12 Domain Qualities of Budha
"It is difficult to find Mercury alone in the Zodiac. Therefore, this planet can not give good or bad results alone.
It is pliant & supple & ready to absorb the characteristics of the sign posited in & the planets aspecting or associated with it.
Mercury is known as being neutral, sexless & convertible."
[BPL note: 'sexless' = 'gender-less'. Budha is indeed a karaka for sexual communication, but Budha can take a variety of roles in life's most fascinating discourse.]
Budha Domain-01
Natural House of Mangala
Expert communicator, easy & friendly personal style. Socially identified with mentality, science, adolescence, planning groups & associations. Relationship builder. Can be philosophically superficial & emotionally immature, but even if Budha is inauspicious here the native retains their friendly conversational style.
Youthful appearance and youth-culture tastes; prefers the company of younger people or those who take a novel approach to life. Not ideal for long-term marriage due to lack of maturity. Check for Peter Pan complex.
Das / Behari says ... a person of profound learning & several sciences; interested in hearing other great scholars. Travels far & wide; interested in the higher branches of learning, polite, kind & conciliatory. Pilgrimage in 27th year & great gain. Comely, a student of astrology, disabled, fraudulent; eye diseases. Dispute with brother in the teen years. Impostor. Sagacious. Live by speech & writing.
Shine brilliantly like scintillated gold. Practicing the Indian medical science, if you fall sick it takes a long time to recover. Total evil influence generated by other planets in the chart ceases to be. You sparkle gloriously & are recognized by one & all. You hate evil.
If Mercury is not associated with any malefic, you are handsome, learned in fine arts, poetry and arithmetic; skilled: courteous; longevity; calm; blessed with spouse and children; adept in music; generous, patient, wealthy, austere, scrupulous, pious; noble reputation; likes simple and pure food; truthful.
Discoloration of the body; excess bile, pain, boils, warts & moles, fibroid & other stomach troubles; marriage in middle age. Loss of progeny; sculptor, strong & well-built. Though old, behaves like a child.
You may take to journalism or feature writing, if Mercury is in masculine signs.
Budha Domain-02
Natural House of Shukra
Talented voice & hands. Helps the memory & fast language learning. Good for stage performers, professors, any business where fast memory retrieval makes the critical difference. Intelligent birth family provides a foundation of early education. Mentality for wealth, aesthetics & design, history, lineages, stories. Sensual style of sexual communication.
Das / Behari says ... bestows learning, command of language, sweetness of tongue, & honorable surroundings & relations. Often it happens that lost wealth is gained again under the impact of Mercury; the wealth is regained by your own efforts & often as a result of your learning & educational abilities. You speak cleverly & skillfully & may take up the profession as a writer, businessman, principal, professors, or director of a company.
Good for gaining wealth in general, promotes conjugal pleasure, eloquent, critic of books, smart, good learning in the early part of life.
Gain by letters (college degrees), writings, lecturing, traveling, clerical jobs, commission agent, small commercial transactions; advertising, stationery orders & supply, books etc. ... jobs corresponding to the nature of the planet in good aspect or sign occupied.
Budha Domain-03
Natural House of Budha
U.S. Pres. Thomas Jefferson
Smart. Likes to talk & write. Strong basic business skills, administrative & analytical capabilities. Helps develop self-made wealth, and self-focus in general. Skilled diagnostician, of disorders in physical body, environment, a building, a society, or a cosmos. Strong pattern recognition.
Communicative, twin-like relationship with a sibling. Mentalized sexuality. Strong libido but it fluctuates with the thoughts.
Das / Behari says: ... indicates a strong link with family. There may be some provincialism, & probably a more selfish approach. You want to enjoy life, & will achieve your objectives one way or the other.
During the period of Rahu you become timid. Somewhat timid, especially during Mercury's periods. The 3rd house should be strong for good & successful speakers, poets, astrologers & writers etc.
... successful if you can clearly express feelings & ideas. ...makes you a matchless doctor or judge. Writing, printing or publishing is gainful. If Budha is strong, you get good luck at 24th year; if it is of medium strength, at 30th year and if malefic at 36th year.
