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title: "10th House (Karma Bhava) in Vedic Astrology"
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description: "10th House (Karma Bhava) in Vedic astrology: career, status, authority, public standing, action in the world. A kendra, upachaya house. Karakas: Surya, Budha, Guru and Shani."
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# 10th House (Karma Bhava)

*Bhava*

The 10th house (Karma bhava, कर्म) is one of the twelve bhavas of a Vedic birth chart. Known as the House of Action, it signifies career, status, authority, public standing, action in the world. It is a kendra and an upachaya house, and its karakas are Surya, Budha, Guru and Shani.

## Classical facts

- **Number:** 10
- **Sanskrit name:** Karma
- **Hindi name:** कर्म
- **Classification:** Kendra, Upachaya
- **Karaka:** Surya, Budha, Guru, Shani
- **Significations:** career, status, authority, public role, achievements, father's longevity
- **Reference:** [Bhāva (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C4%81va)

## Articles about 10th House (Karma Bhava)

- [Rahu in 10th, Ketu in 4th: career against home](/learn/rahu-in-the-10th-house-ketu-in-the-4th): The Rahu-Ketu axis read as a pair: ambition pointed outward, home ground left unsettled. What the 10th-4th axis does, the reverse axis, marriage and timing.
- [Jupiter, career and the work it favours](/learn/jupiter-career-and-work): Jupiter is read for teaching, advice, law, finance and healing: work where you are paid for judgement. How to see it in a chart, honestly.
- [Exalted Saturn in the marriage division](/learn/exalted-saturn-in-the-kundli): Saturn is exalted in Tula. In the ninth-division chart read for marriage that points to durability rather than ease, and not to a happy marriage.
- [Ashwini nakshatra and career, and why a yearly forecast cannot be honest](/learn/ashwini-nakshatra-career): What tradition says about Ashwini and work, the transits actually crossing Aries now, and why one forecast cannot cover a twenty-seventh of everybody.
- [7th lord in 10th house: love or arranged marriage, career](/learn/seventh-lord-in-tenth-house-career-and-spouse): 7th lord in the 10th house: a spouse often met through work, with a career of their own. Love or arranged marriage? Neither, on this alone. Here is why.
- [Raj yoga in your kundli: what a calculator finds and misses](/learn/raj-yog-calculator): Almost every kundli holds some raj yoga. A calculator lists the combinations; strength, house and timing decide whether any of them does anything.
- [Rahu in the 10th house: what it means for your career](/learn/rahu-in-the-tenth-house): Rahu in the 10th house as a placement for work, read honestly. Ambition and visibility in jumps, not a promise of fame, and how sign and transit change it.
- [Jupiter in the navamsa (D9) chart, read plainly](/learn/jupiter-in-the-navamsa-chart): Jupiter in the navamsa, the ninth-part chart read for marriage, shows how protected and principled a marriage tends to be. A leaning to read, not a verdict.
- [Gajakesari yoga: what it is, how to check it by birth date](/learn/gajakesari-yoga-from-date-of-birth): Gajakesari forms when Jupiter is 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th from the Moon. About one chart in three has it. What it means, and how to check it from a date.
- [Career transits in 2026 and 2027, read from your rising sign](/learn/career-transits-by-rising-sign): Saturn holds in Pisces through 2026 and reaches Aries in June 2027, Jupiter enters Cancer in June 2026. The house each falls in, from every rising sign.
- [Birth time and place: career in your kundli](/learn/career-in-your-kundli): A birth date alone cannot tell you your career. With the time and place added, the chart shows what work suits you and when work tends to move.
- [Yogas in KP astrology, and why the system mostly does without them](/learn/yogas-in-kp-astrology): KP astrology does not read named yogas. It asks whether the sub lord of the relevant house cusp promises the matter, and answers yes or no.
- [Yogas in a kundli: what they are and how much they decide](/learn/yogas-in-a-kundli): A yoga is a named combination of planets that tradition reads as one unit. Most charts carry several. Here is how they form and how much weight to give them.
- [What a yoga calculator actually checks in your kundli](/learn/yoga-calculator-what-it-checks): A yoga calculator matches your chart against a stored list of combinations and prints what fits. It cannot weigh them, and it never says when.
- [Does the 7th lord in the 10th promise a high-status spouse](/learn/will-my-spouse-have-a-powerful-career): It indicates a partner with an occupation and a public identity of their own. It does not promise status, income, or any particular level of success.
- [Career for Virgo rashi: which transits actually move work](/learn/virgo-career-transits): For Virgo rashi the career house is Gemini. What Jupiter, Saturn and the nodes have done to it, and what a forecast written for a rashi cannot tell you.
- [Venus in the 10th house, and the honest version of what it means](/learn/venus-in-the-10th-house): Venus in the 10th house points to work where charm, taste and relationships are part of the job. It does not mean love and career are fated to mix.
- [The types of raj yoga in a kundli, and why nearly every chart has one](/learn/types-of-raj-yoga): A raj yoga forms when a lord of an angular house and a lord of a trine house meet. Nearly every kundli has one, so the question is which, and how strong.
- [Which house in a horoscope is the strongest, and how it is judged](/learn/strongest-house-in-a-horoscope): No house is strongest for everyone. It is judged chart by chart from the house ruler, its occupants and its aspects. The 1st house anchors all of it.
- [Can a spouse bring raj yoga into your life, and what that really means](/learn/spouse-and-raj-yoga): Tradition does describe fortune arriving through marriage, when the 7th house links to the houses of fortune. It is not luck you can marry into.
