Dr Ambika Prasad Sharma and his son Dr Vinod Kumar Sharma, inspired by their two books on astrology, Explore the Power of Astrology and Explore the Power of Astrology Trikona One, bring to you a new and advanced viewpoint on another set of three important angles (houses) of the chart (kundali) which are the third house, the seventh house and the eleventh house, traditionally known as Trikona. These three houses deal with some of the crucial areas in one\\\'s life such as education, brothers and sisters, marriage, business partners, dreams and desires, gains through parents, and sudden and unexpected riches.

These findings combine both traditional Indian and Western viewpoints in the analysis of the charts. The authors have analysed over forty charts in relation to the three houses and discussed in detail how the planets play a vital role in the growth and development of human beings.

This book gives the reader an insight to unfold easily the hidden and overt impact of the planet(s) placed in a house and reflect extensively how these houses influence one\'s life constantly. It also provides the knowledge how the planets effect the houses they rule, and takes us a step further in unlocking and understanding the mysterious ways of the heavenly bodies.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

The father and son duo of Dr. Ambika Prasad Parashar and Dr. Vinod Kumar Parashar have been practicing astrology for more than past three decades. Their enormous experience in this field has benefited numerous clients to secure answers to countless personal problems. Post-graduates and Ph.D. in Philosophy and Science respectively, they constantly help people discover answers to difficult questions relating to married life, romance and children, job opportunities, foreign travels, higher education and productivity.

CONTENTS:

Chapter One :I Need Your Attention 7
On Studying Astrology....7
Dimensions of Trikona Two....9
Understanding the Planets....11

Chapter Two : The Third House 15
House of Communication, Journeys, Brothers & Sisters
Transits of Planets....17
Analysis of the Charts....29
Brief Summary of Results....48

Chapter Three : The Seventh House 50
House of Romance, Marriage & Legal Affairs
Transits of Planets....51
Analysis of the Charts....61
Brief Summary of Results....84
When Matching Charts for Marriage!....85

Chapter Four : The Eleventh House 88
House of Idealism, Dreams and Riches
Transits of Planets....89
Analysis of the Charts....100
The Concluding Chart....121
Specific Discussions....122
Brief Summary of Results....124

APPENDICES
Appendix-I : The Zodiac Signs....129
Appendix-II : The Houses....142
Appendix-III : Different Aspects from Different Positions....149
Appendix-IV : Retrograding Planets....151

