Houses · 10 of 12
The 10th house: Karma bhava
Career, status, action, authority and reputation.
- Sanskrit name
- Karma (action)
- Signifies
- Career, status, action, authority and reputation
- Karaka (significator)
- The Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn
- Kind of house
- a kendra (angular house), a pillar of the chart; an upachaya (house of growth), where malefics do well; an artha house
The 10th house in Jyotish
The 10th house, Karma bhava, governs career, status, action, authority and reputation. In whole-sign houses, the house is the 10th sign counted from the ascendant; its sign, its lord, the planets in it and the planets aspecting it together describe these matters.
Its natural significator (karaka) is the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn. Parashara’s rule is to judge a house from its lord, from the planets in it and from its karaka together.
It is a kendra (angular house), a pillar of the chart; an upachaya (house of growth), where malefics do well; an artha house. Benefics placed here strengthen the chart; the lords of kendras and trikonas joining form raja yogas.
See which sign and planets fall in your 10th house in your free kundli, or explore it with the life areas guide. Chapter 4 covers all twelve houses.
Sources: Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra and Phaladeepika for the signs, planets and houses; Muhurta Chintamani for the nakshatra classes and the guna milan attributes. Wording is our own.