Mohan Koparkar, Ph.D., has this to say about the Oriental planet:
“The Oriental planet is the planet rising just before the sun in your chart.
Find your sun in your natal chart and move clockwise to the first planet. That
is your Oriental planet.
“The oriental planet represents the spiritual foundation of this particular life. It is what you must graduate from and go beyond. Areas associated with your Oriental planet have to be completed. There are certain minimum requirements that your Oriental planet demands of you.
“You can not leave this existence until the Oriental planet has performed its
function. For your soul, which is the sun, to be known, to enjoy its
completeness, your Oriental planet has to perform its duty, positively,
negatively, or in any other way.”
Michael R. Meyer at http://www.khaldea.com/planets/oriental_houses.shtml takes this into detail with each house:
Guiding Planet in the Houses
The house of your birth chart (the section of space surrounding your birth)
occupied by your Planet of Oriental Appearance provides insight into the
particular area of human experience through which your innate skills,
faculties, and aptitudes may be best realized.
Oriental Planet in the First House. The first house represents experiencing
yourself as a unique individual. If your Skill Symbol is in this house, you may
be an exemplar of your chosen profession a representative or ideal man or woman
who has integrated the qualities and functions of the Skill Symbol into the
fabric of personality. With Skill Symbol in the first house, you may tend to
over-identify with what you do remember, you are more than a job description,
no matter how well you fill it!
Oriental Planet in the Second House. You possess strong and highly productive
skills and abilities which are apparent in all that you do. You may use your
Skill Symbol very resourcefully for the acquisition of possessions and
resources or as a means to acquire resources enabling you to pursue your real
or personal interests and goals.
Oriental Planet in the Third House. Here the Skill Symbol may be used for
accumulating or dispensing knowledge, and you may be more a general
practitioner than a specialist. At times
you may do well to remember that knowledge and information in themselves have
no absolute value. Indeed, data and knowledge can produce destructive results
when exploited by a mind lacking compassion and a broad frame of reference.
Oriental Planet in the Fourth House. The fourth house deals with personal integration,
security, one's root power, and the home. You may best use your special skills
and faculties in the areas of personal and cultural integration, and for
securing a basis of operation.
Oriental Planet in the Fifth House. Whatever skills and aptitudes your Skill
Symbol represents, they are well used in the area of creativity,
self-expression, and gaining personal experience. With your Oriental Appearing
Planet in the fifth house, you may find it leads you to risk-taking and
speculation.
Oriental Planet in the Sixth House. Regardless of which planet figures as Skill
Symbol, its location in the sixth house enables you to focus your special
skills and faculties on critical situations. You may use your Skill Symbol for
self-improvement and to resolve your own personal crises and the problems of
others.
Oriental Planet in the Seventh House. With your Skill Symbol in the Seventh
House, you work well in partnership and in direct contact with others. You may
use your people skills either for your own benefit or to help others by playing
the middleman or representative. You may need to remember that you are more
than a social image and that others are not personal resources to be used.
Oriental Planet in the Eighth House. You are especially skillful at business
and at sensing and using the energies generated and released by human
relationships. Your skills and faculties may be well used in conducting happy,
productive and mutually beneficial relationships. But in a negative way, the
same faculties may be used for exploitation and for acquiring what you want.
Oriental Planet in the Ninth House. You may use your skills and faculties to better understand and formulate large ideas, concepts, and philosophical, social, scientific or religious systems. Individuals with Oriental Planet in the ninth house are often media savvy and use their skills to expand human horizons and understanding.
Oriental Planet in the Tenth House. You may best use your special skills and
faculties to either advance your own interests in the social and professional
worlds or to contribute new social ideals to the world-at-large. Your Skill
Symbol may bring yours before the public eye. Once there, you may use your
position and responsibility in the interest of public good, or to bask in the
radiance of your own glory.
Oriental Planet in the Eleventh House. You can best use your special skills and
faculties within the sphere of your social environment or group to either draw
attention to yourself through a show of glitter or to dramatize the need for
personal and social adjustments and improvements.
Oriental Planet in the Twelfth House. Whatever skills and faculties are
represented by your Skill Symbol, you do well to focus them on "ultimates".
You work well in private or performing research, and you may find a place in
little-known, obscure, or abstract fields. In another sense, this configuration
points to a situation where either big issues need to be neutralized through
the Skill Symbol, or where your special skills and faculties may serve a more
than personal purpose.
