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Rashi 5 of 12

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

Leo · The Lion

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.
Sun
Element
Fire
Symbol
The Lion
Wheel position
5 of 12
Sun really here, sidereal (2026)
17 Aug – 16 Sep
Western sun-sign window, not this rashi
23 Jul – 22 Aug

Where the Moon is today

The Moon is in Karka

The Moon crosses your rest corner today. Keep the day soft: fewer purchases, less noise, an earlier night. What looks like a slow day is your sign recovering, and that is the win.

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 6:35 pm IST.

You will want more sleep than usual today. That is the body asking, not complaining. Ordinary spending today. Keep the receipts and you will be glad of it on the weekend. The mood at home is easy today. Use it for the conversation you have been avoiding. A private day for the heart. Think about it more than you speak about it. A plain day at the desk. Answer what is asked and leave on time. A quiet hour alone will do more for you than an evening with people today. Neither closeness nor distance today. A cup of tea together covers it.

Lucky number
3Jupiter’s number. The Moon is in your 12th today, and the 12th is Jupiter’s house.
Lucky colour
Yellow and saffronfor Simha, the same Jupiter the number comes from. White and silver is the whole day’s colour, for everyone, because today is Moon’s day.
Remedy
Give mustard oil or black til at a Shani shrine, or a meal to a labourer. Do not drink today, and do the work you have been avoiding.For Saturn, because a Shani Dhaiya is running for your rashi. 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 12th, which is expenses, sleep, and time spent away from everyone), 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
3° 32′ 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 · 7% 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

    A plain day for the heart. No news is genuinely fine here.

    Love sits in your 5th and 7th houses. The Moon is in your 12th today, which is not one of them.

  • Career

    Work is steady today. Use the quiet to tidy something you have been ignoring.

    Career sits in your 6th and 10th houses. The Moon is in your 12th 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 12th 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 12th today, which is not one of them.

Slow transits

Where Shani and Guru stand for you right now

Shani

Ashtama 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 8th from SimhaThe fifth rashi, Leo. Ruled by Surya and a fire sign: it carries itself as though it is being watched, and it is generous to its own., 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 12th from SimhaThe fifth rashi, Leo. Ruled by Surya and a fire sign: it carries itself as though it is being watched, and it is generous to its own. — 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 Simha is

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

Sun rules Simha and nothing else. Only two of the twelve have a lord to themselves; the other ten share one with a second rashi.

Sun also rules
No other rashi
The other fire rashis
Mesha, Dhanu

Rashi with rashi

Which rashis Simha 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 Simha 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. SimhaThe fifth rashi, Leo. Ruled by Surya and a fire sign: it carries itself as though it is being watched, and it is generous to its own. 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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