Same Houses, Opposite Results: The Mechanics of Planetary Placement

Let’s take 11th and 8th house first.

If 11th lord is in 8th house and 8th lord in the 11th house, the results of both differ to a great extent. One house is the mover while the other is the destination, so when 8th lord in the 11th house occurs, it can give sudden windfalls, network of people who are related to occult fields and gains from them, sudden talents showing up that leads to financial gains, etc. Here, the significations of 8th house went to the 11th where the hidden, research aspects moved to the destination of gains, hidden talents went to the house of achievement. As from 11th house, 8th house has to move 4 houses, it finds its utmost comfort in bringing good results of it.

Now, understand the contrast where the one who want to gain through their ambitions, desires, network goes to the evil house of 8th where connections with evil people, earning through unfair means, experiencing sudden losses of friends, assets, and ambitions takes place. As 8th house is 10th from 11th house, for fulfillment of one’s desires, the native tends to go to any extreme to achieve it, where the 8th house creates unfair means, hoping to give something big but ends up manifesting huge losses or wins with sudden reversals.

Another example can be taken with having 2nd lord in 9th and 9th lord in 2nd house. Now this is a tricky one where one can be fooled with the connection of family and finance with fortune, but the results of both differ quite subtly.

2nd Lord in 9th House: The seed is personal wealth, family values, lineage, and speech, which grows toward and activates high learning, pilgrimage, foreign connections, and righteous path.

9th Lord in 2nd House: The seed is grace, paternal blessings, higher knowledge, and luck, which directly materializes into accumulated assets, family lineage, liquid money, and persuasive speech.

Where 2nd lord sits in 9th house, the signification of the 2nd house to enhance wealth comes from expanding in the areas of teaching institutions, spiritual institutions, etc. Where 9th lord sits in 2nd house, wealth can come through inheritance and luck favours without much labour. Here, 9th from 2nd house is 8 houses away, showing one’s expression transforms into philosophical one, and 2nd house is 6 houses away from 9th house, tells one expresses through one’s intuition which comes out at the right place at the right time. In the former, one went to use luck and in the latter, luck comes when it wants to enhance the effects of the certain house.

We will understand this through real life examples.

First, the relation between 11th and 8th house.

Clint Eastwood, Hollywood superstar, has 11th lord in the 8th house which though gave him huge sums of money but only to lose much of it in divorce settlements, where he had to pay 25 million dollars to his wife in 1984. Then he had to pay to his 2nd wife in divorce settlement of much more in 1996.

Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood Superstar, has 8th lord in the 11th house showing earning huge sums of money through talents and networks, never getting involved in the evil of the 8th house that brings losses.

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