The 11th House
Labha bhava

1. Find its lord. Your lagna decides which rashi falls in your 11th house, and so which graha rules it. The table further down gives it for every lagna.
2. See where the lord sits from your lagna. In a kendra (the 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th) or the 5th or 9th, or in the 11th itself, it helps; in the 6th, 8th or 12th it is hidden, and the house’s matters come more slowly. In its own rashi, exaltation or moolatrikona (a stretch of a rashi where a graha works most like itself, ranked just below exaltation) it is strong; debilitated, weak.
3. Count from the 11th house itself. The lord in the 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th or 11th from it supports it; the 6th, 8th or 12th from it is a difficult place. For the 11th, those are your 4th, 6th and 10th houses.
4. Look at the grahas in it. Guru (Jupiter) or Shukra (Venus) in it helps. The 11th is an upachaya house, which grows with effort, so Shani (Saturn), Mangal (Mars), Rahu and Ketu here are not counted against it.
5. See which grahas look at it. Any graha in your 5th house casts its drishti (a graha’s glance: the houses it looks at feel its influence) on the 11th. Mangal (Mars) also looks at it from your 4th and 8th, Guru (Jupiter) from your 3rd and 7th, and Shani (Saturn) from your 2nd and 9th. Our reports give Rahu and Ketu Guru’s 5th and 9th drishti, so they look at it from the 3rd and 7th too. Guru’s or Shukra’s drishti helps; a malefic’s weighs against it, except in an upachaya house like this one.
6. Count its ashtakavarga points. Out of 56, a house with 28 or more carries its matters well; one under 25 asks for effort.
7. Read its karaka (the graha that naturally signifies a house’s matters, whatever the lagna) beside it. Guru (Jupiter) is the natural significator of the 11th’s matters, whatever your lagna.

Each help counts one point for the house and each weight one against. Two or more on balance for it reads strong; any balance against it, weak; anything between, mixed.