Houses (Bhāva)
A detailed guide to the 12 houses in Vedic astrology, their meanings, and how they are used to generate forecasts in the app.
First House (Tanu Bhāva)
Core Meaning: The Self, physical body, vitality, personality, and overall life direction.
Positive Expression: Strong health, confidence, leadership, recognition.
Challenging Expression: Health issues, lack of confidence, identity crisis.
Relevance: Crucial for health and personal drive in career. In finance, it represents the entity itself (e.g., the company).
Transit Impact: Planets transiting here directly impact the core identity, health, and visibility of the entity.
How this is used in our app:
The first house (from the Moon) is the anchor for all our "Mood Score" calculations. Its condition sets the tone for the entire chart.
Second House (Dhana Bhāva)
Core Meaning: Wealth, accumulated assets, family, speech, and food intake.
Positive Expression: Financial stability, growth of assets, articulate speech, strong family support.
Challenging Expression: Financial losses, family disputes, harsh speech.
Relevance: Directly relates to financial health and resources. In sports, it can represent team funding.
Transit Impact: Transits here affect income, savings, and communication.
How this is used in our app:
A key house for financial forecasts. Positive transits here boost the score for wealth accumulation.
Third House (Sahaja Bhāva)
Core Meaning: Courage, communication, short journeys, siblings, marketing, and self-effort.
Positive Expression: Bold initiatives, effective marketing campaigns, successful negotiations.
Challenging Expression: Communication breakdowns, cowardice, conflicts with peers.
Relevance: Crucial for marketing, sales, and competitive drive. In sports, it shows the courage of the team.
Transit Impact: Transits here influence communication strategies and the willingness to take risks.
How this is used in our app:
This house is important for short-term actions. Malefic planets like Mars do well here, indicating a willingness to fight, which can be positive for a stock's competitive action or a team's performance.
Fourth House (Sukha Bhāva)
Core Meaning: Home, mother, happiness, property, vehicles, and emotional peace.
Positive Expression: Domestic harmony, acquisition of assets (property/vehicles), emotional contentment.
Challenging Expression: Instability at the foundation, loss of property, emotional distress.
Relevance: Represents the foundational stability of a company (its headquarters or home market) or the "home field" for a team.
Transit Impact: Transits here affect the core foundation and overall happiness level of the entity.
How this is used in our app:
A stable 4th house contributes to a steady "Mood Score," indicating underlying contentment and stability.
Fifth House (Putra Bhāva)
Core Meaning: Creativity, intellect, speculation, investments, children, and romance.
Positive Expression: Successful investments, creative breakthroughs, strategic intelligence.
Challenging Expression: Poor speculative decisions, creative blocks, problems in romantic relationships.
Relevance: The primary house for stock market speculation and strategic gameplay in sports.
Transit Impact: Transits here directly impact speculative ventures and strategic decision-making.
How this is used in our app:
This is a critical house for our finance and sports forecasts. Benefic transits here increase the score for "opportunities" and "strategic advantage."
Sixth House (Ari Bhāva)
Core Meaning: Enemies, debts, disputes, daily work, health issues, and service.
Positive Expression: Overcoming competition, securing loans, winning legal battles.
Challenging Expression: Mounting debt, ongoing conflicts, poor health, difficult work environment.
Relevance: Represents competition, market rivals, and operational challenges. In sports, it is the house of the opponent.
Transit Impact: Transits here show the nature of daily work, health, and conflicts.
How this is used in our app:
A "positive" transit of a malefic planet here can be very good, as it indicates the destruction of enemies or overcoming obstacles, leading to a higher score in competitive contexts.
Seventh House (Jaya Bhāva)
Core Meaning: Partnerships, marriage, business contracts, and public image.
Positive Expression: Successful partnerships, beneficial contracts, positive public relations.
Challenging Expression: Breakdown of partnerships, legal disputes, public scandals.
Relevance: Crucial for business alliances, mergers, and public-facing interactions.
Transit Impact: Transits here affect all forms of partnership and contractual agreements.
How this is used in our app:
The 7th house is key to the "Event Score," as its activation often correlates with significant public events or partnership announcements.
Eighth House (Ayu Bhāva)
Core Meaning: Sudden events, transformation, secrets, research, chronic illness, and unearned wealth (inheritance, insurance).
Positive Expression: Unexpected gains, deep research breakthroughs, successful transformations.
Challenging Expression: Sudden losses, scandals, accidents, chronic health problems.
Relevance: Represents market volatility, corporate restructuring, and hidden debt.
Transit Impact: Transits here can bring sudden, transformative events that are often disruptive but can lead to long-term gains.
How this is used in our app:
This house adds a "volatility" factor to our scores. Malefic transits can sharply lower the score, indicating risk, while certain benefic alignments can point to unexpected windfalls.
Ninth House (Dharma Bhāva)
Core Meaning: Fortune, higher wisdom, long-distance travel, father, and ethics.
Positive Expression: Good fortune, successful long-term strategies, positive guidance from leadership.
Challenging Expression: Bad luck, ethical scandals, conflicts with authority.
Relevance: Represents a company's long-term vision, its board of directors, and international operations. In sports, it can represent the head coach or management.
Transit Impact: Transits here affect long-term luck and alignment with the company's mission.
How this is used in our app:
Benefic transits through the 9th house, especially by Jupiter, significantly boost long-term (quarterly/yearly) scores.
Tenth House (Karma Bhāva)
Core Meaning: Career, reputation, public status, and actions in the world.
Positive Expression: Career advancement, public recognition, successful execution of plans.
Challenging Expression: Damage to reputation, career setbacks, public failure.
Relevance: The most important house for career and public reputation for any entity.
Transit Impact: Planets transiting here are highly visible and have a direct impact on the entity's public standing and actions.
How this is used in our app:
This is the peak of the chart. Any planetary transit here is given significant weight in the "Event Score," as it represents the most visible actions and outcomes.
Eleventh House (Lābha Bhāva)
Core Meaning: Gains, income, friendships, networks, and fulfillment of desires.
Positive Expression: Increased profits, beneficial connections, achievement of goals.
Challenging Expression: Loss of income, issues with social networks.
Relevance: The primary house of profits, revenue, and stock price gains.
Transit Impact: Transits here directly correlate with income, earnings reports, and network growth.
How this is used in our app:
This house is a primary driver for financial scores. All planets, even malefics, tend to give positive results here, representing gains through various means.
Twelfth House (Vyaya Bhāva)
Core Meaning: Expenses, losses, isolation, foreign lands, and spiritual liberation.
Positive Expression: Successful foreign investments, strategic retreats, deep research.
Challenging Expression: Financial losses, isolation, hidden enemies, unforeseen expenses.
Relevance: Represents expenses, liabilities, and foreign operations. It can also signify R&D or behind-the-scenes activities.
Transit Impact: Transits here can indicate a period of loss or, conversely, a time for strategic planning away from the public eye.
How this is used in our app:
The 12th house often has a negative impact on scores, indicating expenses or losses. However, for certain activities like research or spiritual pursuits, it can be beneficial.