Fourth House [Maatru Bhaava]:

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The fourth house represents the Mother of the native. This house relates to one's home, residence, domestic environments and general condition of the native in the later part of his/her life. This house is also concerned with all hidden aspects of one's life, mysteries, secrets, private affairs and secret life. It also shows one's immovable property (buildings, lands etc) and those holdings which one ta es on lease or rent, as also those rented or leased out to other people. This house also shows one's vehicles (own or rented). This house governs patrimony, especially with reference to hidden treasures. This house has a bearing on the education and !ualifications of a person. This house indicates school and collegiate education as against higher education (post graduate, doctoral and post"doctoral) which is governed by the #th house. The third house shows the mental inclination to study a particular sub$ect. The fourth house bears significance to the termination, conclusion and end of every underta ing, whether in the nativity or in horary astrology. In state astrology (political astrology), this house governs mines, gardens, public buildings, crops, agriculture and determines the termination of any public underta ing.

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