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Graha
Moon
चंद्रChandraMind, mother, emotions, comfort.
Where Moon is now
Kark 22°25', in Ashlesha pada 2
- Sign lord
- Moon
- Western sign
- Cancer
- Dignity here
- Own sign (swakshetra)
Computed for Wed, 12 Aug, 2026, 5:30 pm IST, sidereal Lahiri.
Classical attributes
From the standard texts. These do not change.
- Rules the signs
- Kark
- Exalted in
- Vrishabh (deep exaltation at 3°)
- Debilitated in
- Vrishchik (deep debilitation at 3°)
- Moolatrikona
- Vrishabh 4°–30°
- Aspects (drishti)
- 7th house from itself
- Natural friends
- Sun, Mercury
- Neutral toward
- Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn
- Natural enemies
- None listed
- Karaka of
- The mind and emotions, the mother, comfort, the public — and the rashi itself.
- Presiding deity
- Parvati
- Weekday
- Monday
- Gemstone
- Pearl (Moti)
- Metal
- Silver
- Direction
- North-west
- Beeja mantra
- Om Shraam Shreem Shraum Sah Chandraya Namah
- Vimshottari mahadasha
- 10 years
Moon in the Vimshottari cycle
Emotions, mind, mother, home and public life; nurturing, changeable, people-focused years.
Moon rules three of the twenty-seven nakshatras, evenly spaced through the zodiac. A birth Moon in any of them starts life in a Moon mahadasha of 10 years.