How strong is a graha in its sign?
Seven steps of strength, from exalted to debilitated, and how to find a graha's step.
- 6-minute lesson
- Basic course: Jyotish Shishya
- Vedic astrology
- Seven steps
- Check from the top
- Your planets
A first look at the lesson
Put it together and every one of the seven grahas, in every sign, stands on one of seven steps, strongest first: exalted, moolatrikona, own sign, friend's sign, neutral's sign, enemy's sign, debilitated. This is its dignity.
To find a graha's step, check from the top and stop at the first that fits: its exaltation? Its debilitation? Its moolatrikona? One of its own signs? If none fits, look at the sign's lord and ask how the graha regards that lord.
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- Exaltation (uchcha)Each of the seven grahas has one sign where it is strongest, and one degree where it peaks.
- Debilitation (neecha)Across the wheel from its exaltation, in the 7th sign, a graha is at its weakest.
- Own sign and moolatrikonaA graha is at home in the signs it rules, and at its office in its moolatrikona.
- Friends, enemies and neutralsThe seven grahas fall into two sides; each counts some grahas friends, some neutral and some enemies.
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