House 11 · Lābha bhāva · Labha bhava
Gains, networks, and what comes back to you
Income, profit, elder siblings, friendships, and the fulfilment of desires.
- Angularity
- Paṇaphara — succedent
- Classified as
- Upachaya — a growing house, where difficulty builds capacity
- Kāraka
- Jupiter — signifies these matters wherever it falls
The eleventh is lābha — gain. Where the second holds wealth already accumulated, the eleventh is the flow of income arriving: profit, returns, and the fulfilment of things wanted.
It governs friendships and networks, elder siblings, and associations of all kinds. Much of what it delivers arrives through other people, which is why a strong eleventh so often reads as someone whose circle is unusually useful to them.
It is an upachaya house and the strongest one for malefics. Saturn or Mars here is generally read as increasing gain rather than obstructing it — one of the clearest cases in the system where a malefic placement is straightforwardly good.
Significations
- gains
- income
- profit
- friends
- networks
- elder siblings
- desires fulfilled
Source: BPHS ch. 12; Phaladīpikā ch. 2