The planets represent the following:3

Sun: Atma (soul), self, self-realization, influence, prestige, power,
valor, health, eye, general well being, heat, splendor, father, king,
royalty, royal favor. 

Moon: The heart, understanding, inclinations, emotions, sleep, happiness,
good name and fame, facial luster, mother, royal favor, affluence, travel,
water reservoirs.

Mars: Stamina, courage, desire, anger, scandal, diseases, enemies,
opposition, controversies, weapons, commander of an army, land, immovable
 properties, younger brother, relations such as cousins.

Mercury: Intelligence, discrimination, speech, expression, education,
learning, mathematics, logic, astrology, medical knowledge and profession,
writing, publishing, acting as a middle man in trade or politics
(diplomacy), dancing, mixture of things, leafy trees, testing of precious
stones, charms (amulets), maternal uncles, friends.

Jupiter: Wisdom, learning, corpulence, acts of religious merit, devotion
to God, ancestors and superior beings, holy places, scriptures,
proficiency in learning, philosophy, giving alms or donations,
benevolence, wealth, respect, sons, religious, preceptors, fruit, fruit
trees. 

Venus: Spouse, marriage, sexual matters, pleasures of the senses, singing,
poetry, scents, ornaments, jewellery, all articles of luxury, cooperation
with and from others, flowers, flowering trees, beauty, buying and
selling, cows, watery places.

Saturn: Longevity, life, death, adversity, calamities, disrespect,
diseases, poverty, livelihood, servility, unrighteous conduct, learning of
sciences and foreign languages, agricultural pursuits, minerals, oils,
things buried deep in the ground and coming out there from, servants (male
and female), service, theft, cruel deeds, malice, lameness, very old
persons.

Rahu (North Node of the Moon):Paternal grandfather, fallacious argument,
harsh speech, gambling, movement, travelling, outcastes, foreigners,
snakes, snake bite, theft, wickedness, widow(er), intrigue with a
widow(er), skin diseases, itches, eczema, acute or sharp pain in the body,
hiccoughs, swelling in the body.

Ketu (South Node of the Moon): Maternal grandfather, consumption, pain,
fever, wound, witchcraft, causing trouble to enemies, horned animals, dog,
cock, birds with spots or of variegated colors, philosophy, salvation.

The meanings of the signs of the Zodiac are well known to everyone or can
easily be found out so we will not explain them here.


The following are brief meanings for the twelve houses of the horoscope
suitable for our basic educational purposes.4

First House: self, head, body, personality, mental temperament, health.

Second house: eyes, face, upper part of the throat, speech, wealth,
family.

Third House: arms, lower part of the throat, shoulders, brothers, sisters,
valor.

Fourth House: chest, heart, mother, landed property, friends, conveyances,
happiness.

Fifth House: stomach, education, intelligence, sons, daughters.

Sixth House: the region of the navel, illness, enemies, debts, distress.

Seventh House: partnership, sexual relations, spouse, the part of the body
below the waist and down to the genitals.

Eighth House: genitals, anus, death, legacies.

Ninth House: hips, thighs, religion (dharma), devotion to God, prosperity,
religious preceptor (guru), father.

Tenth House: knees, back, status and position in life, activity, honor
from government.

Eleventh House: calves of legs, friends, income.

Twelfth House: expenditure, loss, sexual enjoyment, left eye, teeth,
confinement.
