MercuryBudha
Variable · governs 17 years of the Vimshottari cycle
Budha is intelligence in motion — speech, calculation, commerce and analysis. It takes its character from its company more than any other planet, which is why the texts call it variable rather than benefic.
Rulership and dignity
- Rules
- Gemini, Virgo
- Exalted in
- Virgo 15°
- Debilitated in
- Pisces 15°
- Moolatrikona
- Virgo 16°–20°
- Dasha length
- 17 years
Relationships and reach
- Aspects
- The 7th house only
- Friends
- Sun, Venus
- Enemies
- Moon
- Neutral
- Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
- Combustion orb
- 14° from the Sun