... fond of learning. You want to know about available approaches to sacred knowledge. Cheerful, alert, watchful, inquisitive. You love to write & speak.
You befriend business people, learn their trade, then go it on your own, very expertly, earning by clever thinking. You are courteous. You can be lustful or renouncing spirit.
You have clingy relatives. You are sometimes controlled by others with whom you have money related dealings or entanglements. In old age you become detached from worldly affairs. You gain through brothers.
Budha Domain-04
Natural House of Chandra
Julia Roberts (actress)
Das / Behari says: Physical comforts, a large number of friends & relations, & a very sharp intelligence... Ability to understand the great range of truths of life. This is a very good Mercury for "understanding". Very considerate to others. You could take to astrology should you desire to. Many great astrologers are found to have Mercury in the 4th house.
However, there will probably also be frequent change of residence, & worry or anxiety through domestic affairs.
Likely career choices: Private institutions of learning, dealings with real estate, publishing, or home-based businesses. You are composed, learned.
Gain comes from parental or authority figures. Basically, it could be said that at heart you are like an heir to the kingdom. You serve the established order & understand it like a prince or princess would understand the kingdom.
An advisor of some sort. You write or others take your dictation. You befriend the best of the people. Administrator in the court. Your orders are honored even by the family members. Income through hard labor. Adept in music, traveling, scholar, mathematician.
Budha Domain-05
Natural House of Surya
Favors speech and writing communication in politics, drama, literature, games and entertainments, matters involving children, romance, and poetry. Romantic mentality, prone to poetic exaltation of the beloved.
Idealistic perceptions and sometimes immature or abbreviated style of communication, lacking the mature development of protocols (depending on drishti & rashi). Spontaneous; tends to communicate without preparation, presuming the creative impulse is both sufficient and authentic. (Strongest effects in Mesha & Simha; weakest effects in rashis of Shani and Shukra.)
Gifted in handling children and adolescents; easily keeps pace with their effervescent thoughts. Indicates happiness through the company of children & adolescents. Favors college teaching and working with youth groups.
If with Surya, attracts attention through studies, writing, and mental development of games, romance, amusements, and entertainments. Favorable for idealistic political campaigns.
Putra Sukha Yoga.
There will be happiness on account of children.
Budha Domain-06
Natural House of Budha
In the house of social conflict and loss of agreement, the mind generates thoughts of animosity, class-conflict, and victimization. Thoughts are saturated with conflict & exploitation, also solutions to reduce these. Victim mentality or service of victims. Analytical skills directed toward medicine, debt & finance, policing & crime, all forms of criticism. Business success in all the classic domain-6 endeavors.
Sexual communication, fertility, and libido are disturbed by anxiety & body imbalance. Massage, mental calming techniques and removing toxins from the diet (meat, coffee, alcohol, other drugs) from the body will help, but the native is rarely interested in these remedial measures.
Das / Behari says:... Mercury in the Sixth completely upsets your physical & social. You experience so many inner subjective changes that your physical relationships are subject to severe turbulence.
Your mind is so stirred up that there is little social or psychological stability.
You may be catapulted from abject poverty to regal splendor, but you cannot hold onto anything. There may be physical difficulties, sexual experimentation, & marital incompatibility leading to separation, divorce, or sexual abuse.
But through all these vicissitudes, significant psychological transformation & a widening of awareness & great insight into life can be experienced.
You may suffer from nervous breakdown; ailments due to tension connected with work. Oppressed by inferiors. Over-excited, rash.
Afflictions to Mercury tend to ruin the health through anxiety. Energetic mental worker missing the best mental outlet for your energies. Gain from chemistry, writings, books or clerical work.
Dyspepsia. You may exhibit many fads & fancies regarding diet. You may be inactive, ruthless, shattering the enemy, lose temper during discourse.
Budha Domain-07
Natural House of Shukra
U.S. Pres. Barak Obama [karkata]
Karaka for an attorney/solicitor or counselor/advisor.
Deal-maker. Commercial success in the world of crafting agreements, making trades, articulating and keep terms of contract. Most types of partnership are interesting & auspicious. (With special favor granted to partnerships engaged in activities signified by Budha's lord.)
