The Arudha Lagna is the 'chart of perception': a derived point showing the image others form of you, which often differs sharply from the ascendant's description of who you actually are.
The gap between Lagna and Arudha Lagna is often the most revealing thing in a chart — it describes the distance between how someone is seen and how they experience themselves. The same logic applied to the 12th house gives the Upapada, used for marriage.
A Jaimini point representing the public image or perception of the native, calculated by counting from the ascendant to its lord and the same distance again.
The Lagna describes who you actually are; the Arudha Lagna describes how you appear to others. They frequently differ, and the gap between them is itself interpretively significant.
The arudha of the 12th house, used specifically for marriage and long-term partnership in Jaimini astrology.
If the computed arudha falls in the same sign as the starting house or the 7th from it, the 10th sign from that result is used instead.
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