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In a Parashari reading, a house is judged through its lord, the planets in it and the planets looking at it, and all of them are weighed together by feel. Two astrologers can look at the same 7th house and pick different planets as the ones that matter most. Krishnamurti found that unsatisfying. He wanted a rule that would say, for any house, which planets stand for it and in what order — so that the reading could be checked, and so that timing could be fixed to the planets that really carry the matter.

His answer rests on one principle that runs through the whole of KP: a planet gives the results of its star lord first, and its own second. The nakshatra a planet sits in is the substance of what it delivers; the planet itself is the channel. Once you accept that, the order of significators follows almost by itself, and the tables on your dashboard are simply that order worked out for your chart.

The grading matters in practice. A house can easily have six or seven planets connected to it in some way. Without a ranking, every one of their periods looks like a candidate for the event, and the prediction becomes a list of maybes. With it, the strongest two or three stand out, and those are the periods an experienced KP astrologer watches.

The house-wise table starts from a house and lists the planets that signify it at each level. This is the table to open when you have one question in mind. Asking about a job? Look at the 2nd, 6th, 10th and 11th. Asking about marriage? Look at the 2nd, 7th and 11th. The planets that turn up again and again across those rows are the natural candidates to deliver the matter.

Read the rows for repetition, not for one strong name. A planet that signifies the 7th at level A is promising; the same planet appearing under the 2nd and the 11th as well is far more so, because it ties together every house a marriage needs. On the other side, a planet that signifies the 7th but also stands strongly for the 6th and 10th will bring the matter with friction, or bring it and then test it.

The table also shows you where a house is thin. A house with no occupants, whose owner has no planets in its stars, has very few significators, and the matters of that house arrive late or through a narrow door. That is information too.

Rahu and Ketu own no sign, so they can never be a level D significator of anything. They still occupy a house, they still sit in a star, and other planets can sit in their stars — so they take their place at levels A, B and C like any other body. What sets them apart is that they also act as agents.

A node gives the results of the lord of the sign it occupies, of the planets conjunct it, and of the planets aspecting it. When those planets are themselves strong significators of a house, the node inherits that house — and because a node delivers what it carries with unusual force, it often becomes the most powerful significator in the chart for that matter. KP astrologers say a node is stronger than the planet it represents, and the timing of many sudden events bears that out.

So when Rahu or Ketu appears in your tables with a long list of houses, do not dismiss it as noise. Look at which planets it is representing, and read its periods as theirs, delivered louder.

Timing in KP is the meeting point of two lists. One is the list of significators for the matter. The other is the chain of dasha, bhukti and antara lords running at a given time. An event comes when the lords of that chain are themselves significators of the matter — ideally all three, and at the strongest levels.

Because the significators are graded, the dasha can be read with confidence. A period whose lord is a level A significator of the 10th, running a bhukti of a planet that signifies the 2nd and 11th, is a strong window for a job. A period whose lord signifies nothing connected to the 10th will pass without the job, however promising that planet looks in the kundli. The ruling planets at the time of judgement are then used to pick out the right window among the candidates.

The KP Dasha section of the same dashboard runs the Vimshottari on the KP ayanamsa, so the periods you check against these tables are worked on the same zodiac as your cusps.