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Graha
Mars
मंगलMangalEnergy, courage, siblings, property, drive.
Where Mars is now
Mithun 3°52', in Mrigashira pada 4
- Sign lord
- Mercury
- Western sign
- Gemini
- Dignity here
- Neither exalted nor debilitated
Computed for Sat, 8 Aug, 2026, 5:30 pm IST, sidereal Lahiri.
Classical attributes
From the standard texts. These do not change.
- Exalted in
- Makar (deep exaltation at 28°)
- Debilitated in
- Kark (deep debilitation at 28°)
- Moolatrikona
- Mesh 0°–12°
- Aspects (drishti)
- 4th, 7th, 8th house from itself — the 7th plus its special aspects
- Natural friends
- Sun, Moon, Jupiter
- Neutral toward
- Venus, Saturn
- Natural enemies
- Mercury
- Karaka of
- Courage, energy and drive, younger siblings, land and property, surgery and conflict.
- Presiding deity
- Kartikeya
- Weekday
- Tuesday
- Gemstone
- Red coral (Moonga)
- Metal
- Copper
- Direction
- South
- Beeja mantra
- Om Kraam Kreem Kraum Sah Bhaumaya Namah
- Vimshottari mahadasha
- 7 years
Mars in the Vimshottari cycle
Energy, courage, property, siblings and drive; bold action, but guard against conflict.
Mars rules three of the twenty-seven nakshatras, evenly spaced through the zodiac. A birth Moon in any of them starts life in a Mars mahadasha of 7 years.