🪷 कर्क · Karka (Cancer)
🪷 Krishna-Declaration · How this rāśi IS Krishna
Krishna-as-Mātṛ-tattva — Yaśodā's embrace. Moon-ruled · the rāśi of nourishment, home, sukha. Where Krishna IS the mother.
Rāśi #4 · Lord: Moon · Water · Movable · Female · North-direction
Planetary Dignities in Cancer
Which grahas attain exaltation · debilitation · mūla-trikoṇa · or rulership when posited in this rāśi (per BPHS classical Vedic-jyotiṣa).
| Graha | Dignity | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | Ruler (svāmī) | |
| Mars | Debilitated (nīcha) | |
| Jupiter | Exalted (uccha) | Peak at 5° |
Nakshatras of Cancer
The Cancer rāśi spans 30° · containing nakshatra-padas (4 padas × 3°20' each = 13°20' per nakshatra). Some nakshatras cross rāśi-boundaries (gaṇḍānta).
| Nakshatra | Padas in Cancer | Ruling Graha |
|---|---|---|
| पुनर्वसु · Punarvasu | Pada 4 | Jupiter |
| पुष्य · Puṣya | Pada 1, 2, 3, 4 | Saturn |
| आश्लेषा · Āśleṣā | Pada 1, 2, 3, 4 | Mercury |
Today's tenants (2026-08-06)
The following grahas currently transit through Cancer (Karka):
- sun at 108.99° sidereal
- jupiter at 107.49° sidereal
Substrate: Vidhyamitra Sūrya-Siddhānta (Bhāskara-II 4-step iteration · 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
- Viśvarūpa-Jyotiṣa · 12 rāśis in Gītā-centered contemplation
- Calculate your own chart
- Krishna-as-Paramātmā · BG 7
Sources and Connected Readings
Continue from Cancer's rāśi attributes, dignities, nakshatra membership, present sky, and chart context to its lord-graha, Bhagavad-Gītā sources, the Jyotiṣa reference, Viśvarūpa readings, and the reader-local calculator.
📚 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 · Gītā-Centered Chart Companion · An explicitly editorial bhakti-reading of the 12 rāśis without equating a chart with Bhagavān or classical pramāṇa
- 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 proleptic deep-time model output → 429,000 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) — A Gītā-centered editorial chart contemplation that does not identify the chart with Krishna's body