Where a planet sits is personal. What it represents is the same in every chart ever cast. You read the two together.
Each of the nine grahas carries a fixed portfolio of meanings that is identical in every chart: the Sun is father, authority and vitality; the Moon is mother, mind and mood; Mars is drive and conflict; Mercury is speech and analysis; Jupiter is teachers and expansion; Venus is beauty and partnership; Saturn is time, limit and labour; Rahu is appetite and amplification; Ketu is detachment and release. That portfolio is called its karakatva, or signification, and it is separate from house ownership. Your version of a planet is its permanent portfolio filtered through the sign it sits in, the house it stands in, and its condition.
The selected planet sits in the ring where it actually stands; the highlighted rooms are the ones it owns. In this chart Jupiter and Mercury are both combust.
Two different jobs get confused constantly. A planet OWNS the houses furnished by its signs, which is personal to your chart and changes with your rising sign. A planet SIGNIFIES a fixed set of subjects, which is the same for everybody and never changes.
Jupiter is the teacher, the elder and the giver of children in every chart ever cast, whether or not Jupiter owns anything interesting in yours. Saturn is time, discipline and limit in every chart. The Sun is the father and the authority in every chart. That layer is called karakatva.
Both layers are read at once. If your 9th house of teachers is owned by Mercury but Jupiter is the natural significator of teachers everywhere, then Jupiter's condition tells you something about mentors in your life even though Mercury runs that room. When the two layers agree, the reading is emphatic. When they disagree, that tension is itself the finding.
Sun: father, authority, the soul, vitality, status. Moon: mother, the mind, mood, memory, the public. Mars: drive, courage, conflict, siblings, land. Mercury: speech, intellect, trade, writing, analysis. Jupiter: teachers, elders, wisdom, children, expansion. Venus: beauty, art, partnership, pleasure, refinement. Saturn: time, discipline, limits, labour, delay.
The two nodes are read differently because they are not bodies. Rahu is appetite, obsession, foreign things and amplification: it magnifies whatever it touches and moves the goalposts. Ketu is detachment, release and completion: it removes interest from whatever it touches, which reads as loss or as freedom depending on how attached you were.
A planet standing too close to the Sun is combust, meaning it is lost in the glare and not visible from Earth. Each has its own orb: Mars within 17 degrees, Saturn 15, Mercury 14, Moon 12, Jupiter 11, Venus 10.
A combust planet still acts. What it loses is visibility, so its results tend to be hard to see and hard for other people to attribute to it. It is one of the more useful things to know about a chart, because it explains the specific and common experience of doing the work and watching the credit land somewhere else.
Its signification, or karakatva, is the fixed set of subjects it stands for in every chart: Jupiter for teachers and expansion, Venus for partnership and art, Saturn for time and limit, and so on. It is separate from house ownership, which changes from chart to chart. Both are read together.
The house lord is personal and depends on your rising sign: it is the planet owning the sign that furnishes a given house in your chart. The significator is universal: Jupiter signifies children in everyone's chart. When your 5th house lord and Jupiter both look strong, the reading for children is emphatic; when they disagree, the disagreement is the finding.
It means the planet was standing too close to the Sun to be visible from Earth. Each planet has its own orb: Mars 17 degrees, Saturn 15, Mercury 14, Moon 12, Jupiter 11, Venus 10. A combust planet still acts and still delivers, but its results are hard to see and hard for other people to credit to it.
Yes, though they are read differently because they are calculated points rather than bodies. Rahu signifies appetite, obsession, foreign things and amplification. Ketu signifies detachment, release and what completes and leaves. Neither owns any sign, so they are always read as tenants and amplifiers of whatever they sit with.
Read end to end the six units give you more guidance than anyone keeps. Deduplicated it comes to eight rules, ranked by how many separate places each one came from.
Every placement, dignity, degree, retrograde flag, D-9 position and aspect on this page, including the worked example, is computed by the AstroMedha Vedic engine from birth details. Nothing here is worked out by hand.