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A Startup from the 10th, 7th, and 11th Houses
A business in the chart is three houses. The 10th lord is the work. The 7th is trade and the customer, the other party. The 11th is the gain that has to return. The Sun's rashi is one graha's sign. It does not name a startup.

What each house contributes
The 10th lord in the 7th describes work done as trade, a person who meets clients rather than only an employer. The 7th lord in the 11th describes partnerships that pay. The 11th lord in the 10th describes income that is the career. Mercury adds accounts, writing, and merchandise. Venus adds comfort goods, design, and agreement. Mars adds tools, land, kitchens, or anything that cuts and builds. Saturn adds labor, duration, and structures that take years. These are karakas coloring the houses. They are not a menu of twelve products keyed to birth months. Two people with Simha lagna share Venus as the 10th lord, because the 10th sign is always Vrishabha. A Leo Sun is not Simha lagna unless Simha was rising, so two Leo Suns can have entirely different 10th lords.
The 6th is the service business
Employment and competition live in the 6th. A startup that is really a service practice, medicine, law, repair, has a strong 6th lord as well as a 7th. A startup that is a product sold to a crowd leans on the 11th and Mercury or Venus. A startup that is a solitary craft leans on the 3rd, the house of skill. Choosing 'your business' from a solar slogan collapses these. The dasha has to cooperate. A beautiful 7th-lord placement during a 12th-lord mahadasha can be a plan whose money leaves. Venus mahadasha, 20 years, is a long window if Venus rules the 10th or the 7th. If it rules the 12th, the long window is outflow.
Capital is not the idea
The 2nd house is the capital and the family purse you might draw on. A strong idea in the 3rd or 5th with a broken 2nd is a concept without a treasury. Investors are other people's 11th and your 8th, the house of other people's money, which is a risky sentence and should be read carefully rather than romanticized. None of this prints a brand name. It prints whether trade, service, or craft is the house that is both strong and currently running. Cast the lagna. Name the 10th lord. Then talk about a business.
Frequently asked questions
Does Simha lagna mean a Venus business?
For Simha the 10th sign is Vrishabha, so the career lord is Venus. The kind of Venus work still depends on Venus's sign and on Mercury and the 7th. A Leo Sun is not Simha lagna unless Simha was rising.
Is the 7th only marriage?
In a business reading the 7th is also the customer and the partner. Marriage remains its family meaning. Context chooses. The lord is the same graha either way.
When should the firm actually start?
In the dasha of the 10th lord or the 7th lord, if that graha is dignified, with the 11th able to receive. A muhurta can pick the hour. It cannot replace a weak lord.
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