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Rashi 9 of 12

DhanuA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun.

Sagittarius · The Archer

Every reading computed from where the grahas actually stand rather than written in advance. And it follows your moon sign, not the Western sun sign from your birthday.

Ruling grahaOne of the nine: the seven visible bodies plus Rahu and Ketu, the two lunar nodes. A graha is read as a force at work, not as a lump of rock.
Jupiter
Element
Fire
Symbol
The Archer
Wheel position
9 of 12
Sun really here, sidereal (2026)
16 Dec – 13 Jan
Western sun-sign window, not this rashi
22 Nov – 21 Dec

Where the Moon is today

The Moon is in Karka

Today is the one day each month the Moon asks your sign to slow down. Keep it for routine work and rest, and hold the big start, the big spend and the hard conversation for a day or two. It passes quickly.

Krishna pakshaThe dark fortnight, full Moon back to new, the Moon thinning each night. It is not the bad half: Janmashtami, Dhanteras and Shivaratri all sit in it., DwadashiThe twelfth tithi, and the day an Ekadashi fast is broken. Getting the hour of that paran right is one reason tithi timings are printed at all. tithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. is running. Positions read at 11:17 pm IST.

A slow day in the body. Do not read anything into the tiredness, just sleep earlier. An ordinary day for finances. Keep to the plan you already have. The house is calm today because everyone is busy. Let it stay that way. Misunderstandings are possible in love today. Ask before assuming. Someone at work may take credit for something today. Note it, do not fight it now. A little spare time in the evening. Spend it on something that rests the mind. A matter involving in-laws or shared money can strain the day. Do not decide it now.

Lucky number
7Ketu’s number. The Moon is in your 8th today, and the 8th is Ketu’s house.
Lucky colour
Cream and greyfor Dhanu, the same Ketu the number comes from. White and silver is the whole day’s colour, for everyone, because today is Moon’s day.
Remedy
Keep the evening quiet and go to bed at a decent hour. The Moon asks for rest more than ritual.For Moon, because it is Moon’s day. Free, and nothing to buy.

The sentences, and the bars further down, are one score per area, from six things the day has: the Moon’s house from your rashi (the 8th, which is the slow things: rest, shared money, what you do not control), the mood of the star the Moon is passing through, what the weekday is good for, and where Venus, Mars and Mercury stand from your rashi. The lucky number and colour belong to the graha whose house the Moon is standing in, so they differ for every rashi and move as she does. The remedy goes to whichever of the six areas scored worst, taking turns with anything standing over your rashi and with the lord of the day, so it is always something you can actually do this morning.

Show the exact positions
Moon
6° 20′ Karka
Sun (sidereal)
Simha
TithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it.
27 of 30 · 29% elapsed
AyanamsaThe gap between the fixed stars and the tropical zodiac, now close to 24 degrees. We follow the Lahiri value, and that is why two sites can disagree. (Lahiri)
24° 13′
Retrograde now
Saturn

What today means for you

Four parts of life, read off the same Moon. Where the Moon is standing decides which of them today actually touches.

  • Love

    You may read too much into a short reply today. It probably meant nothing.

    Love sits in your 5th and 7th houses. The Moon is in your 8th today, which is not one of them.

  • Career

    A frustrating day at work. Finish one thing completely and let the rest wait.

    Career sits in your 6th and 10th houses. The Moon is in your 8th today, which is not one of them.

  • Money

    Nothing much moves in your accounts today. That is not a bad thing.

    Money sits in your 2nd and 11th houses. The Moon is in your 8th today, which is not one of them.

  • Health

    No warnings today. A short walk after dinner is the whole prescription.

    Health sits in your 1st and 6th and 8th houses. The Moon is in your 8th today, which is one of them.

