16. Effects of The Third House

अथ विक्रमभावस्य फलं वक्ष्यामि भो द्विज ! |
सहजे सौम्ययुग्दृष्टे भ्रातृमान् विक्रमी नरः ॥ १ ॥

1. O Brahmin, now I explain to you the effects of the Vikrama Bhava (the third House). When the third House has the conjunction or aspect of benefic planets, the native will be brave and courageous and will be endowed with younger brother.

स-भौमो भ्रातृभावेशो भ्रातृभावं प्रपश्यति ।
भ्रातृक्षेत्रगतो वाऽपि भ्रातृसौख्यं विनिर्दिशेत् ॥ २ ॥

2. If the Lord of the 'Bhratra Bhava' or the third house together with Mars, aspects the third house, or is situated in the third House, it should be pointed out that the native will be blessed with a younger brother.

1. The House 2. The Lord of the House and 3. The significator of that house. According to this all these three things will be integrated at one place, that is if there is the sign, Aries in the third House and Mars occupies it, then the Lord of that House will be there as the significator of it. Now the third house will become a very sensitive area. If it has even the slightest influence of a malefic planet, that influence will badly affect the third house, its significator and its Lord and the horoscope will have more of evil influences and a few of good ones and therefore there will be greater possibility that the third house should have one or the other evil influence. So more auspicious situation it will be when the Lord of the Third House should be some other planet than Mars and this house is aspected by both the Lord of this house and Mars: If the Lord of the Third House and Mars both are placed in this house, even then they will create an excellent situation but only in case when they are free from any evil influence. If there is any evil influence on them, all the three factors will be afflicted at once. Therefore, in our view, the house will give good effects without any affliction, if two factor remain separate and provide strength to the House.

पापयोगेन तौ पापक्षेत्रयोगेन वा पुनः ।
उत्पाट्य सहजान् सद्यो निहन्तारौ न संशयः ॥ ३ ॥

3. If these two (Mars and the Lord of the Third House) are in conjunction with malefic planets or are placed in an evil sign, the destruction of brothers will soon occur, there is no doubt about it.

स्त्रीग्रहो भ्रातृभावेश: स्त्रीग्रहो भ्रातृभावगः ।
भगिनी स्यात् तथा भ्राता पुंगृहे पुंग्रहो यदि ॥ ४ ॥

मिश्रे मिश्रफलं वाच्यं बलाबलविनिर्णयात् ।

4-4½ When the lord of the third house is a female planet (the Moon, Venus) and female planets are placed in this house, the native will have sister (younger) and similarly if the Lord of this house is a male planet and male planets are situated in it, he will be blessed with brother (younger) and, if the house is occupied by both male and female planets, then he will have the blessing of both brother and sister. But their effect should be predicted on the basis of their strengths and weaknesses.

The influence on the Third House of female planets and Rashis or signs will cause the absence of younger brother and in the reverse case the influence of male planets and male Rashis or signs, if bereft of the feminine influence will cause the absence of younger sister. If the male and female planets and Rashis or signs have joint influence, then the male and female influence will have to be considered separately and the number of brothers and sisters may be known after having examined their strength from various points of view, and brothers and sisters then will be in proportion to their strengths. If the strength of the two is insignificant then there will be absence of both brothers and sisters.

मृतौ कुजतृतीयेशौ सहोदरविनाशकौ ॥ ५ ॥

केन्द्रत्रिकोणगे वाऽपि स्वोच्चमित्रस्ववर्गगे ।
कारके सहजेशे या भ्रातृसौख्यं विनिर्दिशेत् ॥ ६ ॥

5-6 When Mars and the Lord of the Third House occupy the 8th house, they are destroyer of the younger brother of the native, and Mars, the significator and the Lord of the Third House being in a Kendra (or angle) or Trikona (or trine) or in their sign of exaltation or in their own or friendly division, the happiness of younger brother is to be predicted.

भ्रातृभे बुधसंयुक्ते तदीशे चन्द्रसंयुते ।
कारके मन्दसंयुक्ते भगिन्येकायतो भवेत् ॥ ७ ॥

पश्चात् सहोदरोऽप्येकस्तृतीयस्तु मृतो भवेत् ।
कारके राहुसंयुक्ते सहजेशे तु नीचगे ॥ ८ ॥

पश्चात् सहोदराभावं पूर्वं तु तत्त्र्यं वदेत् ।
भ्रातृस्थानाधिपे केन्द्रे कारके तत्त्रिकोणगे ॥ ९ ॥

जीवेन सहिते चोच्चे ज्ञेया द्वादश सोदराः ।
तत्र ज्येष्ठद्वयं तद्वज्जातकाच्च तृतीयकम् ॥ १० ॥

सप्तमं नवमं चैव द्वादशं च मृतं वदेत् ।
शेषाः सहोदरा: षड् वै भवेयुर्दीर्घजीवनाः ॥ ११ ॥

7-11. If the third house is occupied by Mercury and the Lord of the third house is together with the Moon, the significator of this House, Mars with Saturn, then the native will first have a sister before him and after him a brother and the third will be a brother who will die. If the significator Mars is in conjunction with Rahu, and the Lord of the third house is in his sign of debilitation, there will be loss of younger brother but there will be 3 brothers before the native. If the Lord of the House of brothers (the 3rd House) is in a Kendra (angle) and the Significator Mars is placed in trikona (trine) from him in his exaltation together with Jupiter, 12 brothers of the native should be known; of these, the two elder brothers of the native and third, seventh, ninth and twelfth from him will die, the remaining six brothers will have long life.

