Each planet moving from the place it occupied at the birth of a person produces its own peculiar effect varying with its progress through the 12 Rasis. The several places in which the planets and the Lagna may be — all the possible seats of the seven planets and the Lagna — and it is with reference to these eight places that all the good and evil effects of a person's life in the conjoined or conjoined states of the planets and the Lagna are calculated — a process which when completed, the Ashtakavarga result as it is called will become revealed.