HOUSES AND AFFLICTION PRINCIPLES1st house: head, brain, hair, body appearance, birth, infancy

The 1st house represents the body and its strenght, and it is one of the most
important houses to analize in order to determine the general strength and health
of a person.
2nd house: face, right eye, neck throat, teeth, tongue, mouth, eating habits, nose,
speech, nails
3rd house: ears, right ear, lungs, shoulders, arms, hands, esophagus (upper part),
clavicles, physical fitness
4th house: Chest, lungs, heart, breast, milk, diaphragm emotional wellbeing.
5th house: the upper abdomen, stomach, liver, gall bladder, spleen, pancreas,
duodenum, mind, thinking, learning process, pregnancy.
6th house: intestines, digestion, absorption, appendix, lower back
The 6th house is the house of diseases and health in general, and rules over
injuries, wounds, accidents, surgery, ulcers, and mental suffering and struggle.
7th house: urinary tract, kidneys, sexual organs, sexuality, uterus, ovaries, testicles,
semen, prostate gland, lower intestine
8th house: external genital organs, anus, perineum, chronic or incurable diseases,
pain,mental pain or disease, form of death.
The 8th house is also very important in medical astrology as it is the house of
longevity and death.
9th house: Hips, thighs
10th house: Knees, joints in general, legs.
11th house: left ear, calves, ankles, lower legs. Alternate house for disease (6th
from the 6th )
12th house: feet, sleeping disorders, sexual pleasure, mental imbalances,
hospitalization, losses.
AFFLICTION PRINCIPLESA house can be considered as afflicted and the corresponding body parts will suffer
when:
There is a debilitated planet on that house.
The ruler of a dushtana house or the 3rd or 11th lords is placed on that house.
(some exceptions occur when the a dushtana lord is placed in another dushtana
house creating a vipareet yoga, which tends to destroy the negative implications.
Anyway, the native may have to undergo some pain or disease related to those
houses but it is usually overcome and turned into something good)
The house is hemmed in between two malefic planets.
The ruler of the house is placed in its debilitation sign, weak in the vargas
combusted or defeated in planetary war
There is a combustion or planetary war on that house
The ruler of the house is placed in a dushtana house (with the same exceptions of
vipareet yoga)

The ruler of the house is aspected by a malefic or a dushtana lord.

The ruler of the house is hemmed in between two malefic planets
The ruler of the house is in close conjunction with Rahu or Ketu
The house is aspected by malefic planets or dushtana lords.
A retrograde planet is placed on that house. Retrograde planets are not necessary
malefic to all the significations of the house, they are actually strong, but they seem
to have a malefic influence on the house they are located.