Spouse = also analytically minded, & spouse likes to talk. Karaka for marriage to a lawyer or counselor. Sexually knowledgeable, but the libido is sensitive to the mental workload. Generally favorable for good sexual & verbal communication in marriage.
"If Mercury is in its own house in the 7th house or in the 7th amsha, gives a learned and happy husband. "
~~ Hora Sara, Ch. 25, Shloka 40
Das / Behari says ... Mercury makes you very diplomatic, able to relate well with every type of person. Your relationship with the spouse is as harmonious as with other business partners; the influence of the marriage partner on the attainment of social status is considerable.
... makes you attached to playing around sexually, or rather, you have a hard time making the marriage commitment for some reason. You may be impotent. Your spouse is a living beauty.
If Budha does not conjoin the Sun, spouse is most attractive. The level of sex desire or performance in some way is not compatible with the spouse. Feels defeated & shy. You are saintly. The spouse is comely & modest. Blessed with many children.
Physical suffering. Vanquished in war & debate. Large & aristocratic family of the in-laws. You are sharp, handsome & dignified; the spouse comes from an affluent family. Good-natured, luxury loving, honest & faithful. Good looking, learned, gentle, sexologist; respected. Generous, courteous, noble & prosperous.
Your spouse is wise, coming from a middle-class simple family, quarrelsome; rich. You are well established. Gain from sale & purchase. Spouse is intelligent, quick, eloquent, critical, young, beautiful & nervous. [BPL note: spousal qualities may vary with the rashi of Budha. Spouse's family of origin is best seen through 2nd-from-7th].
Worries & anxieties after marriage. This Mercury is favorable to mother. You enjoy riding, are philanthropic & saintly.
Budha Domain-08
Natural House of Mangala
Edgar Cayce (clairvoyant healer)
Clairvoyant capabilities. Shamanistic mentality, can transmit knowledge from confidential or hidden sources.
Mercury has the special characteristic of retrieving from past influences things which strengthen the mind, as a result of which you are able to cultivate relationships which are conducive to material prosperity, eminent status,& considerable wealth.
Under this impulse, you are able to explore mystical, virgin areas of nature which open up exceptional opportunities in life. On the physical plane, however, you beget very few children& suffer from stomach& thigh ailments.
Gainful; gives longevity, prosperity, land& property. Several children; high status in the 25th year. Government favor. Annihilation of the enemy. Glorious. Enjoys long life. Renowned in own& foreign land. Cheerful; gains through business. Enjoys the pleasure& confidence of the opposite sex. You are blessed with longevity, reputation& wealth; debauch but famous for your qualities, glorious; hostile but philanthropic, ungrateful, vicious, sexy, liar& ailing.
You get wealth from the government, proud; antagonist of the people; disrupting& devastating, Magistrate; supporter of your family& a distinguished personality, truth loving, honors the guests.
End is peaceful.
Budha Domain-09
Natural House of Brihaspati
Das / Behari says: ... intellectually capable of discussing spiritual topics with ease, but your personal life is entirely divorced from true spirituality. You consider worldly position, money, & intellectual discourse as the true measure of life's success; you may observe all the rules of public morality, but your private life needs a great deal of preparation before you can take the direct path towards final release from material bondage.
Pious & sharp. Interested in yoga & visiting holy places. Glorious. Exercises overwhelming influence, destroying the wicked. ... Prosperous. ... you observe religious ceremonies; construct wells & gardens: truth loving; ascetic, devoted to father; charitable; eloquent speaker; noted for benevolence & learning.
Generous, anxious; sometimes, perverted. If Budha is malefic, ... vain & less fortunate; if benefic, ... fortunate & devout. You are wise, live according to religious principles, rich, a good speaker & a holy pilgrim. ... a very active mind, exploring hidden mysteries of life & interested in metaphysics.
Well aspected Budha will give power to concentrate. Seeking after higher knowledge from heaven to earth & even under water life. Ingenious & studious mind, love for art, science& literature. Gain through journey, law suits & publication work.
