Which House Represents Father, Mother and Relatives

A kundli has twelve houses and a family has far more than twelve people, so jyotish works in two layers. A handful of relations have a house of their own in the house table. Everyone else is found by counting: start from the house of the nearer relative and count again from there. This page gives both layers, with every count worked out, and then says plainly what a relative’s house is and is not.

The Six Houses Named for a Relation

The site’s houses table lists four keys for each bhava. In six of the twelve, one of those keys is a person. The third column below is that key exactly as the table prints it, and the last column is the graha the planet table gives as karaka for the same person, where it gives one.

Three of these karakas are also written into the houses table itself. The 4th’s karaka entry reads “Moon for the mother and the mind”, the 5th’s “Jupiter, the Putra Karaka”, and the 9th’s “Jupiter for dharma and the guru, Sun for the father”. The planet table agrees from the other side: the first item in the Sun’s karaka list is “Father”, the Moon’s is “Mother”, Jupiter’s is “Children” and Mars’s is “Younger siblings”. The 11th carries no karaka for elder siblings in either table, so that cell is left blank rather than filled from memory. The 7th’s karaka entry divides the spouse by the chart-holder’s sex, a split the 7th house page prints; it is not repeated here.

One more house belongs on the list without being a single person: the 2nd, whose keys include “Family of origin”. That is the household you were born into, as distinct from the family a marriage joins, which comes up again below.

Pita Ka Bhav Kaun Sa Hai? The 9th, and Where the 10th Comes In (कुंडली में पिता का भाव)

In the site’s tables the father is a 9th-house matter. The 9th is Bhagya / Dharma Bhava (भाग्य भाव), its keys include “Father’s influence”, and no other house carries a father key at all. The karaka is the Sun, from both directions: the house entry ends “Sun for the father”, and “Father” heads the Sun’s own karaka list. So the short Hindi answer is नवम भाव, the ninth house.

The 10th turns up in the same conversation for a reason. Some practitioners, and the habit is often associated with South Indian practice, also read the father from the 10th. The argument usually given is a count: the 10th is the 7th from the 4th, the house of the mother’s partner. Others keep to the 9th alone. The two positions coexist, the tables here record only the 9th, and this page does not settle between them. If someone tells you “10th house in astrology is the father”, they are drawing on that second reading, not contradicting the first.

The mother’s house is less disputed: the 4th, Sukha Bhava (सुख भाव), with the Moon as karaka. The 4th house article covers that bhava’s other themes, such as home and property.

Everyone Else: Counting From the Nearer Relative

For relations with no house of their own, the Parashari tradition uses house-from-house counting, the same method behind bhavat bhavam. The logic runs: treat the relative’s house as if it were their lagna, then look up the relation you want from there. Your mother’s younger sibling is the 3rd house (younger siblings) counted from the 4th (mother). Counting is inclusive, so the 4th is number one, the 5th is two, and the 6th is three.

The general rule: the kth house from house n is ((n + k − 2) mod 12) + 1. Each row below was worked out that way and, separately, by stepping through the zodiac sign by sign, and the two results agree in every row.

The Hindi words are given where one word covers the whole relation. The siblings rows count from the 3rd for younger and the 11th for elder, as the table’s own keys do, and they make no split between brothers and sisters, because the keys make none.

Maternal Uncle and Paternal Uncle

The count answers both uncle questions, with one catch: the houses split siblings by age, not by sex, so the house depends on whether the uncle is older or younger than the parent. The mother’s younger siblings, which takes in a mama (मामा) younger than her, fall in the 6th: three from the 4th. The father’s younger siblings, which takes in a chacha (चाचा), fall in the 11th: three from the 9th. A tauji (ताऊ), the father’s elder brother, is eleven from the 9th, which comes round to the 7th; an elder mama is eleven from the 4th, the 2nd.

