Planetary Relationships

For each planet, its friends and enemies are found as follows: Take the moolatrikona of
the planet. Lord of the rasi where it is exalted is its friend. Lords of 2nd, 4th, 5th, 8th,
9th and 12th rasis from it are also its natural friends. Lords of other rasis are its natural
enemies. If a planet becomes a friend and an enemy on account of owning two rasis,
then it is a neutral planet. The list of friends, neutral planets and enemies of all planets is
listed in Table.

Natural relationships

Planet Friends (mitra) Nuetral (sama) Enemies (satru)

Sun Moon, Mars, Jupiter Mercury Venus, Saturn

Moon Sun, Mercury Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn —

Mars Sun, Moon, Jupiter Venus, Saturn Mercury

Mercury Sun, Venus Mars, Jupiter, Saturn Moon

Jupiter Sun, Moon, Mars Saturn Mercury, Venus

Venus Mercury, Saturn Mars, Jupiter Sun, Moon

Saturn Mercury, Venus Jupiter Sun, Moon, Mars

Temporary Relationships
In addition to the permanent relationship, we have temporary relationships based on the
planetary position in a chart. These temporary (tatkaala) relationships are specific to a
chart.

Planets occupying the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th and 12th rasis counted from the rasi
occupied by a planet are its temporary friends. Planet occupying other rasis are its
temporary enemies.

Example 2: Let us consider Lord Sree Rama’s chart given in Figure 1 and find the
temporary friends and temporary enemies of Sun and Moon.
Sun: Sun is in Ar. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th and 12th rasis counted from Ar are Ta,
Ge, Cn, Cp, Aq and Pi. Planets in those rasis are Mercury, Moon, Jupiter, Mars and Venus.
They are temporary friends of Sun in this chart. Saturn is the only temporary enemy.

Moon: Moon is in Cn. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th and 12th rasis counted from Cn are
Le, Vi, Li, Ar, Ta and Ge. Planets in those rasis are Saturn, Sun and Mercury. They are
temporary friends of Moon in this chart. Temporary enemies are Mars, Jupiter, Venus.

Note that Moon and Jupiter have the same temporary friends and temporary enemies.
That is because they occupy the same rasi and temporary relationships are based on the
rasis occupied by planets.

Compound Relationships
We get the compound relationships between planets by combining permanent and
temporary relationships as shown in Table 5.

Table Compound Relationships

Temporary friend Temporary enemy

Natural friend Adhimitra (good friend) Sama (neutral)

Natural neutral Mitra (friend) Satru (enemy)

Natural enemy Sama (neutral) Adhisatru (bad enemy)

Example 3: Let us continue from Example 2 and find the friends and enemies of Sun and
Moon in Lord Sree Rama’s chart given in Figure 1.

Sun: We found in Example 2 that Sun’s temporary friends are Mercury, Moon, Jupiter,
Mars and Venus. Of these, Moon, Mars and Jupiter are natural friends and they become
adhimitras (good friends). Mercury is a neutral planet in natural relationship and he
becomes a mitra (friend) in compound relationship. Venus is a natural enemy. Being a
temporary friend, Venus becomes a sama (neutral) planet in compound relationship.

Saturn is the only temporary enemy of Sun. Being a natural enemy too, he becomes an
adhisatru (bad enemy) of Sun.
Moon: We found in Example 2 that Moon’s temporary friends are Sun, Mercury and
Saturn. Of these, Sun and Mercury are natural friends and they become adhimitras (good
friends). Saturn is a neutral in natural relationship and he becomes a mitra (friend) in
compound relationship.

Moon’s temporary enemies are Mars, Jupiter and Venus. They are all natural neutrals and
they become satru (enemies) in compound relationship.

Whenever we refer to a planet being in a friendly house or an inimical house in the rest of
this book, we mean the compound relationships. A planet occupying a rasi owned by a
mitra or adhimitra is in a friendly house. A planet occupying a rasi owned by a satru or
adhisatru is in an inimical house.