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The 5th Lord in the 1st House
Putra Bhava lord in the Lagna / Tanu Bhava · the 9th from the 5th · twelve ascendants computed
The 5th lord in the 1st house is the ruler of the 5th, the Putra Bhava, placed in the 1st, the Lagna / Tanu Bhava. The 5th is a trikona and the 1st a kendra and a trikona. Which graha that lord is depends on the ascendant, so the table below answers for all twelve.
Counted from the 5th, the 1st is the 9th house, which from any house is a trikona position; counted back from the 1st, the 5th is the 5th, a trikona position from it.
On the Parashari reading, in which a lord carries its house’s matters to wherever it sits, the 5th lord in the 1st reads the 5th’s matters — children, creativity and arts, romance, and higher learning — through the 1st’s: personal identity and life direction. For the 5th lord in the 1st 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 5th Lord in the 1st, Ascendant by Ascendant
| Ascendant | 5th sign | 5th lord | In the 1st | Dignity there | Also rules |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aries | Leo | Sun | Aries | exalted | — |
| Taurus | Virgo | Mercury | Taurus | in a friend's sign | the 2nd |
| Gemini | Libra | Venus | Gemini | in a friend's sign | the 12th |
| Cancer | Scorpio | Mars | Cancer | debilitated | the 10th |
| Leo | Sagittarius | Jupiter | Leo | in a friend's sign | the 8th |
| Virgo | Capricorn | Saturn | Virgo | in a friend's sign | the 6th |
| Libra | Aquarius | Saturn | Libra | exalted | the 4th |
| Scorpio | Pisces | Jupiter | Scorpio | in a friend's sign | the 2nd |
| Sagittarius | Aries | Mars | Sagittarius | in a friend's sign | the 12th |
| Capricorn | Taurus | Venus | Capricorn | in a friend's sign | the 10th |
| Aquarius | Gemini | Mercury | Aquarius | in a neutral sign | the 8th |
| Pisces | Cancer | Moon | Pisces | in a neutral sign | — |
Across the twelve ascendants the 5th lord in the 1st is exalted for Aries and Libra, in a friend's sign for Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius and Capricorn, in a neutral sign for Aquarius and Pisces and debilitated for Cancer. The Sun and the Moon rule one sign each, so for Aries and Pisces, where one of them is the 5th lord, it rules no other house; for the other ten the last column gives the second house the 5th lord brings with it to the 1st.
For Cancer ascendant (Mars, ruling the 5th and 10th), Libra ascendant (Saturn, ruling the 4th and 5th) and Capricorn ascendant (Venus, ruling the 5th and 10th), the 5th lord rules both a kendra and a trikona other than the 1st, and in the 1st it is debilitated for Cancer, exalted for Libra and in a friend's sign for Capricorn.
The Reverse: the 1st Lord in the 5th
Where the 1st lord sits in the 5th in the same chart as the 5th lord in the 1st, each lord occupies the other’s sign, an exchange the texts call parivartana. For all twelve ascendants the 5th and the 1st have different lords, so the exchange is possible whatever the ascendant.
Related
The 5th lord in each of the twelve houses is on the 5th lord page; the houses themselves on the 5th house and the 1st house. For the method, see the 12 houses guide and our 5th house article.
Where is your 5th lord?
A free kundli shows the ascendant and every graha’s house. A pandit reads the lordships together.
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