27 pages
The planet at the highest degree in your chart, the significator of the self. What each of the seven means, what its house placement changes, and how the karakamsa is read.
The second rung of the chara karaka ranking, what it adds to the first, and why the seven-versus-eight question moves it twice as often.
Karakamsa is the navamsa sign of your atmakaraka, projected back onto the birth chart. What it is, how it is found, and what is read from it.
How the Jaimini system reads the atmakaraka for what a life is completing, using the 12th house from the karakamsa. What it claims and what it does not.
What the atmakaraka can honestly say about work, what it cannot, and why a working mode is a more useful answer than a job title.
The planet that stands for the self sitting in the house of the self. What doubles, what it costs, and how the planet changes the reading.
The planet that stands for the self in the house of speech, family line and what is held. What the placement makes the recurring subject.
The planet that stands for the self in the house of effort, courage and siblings. Why this placement rewards repetition and what it costs.
The planet that stands for the self in the house of home, mother and inner ground. A private placement, and why it is often missed from outside.
The planet that stands for the self in the house of creative intelligence, children and past merit. What this placement makes central, and its cost.
The planet that stands for the self in the house of service, illness, debt and conflict. Why this difficult placement is also the one that builds capacity.
The planet that stands for the self in the house of partnership. Why the other person becomes the subject, and what that costs.
The planet that stands for the self in the house of the hidden, sudden reversal and inheritance. The most misread placement, explained plainly.
The planet that stands for the self in the house of dharma, the teacher and the long journey. What this placement makes central and where it fails.
The planet that stands for the self in the house of visible work and public standing. The most externally legible placement, and what it costs.
The planet that stands for the self in the house of gains, networks and desire fulfilled. Why this comfortable placement has a specific emptiness in it.
The planet that stands for the self in the house of loss, foreign lands and withdrawal. Why the tradition treats this difficult placement as the highest one.
Jupiter holding the highest degree in your chart. Teaching, belief and expansion as the recurring subject, including where the expansion costs.
Mars holding the highest degree in your chart. Will, conflict and courage as the recurring subject, and how the house placement changes it.
Mercury holding the highest degree in your chart. Intellect, speech and discrimination as the recurring subject, and what the placement changes.
The Moon holding the highest degree in your chart. Feeling as the primary instrument, the mother, and what the placement changes.
Saturn holding the highest degree in your chart. Endurance, delay and time as the recurring subject.
One calculator and another, two different atmakarakas. The seven-versus-eight question explained, where each reading comes from, and which one we compute.
The Sun holding the highest degree in your chart. What it puts at the centre of a life, where it costs, and how the placement changes the reading.
Venus holding the highest degree in your chart. Desire and relationship as the recurring subject, and the classical reason Venus is read differently here.
Two planets both described as the self. What each one actually governs, when they agree, and what it means when they pull in different directions.
The full method in five steps, the tie-break, and the three mistakes that make two calculators disagree. Worked example included.
Atmakaraka is the planet standing at the highest degree in your birth chart. What the word means, how the planet is chosen, and what it is read for.