Rāśi dṛṣṭi · Sign aspects

Rāśi dṛṣṭi is the Jaimini scheme in which signs aspect signs, not planets aspecting houses counted from where they sit. That planet-based glance is graha dṛṣṭi, its own doctrine, and the two are not folded together. Here the aspecting unit is the rāśi, and the rule runs by modality, the movable, fixed, and dual quality of a sign.

A movable sign aspects the three fixed signs, except the one adjacent to it, the second from itself. A fixed sign aspects the three movable signs, except the one behind it, the twelfth from itself. A dual sign aspects the other three dual signs. So Aries, movable, sees Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, but not the Taurus at its shoulder. Every sign casts three of these glances, and because the relation holds between signs rather than from a single planet, it tends to run both ways.

Graha dṛṣṭi is one planet looking forward. Rāśi dṛṣṭi is two signs facing each other.

The scheme belongs to Jaimini technique and is read there, in the kārakāṁśa, the arūḍha padas, and the movement of chara daśā, rather than in the ordinary planet-to-house reading. Classically it is treated as a separate layer of sight, counted by the category of a sign and kept apart from the graha’s forward glance.