The planet table adds one more pointer for the mother’s side: Mercury’s karaka list includes “maternal uncles”, alongside speech, trade and accounts. That is a karaka assignment, not a house, and in the classical scheme the two are looked at together rather than one standing in for the other.

In-Laws: the 2nd From the 7th

Your own family of origin is the 2nd house. Apply the same idea to your spouse: their family of origin is the 2nd counted from their house, the 7th, which lands on the 8th. The houses table supports this from its own side: among the 8th’s significations it lists “in-laws”. The individual parents-in-law are counted the same way. Nine from the 7th puts the spouse’s father in the 3rd, and four from the 7th puts the spouse’s mother in the 10th.

The 8th has other significations too, and it is easy to run them together with the in-laws. Doing so is a reading habit, not something the count supplies. The 8th is the in-laws’ house here only because it is the 2nd from the 7th.

Grandparents, and the Second Child

On the father’s side, the father’s father (dada) is nine from the 9th, the 5th, which is also the 9th’s bhavat bhavam. The father’s mother (dadi) is four from the 9th, the 12th. On the mother’s side, the mother’s mother (nani) is four from the 4th, the 7th, and the mother’s father (nana) is nine from the 4th, which brings the count round to the 12th as well.

The 5th is the house for children in the houses table (the 5th house article covers it at length). Practitioners who count a second child treat that child as the first child’s younger sibling, and so count three from the 5th, which gives the 7th. Accounts differ here: another version in circulation counts seven from the 5th instead and arrives at the 11th. The site’s tables hold neither, and the page reports both as counts. A child’s spouse is seven from the 5th, the 11th, and a grandchild is five from the 5th, the 9th.

One House, Several People

Put the seven direct entries and the fifteen counted ones together and something becomes obvious: houses are shared. Seven houses carry more than one person, and the 7th carries four:

• 2nd: Family of origin and mother's elder siblings.
• 3rd: Younger siblings and spouse's father.
• 5th: Children and father's father.
• 7th: Spouse, mother's mother, father's elder siblings and second child.
• 9th: Father, spouse's younger siblings and children's children.
• 11th: Elder siblings, father's younger siblings and children's spouses.
• 12th: Mother's father and father's mother.

Only the 1st holds nobody on either list, since the 1st is you. That sharing matters. Because the 7th is at once the spouse, the mother’s mother, the father’s elder siblings and, on one count, a second child, a house cannot be a portrait of any one of them. The tradition treats it as the place to start looking for a relation, with the karaka, the lord and the rest of the chart read alongside.

Counts That Come Back to the 1st

A quick way to see the scheme hangs together: a few relations, counted in reverse, return to the lagna.

• Your father's child: 5th from the 9th is the 1st.
• Your elder sibling's younger sibling: 3rd from the 11th is the 1st.
• Your younger sibling's elder sibling: 11th from the 3rd is the 1st.
• Your spouse's spouse: 7th from the 7th is the 1st.

Each of these closes because its two counts, less one each, add up to twelve, a full circle; a pair of relations whose counts do not add up that way does not return to the 1st. That is a property of the arithmetic, and no reading is hung on it here.

What This Page Does Not Do

A relative’s house is where the tradition looks when the question is about that relationship. It is not a statement about the relative. Nothing here says, or should be taken to say, anything about a parent’s, sibling’s, spouse’s or child’s health, lifespan, safety, character, looks or fortunes, and the page reads no planet in any of these houses for anyone. No chart, yours or theirs, is a forecast about another person. The page also says nothing about how many children anyone will have or of which sex; the counts above locate a house and stop there.

It does not read your chart or time any event. For each house’s full list of themes, start at the houses hub or the individual pages for the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th, and for all twelve in one place, the guide to the 12 houses. To find which sign sits on each of these houses in your own chart you need your lagna, which the free kundli prints, with its degree; count the houses from that sign.

In Hindi: कुंडली में कौन सा भाव पिता, माता और संबंधियों का है.