Next a planet is happy in the house of a friend.

How then to decide the friendships and enmities among planets and, the third condition called neutrality. In International Law there are three parts War, Peace and Neutrality. Among planets these types of relationships have existed since the Lord created the world, planets and stars.

Principle Number One The lords of the fifth and the ninth houses and the
lords of the second, fourth, eighth and twelfth houses from a planets moolatrikona house are its friends.

Illustration
The moolatrikona house of Mars is Mesha. From this point (Mesha) the lord of the fifth house (Simha), the Sun and the lord of the ninth house (Dhanu) Jupiter are the friends of Mars. Again from Mesha, the lord of the fourth house (Karka), the Moon, of the eighth house, Mars himself, and of the twelfth house (Meena) Jupiter. You thus now know who are the friends of Mars. They are Venus (the second lord), Moon (the fourth lord), Mars himself (being the eighth lord) and Jupiter (the twelfth lord).

Visual Exercises
Start from the moolatrikona houses and mark first the lords of the fifth and ninth houses. Then mark the lords of the second, fourth, eighth and twelfth houses. Your now have a total picture of friendships among planets. In a tabular form it is being given now.

Note
1. Wherever a planet shows gesture of friendship twice to another planet he becomes his great friend. Here you find that: The great friend or friends of The Sun are Jupiter and Mars Of the Moon, Mercury; Of Mars, Jupiter; Of Mercury Venus; Of Jupiter Mars; Of Venus both Mercury and Saturn; Of Saturn both Mercury and Venus. 2. Where a planet has expressed its gesture of friendship only once a suspicion arises about the other unknown relationship. Actually it is known after seeing the other relationship. 3. Therefore to decide the mutual enmitites of planets remember that a planet owning the third, sixth and eleventh house and then also the seventh and tenth house becomes, from its moolatrikona house, its enemy. This is being explained in tabular form.

Neutrals

Caution
1. What has been given so far is what is known as neutral, friendly and hostile relationship. This has to be modified by looking at the temporal principle of friendships of planets. Planets in the second, third and fourth from each other and planets in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth houses become friends. See the first three houses in the forward direction and the last three in the backward directions. 2. Never overemphsise the friendships or enmity factor. Lot of new factors have to be looked into and new research has to be done. 3. All that is being stressed here is remember the principle but do not overstress these factors. Also do not ignore them. The art of judgement in astrology is the art of developing a judicial balance. In various ancient texts, different results are given for the conditions of planets. They, if used liberally, not literally make an astrologer avoid dogmatic interpretation of horoscopes, a very common weakness and fault of astrologers. Given below is the result of different conditions with certain remarks.

In fact debilitated Saturn and Mars give humility. Debilitated planets have to have their weaknesses. They manifest in different ways at different times.

Caution
1. The above given results get modified through the association or aspects of other planets with them. They can improve or get worse. 2. A planet within, say, about three degrees of the Sun is said to be combust and is said to give bad results. In our experience it is not always so, though for a brief period there can be mental pain. 3. A planet defeated in a planetary war is the planet which is almost of the same degree as another one (not the Sun and also other exceptions). This has been interpreted differently by different writers. There is no sound research to guide us. 4. A planet when retrograde (other planets except the Sun, the Moon) gets into retrograde motion. Read a little bit of astronomy to learn about it). No astrologer should jump to any conclusion without a sound research and observation.

Note : The interpretation of the results of all these, particularly of retrograde planets has
been mostly done through loose generalisations. Such an approach and tendency must be avoided.

Note
In the earlier table of friendships it has been seen that some planets become friends twice and some once. In the preceding table it has been seen that some planets become enemies twice and some once. In the third category are those planets who become friends in one way and enemies in another way These planets become neutrals. So let us prepare a third table of neutrals.