Pandit Roop Chand Joshi Ji in Lal Kitab 1952 (page 96) while dealing with the concept of Sleeping house and Sleeping planet had written, “By Sleeping planet and Sleeping house the meaning is that such planet or house would not give its good results inspite of having everything with it.” There is much confusion among practitioners and students of Lal Kitab about this concept. In this post, I have shared some of the important observations of this concept which would be very useful for every lal kitab practitioner and students to analyze the impact of planet and houses in a horoscope. This concept is very important because sometimes predictions are done on the basis of placement of planet without analyzing whether the planet is in an awakened state or not or without analyzing whether a house is sleeping or an active one.
At the outset I would like to clarify that sleeping house and sleeping planet are two entirely different concepts. I would deal with both these concepts one by one reflecting their importance in predictions and prescription of Lal kitab remedies.
Sleeping House (Dormant house/Soye Ghar)
A house which does not have a planet placed in it and consequently does not get an aspect of any planet either is considered as a Sleeping or Dormant house. It implies that no benefit will be received through the subjects of that house unless that house wakes up. The method of activating twelve houses of horoscope through different planets is given in following table:
| Sleeping House Number | Which planet would activate it |
| 1st house | Mars |
| 2nd house | Moon |
| 3rd house | Mercury |
| 4th house | Moon |
| 5th house | Sun |
| 6th house | Rahu |
| 7th house | Venus |
| 8th house | Moon |
| 9th house | Jupiter |
| 10th house | Saturn |
| 11th house | Jupiter |
| 12th house | Ketu |
Sleeping planet (Dormant planet/Soya Grah)
If a planet is placed in such a way in the horoscope that it does not aspect another planet, then it would be considered as sleeping planet/dormant planet/soya hua grah.
It is important to point out here that Lal Kitab 1952 (page 97) clearly states that if a planet is placed in its permanent house (example, Venus in 7th house, Mars in 3rd house) will always be considered as Awakened/Activated planet.
Khana/House Numbers 1 to 6 from Ascendant in horoscope are considered as previous houses and Khana/House Numbers 7 to 12 from Ascendant in the horoscope are considered as later houses. If there is no planet in 1to 6th house, then planet in later houses would be considered as sleeping while if the later houses are vacant, then previous houses would be considered as sleeping.
Lal Kitab 1952 (page 98) also prescribe three important scenarios with regard to sleeping planet which should be considered while predicting a horoscope. These are:
- If there is no planet in House number10, then house number 2 planets would be treated as sleeping.
- If there is no planet in House number2, then house number 10 planets would be treated as sleeping.
- If there is no planet in House number 2, then house number 9 planets would be treated as sleeping.
Now the question arises what would be the impact of a sleeping planet. The answer is that if a planet is sleeping, its result would be confined to the house in which it is sitting. It would not be able to transfer its impact on later houses although the house in which it is sitting will be an awakened house.
If previous houses (1-6) do not have any planet as discussed above, then later houses (7-12) would be deemed as sleeping. In this case, planet that will activate “Kismat ka Grah” need to be founded and if later houses (7-12) are vacant, then remedy for making respective planet active for a vacant house need to be undertaken.
If a planet is awakened automatically and start giving its results, then it will give its bad results after the end of its period as per following table. In such cases, the awakened planet would also adversely affect the results of all planets, whether they are friends or enemies of such planet.
When sleeping planet would be activated automatically & its malefic impact
| Planet | When will wake up | In what age period | When will give malefic (manda) results |
| Jupiter | When native does job | 16-21 years | 22nd year |
| Sun | When native does government job | 22 years | 24th year |
| Moon | When native starts education again | After 24 years | 25th year |
| Venus | Marriage | After 25 years | 28th year |
| Mars | If relationship is established with a women | After 28 years | 34th year |
| Mercury | When native does business or marriage of sister or daughter | After 34 years | 36th year |
| Saturn | If a person makes his own house | After 36 years | 42nd year |
| Rahu | When relationship with in-laws is established | After 42 years | 48th year |
| Ketu | After birth of child | After 48 years | 51st year |
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Acharya Vikas Kumar Malhotra
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