Astrology Glossary

Marana karaka sthana

Sanskrit, roughly 'the death-like place of the significator'. Each graha has one house where Jyotish holds it struggles to DELIVER what it signifies — Saturn in the 1st, the Sun in the 12th, and so on. It describes a planet working against the grain, not a life going badly.

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