House 1

Handsome, striking, golden appearance - esp. if Surya occupies a friendly rashi.

Bright auraif Surya is favorable; exaggerated egoif not.

Native strives to maintain a culturally ideal appearance. One frequently cultivates the health and beauty practices, including cosmetic surgeries, diets, hatha yoga etc. which help achieve positive social recognition of the indivudual physical body.

Beneficial for career in modeling, athletics, entertainment, or an an iconic representative of a social organization or a nation-state. Believes oneself to be an ethical person by definition, regardless of their actual behavior.

endency toward narcissism and selfishness; unable to acknowledge the supporting social structures and resources given by others which have created their individual success. Mythology of the "self-made man". One's own beliefs may be so powerful that one is unable to experience the truth of others.

If Shukra also in lagna with Surya, native is influential and very attractive. Exception = Simha lagna and Mesha lagna, where Surya burns up the beauty of Shukra leaving only sensual desire.

House 2

• Rush Limbaugh

• Oprah Winfrey

• Brad Pitt

Native believes that ideal principlesshould govern money, history, values, art, music, and the cultural legacies of his people.

Surya in bhava-2provides a highly principled or rationalized framework to the speech values. In influence of the native 's family or origin and their values in powerfully transmitted through speech values, but the native experiences their speech performance as highly individualized.

Sings traditional songs, or tells the tale of one's people. May be a well-respected professor, especially a historian of values, or idealistic teaching philosopher.Prone to detailed record-keeping esp. if Budha joins the Sun.

Sahaja Bhava = House 3

• Winston Churchill

• Rex Harrison (actor)

• Martin Heidegger (philosopher)

• Nelson Mandela

• Rupert Murdoch

• Christopher Reeve

One applies ideal behavior standards to siblings and team mates, making the native seem egoistic. Unfavorable for small-group process as it limits the native 's ability to praise his team-mates. One always sees deficiencies in the group's performance compared to ideal standard.

As always, Surya as a malefic does well in upachaya and dushthamsha houses.

• If Surya is furthermore in a rashi of Shani or Shukra, much of the perfectionism is reduced. the native may not be a tolerant or easy communicator, but one's egoism does not run so rampant when Ravi is constrained in an enemy's sign.

bhava-3 extends the speech and money values of bhava-2 from the historic and lineage-based into the realm of the personal (thus bhava-3 = self-made wealth.) Perfectionism in personal speech and hearing, as well as styles of writing/media/communication which adhere to rigid and abstract principles, are common when Ravi occupies bhava-3/

House 4

Julia Roberts (actress)

Surya in kendra tends toward a perfectionist personality. In bhava-4, a tendency to idealize the mother and her people, as well as to romanticize the convention of property ownership and ideal entitlements regarding ownership of the land.

If the native is herself a mother, strongly perfectionist style of home management. (Mitigated as usual when Surya is weakened in Shani's or Shukra's sign.)

In a truly knowledge-loving nativity, Surya in Simhaor Mesha in bhava-4 may support well articulated philosophical views regarding property rights and values, leading to a great career in jurisprudence.

House 5

Indira Gandhi

Dane Rudhyar

One idealizes the experiences of romance and children, intelligence and gambling.

In Surya's natural house, this situation is less problematic than some other positions, but there is still an issue with the matter of Love and its expression in real, existing relationships.

Children may become an idealized extension of the Self. Perfectionism regarding children can result in the native being unable to accept their children as real humans, and even forbid their children from experiencing failure. The parent with Surya/5 may, due to compulsive perfectionism, be both unduly demanding and over-protective of their offspring.

Romantic interests are also held to a rarified standard, which can block the unfoldment of love and marriage in the realistic context of earthly partnership.

Good for career in speculative activities. Also benefits the mature native who teaches in settings where holding the students to a higher ideal standard will benefit their progress.

Excessive idealization will however simply convince the native that oneself is too great a genius to be burdened with educating others!

House 6

Barbara Bush

Dick Cheney

Carl Sagan

Malefic Surya does well in dushthamshas 6, 8, and 12; and fairly well in

upachaya houses 3, 6, and 11.

Surya contributes to ego-ization and perfectionism in regard to the conflicts and confrontations inherent in bhava-6.

While the mother's siblings may be problematic, Ravi here is good for rationalization of social chaos. The chronic social complaints - crime, disease, ethnic hatred, poverty - may not disappear in the life of the native , but one will have intelligent, originally idealistic, approach to them. Such earnest idealism often leads to a good career in medicine, law, social work, police work, or loan banking.

House 7

Lisa Marie Presley

Surya in the partnership house is clearly an obstruction to making agreements. Despite the native being well-intentioned and wanting only the Best, i.e. ideal happiness, for the partnership, Surya's perfectionism is oppressive for the mate.

