Kendra
केन्द्र
Everyday Hindi: केंद्र
Angular houses 1, 4, 7 and 10; the chart's pillars.
Definition
The kendras are the first, fourth, seventh and tenth houses; the word is borrowed from the Greek kentron, 'centre'. The texts treat grahas in kendras as prominent, and the Pañca Mahāpuruṣa yogas require a graha there in its own or exaltation sign. Being 90° apart, the kendras are often called the 'square' houses in English.
Articles that use this term
- Jyotish · HoraExplainer
The birth chart, house by house
What a kundli is, how it is drawn in North and South Indian styles, and what each of the twelve houses is traditionally said to represent.
8 min read · 11 October 2026
- Jyotish · HoraExplainer
Houses and signs: the difference every beginner misses
Twelve signs, twelve houses, and why they are not the same twelve. A plain explanation of the two frames in every kundli.
7 min read · 9 October 2026
- Jyotish · Hora
Space and Time: the two components of prediction
How the classical tradition separates what a chart shows from when it is said to unfold, and why that framework organises everything a student learns.
8 min read · 4 October 2026
- Jyotish · Hora
South, North and East Indian charts: one sky, three drawings
The three regional ways of drawing a birth chart hold the same information. How each is laid out, how to convert between them, and what each makes easy to see.
8 min read · 22 September 2026