Guru in the 1st House
Jupiter in the 1st house, by Phaladeepika and Lal Kitab
What Guru gives in the 1st house by Lal Kitab and by Phaladeepika, its upay, the houses it looks at from there, and what it means for each lagna.
Jupiter in the 1st house gives a noble character, good health, long life, and spiritual nature. It is highly auspicious.
In a kendra (one of the four angles of the chart, the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th houses, where a graha acts with most force), in Dhanu (Sagittarius), Meen (Pisces) or Kark (Cancer), Guru forms Hamsa Yoga, one of the five Pancha Mahapurusha (“great person”) yogas of Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra. The table below marks the lagnas where that happens.
Lal Kitab reads Guru in the 1st house by the house, not by your lagna; Parashara’s view for your own lagna is further down, and Phaladeepika and Brihat Jataka may differ. How Lal Kitab and Parashara differ · Lal Kitab: pakka ghar, rin and upay
Lal Kitab upay
Apply saffron tilak on forehead. Worship Lord Vishnu.
This is Lal Kitab’s one upay for Guru in the 1st house, to keep its good results strong; it is a suggestion, and your whole kundli may call for another. All upay for Guru
What Phaladeepika says
Mantreswara, Adhyaya 8, sloka 14Phaladeepika 8.14 holds that Guru (Jupiter) in the lagna (the ascendant, 1st house) gives good looks, good fortune and a long life. The text adds fearlessness and the blessing of children.
How much of this holds turns on the rest of the chart: the rashi Guru sits in, the 1st house’s lord and the grahas with it or looking at it. The old texts speak of a man; their readings apply to anyone.
What Brihat Jataka says
Varahamihira, sloka 20.7BJ 20.7: Guru in the 1st gives learning.
When Guru in the 1st house shows, and where it looks
Its results show most in Guru’s own mahadasha (16 years) and in its antardashas inside the others. The 1st house’s matters also come forward in the periods of the house’s lord, which depends on your lagna.
Its drishti (a graha’s glance: the houses it looks at feel its influence) from the 1st, by the rules our kundli reading weighs houses with:
- on your 5th house (children): helps it
- on your 7th house (marriage): helps it
- on your 9th house (luck): helps it
The 1st house, Tanu bhava, rules self, body, health and how others see you; it is a kendra and a trikona (the 1st, 5th and 9th houses, the houses of fortune); its karaka (the graha that naturally signifies a house’s matters, whatever the lagna) is Surya. The 1st house, and every graha in it
Guru in the 1st house, for each lagna
the rashi it sits in, and the houses it rules| Lagna | Guru sits in | Its state there | Lord of your | For this lagna |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mesh (Aries) | Mesh (Aries) | Friendly | 9th and 12th | Benefic |
| Vrishabh (Taurus) | Vrishabh (Taurus) | Enemy | 8th and 11th | Malefic · Maraka— lord of the 8th and 11th, not the 2nd or 7th; the verse names it a killer all the same (34.23–24) |
| Mithun (Gemini) | Mithun (Gemini) | Enemy | 7th and 10th | Malefic— lord of the 7th, but the killer the verse names for this lagna is Chandra (34.25–26) |
| Kark (Cancer) | Kark (Cancer) | Exalted · Hamsa Yoga | 6th and 9th | Benefic |
| Singh (Leo) | Singh (Leo) | Friendly | 5th and 8th | Benefic |
| Kanya (Virgo) | Kanya (Virgo) | Enemy | 4th and 7th | Malefic— lord of the 7th, but the killer the verse names for this lagna is Shukra (34.31–32) |
| Tula (Libra) | Tula (Libra) | Enemy | 3rd and 6th | Malefic · Maraka— lord of the 3rd and 6th, not the 2nd or 7th; the verse names it a killer all the same (34.33–34) |
| Vrishchik (Scorpio) | Vrishchik (Scorpio) | Friendly | 2nd and 5th | Benefic— lord of the 2nd, but the killer the verse names for this lagna is Shukra (34.35–36) |
| Dhanu (Sagittarius) | Dhanu (Sagittarius) | Own rashi · Hamsa Yoga | 1st and 4th | Neutral— the lagna lord, which the verse calls neutral (34.38) |
| Makar (Capricorn) | Makar (Capricorn) | Debilitated | 3rd and 12th | Malefic |
| Kumbh (Aquarius) | Kumbh (Aquarius) | Neutral | 2nd and 11th | Malefic · Maraka |
| Meen (Pisces) | Meen (Pisces) | Own rashi · Hamsa Yoga | 1st and 10th | Benefic · Yoga— gives yoga together with Mangal (34.44) |
Guru’s state in each rashi, and the houses it rules for each lagna, as our free kundli reads them (BPHS chapter 34); each house links to what Parashara says of its lord sitting in the 1st. “Its state there” is how that rashi treats Guru: exalted, own, friendly, neutral (sam), enemy or debilitated. “For this lagna” is Parashara’s verdict on the houses it rules. The two answer different questions.
The labels, from Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, chapter 34:
- Yogakaraka: the strongest graha a lagna can have: the one Parashara names as bringing yoga, or the one lord of both a kendra (1st, 4th, 7th, 10th) and a trikona (1st, 5th, 9th) (34.13)
- Benefic, Malefic, Neutral: works for the lagna; brings its harder matters; neither
- Lagna lord: the lagna’s own graha, where the verse calls it neither good nor hard
- Maraka: a killer Parashara names for the lagna, watched for health and longevity; printed alone, or after another label. It is not always the lord of the 2nd or 7th: where it differs, the line under it gives the verse
- · Yoga: one of two grahas he says give yoga together for this lagna
One lagna, read through
Take Kark lagna. Guru sits in Kark there (exalted) and rules your 6th and 9th houses, which makes it a benefic for Kark lagna (BPHS 34). Both point the same way, a graha good for the lagna and strong in its rashi: the best this table holds. The Lal Kitab reading above is the same for every lagna; this row is the part that changes with yours.
By Brihat Jataka 20.11, Guru in the 1st house gives its good in full for Kark lagna, half for Dhanu and Meen lagna, a quarter for Mesh, Singh and Vrishchik lagna, little for Vrishabh, Mithun, Kanya and Tula lagna and none for Makar lagna, by the rashi it sits in. The verse gives no share for a neutral rashi, which is where it sits for Kumbh lagna. BJ 20.10–11
Guru in the 1st house: where it works best, and where hardest
read off the table aboveGuru passing through the 1st from your Moon
the gochar of Guru, not the birth chartNot the birth placement above: here Guru is moving through the 1st counted from your Moon rashi. Phaladeepika does not count the 1st among Guru’s good transit houses (all twelve, on the Guru page). Our Monthly Prediction reads it as mixed: growth, with some expenses; a move is possible.
Common questions
3 questionsIs Guru in the 1st house good?
Lal Kitab counts it a good placement, one of the 7 houses where Guru does well (with the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th). By its rashi, it is strongest for Kark, Dhanu and Meen lagna; it is debilitated for Makar lagna.
What is the Lal Kitab upay for Guru in the 1st house?
Lal Kitab’s upay for it: Apply saffron tilak on forehead; worship Lord Vishnu.
Which houses does Guru look at from the 1st?
The 5th (children), 7th (marriage) and 9th (luck).
A graha reads the same for everybody. Your chart does not.
Where each graha sits in your kundli, which bhavas it rules for your lagna and which dasha is running decide what it does for you. Make your free kundli to see all nine.
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