Tarabalam · తారాబలం
Tarabalam for each Karkataka nakshatra
The Moon is in Rohini 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 Karkataka · కర్కాటక రాశి గురించి
Karkataka rasi, its lord Chandra and its nakshatras
Karkataka (కర్కాటకం, Cancer) is ruled by Chandra (చంద్రుడు) and covers Punarvasu 4, Pushyami, Aslesha. If your birth Moon fell in any of those padas, this is your rasi — whichever Sun sign you were told.
A movable water sign, and the only sign owned by the Moon. Classical descriptions give it receptivity and attachment to home and family, with the corresponding sensitivity to the state of those things.
Chandra rules Karkataka. Because the Moon changes sign every two and a half days and is the karaka for the mind, a Karkataka reading is unusually sensitive to the Moon's own condition — the paksha it falls in, and whether it is waxing or waning, matter more here than for other signs.
- Sade Sati runs for Karkataka while Shani transits Mithuna, Karkataka and Simha — the 12th, 1st and 2nd from the rasi.
- Ardhashtama and Ashtama Shani are Shani in Tula and Kumbha — the 4th and 8th from Karkataka.
- Guru is read as supportive while transiting Simha, Vrischika, Makara, Meena or Vrishabha — the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th from Karkataka.