In Indian astrology, the Fourth House, also known as Sukha Bhava, represents home, mother, property, domestic happiness, and emotional security. It signifies the comfort and peace a person enjoys in their life, both materially and emotionally. This house also governs one’s connection to roots, homeland, and inherited property. The placement of benefic or malefic planets here deeply influences one’s inner happiness, family relationships, and stability in life.

The Fourth House is naturally ruled by the zodiac sign Cancer and its ruling planet Moon. A strong Fourth House blesses a person with a harmonious home, strong maternal relationships, and prosperity through land or vehicles. On the other hand, afflictions here may lead to domestic disputes, lack of peace, property disputes, or a feeling of emotional void.

Areas Governed by the Fourth House

The Fourth House is a crucial pillar of the horoscope, covering several life aspects:
Mother and Maternal Love – Relationship with mother and maternal relatives.
Home & Domestic Life – Comfort, peace, and stability in one’s living environment.
Property and Land – Real estate ownership, property gains, and disputes.
Vehicles – Possession of cars or other means of transport.
Emotional Security – Inner peace and mental stability.
Education – Particularly basic schooling and foundation learning.
Old Age Comforts – Happiness and satisfaction in later years.

Planetary Effects in the Fourth House

Moon in 4th House – Brings emotional stability, love from mother, and peaceful home life.
Sun in 4th House – Gives strong leadership in family matters but may cause ego-related clashes.
Mars in 4th House – Brings energy for property gains but may cause disputes over land.
Saturn in 4th House – Creates delays in property matters and may lead to emotional detachment.
Venus in 4th House – Brings luxury, beauty in home, and domestic comfort.

House 4 in the Horoscope

This is denoted by sign Cancer ruled by Moon. It signifies property, house (immovable), land, mother, vehicles like Car,Scooter, Tractors etc. Water, learning, happiness, tracts, special medicines, treasures, crevices, Estate, domestic environments.

General conditions of life in latter part of life (old age), private affairs, hidden things, secret life, curious, secrets, taking or given on lease and rent, tenant, lease, fields, orchards, mines, gardens, monuments, antiquities, inheritance, mental inclination to study, termination, conclusion, and end of undertakings, water, mild, false allegation, loss of one's dwelling, cow, buffalow, crops, agriculture and its produce, treasures hidden under the ground and permanent possessions.

Alcabitus and other manuscript writers say of this house that it denotes dead men's goods and all inheritances descending by a right line to the native, and gives judgement on all things immovable, as cities castles, and such other and of treasure hid, and of what shall befall the dead man in his grave, and (after his burial) to his corpse and what shall fall after death, as also upon all questions touching the substance of brother, being 2nd to the 3rd , and of the children of private enemies, being 5th to the 12th, and sickness of friends as being 6th from 11th also upon the kins's enemies being 10th from 7th; also upon the friends and fortune of servants, being 12th of enemies to the 5th ,".

Also bank position of younger brothers and sisters, health of mother, loss to children being 12th from 5th, Gains, maternal uncle, profession of partner (10th from 7th), danger to father, open enemies to elder brother, secret enemies, their children being 5th from 12th house.

The sign is Feminine, fruitful, movable, watery, negative, direction North and benefic. The duration of Ascendant Cancer is 2 hours 19th minutes.

It represents Breasts, chest, lungs, stomach, Diaphragm, Elbow joints, major arteries and ribs in general.

Significance of Nine Planets in Fourth House of Horoscope

1. Sun
2. Moon
3. Mars
4. Mercury
5. Jupiter
6. Venus
7. Saturn
8. Rahu
9. Ketu