Strength without a fake score
Keep dignity, dispositor relationship and combustion as separate facts until Shadbala is implemented.
This course deliberately does not add these factors into an invented 0–100 “planet strength” score. Classical strength systems have their own defined components.
The Strength Lab instead presents dignity, sign lord, natural relation, temporary relation, five-fold relation and combustion side-by-side.
This makes contradictions visible: for example a planet can be exalted yet combust, or occupy an enemy’s sign while receiving helpful temporary friendship.
For every graha, separate three layers: its natural significations, the houses it rules for this Lagna, and its actual placement/condition. Most beginner contradictions disappear when these three layers are written separately.
A planet should therefore be read as a chain rather than a label: rulership → placement → dignity/dispositor → conjunctions/aspects → relevant Varga → timing. The Strength Lab lets you inspect these pieces instead of guessing them.
How to read it
- Find the planet in D1.
- Write the houses it rules for the current Lagna.
- Check Rashi, house and dignity.
- Check dispositor, conjunctions and aspects.
- Only then add D9/other Varga and Dasha/Transit context.
Key points
- Natural significations are not the same as functional house lordship.
- Dignity is one condition, not a complete verdict.
- Rahu/Ketu conventions are shown only where this course has explicitly chosen a rule profile.
Do not turn a graha keyword such as “Mars = courage” into a prediction before checking house lordship and placement.
Apply this lesson to a chart
- Choose one planet in your chart.
- Write its ruled houses and current D1 house/sign.
- Use Strength Lab to verify dignity and relationships, then write one factual sentence only.