It is beneficial for Surya to have lower power if He is here in bhava-7. Surya is reduced in signs of Shani and signs of Shukra.

If Surya is strong the native may find an excellent career in making rational contracts and agreements in commercial business or the professional expressions of Law.

However the process of partner-negotiation is conducted a very earthly place (bhava-7 being Shukra's realistic, sensual pleasure house) so excess idealism is an obstacle to getting along with the partner and comrades on a day-to-day basis.

Surya is generally an unwelcome guest constrained in houses of Shani (10,11) and Shukra (2,7). (Although Ravi has special dispensation in bhava-10.)

House 8

Tony Blair (Ravi-mesha; kanya lagna)

U.S. Pres. Harry Truman

Nelson Mandela

Ravi is at home here in Kuja's house, despite the less favorable prognosis for the father/guru.

Surya in bhava-08indicates a high calling. However the native 's work may never reach public awareness. Even the portion of their work which is known to the public may be small like the tip of an iceberg. One may be working in the service of shrouded interests, able to reveal only a little of what one knows.

One is called to bring secret information, tantric arts buried in the dust of ages, and above all healing energiesto the surface of human conscious through philosophical reasoning.

Excellent therapists are found with this position, as well as investigators into negative levels of secrecy such as criminal corruption.

his native may bear sole responsibility for making high-impact judgments and decisions using their own intelligence. Their choice may affect the life of individuals, or the future of nations.

House 9

Again a poor place regarding matters of the father/guru and his ability to separate his ego concerns from the business of cultivating true spiritual love in his children.

Nevertheless a good place for university professors, theologians, priests of high ritual, and natural philosophers of all stripes.

Perfectionism in the temple is disruptive to relationships with the guiding spirits. Deities also have their shortcomings.

House 10

Surya in natural house = swabhava ofenemy Shani

Albert Einstein

Princess Diana

Princess Anne

Martha Stewart

Nancy Davis Reagan

Elizabeth Clare Prophet (cult leader)

Jack Nicholson (actor)

Ram Dass

Idealization of leadership roles and prestige duties. This is an awkward position which improves with maturity. Shani's natural house = swabhavabut also a kendra where Surya, a karaka for leadership, does well over the period of a lifetime, very much tempered by life experience, and flourishing after age 60.

Depends significantly on the natal position of Shani. If Shani is also in kendra, the native may have very fixed ideas about proper leadership. However one would be less prone to perfectionism, and have a stronger dose of realism that releases the paralysis of excessive idealization.

he best result will be if the native , through life experience, comes to realize that social leaders, even in exalted positions of power and high titles, are indeed mere human beings. Leaders are inherently imperfect; they are themselves subject to a myriad of social and psychological pressure.

In reality, leaders are often lacking in ideal qualifications. They may be unethical, immature, and inappropriate. However if their karma calls for public high position, they will receive position.

If such a level of realization could penetrate the mind of the native with a strong Surya in house-10, one becomes an extremely wise, mature, capable, stable, and effective leader.

Otherwise there is great unhappiness regarding the gap between real and ideal, in the way governments, countries, and family lineages are commanded.

House 11

Angelina Jolie

Donald Trump

Not the best setting for Surya in Shani's natural house, except for benefits of wealth conferred for those with Karka lagna.

Native tends to idealize friendships and networks of social connection, and is too sensitive to the gap between real marketplace/assembly/congregational behavior and the ideals one represents to oneself.

With this position, one will either be the eldest sibling oneself, or one will have disappointment in the shortcomings of the elder sibling.

Surya here can help the career of an independent thinker in the marketplace and promote leadership of communities, but lacks ability to see friends as true equals. One is perceived as perfectionistic or egoistic. One may not be as well-liked as one would expect.

House 12

U.S. Pres. G. W. Bush

U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter

U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton

Margaret Thatcher

Ravi's intelligence and idealizing mentality tend to disappear when He is plunged into the imaginative, private depths of the house of dreams and sanctuary.

the native may be foreign-born. One brings, as personality structure, a set of ideals from the first culture which cannot be fully recognized in the culture into which one has migrated.

he father is a distant and ideal figure, not real. The father may rationalize his distancing from the child as a fair consequence of his public duties. If Ravi is strong by rashi, the child idealizes one's distant father as an icon of perfect value. If Ravi is weak, more softness and compassion but the father is still a perfectionist or at the best prone to an idealistic or romantic philosophical view.

br>here is little need to criticize shortcomings from the ideal standard within the world of dreams, meditation, and the imagination. the native 's inner light burns brightly and one harbors many perfect images. However these perfect ideals

br>he intelligence does not find full expression and one's children are not quite perfect, but the native does not experience or express very much conscious conflict between real and ideal.

One's rational energy is largely absorbed into the private aesthetic reflections, when it is consciously emergent at all.