Modern Panditji

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

Simha rashifal

August for Simha

The Moon's whole run through August, folded into stretches, with the favourable days and the Chandrashtama days named.

The month

The Moon through August

The Moon circles all twelve rashisA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. in the month, so every rashi gets favourable stretches and quiet ones. For 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., 15 of 31 days count favourable, and ChandrashtamaThe days each month when the Moon is in the eighth from your rashi. Tradition reads them as low days: keep to routine work and start nothing new. falls 3 – 4 Aug and 30 – 31 Aug. The new Moon is on 12 August 2026. The full Moon is on 28 August 2026.

1 – 2 Aug
Moon in Kumbha, your 7th Favourable. Touches partnership and marriage.
3 – 4 Aug
Moon in Meena, your 8th Chandrashtama. Touches rest and routine rather than beginnings.
5 – 6 Aug
Moon in Mesha, your 9th Quiet. Touches fortune, teachers and long journeys.
7 – 8 Aug
Moon in Vrishabha, your 10th Favourable. Touches career and standing at work.
9 – 10 Aug
Moon in Mithuna, your 11th Favourable. Touches gains, income and friends.
11 – 12 Aug
Moon in Karka, your 12th Quiet. Touches expenses, sleep and time to yourself.
13 – 14 Aug
Moon in Simha, your 1st Favourable. Touches your own body, mood and beginnings.
15 – 17 Aug
Moon in Kanya, your 2nd Quiet. Touches money, family and what you say.
18 – 19 Aug
Moon in Tula, your 3rd Favourable. Touches effort, courage and younger siblings.
20 – 22 Aug
Moon in Vrischika, your 4th Quiet. Touches home, mother and peace of mind.
23 – 24 Aug
Moon in Dhanu, your 5th Quiet. Touches children, learning and romance.
25 – 27 Aug
Moon in Makara, your 6th Favourable. Touches health, routine and the work of clearing debts.
28 – 29 Aug
Moon in Kumbha, your 7th Favourable. Touches partnership and marriage.
30 – 31 Aug
Moon in Meena, your 8th Chandrashtama. Touches rest and routine rather than beginnings.
Why we say this
The month is read a day at a time at midday IST and folded into stretches: consecutive days with the Moon in one rashi become one row, which is why the rows run two to three days each. The verdicts are the classical Chandra-gochar table counted from Simha; the house themes are the standard bhava assignments. A stretch’s edges can shift by a day where the Moon crosses a rashi mid-day.

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.