🪷 कर्क · Karka (Cancer)
Rāśi #4 · Lord: Moon · Water · Movable · Female · North-direction
Krishna-aspect
Krishna-as-Mātṛ-tattva — Yaśodā's embrace. Moon-ruled · the rāśi of nourishment, home, sukha. Where Krishna IS the mother.
Today's tenants (2026-05-14)
The following grahas currently transit through Cancer (Karka):
- jupiter at 90.40° sidereal
Engine: Vidhyamitra Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate (Sūrya-Siddhānta · Lahirī ayanāṁśa)
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Classical attributes (per BPHS)
- Rāśi number
- #4 of 12
- Lord (svāmī)
- Moon
- Element (mahābhūta)
- Water
- Quality
- Movable
- Gender
- Female
- Direction
- North
- Body-part (kālapuruṣa)
- Chest · heart
Native traits
- Nurturing · emotionally-intuitive
- Mood-shifting · sensitive
- Family-oriented · home-loving
- Memory-strong · psychic
Cross-references
- Lord of Cancer: Moon
- Vishvarūpa-Chart · all 12 rāśis as Krishna's body
- Calculate your own chart
- Krishna-as-Paramātmā · BG 7
📚 See Also
- Moon · the lord-graha of Cancer · Ruler of this rāśi · governs all natives born under it
- Sade-Sati for Cancer Moon · The 7.5-year Saturn-transit framework specific to Cancer-Moon natives
- BG 11.7 Chart-as-Krishna's-Body · How the 12 rāśis form Krishna's viśvarūpa-body
- Jyotiṣa Reference · all 89 elements · Complete encyclopedia
- Birth-Chart Calculator · See if Cancer is YOUR Lagna or where it sits in YOUR chart
- How we compute 1.6M BCE → 429K CE · The Sūrya-Siddhānta moat
📖 References
- Bṛhat-Parāśara-Horā-Śāstra (BPHS) · Chapter on Rāśi-Svarūpa · Maharṣi Parāśara — Classical authority on rāśi attributes · body-parts of kālapuruṣa · element/quality assignments
- Sūrya-Siddhānta · the sidereal-zodiac computation source (~500 CE) — The astronomical treatise behind every position-calculation
- Bhagavad-Gītā 11.7 · mama dehe (in My body) — The 12 rāśis form Krishna's kālapuruṣa-body