The 4th house of the horoscope
The fourth house of the horoscope is responsible for: the mother, happiness, property (hereditary real estate, land, houses), transport, moral virtues (honesty, sincerity and so on), friends, education, peace of mind, comfort, conveniences, acquisitions, general well-being, love, multitude, fame, reasonableness, savings, cattle, grain crops, trade, the weather, places of habitation, shelters, tents, false statements, places of storage of stolen goods, fields, farms, gardens, the harvest, mines, ore mines, deposits, secret affairs and relations, secret life, in a woman's chart — sexual life, sangama and satitavana, popularity.
Karakas: the Moon (the mother, emotions), Mercury (education, knowledge), Saturn (landed property), Mars (buildings and structures), Venus (means of transport).
Significations: The surface level — relatives. The subtle level — happiness. The support of justice.
The nadir — the lowest point of the heavens.
The Moon and Venus receive directional strength (dik-bala) here.
Relatives represented by the house: the mother, the maternal uncle, a sister's son, close people.
Parts of the body: the chest, the heart, the lungs, the arteries, the diaphragm, the upper part of the abdomen.
Drekkanas: 1 — the right nostril, 2 — the right side of the body, 3 — the right thigh.
Matru sthana (the mother), Sukha sthana (happiness), Vidya bhava (knowledge), Vahana sthana (transport), Bhumi bhava (land).
The results of the various signs in the 4th house
Aries: income from means of transport, foodstuffs and objects of luxury; several marriages, good subordinates.
Taurus: manly, receives money from the state, has many faithful friends, adheres to religious traditions, god-fearing, engages in charity.
Gemini: loves comfort, ease, beautiful clothes and female company; good income in later age, after overcoming the initial difficulties and strenuous work.
Cancer: a beautiful appearance, charm, adherence to rules, a quality education, faithful friends, enjoys success with the opposite sex, is loved by family and close ones.
Leo: irritable, caustic, greedy, possesses good manners, has daughters.
Virgo: fabulously rich, an erudite, with a higher education, suffers losses because of selfish friends.
Libra: a peaceful and calm character, a smiling face, education, adherence to rules, wealth and prosperity.
Scorpio: many confrontations and difficulties in life, service to others, courage, an absence of this, a high intellect, few friends.
Sagittarius: wealth and prosperity, an idyll in the home, victory over enemies, means of transport and luxurious surroundings.
Capricorn: receives income from farms, gardens, sources of water and friends, cares for his parents.
Aquarius: gentle and pleasant speech, intellectual conversations, quick-wittedness, a striving for comfort in life and for calm in the home, a noticeable influence of the wife, thievish inclinations.
Pisces: stout, loves the beautiful life, good surroundings and expensive clothes, a believer, engages in charity.
The lord of the 4th house in the houses of the horoscope
The lord of the 4th house in the 1st house (the Lagna): well-read, a good education, warm relations with father and mother, the possession of landed property, real estate and means of transport, nobility, a fear of speaking before the public, a feeling of inner harmony. After a long and happy life in marriage he may become a hermit. There is a probability that the person will be left without an inheritance.
The lord of the 4th house in the 2nd house: income from the mother, family happiness, wealth, success, honour, hereditary property. An affliction of the planet leads to the loss of property and gives coarse or sneering speech.
The lord of the 4th house in the 3rd house: harsh relations with the father and his relatives, family feuds, the well-being of the younger brother. A placement harmful for the significations of the 4th house. The person is not particularly successful, achieves everything himself and is distinguished by courage, democratic views, good deeds and inner anxieties.
The lord of the 4th house in the 4th house: receives much attention in childhood, happy, fortunate, educated, well-read, religious, respected, decent, very well-off, owns movable and immovable property, marries successfully.
The lord of the 4th house in the 5th house: feels a deep attachment to his children, has good offspring, receives an inheritance, long-lived, does not complain of his health, educated, earns by his own labour, virtuous, enjoys honour, worships Vishnu. The father's good fortune contributes to the person's well-being. The person's sons prosper in life and occupy high posts.
The lord of the 4th house in the 6th house: helps cousins and the maternal uncle, owns real estate, quickly loses his temper, light-fingered, is exposed to the risk of accidents, takes part in court cases. This placement negatively influences the mother's health.
The lord of the 4th house in the 7th house: charismatic, attractive, well-to-do, marries early, leads a successful and happy life, copes well with business or service, deprived of the father's property, unable to realise himself fully. The maternal grandmother is long-lived.
