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Graha
Sun
सूर्यSuryaSoul, father, authority, vitality, ego.
Where Sun is now
Kark 23°39', in Ashlesha pada 3
- Sign lord
- Moon
- Western sign
- Cancer
- Dignity here
- Neither exalted nor debilitated
Computed for Mon, 10 Aug, 2026, 5:30 pm IST, sidereal Lahiri.
Classical attributes
From the standard texts. These do not change.
- Rules the signs
- Sinh
- Exalted in
- Mesh (deep exaltation at 10°)
- Debilitated in
- Tula (deep debilitation at 10°)
- Moolatrikona
- Sinh 0°–20°
- Aspects (drishti)
- 7th house from itself
- Natural friends
- Moon, Mars, Jupiter
- Neutral toward
- Mercury
- Natural enemies
- Venus, Saturn
- Karaka of
- Atma (the soul), the father, authority, vitality, government and reputation.
- Presiding deity
- Surya
- Weekday
- Sunday
- Gemstone
- Ruby (Manik)
- Metal
- Copper or gold
- Direction
- East
- Beeja mantra
- Om Hraam Hreem Hraum Sah Suryaya Namah
- Vimshottari mahadasha
- 6 years
Sun in the Vimshottari cycle
Authority, recognition, career and health of the father; a time to lead and be seen.
Sun rules three of the twenty-seven nakshatras, evenly spaced through the zodiac. A birth Moon in any of them starts life in a Sun mahadasha of 6 years.