AN EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
THE HOUSES

The First House
This is the most important house of the horoscope. This is the house of self, the place where the ascendant, personality and self-image resides. It contains the rising sign (lagna) and expresses one’s personality, temperament, physical health, overall well being, physical characteristics and general attitude towards life. It represents your personal style, mannerism, your likes and dislikes and provides the key to why you look the way you do. It also includes your early childhood and is closely knitted to your health. If successfully deciphered, the first house shows a sense of control and direction. It is so obvious that the focus of this house is going to be your identity. When a planet transits the ascendant in its own sign it will provide benefits according to the nature of the planet rising in a sign. We have already discussed at length the placements of various planets at the ascendant. The reader needs to keep in mind that the planet occupying the ascendant will surely provide benefits to the native in the light of the strength and characteristics it possesses.
The Second House
The second house reveals one’s attitude about possessions, security and partners. It is the house where one will find not only one’s money and what one owns but what one will own and value, including one’s income and those things that one will come to treasure. It also reveals how one feels about one’s possessions and will show the best ways how one will earn one’s living. It has also to do with one’s speech, one’s style of conversation, such as aggressive or polite, and family and friendly ties. This house also represents individual’s self-esteem, earning abilities and personal resources, making this the house of productivity. Any ruler of ascendant occupying the second house will provide benefits in view of the characteristics the second house contains, as well as the nature of the ascendant. For example, if the owner of the ascendant is Venus and it sits in the second house, it will bestow financial benefits on the native associated with art, acting and culture-related activities; besides, his/her speech will be mild and full of sweet words. Therefore, the reader needs to remember that the owner of the ascendant when transits in a house other than the ascendant it will bestow qualities, benefits or even losses in view of the characteristics of the house it sits in as well as the qualities the rising sign possesses at the ascendant.
The Third House
The third house is concerned with all the nearest relatives, brothers, sisters, friends, cousins etc, but not parents. This house is additionally concerned with communication, (Gemini) transportation and environment. For example, if one is planning to move, the third house may offer advice about what type of environment would be best for the individual—town or country, etc. (10: p. 110) It is also concerned with one’s capacity for information-gathering and sharing, and includes one’s knowledge, short journeys and immediate environment. Traditionally, this house is also concerned with one’s efforts towards life’s goals.
The Fourth House
The fourth house, in fact, is one’s home, the place where a house is a home. In addition to being one’s domestic life, it is a place where one can feel to be at home with one’s unconscious patterns, habits and emotional underpinnings. It is the house where one’s foundations of life are seated. The house is related to one’s insecurities or need for emotional security. The natural fourth house is ruled by Cancer, so it is associated with the Moon. Thus, the fourth house is both, one’s seclusion and self-protection—the place where one can retreat to and depend on. It also indicates the point of one’s beginning. As it is related with the Moon, traditionally it is also related with the native’s mother and movable as well as immovable property, happiness received from home, vehicles that one would own and, in general, it is also concerned with one’s peace and serenity in life. To some extent this house also indicates the direction and place or town where one is likely to settle down. This direction can be reckoned from one’s place of birth or parental home. Some Western astrologers consider that the fourth house reflects relationships and connections with one’s father as well as father’s status.
The Fifth House
Traditionally, the fifth house is the house of creativity. Thus, naturally, it is related with children, risk-taking, romance and every kind of creative endeavours such as writing, publishing, and investments for productivity. One’s creativity is not limited to the arts but one could be creative in any field and direction. The sign occupied by this house indicates the nature of one’s creativity and self-expression and its ruler indicates how and where one would develop one’s abilities to express oneself. The fifth house also has a strong association with pleasure, particularly one’s attitude towards love affairs, the act of love (having children) and the ways one translates emotional and spiritual love into physical. Traditionally, Indian astrologers associate this house mainly with children and education, hence with one’s productivity and creativity in any form.
The Sixth House
The sixth house is related to health but not with physical health like the first house. The sixth house is strongly associated with hygiene and diet, and bowels—all may not be linked to one’s physical being. This house also indicates how one handles everyday work and routine whether in business or raising a family. It indicates how disciplined one is when faced with daily routine. This house also reveals (according to the Western tradition) one’s attitude towards servants and how one treats those who help in running one’s life smoothly. (10: p.111) Indian tradition reveals that this house is associated with litigation, partnership in business, enmity, position of and relationship with the maternal uncle, and communicative qualities.
The Seventh House
The seventh house mainly highlights the native’s attitudes and feelings about emotional relationships or partnerships. In particular, the seventh house reveals one’s deep-rooted needs in the area of love, what sort of partner one looks for and how easy or difficult it would be for the individual to maintain harmony in a partnership. The seventh house should always be interpreted together with the fifth house, which indicates one’s attitudes towards the act of love and having children. (10: p.111) Western tradition, like the Indian tradition, also considers this house as the house of partnership and marriage. It is associated naturally with the sign Libra that is ruled by Venus. It indicates what kind of partner and marriage one will have. But it indicates other kinds of partnerships as well, such as important friends and associates, business partners, legal affairs and agreements. Above all, one’s seventh house indicates where one cooperates and shares with others. (4: p. 220) Indian tradition indicates that this house has to deal primarily with one’s marriage, short journeys and at times vocation as well.