The lord of the 4th house in the 8th house: weak health, infertility, an inability to satisfy the partner in bed, an absence of domestic comfort, a modest financial position, oppressions, hindrances in study, secret treasures, a long life.
The lord of the 4th house in the 9th house: enjoys honour in society, does good deeds, receives an inheritance, drives his own car, quarrels with relatives. A happy life of the father.
The lord of the 4th house in the 10th house: an expert in many fields, clever, diligent, earns much, possesses fame and enormous honour in society, occupies a high state post, is content with his work, prospers in his career, may take the medical path, attains material prosperity by his own efforts.
The lord of the 4th house in the 11th house: an egoist, a pessimistic disposition of spirit, poor health, failures in business, warm relations with elder brothers. Self-satisfied, talkative, democratic, responsive, virtuous, obsessed with fears about an illness as yet unknown to him.
The lord of the 4th house in the 12th house: an unhappy life, an unprofitable business, indispositions, failures, an absence of harmony in the home, sexual impotence, the loss of family property, residence abroad. If the planet is afflicted, the mother will die early.
The rulers of the houses of the horoscope in the 4th house
The lord of the 1st house in the 4th house: Handsome, from a noble family, sensual, voluptuous, ambitious, happy, does good deeds, owns landed property and family property, prospers thanks to his own efforts, works at the bidding of the heart, not of the mind. The person's parents live happily.
The lord of the 2nd house in the 4th house: economical, owns various property, spends money on personal pleasures. The sources of wealth are the mother, land, agriculture, the sphere of education, means of transport, friends. If negative planetary influences are present, these sources of income turn into causes of expenditure.
The lord of the 3rd house in the 4th house: erudition, intellect, prosperity, happiness, a wife with a bad disposition, trips for the purpose of obtaining or selling real estate.
The lord of the 4th house in the 4th house: receives much attention in childhood, happy, fortunate, educated, well-read, religious, respected, decent, very well-off, owns movable and immovable property, marries successfully.
The lord of the 5th house in the 4th house: Raja yoga, prosperity, happy children.
The lord of the 6th house in the 4th house: jealous, problems with the mother, profit from the maternal uncle.
The lord of the 7th house in the 4th house: truthful, devout, intelligent, suffers from bad teeth, happy in marriage. The wife spends much time in the house of her parents.
The lord of the 8th house in the 4th house: a move to distant parts in search of work, discord in the family, emotional anxieties, reversals and disappointments in service and profession. The person is cut off from his mother, his home and his native land.
The lord of the 9th house in the 4th house: Raja yoga, the possession of movable and immovable property, a well-provided-for happy life, the receipt of gain from the father, a long life of the father, attachment to the mother.
The lord of the 10th house in the 4th house: well-to-do, has his own transport, decent, devoted to his mother, engages in easy and comfortable work. The profession is often connected with cars, construction, agriculture or the dairy industry.
The lord of the 11th house in the 4th house: may be the eldest among the brothers and sisters, enjoys all kinds of conveniences and pleasures, receives profit from the mother or from her family, owns good houses and land, makes pilgrimages.
The lord of the 12th house in the 4th house: is carried away by games of chance, studies abroad, deprived of maternal affection, almost daily faces losses connected with land, house and transport, suffers from mental anxieties. Hostilely disposed relatives, a landlord constantly in pursuit. If the planet is malefic and strong, without any favourable aspects, then the person's married life comes under attack.
Mutual exchange between the houses
The 4th and the 1st — attached to the mother, has much movable and immovable property, owns personal transport.
The 4th and the 2nd — a favourable Vidya yoga. A quality education, an enviable financial position of the family, real estate, material help from relatives on the mother's side;
The 4th and the 1st — Khala yoga. An interrupted education, the post of a military commander, service in the army or in the police, periodic moves to a new place; such a placement has a bad effect on the mother;
The 4th and the 5th — clever and educated, loving children who are well settled in life;
The 4th and the 6th — a danger to health, rheumatism, accidents, poor well-being of the mother;
The 4th and the 7th — a comfortable and happy married life, a family idyll, personal transport;
The 4th and the 8th — Dur yoga, problems for the mother, a bad combination for family life, education and means of transport;
The 4th and the 9th — study abroad, one's own transport, a happy personal life, material comfort, fame, good parents;
The 4th and the 10th — very much real estate and cars; a profession connected with trips, transport and property;
The 4th and the 11th — receives income from the mother, drives personal transport, earns much on real estate, cars and trips;
The 4th and the 12th — Dur yoga, has a bad effect on the mother's health and length of life, unprofitable acquisitions, susceptibility to accidents.
