The Upachaya houses (the «houses of growth»)

The 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th houses of the horoscope are known as the houses of growth and development. They favour earnings and the saving of money. Benefic planets allow one to earn easily, while malefic ones will first test a person’s endurance and make him work hard, and only then give the material reward he has deserved.

The characteristics of the rulers of the nakshatras in which the planets standing in the Upachaya houses of the chart are placed will suggest the possible ways and sources of income, as well as the profitable lines of activity.

Sri Govind Swarup Agarwal — «Vedic Astrology»

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Vrajendra Kumar — The Upachaya houses (the 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th houses of the horoscope)

«Upachaya» literally means «growth», and the sense of the «houses of growth» is that planets in the upachaya houses give their fruits not at once, but in the course of time, as they grow. It is held that even «bad» planets in the upachaya houses improve their characteristics and indications; that is, the upachaya houses are good places for «bad» planets, since here they «mend their ways» with time and give more positive results, which is especially noticeable after the age of 40.