Slow transits

Where Shani and Guru stand for you right now

Shani

Kantaka Shani — the two-and-a-half year Dhaiya, and Sade Sati is not running

ShaniSaturn. Work, delay, discipline and old age. Nothing it gives arrives early, and very little of what it gives is ever taken back. is in the 4th from DhanuThe ninth rashi, Sagittarius. Ruled by Guru and a fire sign: it aims high, travels, teaches, and says what it thinks before softening it., the period the tradition calls DhaiyaThe lesser Saturn transit, two and a half years of it, running when Shani crosses the fourth or the eighth from your Moon. Sade Sati is the long one.. Sade SatiThe roughly seven and a half years Saturn takes to cross the sign before your Moon, your Moon sign itself, and the one after. It asks for patience, not panic. itself is not running for this rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun..

Guru

GuruJupiter. Wisdom, teachers, wealth and children, and the one graha whose glance on a house is read as help arriving rather than pressure. is in KarkaThe fourth rashi, Cancer. Ruled by Chandra and a water sign: attached to home and family, protective, and it feels everything first., the 8th from DhanuThe ninth rashi, Sagittarius. Ruled by Guru and a fire sign: it aims high, travels, teaches, and says what it thinks before softening it. — not one of the positions the classical gocharWhere the grahas are in the sky right now, read against your birth chart. Transits are what make one year feel unlike the last. table singles out as supportive.

This rashi’s own nature

What kind of rashi Dhanu is

Every rashi has a lord and an element. What makes Dhanu a particular rashi is who else shares them. Mesha and Simha are the other two fire rashis, and they stand at the 5th and the 9th from Dhanu — on this wheel an element and a trikona are the same triangle.

Jupiter rules Meena as well, so those and Dhanu answer to one graha — whatever Jupiter is doing in the sky, it is doing to both.

Jupiter also rules
Meena
The other fire rashis
Mesha, Simha

Rashi with rashi

Which rashis Dhanu meets easily

Each tile is the two kootasOne of the eight tests a horoscope match is scored on. Each carries its own weight, and the eight add up to thirty six points. two rashisA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. settle without a birth time: BhakootHousehold life and prosperity together, taken from the distance between the two Moon signs. Seven points of the thirty six, and some pairs score zero. of 7 and Graha MaitriFriendship between the two Moon sign lords, meaning mental and emotional understanding. Five points of the thirty six. of 5, twelve points between them, from the same engine that scores a full match. Brass reads easy, dim means the two lords are neutral at best, and vermilion marks a Bhakoot axis, which the texts treat as a point to examine rather than a bar.

That is two of the eight kootasOne of the eight tests a horoscope match is scored on. Each carries its own weight, and the eight add up to thirty six points.. The other six need the nakshatraThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score. your Moon actually fell in, which needs a birth time — so read this as the shape of a pairing, not as a score. Match two kundlis properly.

Everything above is measured from today’s sky. We don’t pad this page with words nobody looked at the sky to write.

Moon sign, not sun sign

Is Dhanu really your rashi?

Your rashi is your moon sign — where the Moon stood when you were born — not the Western sun sign from your birthday, and for most people the two are different.

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Method

How this page is worked out

The planetary positions above are computed from our own calculation engine, sidereal with LahiriThe ayanamsa value the standard Indian panchangs settled on, and the one every chart here is drawn with. Two sites that disagree about a chart usually disagree here first. ayanamsaThe gap between the fixed stars and the tropical zodiac, now close to 24 degrees. We follow the Lahiri value, and that is why two sites can disagree., at the time the page was last refreshed, rather than written in advance. The favourable and unfavourable positions named are the classical gocharWhere the grahas are in the sky right now, read against your birth chart. Transits are what make one year feel unlike the last. tables, quoted as such. Which rashisA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. DhanuThe ninth rashi, Sagittarius. Ruled by Guru and a fire sign: it aims high, travels, teaches, and says what it thinks before softening it. meets easily is settled by the same Ashtakoota code our matching tool runs, reading only the two kootasOne of the eight tests a horoscope match is scored on. Each carries its own weight, and the eight add up to thirty six points. that two rashis decide between them. Where this page has nothing computed to say, it says nothing.

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