Few Important Facts

Good luck often is not the result merely of your own personal actions that it may also depend on future events and on the people you come across. 

1. Planets are only an index of things to happen and they do not cause the events. 
2. Accumulated Karma during the past birth may be experienced not only by the person concerned but also by his descendants. 
3. One undergoes the consequences of one's previous karma from birth to death and this is known from his horoscope.
4. The Creator Brahma was written on the foreheads of all living beings with their fates, which are deciphered by the astrologers through their pure insight. 
5. The first and last letters in the word Ahoratra are removed and the word Hora is thus born and has come to exist. 
6. The  Signs Aries etc. represent the limbs of Kalapurusha as under, Aries - Head, Taurus - Face, Gemini - Arms, Caner - Heart, Leo - Stomach, Virgo - hip, Libra - Space below Navel and private parts, Scorpio - Private Parts, Sagittarius - Thighs, Capricorn - Knees, Aquarius - Ankles, Pisces - Feet. If at birth one had benefic planet in a particular sign, the particular limb will be strong. A malefic makes such a limb weak.
7. The Rasi Chakra with 12 Rasis is called Bhagana. Six signs counted from Leo to Capricorn consist of Solar Half and the Sun rules this Half Zodiac. Six signs in the reverse order from Cancer to Aquarius are Lunar Half and ruled by the moon. Barring Cancer and Leo, planets from Mars to Saturn get one Rasi each in each Half. If at birth more planets occupy the Solar Half, the native is brilliant and, if more planets are in Lunar Half, he is soft, good and lucky. 
8. The effects of a horoscope should be predicted according to the divisions of Houses. Without knowing the strength of such Lords, one cannot lay even a step forward in the direction of astrology. 
9. The first Navansa of a Movable Rasi, the 5th one in a Fixed Rashi and the 9th one in Common (Dual) Rashi are called Vargothamamsa. Should the natal lagna be in such Vargothama Navansa, the native becomes an important person in his circle. The rulers of Dwadasamasas start from the Rashi itself. 
10. From Aries onwards alternatively the Rashis are known,  as malefic and benefic on the one hand and male and female on the other hand. These are also classified as Chara (Movable), Sthira (Fixed, Immovable) and Dvisvabhav (Ubhaya, Dual, Common) Rashis. The ending portions of Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces are called Gandanta. It is said, that one born in Gandanta will not survive. He will either lose his mother, or he will end the dynasty, i.e. he is the last of his descent and will not have any children. 
11. The four Rashis from Aries onwards indicate East, South,  West and North, while the remaining Rashis repeat in the same way. A journey undertaken by a person towards the direction indicated by the Lagna, or the Moon (at the commencement of Journey) yields fruitful results. 
12. Human Signs, quadruped Signs, Scorpio and watery Signs are, respectively, strong in the directions commencing from the East. Further during night-time quadruped Signs, day-time human, or biped Signs and the second half of Capricorn, Scorpio, Cancer and Pisces are strong at the time of daybreak and of nightfall. 
13. Gemini, Cancer, Capricorn, Aries, Taurus and Sagittarius are night Signs. Leo, Libra, Scorpio, Aquarius, Pisces and Virgo are day Signs. The Signs Cancer, Capricorn, Aries, Sagittarius and Taurus are called Prishtodaya, which rise with hind part. Sirshodaya Signs (rising with head) are Leo, Libra, Scorpio, Virgo, Aquarius and Gemini. The Sign Pisces is Ubhayodaya (rises with both head and hind part). 
14. If a Rashi is aspected by its Lord, or by a planet, that is friendly to its Lord, or by Mercury, or by Jupiter, it is said to be strong. Planets other than the above do not lend strength by aspect. 
15. The adjoining houses with reference to Angles (Kendra) are Panaphara. The Houses next to Panapharas are Apoklimas. The planets in Angles give effects in ones boyhood. The effects of planets in Panapharas are felt in the middle age, while the planets in Apoklima give result at the conclusion of the natives life. 
16. The 6th, 10th, 11th and 3rd are called Upachaya Houses, while the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 12th are Anupachayas. 
17. From Aries onwards the following 12 colours are alloted to the various Rasis, respectively, red, white, green, pink, brown, gray, variegated, black, golden, yellow, deep-brown and white. If an idol of the Lord of the Ascendant is made in the colour alloted and is worshipped, the native will destroy his enemies, just as Lord Indra destroyed the demons.