Observations concerning the fourth house and its lord
The lord of the 4th in the 10th house indicates a loving mother and a long life for the person.- When the owner of the 4th house together with the lord of the 10th are joined in the same kendra or trikona, the person will have a good house and a personal car.
- Exaltation of the ruler of the 4th house and the placement of benefic planets in this house grant the person's mother a long life.
- A strong lord of the 4th house, the influence of benefic planets on the 4th bhava, the position of the lord of the 4th in a kendra or in a trine — each of these combinations promises the person material well-being.
- In the dasha of a debilitated lord of the 4th house education may be interrupted.
- The Sun in the 4th house makes the person heartless, a deceiver and extremely selfish in attaining his goals.
- The placement in the 4th house of its ruler together with the Lagnesha foretells the unexpected acquisition of a house.
- With exaltation of the ruler of the 4th house the person's children live happily.
- The placement of the Sun in the 4th house simultaneously with Mars in the 5th may cause a heart attack, which may prove fatal if the signs of Cancer and Leo fall in these houses.
- The influence of the owner of the 4th house on the 7th, on the lord of the 7th and on Venus arouses in the person an interest in visiting brothels.
- When the rulers of the 4th and 9th houses are in the mutual position 6/8, enmity reigns in the relations between the parents.
- A conjunction of the lord of the 4th bhava with the Lagnesha in a good house promises an easy and happy life.
- If the 4th house is occupied by the lord of the 12th, the person will study abroad.
- A strong inauspicious planet in the 4th house in the absence of favourable influences spoils family life.
- When the ruler of the 4th house falls into the 6th in conjunction with Saturn, or else when it is hemmed in on both sides by malefics, there is a risk of car accidents with a fatal outcome.
- If a connection of the 4th house/ruler with the lord of the 6th or 8th houses is present in the horoscope, a division of property will take place in the person's family.
- Personal transport is the responsibility of the 4th house, and official transport — of the 3rd.
Education:
The 2nd house shows the vocal data;
The 4th house is responsible for education;
The 5th house — the intellect;
The 9th house indicates higher education;
The 12th house symbolises the end of study;
Mercury is the karaka of education.
The Sun is responsible for philosophy, the Moon — for medicine, Mars — for surgery and agriculture, Mercury — for mathematics, Jupiter — for literature and law, Venus — for music, art and clothing design, Saturn — for history and politics.
Vidya yoga
- The lords of the 5th and 4th houses are ideally placed in the chart or have a direct connection with each other.
- The rulers of the 1st and 5th houses or of the 2nd and 4th exchange signs.
- The presence in the chart of a Shankha yoga and/or a Saraswati yoga.
Some observations concerning education
- Study is the responsibility of the 4th, 9th and 11th houses, their rulers and Mercury.
- Mercury, placed in its own sign in the 3rd house, gives a quality higher education.
- If the ruler of the current dasha has a relation to the 4th house, then this period contributes to obtaining an education; its relation to the 9th house gives higher education, and a connection with the 12th leads to the completion of study.
- The dasha of Rahu interrupts study, especially with Rahu being in the 2nd or 4th house.
- When the owners of the natal 2nd and 4th houses occupy favourable houses in the D-24 chart, the process of study will be even and smooth. The person will receive much knowledge in various fields if in the D-24 chart the lord of the current dasha feels good.
- The influence of Mars, Saturn or the lunar nodes on the 2nd, 4th and 5th houses gives a technical or medical education.
- A connection of Mercury or Jupiter with the 2nd, 4th or 5th houses contributes to an education in the sphere of commerce.
- The influence of the Moon or Venus on the above-mentioned houses shows a humanities education.
- A person in whose chart the lord of the 4th is at home under the aspect of Jupiter loves to study and to engage in science. An aspect of a strong Jupiter on the 5th house or its placement in it gives the same results.
- If a connection is formed in the chart between the rulers of the 5th and 9th houses, the person will receive a higher education and a chance to study abroad.
- A conjunction of an exalted Jupiter or Mercury with the ruler of the 5th house is a good combination for the study of law.
- When Venus is in the 4th house, where it receives an aspect of a friendly planet and establishes a connection with the lord of the 4th from the Karakamsha, the person will own personal transport and work in the sphere of education.
- A person with a conjunction in the 4th house of the owners of the 5th and 9th studies “excellently”.
- The person will be well educated, happy and content with life if in his horoscope the Lagnesha exerts a direct influence on the 4th house or on its ruler.
- The placement of the lord of the 4th house from the Lagna in the 9th from the Moon sends the person to study abroad.