Namaskar and Welcome to my channel kundali:
understanding horoscope the Vedic way.
Today’s topic is Rashi Bhed.
In my video on Kundali fundamentals, I mentioned
that there are five components to a kundali.
In my previous two videos I discussed sthaan
vichaar and grah vichar. The third component
is rashi bhed which I will discuss in this
video.
Rashi as you may know in english is zodiac
sign, so rashi bhed is zodiac sign analysis.
It plays a very important role in reading
a kundali and making predictions. In discussing
rashi bhed I will talk about, 12 rashis, the
planets that own them and their properties.
I will also show you how to determine your
own rashi from your kundali. additionally
I will discuss how to figure out when to travel,
when to move into a new house etc.
What you see here is a list of rashis, the
planets that own them and their corresponding
english names for reference. Also pay special
attention to the numbers assigned to each
rashi in the first column as I will discuss
their importance later in the video.
So mesh is the rashi number 1 and is owned
by Mars, vrik is rashi number 2 and is owned
by Venus and so on.
Here is the list of the remaining 6 out of
12 rashis with their assigned number and owning
planets.
You can note down the first 3 columns for
all 12 rashis for reference as you will be
using this information again and again while
reading kundalis.
In my video sthaan vichar, I showed you how
a kundali is divided into 12 sthaans. For
your reference I had numbered them 1 through
12 as you can see here. I did this just to
explain the concept of sthaan numbering. An
important point to note here is that this
numbering is fixed. The sthaan numbers remain
the same in every kundali. So in a real world
kundali sthaan numbers are not displayed on
the kundali chart.
But you must have seen numbers written on
a kundali. So what are those? Those are the
numbers that are assigned to the 12 rashis
that I showed you in the previous two tables.
As you see in the kundali on the right, the
numbers in blue are the rashi numbers. So
when you see number 5 in the first sthaan,
it means that singh rashi is in the first
sthaan.
If this seems confusing, remember a kundali
is snapshot of the sky with rashis in it at
the time of ones birth. Now depending on the
date and time, the location of various rashis
keep changing. So at one point of time sthaan
1 can have singh rashi whereas at another
point of time the same sthaan 1 can have some
other rashi.
Still not clear? Don’t worry. I will discuss
this further in next two examples so that
the concept becomes clear.
Let’s look at the first example. In this
kundali in the first sthaan or lagn, number
5 is written. This means that rashi number
5 or singh rashi is in 1st sthaan. Hence this
is called lagn rashi. The owner of this rashi
is called lagnesh which in this example is
Sun. So to summarize, in this kundali lagn
rashi is singh and lagnesh is Sun.
Another thing that I would like to point out
at this time is that the rashi numbering is
sequential starting from sthaan 1. So if sthaan
1 has number 5 then sthaan 2 will have number
6, sthaan 3 will have number 7 and so on till
number 12 which in this case is 8th sthaan.
After 12 the rashi numbering restarts from
1. So sthaan 9 will have number 1, sthaan
10 will have number 2 and it will go on till
sthaan 12 to complete the circle.
Here is another example to illustrate the
numbering scheme. try to practice yourself
which house is owned by which planet
Here you can see number 9 in the 1st sthaan
or lagn sthaan. So lagn rashi is number 9
which is dhanu. Dhanu rashi is owned by Jupiter
so lagnesh is Jupiter.
Now let’s look at sthaan 10 as another example.
we see the number 6 which is kanya rashi,
kanya rashi is owned by Mercury hence the
owner of 10th sthaan is mercury
to summarize what I just discussed, sthaan
numbering is fixed and not displayed in standard
kundali. Rashi keeps changing based on time
and place of birth. The numbers seen in a
kundali are the rashis occupying that sthaan.
Now if we were to put all of this together,
Kundali is comprised of sthaan vichar, rashi
bhed and grah vichar. sthaan vichar shows
the 12 sections sky is divided into. Rashi
bhed tells us which rashi is sitting in a
sthaan, grah bhed tells us which planet or
planets are present in each section of the
sky. we combine these concepts to read a real
world kundali. 
let’s look at such a real world kundali.
In this kundali, 1st house or lagna has number
2 in it which is vrik rashi and hence the
first house is owned by Venus. We also see
Ra in the first house which is short form
for Rahu hence we can tell that Rahu is sitting
in the first house hence the results related
to first house will be influenced by Venus
(the owner of first house) and Rahu which
is sitting or is a tenant of the first house.
Similarly we can look at 4th house as another
example. We can clearly see that Mars and
Venus are sitting in it or are tenants. The
4th house has number 5 which is Singh rashi.
Singh rashi is owned by sun so the the owner
of 4th house is Sun.
Now let me talk about the meaning of rashi
when people talk about it in general conversation.
I have just described 12 rashis, which rashi
is your rashi? The answer is, your rashi is
the rashi in which chandrama resides.
Let’s take an example of the kundali infronf
of you. Look at where the moon is, it’s
in the 5th house. What is the rashi in the
5th house? It’s number 6 or kanya. So your
rashi is kanya.
Let me now talk about some advanced properties
of rashis which help in kundali analysis and
answering questions like when to do grih provesh,
when to travel and so on.
Rashis are divided into 3 categories, char
sthir and dwiswabhav. As the name implies,
char rashis are considered moving, sthir rashis
are considered stationary, Dwiswabhav rashi
is considered somewhere in the middle.
Here are the rashis and their categories.
It’s easier to remember if you just remember
that they alternate between char/sthir and
dwiswabhav as you go along the rashi numbers
from 1 to 12
Why does this matter? Let’s say someone
asks, when should I do grah pravesh? To figure
out the appropriate time, check in a patra
when a sthir rashi is prevalent. One should
move into a house in a sthir rashi as one
intends to stay or sthir there for a long
time. Not sure what a patra is? Don’t worry,
how to read patra will be posted later on
this channel
Similarly if someone asks when should I start
traveling, a time during char rashi is considered
better.
Another advanced property of rashi and planets
is ucch and neech. Planets can be ucch or
neech in certain rashis based on the table
infront of you. Ucch and neech don’t translate
appropriately in english but ucch can be considered
better and neech can be considered worse.
So for example Sun in Mesh will give even
better fal or results compared to being in
any other Rashi. Similarly Sun will be worse
in Tula rashi compared to being in other Rashis.
In this video I have described how to use
rashi in kundali analysis. Now if we combine
this with I explored in the videos on sthaan
and grah vichar, we are ready to make more
realistic predictions for a kundali! Interested
to know how we can combine sthaan, grah and
rashi bhed, check out my video on Falaadesh
also known as Prediction in English - Example
1 using sthan, grah and rashi vichaar
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