ONE QUESTION · A WORKED CHART
Which house is Mars in my kundli?
Questions about home, work or earnings can send you looking for Mars's house, but first establish how the chart counts houses. Under whole-sign houses, the lagna, or rising sign, is house one and each following sign is the next house. In the Capricorn-rising example, Scorpio is house eleven, so Mars in Scorpio belongs to the eleventh house.
A house identifies a life area; a sign identifies the zodiac division a planet occupies. Phaladipika's first chapter connects the eleventh house with gains. To explore that theme, look at Mars's sign, the houses it rules and any planets alongside it.
See it in a chart
Example birth: 15 January 1990, 08:30 IST · New Delhi
The fictional chart has Mars at Scorpio 25.929863°, or absolute longitude 235.929863°. Scorpio is Mars's own sign, so its sign ruler is Mars itself. Mars also rules Aries, which is this chart's fourth house, associated with home. A reading can therefore consider how home priorities relate to the eleventh-house theme of gains. None of the other listed planets shares Scorpio here. Being late in Scorpio does not push Mars into house twelve under the whole-sign convention.
- Lagna
- Capricorn 21.097090°
- Mars
- Scorpio 25.929863°
- Mars longitude
- 235.929863°
- Whole-sign house
- 11
For your own chart
Count once from the rising sign: Capricorn 1, Aquarius 2, Pisces 3, Aries 4, Taurus 5, Gemini 6, Cancer 7, Leo 8, Virgo 9, Libra 10, Scorpio 11. If another chart assigns a different house, compare its convention. A bhava-chalit chart, which assigns house positions using house boundaries, may change the house label while leaving the planet in Scorpio.
Keep the sign and house system attached to the reading. The home-and-gains connection is a theme for reflection, not a forecast of earnings.
For astrologers: calculation details
Fictional Demo Chart A · 15 January 1990, 08:30 IST (UTC+05:30)
New Delhi, India; 28.6139° N, 77.2090° E
Lahiri sidereal zodiac; mean nodes; whole-sign houses; geocentric geometric positions; Vimshottari with a 365.25636-day year. UTC birth instant: 1990-01-15T03:00:00Z. Reference instant: 2026-09-28T06:30:00Z.
Angles are rounded to six decimal places; arithmetic uses the saved full values. Period boundaries are displayed to the nearest second in IST. These settings describe the calculation, not the precision of a birth record.
Follow the calculation
- Start with Capricorn as 1. Continue Aquarius 2, Pisces 3, Aries 4, Taurus 5 and Gemini 6.
- Continue Cancer 7, Leo 8, Virgo 9, Libra 10 and Scorpio 11. Mars is in Scorpio, so it occupies whole-sign house 11.
- Its 25.929863° position is inside Scorpio. It does not become house 12 because it is late in the sign: that would mix a different house convention into this one.