whole gochara table, vedha, vipareeta vedha, Candra Bala, Chandrāṣṭama and the saṅkrānti month all follow. The layers below do not, and each says what it would need. None is filled in by guesswork.
A rāśi spans 2.25 nakṣatras, so everyone born under this sign falls under one of three adjacent birth stars - and each gives a different tārā. Which of the three applies to you depends on your birth star, which this reading was not given. All three are shown; none is picked.