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
2026 for Simha
The year is shaped by the slow bodies. Where Shani, Guru and Rahu stand for Simha, and the dates anything changes.
Shani
Where Shani stands in 2026
ShaniSaturn. Work, delay, discipline and old age. Nothing it gives arrives early, and very little of what it gives is ever taken back. takes about two and a half years over one rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun., so its position is the slow weather of the year. 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., where it applies, is named against dates rather than as a warning.
- All year
- In Meena, your 8thThe two and a half year period the tradition calls Dhaiya. Sade Sati itself is not running.
Guru
Where Guru stands in 2026
GuruJupiter. Wisdom, teachers, wealth and children, and the one graha whose glance on a house is read as help arriving rather than pressure. spends about a year in a rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun., so a change of sign inside the year is the single biggest shift a yearly reading can point to.
- Until 2 June 2026
- In Mithuna, your 11thOne of the positions the classical gochar table singles out as supportive.
- 2 June 2026 to 31 October 2026
- In Karka, your 12thNot one of the positions the classical table singles out as supportive.
- From 31 October 2026
- In Simha, your 1stNot one of the positions the classical table singles out as supportive.
Rahu
Rahu and Ketu in 2026
RahuThe north lunar node, a shadow graha with no body of its own. It stands for hunger, foreign things and sudden rise, and it is never satisfied. runs backwards through the zodiac, eighteen months to a rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun., with KetuThe south lunar node, the other shadow graha. It cuts away rather than adds, and it points at detachment, sharp insight and work already finished. always in the seventh from it.
- Until 5 December 2026
- In Kumbha, your 7th
- From 5 December 2026
- In Makara, your 6th
The Sun
When the Sun crosses Simha
The Sun is genuinely in Simha from 17 Aug – 16 Sep this year, measured on the same sidereal zodiac as everything else on this page. This is the window a birthday-based sign points at, three weeks or so after the Western dates.
Why we say this
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.
- Mesha5 / 12Aries · axis 5/9Bhakoot axis
- Vrishabha7 / 12Taurus · axis 4/10Cooler lords
- Mithuna11 / 12Gemini · axis 3/11Easy going
- Karka5 / 12Cancer · axis 2/12Bhakoot axis
- Kanya4 / 12Virgo · axis 2/12Bhakoot axis
- Tula7 / 12Libra · axis 3/11Cooler lords
- Vrischika12 / 12Scorpio · axis 4/10Easy going
- Dhanu5 / 12Sagittarius · axis 5/9Bhakoot axis
- Makara0 / 12Capricorn · axis 6/8Bhakoot axis
- Kumbha7 / 12Aquarius · axis 7/7Cooler lords
- Meena5 / 12Pisces · axis 6/8Bhakoot axis
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?
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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.