... bent of mind is subjected to the influence of the sign Mercury is posited in. In movable signs, it indicates love of journey; in airy signs, well developed interest in aerial affairs.
Budha Domain-10
Natural House of Shani
Das / Behari says: Mercury makes you very social, intelligent, and amiable. Your demeanor is so flexible that every type of social group accepts you in its fold, without reservation. You have the ability to mix with the high and low with equal ease.
You possess special expertise in the legal profession, economics, trade & commerce, business management & accounting. You can make a good teacher as well. Your efficiency as a diplomat or negotiator will be pronounced & often you inherit wealth and property. You can get recognition, name & fame due to your wealth; sagaciousness; administrative powers, ability to do justice.
Firm in both reward & punishment. Revered, tactful, soft-spoken, oracular. Gain of wealth, conveyance & garments. This placement may bring you prosperity in every respect. You get patrimony, attendants, conveyances, gold & jewelry, dress material, property; politician; most trusted employee of the court.
Bold, prosperous, handsome, brainy, calm, pious & ingenious. Knowledge of art, science & all higher educational or enlightening subjects; well- known, rich & jovial. You like to involve yourself in higher intellectual activities.
You easily gain success right from start of every job undertaken; strong & flourishing. Truth loving, courteous, brave, you involve yourself in good deeds; you often possess every kind of material wealth; lustful & luxury-loving.
You tend to be rich, devoted to your preceptors, & accumulate wealth by own efforts. Gain in the 19th year. Eloquent. Living by poetic work & handicraft; enjoying conveyance & mother's blessings.
Gain through writing & business; by developing potentiality amongst the inert. Success & recognition in business will depend on the aspects & the signs it occupies. Gain from public service or responsible positions.
You may be a novelist, reporter, lecturer, teacher, traveler, employee, electrician, occultist, psychologist. Dealer in occult literature, antiquities & inventions.
If alone: Exporter, wholesaler, distributor or commission agent. In airy signs, Mercury in 10 gives fluent speech for business activities.
Budha Domain-11
Natural House of Shani
Das / Behari says: "... enables you to earn money from trade & commerce, the legal profession, or any job where literary & mathematical abilities are needed; you may also make a good civil servant. You are quite sociable & your sharp mind may qualify you to become an astrologer. You prefer the company of enlightened & intelligent people. You receive wealth from a considerate employer, a discerning friend or a maternal uncle. Your elder brother will be very encouraging to you & your special aptitudes for diplomacy, journalism & authorship will be recognized.
This Mercury is propitious. Gain through craft, writing or business. .... Learned; fortunate; with plenty of enjoyment; fascinating spouses; skillful; sharp; favorite of your own people.
Poor appetite, cheerful, scholarly, rich, gentle, sensuous & always gaining. Free from sickness; happy, cordial, renowned, talented, studious. ... longevity, wealth, happiness; committed; faithful attendants. Lead a life of real luxury & pleasure, courteous, strong & eager to acquire all knowledge.
... well-wisher of your own people; infirm; rich; dear to the opposite sex; handsome, dark-complexioned with beautiful eyes. Sensual, affluent, modest, pleasure loving, gentle, strong, knowledge of several disciplines. (Not to be taken too literally for sure.)"
Budha Domain-12
Natural House of Brihaspati
Das / Behari says: "... helps you receive cosmic inspiration & thus it is always creative. It is a neutral planet: it does not contribute anything of its own, but transfers subjective messages into objective manifestation & transmutes objective experiences into subjective awareness.
... can be effective whether the soul is withdrawing from the path of materialization, or whether it is pursuing it. For this reason, one finds that you are a skilled craftsman, succeeding in what you do, interested in religious activities, but can also deceive others. This planet contributes only what you have already acquired.
... good for getting in contact with righteous persons & for warding off losses & failures. You spend on good causes. The learned persons like you. Your failures come of your own misdeeds.
You may even turn against your own people to follow your path. You may feel hostility towards your own kinsmen or society & go against them. You are true to your word & learned.
You might go against social code to earn your living. Skilled in noble acts. Interest in spiritual things or divine sciences. Ultimately success comes. Fear from government or authority. Expenditure on education."
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updated: 06 January 2009
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