Light on Astrology

21–29. All information about one's past and future births

Chapter 15.

1. When will the bhavas astrological houses or life departments produce good effects?
2. When is a bhava said to be strong, when mixed, and when weak?
3–6. Conditions determining the destruction of a bhava.
7–8. Time when such destruction comes to pass.
9–10. The lord of the Lagna the Ascendant or rising sign, whether benefic naturally favorable, like Jupiter or malefic naturally challenging, like Saturn, promotes the prosperity of the Bhava it occupies. — An example where the lord of the Lagna is malefic.
11. In the case of a planet owning two houses, the conditions and the time during which the effects of these two houses will happen.
12. Same as slokas original: "shlokas"; poetic verses or stanzas 7–8.
13. A situation when the effects predicted above as going to happen may not at all come to pass.
14. The effect measured.
15–16. What can be determined from the several planets as Karakas significators or "doers" that represent specific areas of life?
17. The Karakas of the 12 bhavas.
18. The planetary effects will be full or otherwise according to the nature—friendly or inimical—of the sign occupied by the planet. Malefics in the 6th, 8th, and 12th and benefics in the other houses generally promote the advancement of the native.
19. Malefics in the Dustthanas difficult or "evil" houses, specifically the 6th, 8th, and 12th do good to the native while benefics do evil.
20. The method of determining the effects of any Bhava.
21. The method of ascertaining information about one's father, mother, brother, and other relations of a person.
22–24. All information about one's father to be ascertained by treating the Sun's position in the nativity the birth chart as the Lagna and proceeding in the usual way.
25. Similar details about one's mother, brother, etc.