The Eighth House
The eighth house is related with one’s shared resources and that includes everything¬—from taxes, insurance and business mergers to inheritances and marrying for money. It is also known as the house of death and regeneration because it is related to transformation and physical death and deals with transforming physical things into energy. Regeneration is about more than death, too. It is also about individual transformation, whether emotional, physical, mental, or spiritual. It is because of this that this house includes the life forces that are related with sex, birth, and the ‘life after life’ and death as well. This house also deals with psychic powers, occult mysteries and occult knowledge.
(4: p. 223-4) It is strongly associated with endowments and big lottery wins. Crime research and investigations are also highlighted with this. Traditionally (Western) this house is associated with the primal ‘life force,’ and as such it is inevitably related with sex, and with individual’s deepest and most fundamental sexual urges, rather than simple lovemaking. (10: p.112) Indian tradition indicates that this house primarily deals with individual’s death and at times sudden gains through lottery or inheritance.
The Ninth House
It is one of the very important houses besides the ascendant in a chart (kundali). The Western system suggests that the ninth house is everything, from higher education to philosophy and religion, from law to long travels and foreign concerns. It also includes politics and all areas of collective thought structures. It is also involved with the development of a social conscience. It is the house of one’s social areas, mental exploration, long-distance travels and long journeys overseas, love for seeing new cultures and to know more of the world to gain a new perspective of the world in general. The ninth house is also related to one’s efforts in finding new patterns of behaviour and how to break or change them, mainly because of conditioning, beliefs, religion and philosophical systems that are behind all of us. If one takes advantage of this house when its owner is well placed, one can make miracles. It is also the house that relates to publishing and teaching and to convey one’s ideas and beliefs openly. As it is naturally associated with the sign Sagittarius, it is the house of exploration and higher mind, mainly of philosophical subjects (4: p. 229) and (10: p. 112). Thus, besides the ascendant, the ninth house is another very important house which describes one’s beliefs, likings and leanings, and life’s philosophies. It is the ruler of ninth house that describes where and in what manner an individual will involve one’s mind and develop understanding of life. Indian tradition considers this house of luck and long distance overseas journeys as well as every kind of religious and spiritual activity that an individual tends to do.
The Tenth House
It is the house that is related to hope, progress and responsibility. It reveals how well one is getting on in the world—not only financially but in terms of fulfilling one’s deepest aspirations, dealing with responsibility and authority, traditional values and social status. It is the house that indicates about one’s profession and substantial increase in one’s social status. It is the house of one’s reputation and career. It is the house where one can find everything outside the home—community standing, social role and what others think of about the individual. Some consider this as the house of ambition, aspiration, and attainment. This house is also related to one of the dominant parents—preferably father. It is the house that indicates success through one’s own efforts and a reflection of one’s image and achievements. According to the Indian traditions, the tenth house is related to one’s karma (actions) and profession. It is also the house that reflects the native’s father’s profession and social status. The sign that rises in this house indicates the subject’s profession, life’s achievements and also the amount of leaning towards religious activities.
The Eleventh House
Western astrologers reckon that the eleventh house reveals how one relates to other people socially and is much concerned with friendship and society. This house strongly emphasises how the native would like to engage with the world. It reveals the native’s attitude towards political and social opposition, and intolerance. It also indicates how much time the native would give to charitable and humanitarian causes and how he/she works with others, especially in large groups. It also indicates whether the individual would possess genuine affinity for public office! Indian traditions identify this house with the native’s personal income, gains through relatives, parents, sudden gains through unknown and undisclosed means, gains through excellent business, general affluence and prosperity. In fact, it is the house which indicates how much wealthy the native should be in his life and how much social status he/she will gather through the riches. A well placed owner of the eleventh house in a chart indicates that the native will surely lead a wealthy and prosperous life.
The Twelfth House
Western astrologers reckon that this house indicates escapism and isolation. It is also related to hospitals, prisons and mental institutions and all such places where one is likely to experience loneliness and seclusion. It is the house of mystery and related to most psychological problems of the native. (10: p.113) Sometimes this house is also called as the house of sorrows, secrets and self-undoing. Twelfth house is certainly the most mystical of the houses. It is the house where one finds one’s subconscious, and the unknown after all. Some Western astrologers reckon this house as the house of troubles, but also make it clear that one’s consciousness resides there. This house can lead to self-transcendence, moving one beyond the ego and to what is there beyond the self. (4: p. 243) Indian tradition reckons that this house indicates waste, expenses, losses, long and short journeys and moksha as well. In fact, if the owner of this house occupies any beneficial sign or is conjunct with a beneficial planet, it is certainly going to mitigate the good effects of that house and the planet as well.