In the latter half of sloka 8 and the former half of sloka the Sage tells us about the third House. In this context he says that if Mars, the Significator of the Third House is together with Rahu and the Lord of the Third House is debilitated, the native will have no younger brother after him although he has elder brothers. This rule may be applied extensively. In the Predictive Astrology it is well known that Rahu works like the Lord of that house in which he is situated and also works like that planet with whom he is situated. But the manner of action of Rahu is in accordance with his body. structure. His body is divided into two halves. Therefore it divides every object or incident into two parts. The planets having lord ship of two Rashis or signs have the certainty of the 50% influence of Rahu; but the planets whose lordship is over only one Rashi or sign have the all destroying effect of Rahu. This all destroying effect of Rahu will fall through his conjunction with planets on that house of the Horoscope whose significator is together with Rahu and the condition is that the House should be weak. This can be explained with the help of an example in the following way: Suppose Rahu is together with Mercury. Mercury is the significator of the intellect. Therefore the Lord of the intellect, that is the Lord of the 5th House should be in his sign of debilitation. When he is debilitated the native will be very intelligent in the early period of education, but when he enters into the world of higher education the intellectual ability of the native will suffer deterioration of his intellectual powers and he will not be able to get further education. He will get success only with the education that he has got in the early part of his educational career.

Below is given the experience of Rahu together with Venus and the Lord of the second House is placed in his sign of debilitation the native's trade prospers to a great extent and there is much accumulation of wealth in the early part of his career, but in the latter part of his career it doesnot run ahead even with the utmost efforts and hardest labour. However he has accumulated so much money which does not let him face any financial difficulty throughout the remaining part of his life. In the same way if Rahu is together with Mars and the Lord of the Third House (the house having Mars as its Significator) is in its sign of debilitation, the brothers and sisters of the native born before him remain alive but those born after him are swallowed up by death. And if Rahu is together with the Moon and the Lord of the Fourth House is debilitated the native's mother will be destroyed or the native will have psychological defect. Rahu being together with the Sun and the Lord of the 10th House being in his debilitation sign will cause the death of the native's father or a heavy fall in his standard that is' he will remain only an "Ex-Nawab"

CHART I

(formerly a high positioned person). The meaning is that this formula may have extensive application. But experience has shown that this combination has the quickest occurrence only with reference to Mars. Here is an example:

Date of birth 25/10/1976 Time of birth 7.15 p.m. (IST) Place of birth Delhi

In the given birth chart Mars is together with Rahu and the Sun, the Lord of the Third House is in its sign of debilitation (the 8th sign). The native has elder brother but his mother did not have conception after his birth.

CHART II

Second Example

Date of birth 27-8-1981 Time of birth5.35 a.m. IST Place of birth Meerut (U.P.)

In the given horoscope the Lord of the Third House is debilitated (in Sign 6) and the significator of the Third House Mars is together with the Moon. Therefore the native has three elder brothers but his mother did not give birth to any child after him. A few days after his birth the mother got illness and on 3\1\1984 she left for her heavenly abode.

व्ययेशेन युतो भौमो गुरुणा सहितोऽपि वा ।
भ्रातृभावे स्थिते चन्द्रे सप्तसंख्यास्तु सोदरा: ॥ १२ ॥

भ्रातृस्थाने शशियुते केवलं पग्रहेक्षिते ।
सहजा भ्रातरो ज्ञेयाः शुक्रयुक्तेक्षितेऽन्यथा ॥ १३ ॥

12-13 If the Lord of the 12th House is in conjunction with Mars and Jupiter and the Moon is situated in the Third House, then the number of the native's brothers and sisters will be seven. Should there be the Moon in the Third House, and she be aspected by only male planets, the native will have brother and should she be together with Venus or be aspected by her he will have only sister.

अग्रे जातं रविर्हन्ति पृष्ठे जातं शनैश्चरः ।
अग्रजं पृष्ठजं हन्ति सहजस्थो धरासुतः ॥ १४ ॥

14. When placed in the House of brothers and sisters the Sun will destroy the preborn or elder brother, Saturn, the after-born or the younger brother and, Mars both the preborn and the after born or the elder and the younger brothers.

एतेषां विप्र ! योगानां बलाबलविनिर्णयात् ।
भ्रातॄणां भगिनीनां वा जातकस्य फलं वदेत् ॥ १५ ॥

15. In this way o Bhahmin, the learned astrologer should estimate the strength and weakness of such yogas or combinations and it is then that he should proclaim or speak of the native's effects related to brothers and sisters.