- [Simha rashi, Rahu and career, without the promises](/learn/simha-rashi-career-rahu): Rahu is in Aquarius, the 7th from Simha, and Ketu sits on Simha itself. Only in December 2026 does Rahu reach a house that touches work at all.
- [Simha rashi, career and relationships through 2026 and 2027](/learn/simha-rashi-career-and-love): Two things dominate Simha rashi right now. Saturn sits in your 8th house until June 2027, and Jupiter reaches your own sign on 31 October 2026.
- [What the seventh lord honestly says about your spouse](/learn/seventh-lord-and-your-spouse): The seventh lord shows where in life partnership happens and what it feels like. It does not name your spouse's face, job or standing.
- [Saturn mahadasha after 36, and what the age actually changes](/learn/saturn-mahadasha-after-36): The 36 comes from the age at which Saturn is said to mature. What that means for a Shani mahadasha in mid life, and what it does not mean.
- [Saturn and the work that suits him](/learn/saturn-and-work): Tradition links Saturn to land, construction, iron, mining, labour, law and government service: work that is slow and rewarded late, not early.
- [When a raj yoga becomes active in a kundli](/learn/raj-yoga-when-it-becomes-active): A raj yoga forms when the ruler of an angular house and the ruler of a trine house connect. Its results are tied to the periods of those planets.
- [Purva Phalguni nakshatra and the work that suits it](/learn/purva-phalguni-nakshatra-careers): Purva Phalguni suits work where your warmth is part of what you deliver. It describes the kind of effort you can sustain, not the job title you should take.
- [How planetary transits affect your career and your money](/learn/planetary-transits-and-your-career): A transit is where a planet is now, moving over your birth chart. It shifts pressure and timing around your work. It does not overrule the chart.
- [Parivartan yoga: what a sign exchange between planets means](/learn/parivartan-yoga): Parivartan yoga forms when two planets sit in each other's signs. It ties the houses they rule into one story, and not every kind is a good one.
- [Neecha bhanga raja yoga and career: the 10th house](/learn/neecha-bhanga-raja-yoga-and-career): Neecha Bhanga relieves a debilitated planet of its weakness when certain other placements hold. What that means for work, and what a calculator can settle.
- [Mars in the 10th house and what it does to a career](/learn/mars-in-the-10th-house): Mars in the 10th house is one of the strongest career placements in a kundli: drive, stamina, authority. The cost usually shows up at home.
- [Marriage after 35, a strong career and a quiet 7th house](/learn/late-marriage-strong-career-weak-7th-house): A settled career and an unsettled marriage often sit in one kundli. What a weak 7th house means, and what Saturn has to do with a later marriage.
- [Jupiter mahadasha for Gemini ascendant, partnership and public work together](/learn/jupiter-mahadasha-gemini-ascendant): For Gemini ascendant Jupiter rules the seventh and tenth houses, so its sixteen years raise marriage and career together. Tradition rates it mixed.
- [What empty 10th house means for your career](/learn/empty-10th-house): An empty 10th house is completely normal and says nothing bad about your career. Here is how a Vedic astrologer actually reads a house with no planets in it.
- [Dharma karmadhipati yoga, worked out step by step from your own chart](/learn/dharma-karmadhipati-yoga): This combination forms when the ninth and tenth house lords connect. How to find it in your kundli, and what the tradition does not claim for it.
- [Understanding job or business from your kundli](/learn/career-and-business-in-the-kundli): A kundli does not name a job title or say which path pays more. It shows the kind of work a person settles into, and the periods when work changes.
- [Choosing a business name by numerology, honestly](/learn/business-name-numerology): Numerology can shortlist a name and settle a decision. It cannot make a business work, and no name number saves a weak offer.
- [What a kundli actually shows about a career in law](/learn/astrology-and-a-career-in-law): No rashi makes a lawyer. A chart can indicate aptitude for argument, procedure and contest, and roughly when those years open. That is its whole scope.
- [Virgo and work in 2026, read from the actual transits](/learn/virgo-2026-work-and-career): For Virgo rashi, Jupiter moved into the 11th in June 2026 and Saturn sits in the 7th all year. Here is what that supports at work, and what it does not.
- [Shani Mahadasha for Taurus: Saturn's Kind Side](/learn/shani-mahadasha-for-taurus): For a Taurus rising sign, Saturn owns two of the best houses, so its nineteen-year period is read as building rather than punishing.
- [Saturn mahadasha for a Taurus ascendant, phase by phase](/learn/saturn-period-taurus-ascendant): For a Taurus ascendant Saturn owns the 9th and 10th houses, so the 19 years of its mahadasha tend to build rather than punish. Here is how the stretch usually runs.
- [What Rahu has to do with fame, cinema and business abroad](/learn/rahu-fame-cinema-and-business-abroad): Tradition links Rahu to image, appetite and foreign ground, which is why it comes up around film careers and business abroad. Here is what that means.
- [Career and money inside a mahadasha](/learn/planetary-periods-career-and-money): The mahadasha running in your chart shapes which years favour building a career and which favour holding what you have. It indicates conditions, not amounts.
- [Which houses are read for a government job](/learn/government-job-in-the-kundli): A government job is read mainly from the 10th house, the 6th house of service and the 1st, with the Sun for authority and Saturn for long service.
- [A weak planet in the 10th house, and what it does to a career](/learn/debilitated-planet-in-the-10th-house): A debilitated planet in the 10th house indicates a career that starts slowly and changes often. Tradition also describes conditions that cancel that weakness.
- [Darakaraka in 11th house: a spouse met through your circle](/learn/darakaraka-in-the-11th-house): Darakaraka, the planet at the lowest degree, in the 11th house: tradition reads a spouse met through friends or your circle, and gains that build slowly.