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The 10th Lord in the 12th House
Karma Bhava lord in the Vyaya / Moksha Bhava · the 3rd from the 10th · twelve ascendants computed
The 10th lord in the 12th house is the ruler of the 10th, the Karma Bhava, placed in the 12th, the Vyaya / Moksha Bhava. The 10th is a kendra and an upachaya and the 12th a dusthana. Which graha that lord is depends on the ascendant, so the table below answers for all twelve.
Counted from the 10th, the 12th is the 3rd house, which from any house is an upachaya position; counted back from the 12th, the 10th is the 11th, an upachaya position from it.
On the Parashari reading, in which a lord carries its house’s matters to wherever it sits, the 10th lord in the 12th reads the 10th’s matters — career and profession, public reputation, authority, and achievements — through the 12th’s: expenses and losses, foreign residence, spiritual liberation, and subconscious mind. For the 10th lord in the 12th that is a frame, not a forecast; what it comes to depends on the graha, its dignity below, and the rest of the chart.
The 10th Lord in the 12th, Ascendant by Ascendant
| Ascendant | 10th sign | 10th lord | In the 12th | Dignity there | Also rules |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aries | Capricorn | Saturn | Pisces | in a neutral sign | the 11th |
| Taurus | Aquarius | Saturn | Aries | debilitated | the 9th |
| Gemini | Pisces | Jupiter | Taurus | in an enemy's sign | the 7th |
| Cancer | Aries | Mars | Gemini | in an enemy's sign | the 5th |
| Leo | Taurus | Venus | Cancer | in an enemy's sign | the 3rd |
| Virgo | Gemini | Mercury | Leo | in a friend's sign | the 1st |
| Libra | Cancer | Moon | Virgo | in a friend's sign | — |
| Scorpio | Leo | Sun | Libra | debilitated | — |
| Sagittarius | Virgo | Mercury | Scorpio | in a neutral sign | the 7th |
| Capricorn | Libra | Venus | Sagittarius | in a neutral sign | the 5th |
| Aquarius | Scorpio | Mars | Capricorn | exalted | the 3rd |
| Pisces | Sagittarius | Jupiter | Aquarius | in a neutral sign | the 1st |
Across the twelve ascendants the 10th lord in the 12th is exalted for Aquarius, in a friend's sign for Virgo and Libra, in a neutral sign for Aries, Sagittarius, Capricorn and Pisces, in an enemy's sign for Gemini, Cancer and Leo and debilitated for Taurus and Scorpio. The Sun and the Moon rule one sign each, so for Libra and Scorpio, where one of them is the 10th lord, it rules no other house; for the other ten the last column gives the second house the 10th lord brings with it to the 12th.
For Taurus ascendant (Saturn, ruling the 9th and 10th), Cancer ascendant (Mars, ruling the 5th and 10th) and Capricorn ascendant (Venus, ruling the 5th and 10th), the 10th lord rules both a kendra and a trikona other than the 1st, and in the 12th it is debilitated for Taurus, in an enemy's sign for Cancer and in a neutral sign for Capricorn.
The Reverse: the 12th Lord in the 10th
Where the 12th lord sits in the 10th in the same chart as the 10th lord in the 12th, each lord occupies the other’s sign, an exchange the texts call parivartana. For all twelve ascendants the 10th and the 12th have different lords, so the exchange is possible whatever the ascendant.
Related
The 10th lord in each of the twelve houses is on the 10th lord page; the houses themselves on the 10th house and the 12th house. For the method, see the 12 houses guide and our 10th house article.
Where is your 10th lord?
A free kundli shows the ascendant and every graha’s house. A pandit reads the lordships together.
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