Job ya business? Which one suits your Kundli

Everyone with a salary has thought about it on a bad Monday: "Naukri chhod ke apna kaam shuru karun?" It is a big decision, and the Kundli has a clear way of weighing it.

The 6th house against the 7th

The 6th house is service: working for someone else. The 7th house is trade and partnership: dealing with the public on your own account. Compare the two houses and their lords. Whichever is stronger shows where you earn more easily.

Signs that business suits you

• A strong 7th house and 7th lord.
• A strong Mercury, the planet of trade, and a strong 11th house of gains.
• The 10th lord linked with the 7th or the 11th house.
• A strong 3rd house and Mars: courage, initiative and the stomach for risk.
• A strong Sun or Rahu in the 10th: you do not like taking orders.

Signs that a job suits you

• A strong 6th house and a strong Saturn: steady, patient and good inside a system.
• The 10th lord linked with the 6th house.
• A weak 7th lord, or the 7th lord in the 6th, 8th or 12th: partnerships and customers bring stress.
• The Moon needing security: irregular income will cost you sleep.

Many charts say both

A common and sensible pattern is a job first and business later, often after 35 to 40, when the dasha of the 7th, 10th or 11th lord begins. A side business alongside the job is how many people test the ground.

The right time to start

• Start in the dasha or antardasha of the 7th, 10th or 11th lord, or of Mercury if he is strong.
• Prefer a year when Jupiter passes through the 2nd, 7th, 9th or 11th from your Moon.
• Avoid launching at the peak of Sade Sati or in Ashtama Shani unless you have a year of savings.
• Open on a good muhurat, on a Wednesday or Thursday by tradition.

Do not resign in the antardasha of your 8th lord. Decisions made in that period are usually made in anger.