Tarabalam · తారాబలం
Tarabalam for each Tula nakshatra
The Moon is in Krittika at sunrise. Counted from your own birth star, that gives the tara below. Sampat, Kshema, Sadhana, Mitra and Parama Mitra are the favourable taras; Janma, Vipat, Pratyak and Naidhana are read as days to go gently.
About Tula · తుల రాశి గురించి
Tula rasi, its lord Shukra and its nakshatras
Tula (తుల, Libra) is ruled by Shukra (శుక్రుడు) and covers Chitta 3–4, Swati, Vishakha 1–3. If your birth Moon fell in any of those padas, this is your rasi — whichever Sun sign you were told.
A movable air sign, and the sign of Shani's exaltation. The attribution is balance and the weighing of alternatives — with the corresponding difficulty of settling on one.
Shukra rules Tula and also owns Vrishabha. Because Shani is exalted in Tula, a Shani transit through this sign is read very differently from the same transit through a sign where he has no dignity — a distinction that matters in every Sade Sati discussion for the neighbouring signs.
- Sade Sati runs for Tula while Shani transits Kanya, Tula and Vrischika — the 12th, 1st and 2nd from the rasi.
- Ardhashtama and Ashtama Shani are Shani in Makara and Vrishabha — the 4th and 8th from Tula.
- Guru is read as supportive while transiting Vrischika, Kumbha, Mesha, Mithuna or Simha — the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th from Tula.