Bhāva
Tenth House
The tenth house governs career, public standing, authority, and the acts a person is known by
See where Tenth House falls in your birth chart — the sign, house and nakṣatra it occupies.
The tenth house governs career, public standing, authority, and the acts a person is known by. It is the highest point of the chart: what a life amounts to in the world's eyes.
Parashara assigns to the karma bhava rank, honour from the sovereign, profession, command, and deeds. The strongest kendra: planets here act in public, and the 10th lord's placement shows the arena of the native's work; its union with the 9th lord crowns the raja yoga combinations.
— Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra bhāva considerations
Four karakas share the house — the Sun (authority), Mercury (trade and craft), Jupiter (counsel), Saturn (labour and organisation) — so career texture is read from whichever karakas dominate by strength and connection. The Sun and Mars gain directional strength here, making 10th-house placements of either unusually forceful. Career work on this platform reads the 10th with the 6th (service), 7th (business) and 2nd (income), plus the D10 varga; the 10th from the Moon supplies the second opinion classical practice demands.
Your placement is shown in the band above: this states where Tenth House falls in your chart and links each term to its page.
Interpretation — what the placement means for your life and timing — belongs to your personal reading, not the reference library.
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