Marana Karaka Sthana — Where Planets Lose Power

Marana Karaka Sthana — Each Planet's Worst House

"For every planet there is one house which is really bad."

• The teacher gave no house for Ketu.
• Result: "If the planet is in that house, basically that house is destroyed." He applied it at once to the house the planet owns: Moon, the 7th lord, in the 8th — marital happiness is not good on that count.
• The houses owned by a planet in its Marana Karaka Sthana are destroyed. Example: Venus as lord of the 2nd and 7th, placed in the 6th — the significations of the 2nd and 7th are destroyed.
• The rule came up when students were asked to name the one badly placed planet in the example chart. Rahu was suggested first (2nd lord in the 5th). The teacher did not accept it: Rahu there is a neutral planet. The answer was Moon.

Moon in the 8th House — Marana Karaka Sthana and Maraka

Moon is the 7th lord of the rasi chart, placed in Leo in the 8th.

1. Marana Karaka Sthana. The 8th is the Marana Karaka Sthana of Moon. Moon is the 7th lord.

"So marital happiness is not good just based on this."

2. Maraka. 7th lord in the 8th: lord of a killer house in the house of longevity. Moon is the strongest maraka of the chart. He died in June 1980, in Moon dasha (1973–1983).

3. The Navamsa decides what the weak 7th means. A student pointed to the Navamsa. The teacher agreed that it matters more:

"If you see that 7th house is afflicted in Rasi, but in Navamsa you see 7th house strong, that means the person has problems not with wife, but general relations with people. Those relations are spoiled, not marital relation."

• In this chart the 7th of the Navamsa is strong (Moon in own sign). So the Rasi reading of poor marital happiness was made "based on what we saw" in the Rasi alone, and the Navamsa corrects it.