Understanding Your Moon Sign (Rashi)

Ask most people their “sign” and they’ll give you the Sun sign of Western astrology. In Jyotish, the more important placement is the Moon — your Rashi — because the Moon governs the mind, emotions and how you experience daily life.

Why the Moon leads

The Moon (Chandra) is the fastest-moving graha and the karaka (significator) of the mind. Your Vimshottari Dasha — the great planetary cycle that times the events of your life — is even calculated from the Moon’s nakshatra at birth.

• ✦ Emotional temperament and instincts
• ✦ Mother and nurturing
• ✦ Daily mental state and habits
• ✦ The starting point of your dasha sequence

Chandrama manaso jatah — “The mind is born of the Moon.” — Purusha Sukta

Finding your Rashi

Generate your free kundli to see the exact sign and nakshatra the Moon occupied at your birth — that is your true Vedic Rashi, and the lens through which the rest of the chart is read.