Moving Planet get into certain states of existence called instance or avasthas. These instances are ten in number. Each avastha produces its own results. The details of different instances are as follows :

Exaltation : When a Moving Planet achieves Exaltation, this instance indicates Gains from vehicles or conveyances, fame, lots of wealth and good progeny.

Own house : When a Moving Planet enters in its own house, it indicates fame, wealth, property or lands, happiness and professional achievements and good children.

Friendly house : When a moving planet enters to a friendly house, it indicates happiness.

Auspicious Sub-division : When a moving planet reaches to an auspicious sub division, it indicates courage, support from relatives, happiness.

Retrogression :  Normally moving planets are in direct motion but sometimes they appear to be in anticlockwise direction due to their position or motion of the earth. When moving planet becomes retrograde it  makes the planet unusual or perverse in results .

Residence in the last quarter of the sign : Moving Planet in the the last quarter of the sign indicates prosecution, incarceration, pilfering habits and expulsion of country.

Inimical house :  Moving Planet in the inimical house indicates jealousy, mental worry, brain trouble sickness and degradation.

Combustion : When a moving planet attains combustion, it indicates diseases, orphanage, loss of wife and children and disgrace.

debilitation : Moving Planets in debilated state indicate losses from various sources, quarrels with parents and relations, imprisonment, hating God and sacred literature.

Acceleration : This indicates losses from various sources, torture, foes, mean habits, and danger in foreign countries.

Six Sources of strength and Weakness of Planets : Each planet is supposed to get a particular share of strength when it occupies a particular position. The source of strength can be numerically measured by a certain unit called Rupa. There are six kinds of strengths considered in the Indian astrology.

Positional Strength : Positional strength which a moving planet gets as a result of it occupying a particular house in the horoscope.

Directional Strength : Jupiter and Mercury are powerful in the East. The Sun and Mars get their directional strength in the North, Saturn in the west gains directional strength. Venus and Moon acquire directional strength in the south.

Motional Strength : The moving planets Sun and Moon get Motion strength in the zodiac of Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus and Gemini and Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn in retrogression or in conjunction with the Full Moon get Motion strength. If Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Saturn are with Mars, they are said to be defeated in the planetary fight and get Motion Strength.

Temporal strength. The Moon, Mars and Saturn are powerful during the night. The Sun, Jupiter and Venus are powerful during the day. Mercury is always powerful.

Aspect strength : While each moving planets aspect other planet, aspects of benefics give full strength, while aspects of Malefics take away the strength.

Permanent or Natural strength: Each moving planet is supposed to produce a particular measure of strength permanently, irrespective of its position.

Moving Planet – Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars – are usually not considered as important because they move quickly through the zodiac. The transits of the slower moving planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto – are more powerful and noticeable, especially when they hit a personal planet or cardinal point.