The 3rd is journeys (BPHS 11. · Day (vāra)
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.
The lord of this day is Moon - Sūrya Siddhānta I.51's day-lord.
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
danger, humiliation, separation from his kith and kin and mental depression
Prasna Marga XXII.2-4
calamities of all sorts, feelings of privation and severe diseases, and break to one's profession
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.
Sun in the 9th favours patience in travel and faith over haste. Moon in the 8th signals sudden changes; proceed with care. Mercury in the 10th supports career and public standing. Venus in the 11th is favourable for gains, income and friendships. Mars in the 7th asks for give and take in close relationships. Jupiter in the 8th signals sudden changes; proceed with care. Saturn in the 4th may unsettle domestic peace; nurture calm. Saturn is retrograde — review and reflect on home and inner peace. Rahu in the 3rd boosts courage, communication and personal effort. Rahu is retrograde — review and reflect on communication and efforts. Ketu in the 9th favours patience in travel and faith over haste. Ketu is retrograde — review and reflect on beliefs and long-term plans.
The favourable/adverse call behind every sentence comes from Phaladeepika 26.2's table; the sentences themselves are AstroZivi's own prose. The table below carries the same verdicts with vedha and vipareeta vedha attached.
| Graha | Sign | House | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Leo | 9 | Unfavourable, with relief (vipareeta vedha) vipareeta vedha from house 3 - active (Rahu) |
| Moon | Cancer | 8 | Unfavourable, with relief (vipareeta vedha) vipareeta vedha from house 11 - active (Venus) |
| Mercury | Virgo | 10 | Favourable vedha from house 8 - that house is unoccupied |
| Venus | Libra | 11 | Favourable, but obstructed (vedha) vedha from house 3 - active (Rahu) |
| Mars | Gemini | 7 | Unfavourable Neither a vedha nor a relief is possible for this graha in this house - a real feature of the tables, not missing data. |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 8 | Unfavourable, with relief (vipareeta vedha) vipareeta vedha from house 11 - active (Venus) |
| Saturn(R) | Pisces | 4 | Unfavourable Neither a vedha nor a relief is possible for this graha in this house - a real feature of the tables, not missing data. 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 | 3 | Favourable vedha from house 12 - that house is unoccupied |
| Ketu(R) | Leo | 9 | Unfavourable Neither a vedha nor a relief is possible for this graha in this house - a real feature of the tables, not missing data. |
“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 8 from your janma rāśi - Candra Bala is not 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 the 8th from your janma rāśi. Kālaprakāśikā says nothing auspicious or important should be begun in that window.
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.