Lal Kitab Teva: Your Lal Kitab Kundli and Every Planet's Effect

What Makes a Lal Kitab Teva Different

Start with your ordinary Vedic birth chart. Every planet sits in a house counted from your lagna. The Lal Kitab keeps those houses exactly as they are and changes only one thing: it takes the lagna sign away and writes a fixed sign on every house. The first house becomes Aries whatever your lagna is, the second Taurus, the seventh Libra, the tenth Capricorn.

That single change has large effects. Exaltation and debilitation now depend on the house, not on the sign the planet occupies in the sky. Mars in the fourth house is treated as debilitated, because the fourth house is Cancer; the Moon in the second is treated as exalted, because the second is Taurus. Degrees and nakshatras step into the background, and the house becomes the whole story.

The Lal Kitab also reads the planets with each other in its own way: which planets share a house, which are friends and enemies, which houses look at which. That is why two people with the same planet in the same house can still get different Lal Kitab readings.

Pakka Ghar, Exalted and Debilitated Houses

Every planet has a pakka ghar, a permanent house where it belongs. Because the signs are fixed to the houses, every planet also has a fixed house of exaltation and a fixed house of debilitation:

Some planets are given more than one permanent house in the book — Mars the eighth as well as the third, Jupiter several houses — and Rahu and Ketu, the shadow planets, have their own (the twelfth and the sixth). A planet in its pakka ghar gives its results steadily; an exalted planet gives them generously; a debilitated one needs care, and usually a remedy.

From the Lal Kitab Teva to the Remedies

The Lal Kitab is best known for its remedies, the upay — feeding certain animals, giving certain things away, keeping certain objects at home, avoiding certain habits. They are cheap and simple, and that is their genius: anyone can do them.

But a remedy is given for a planet, not for a person. The Lal Kitab teva comes first because it shows which planets are weak, debilitated, asleep or in trouble — and only those need help. Your chart's remedies are on the Lal Kitab remedies page, and the karmic debts that call for their own remedies on the debts of planets page. When to expect results is shown by the Lal Kitab varshphal and the Lal Kitab dasha.

A Worked Example: My Own Lal Kitab Teva

Here is my own chart redrawn as a Lal Kitab teva, read the way the calculator reads yours. Every placement is the real one.

1. From the Birth Chart to the TevaMy lagna is Leo. In my Lal Kitab teva that sign is set aside: the first house becomes Aries and every planet keeps its house.
2. The Crowded Second HouseThe Sun, Moon, Mercury and Venus all sit in the second house — the house of money, family and speech, and the pakka ghar of Jupiter.
3. An Exalted MoonThe second house is Taurus in the Lal Kitab, so the Moon there is exalted. In my ordinary birth chart the same Moon is in Virgo and has no such dignity.
4. A Debilitated MarsMars sits in the fourth house, which is Cancer in the Lal Kitab, so it is debilitated. In my ordinary birth chart the same Mars is in Scorpio, its own sign. This is the planet I would look at first for a remedy.
5. The Rest of the ChartJupiter and Saturn share the third house, Ketu sits in the fifth and Rahu in the eleventh. The first, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and twelfth houses are empty.

The Mars example is the reason I read both charts. A planet that looks strong in the ordinary birth chart can be the one that needs help in the Lal Kitab, and the remedy then goes exactly where it is needed.