Daridra · wealth lords fallen

Daridra takes its name from want. The tradition reads it when a lord of a wealth house, the second of holdings or the eleventh of gains, falls into a dusthāna, one of the difficult houses, the sixth, eighth, or twelfth, or when those same lords sit badly afflicted where they stand.

Where it holds, it is read as a drain on resources, income that arrives and does not settle, effort that struggles to keep the gain it earns. The wealth significations are said to lean toward the houses of debt, loss, and expenditure.

It is among the most conditional of the named combinations, and the label is applied far too freely. A lord merely placed in a dusthāna is not the same as a lord genuinely afflicted, and many such lords do ordinary or even good work from those houses. Other strength in the chart, a well-placed Jupiter or Venus, a wealth lord that also rules an angle, is read to offset it. The whole chart decides, not the single placement. The codex reports what the tradition holds and stops well short of predicting poverty.

One placement names a risk; the chart decides the outcome.