🪷 चन्द्र · Candra (Moon)
🪷 Krishna-Declaration · How this graha IS Krishna
Krishna IS the manas (mind) among senses (BG 10.22 indriyāṇāṁ manaś cāsmi). The Moon in any chart IS Krishna's mind-presence in the native's emotional life. Moon-strength = manas-stability.
Graha · Apas (Water) · Sattva · Female · North-West-direction · Vimśottarī 10 yrs
Today's transit (2026-08-11)
| Rāśi (sign) | Karka |
|---|---|
| Nakshatra | Puṣya · pāda 1 |
| Sidereal longitude | 95.5493° |
| Motion | Direct (mārgī) |
Substrate: Vidhyamitra Sūrya-Siddhānta (Bhāskara-II 4-step iteration · Lahirī ayanāṁśa)
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Classical attributes (per BPHS)
- Alternate names
- Soma · Indu · Śaśī · Kalānātha
- Ruling rāśi(s)
- Cancer (Karka)
- Exalted
- Taurus (Vṛṣabha) (3°)
- Debilitated
- Scorpio (Vṛścika)
- Mūla-Trikoṇa
- Taurus (Vṛṣabha) · 4°-30°
- Friends
- Sun · Mercury
- Neutrals
- Mars · Jupiter · Venus · Saturn
Significations (kāratva)
- Manas (mind)
- Mother · queen · public
- Body fluids · plasma · breasts · blood
- Comfort · home · emotions
- Imagination · memory · receptivity
Mantra
oṁ śrāṁ śrīṁ śrauṁ saḥ candrāya namaḥ · oṁ somāya namaḥ
Remedy summary (śānti-upāya)
Mahā-Mṛtyuñjaya · Soma-stotra · pearl (muktā) · Mondays · white-flower offerings · serving mother
Cross-references
- BG 10 Vibhūti Yoga · all of Krishna's named excellences
- Krishna-as-Paramaatma · BG 7 manifest
- Compute your own birth-chart
- API: today's krishna-tattva (Ujjain reference)
📖 References
- Parāśara Muni. Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra (बृहत् पाराशर होरा शास्त्र). The canonical Vedic-jyotiṣa treatise · BPHS 97 adhyāyas · the supreme manual · Source for Vimśottarī Mahādaśā · Pañca-Mahā-Puruṣa Yogas · Aṣṭakavarga · Doṣa-detection.
- Sūrya-Siddhānta (सूर्य-सिद्धान्त). Classical Indian astronomy treatise · first-principles closed-form analytical engine · earliest extant Sanskrit text ~4th-5th century CE · Traditional foundation used by Vidhyamitra pañchāṅga computations; numerical reach does not establish historical accuracy.
- Vyāsa Maharṣi. Bhagavad-Gītā (भगवद्गीता), BG 10.21. Mahābhārata Bhīṣma-parva 23-40 · multiple recensions in continuous use ~5,150 years · Krishna's explicit identification with Moon/Candra: Among nakshatras I am the Moon. · www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179572.
- Bhāskara II (1114–1185 CE). Siddhānta-Śiromaṇi (सिद्धान्त-शिरोमणि). Classical Indian astronomical treatise · 4-step iterative manda-method · Source for the orbital-position computation underlying Moon's sidereal longitude.
Sources and Connected Readings
Continue from Moon's graha attributes, present transit, chart context, significations, and remedies to its Bhagavad-Gītā source, the Jyotiṣa reference, Vibhūti-Yoga, Viśvarūpa time and chart readings, and the reader-local calculator.
Candralocal graha page for Moon · चन्द्र/jyotisha-referenceall 89 jyotiṣa reference pagesBG 10.21exact local Gītā source route for Moon's Krishna-vibhūti declarationBG 10.22Jyotiṣa Krishna-aspect source: Krishna IS the manas (mind) among senses (BG 10.22 indriyāṇāṁ manaś cāsmi). The Moon in any chart IS Krishna's mind-presence in the native's emotional life. Moon-strength = manas-stability./vibhuti-yogaBG 10 vibhūti-yoga source chapter behind graha-as-Krishna recognition/vishvarupa-chartgrahas as limbs and forces inside Krishna's chart-body/visvarupa-kalagraha motion as qualitative time under KrishnaBG 10.30Time among reckoners · the jyotiṣa substrate anchor/calculatorsee Moon's position in the reader's own chart/computational-moatSūrya-Siddhānta computation proof surface/bindugraha as a Bindu kāla-aperture/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation
📚 See Also
- Taurus (Vṛṣabha) · Moon's exaltation rāśi · Where Moon attains maximum strength
- Sun · a friend-graha of Moon · Friendly graha per BPHS classical relationships
- Mercury · a friend-graha of Moon · Friendly graha per BPHS classical relationships
- BG 10 Vibhūti-Yoga · grahas as Krishna's tejo-aṁśas · Krishna IS the grahas (BG 10.21-22)
- Jyotiṣa Reference · all 89 elements · Complete encyclopedia of grahas · rāśis · nakshatras · tithis · karaṇas
- Birth-Chart Calculator · See Moon's position + dignity + house for YOUR chart
- Why we can compute proleptic deep-time model output → 429,000 CE · The Sūrya-Siddhānta engine moat
📖 References
- Bṛhat-Parāśara-Horā-Śāstra (BPHS) · Maharṣi Parāśara — Classical authority on graha attributes · the source of Moon's significations · dignities · aspects
- Sūrya-Siddhānta · Anonymous (~500 CE) — Computational treatise on planetary motion · the engine behind every position-calculation
- Bhagavad-Gītā BG 10.21 — Krishna's explicit identification with this graha-aspect