Decante (D-III) is the divisional chart meant for in depth study of the significations ruled by the third house that is courage, enterprises/initiatives and the younger brothers. The prominent significations experienced by the native are of those houses in which mooltrikona signs of various planets are located. Depending upon the strength or weaknesses of the planets the results are experienced in the sub-period of the planets. Looking from this angle if the third house contains a mooltrikona sign, then the significations of the third house have dynamic configurations. It will be more so in the periods of the lord of the third house, Mars, lord of the ascendant of the decante if containing a moolatrikona sign, other planets associated with the third house or lord of the third house in the rasi chart. The significator for the third house is Mars. The predominant relationship of male planets with planets becoming significators for the third house gives birth to younger brothers while the female planets give birth to younger sisters. Further discussions on the subject will be taken-up during the analysis of charts taken-up for illustration.

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The third house has a mooltrikona sign ruled by Jupiter. Jupiter is weak due to the weakness of its dispositor. The Moon, the dispositor of the Jupiter, is weak as it is in the house of a debilitated and combust, Venus. The Sun is weak as it is badly placed in the chart and is in the old age. Mars, the significator for younger brothers, is in the sign of the weak Sun.

In decante, the ascendant is ruled by Venus, Mars is in the sign Leo ruled by weak Sun in the chart. Jupiter is in the sign Cancer, ruled by the weak Moon in the natal chart.

Because of the weakness of Jupiter, Venus and Mars, the younger brother of the native has a retarded growth. The apparent strong position of the lord of the third house and the significator for younger brothers gave birth to a younger brother, but their inherent weakness together with weakness of the lord of the ascendant of the decante were mainly responsible for the retarded growth of the younger brother of the native. The younger brother was born in the main period of Jupiter and sub-period of the Venus.

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The lord of the third house is strongly placed in the tenth house. The significator for the younger brother is in its own sign, Scorpio, in the twelfth house. Mars closely aspects the most effective point of the third house.

In decante, the lord of the ascendant is Mars, who is placed in the eighth house of D-III. Saturn, the lord of the third house of the natal chart, is placed in the second house in the decante. In comparison to the significator for younger brothers and decante ascendant lord Mars, Saturn, the lord of the third house of the main chart, is strong.

The sub-period of Saturn in the main period of Mercury, the native was blessed with a younger brother.

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The lord of the third house, the Sun, occupies the third house. The significator for younger brothers, Mars, occupies its sign of debilitation in the second house.

In decante, the lord of the ascendant is Venus. Mars is placed in the sixth house. The Sun, the lord of third house of the main chart occupies its sign of exaltation in the decante. The lord of the third house and lord of ascendant of the decante are strong while the significator is slightly weak. The significator, Mars, gets favorable aspects from Jupiter and the lord of the second house, the Moon.

The main period of Mars blessed the native with three younger brothers in the sub-periods of Mars, Saturn and Venus. The younger brother born in the main and sub-period of Mars keeps weak health as Mars is debilitated.

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The sign Libra rises in the ascendant and Mercury Rahu and Ketu become functional malefic planets. Mercury is weak as it is placed in the state of infancy and is closely afflicted by Rahu. The lord of the ascendant, Venus, is weak as it is badly placed in the chart and is in extreme old-age. The lord of the third house, Jupiter, and the Mars are in close conjunction with each other in the main chart. Though Mars is apparently strong in the chart but during the sub-periods of Mars the affliction of Mercury occupying moolatrikona sign of Mars manifests. This influence of Mars is also passed on to Jupiter. The Sun ruling the eleventh house is apparently strongly placed in the chart but this could also not get out of the blemish of Mercury's close affliction in the sign Aries occupied by the Sun in the chart. There is no moolatrikona sign is the ascendant of D-III.

During the sub-periods of Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury in the main period of Rahu, the native could not be blessed with a younger brother, kept persistent bad health and died of illness at the age of just ten years. The lord of the ascendant is in the eighth house in both main chart and decante and is in the sixth house in navamsa in its sign of debilitation.