Properties of Karkataka Rashi

guna

satva-guna 

(satvas = truthful, pure  and  balanced)

tattva 

( = "that-ness", element)

jala tattva 

(water element)

owner

Chandra (Moon)

rising portion

shirsho-daya (head first)

• daya = 'presentation' or 'portion'

General Traits of Karka Lagna - Chandra in Karka

• Schooling, Sheltering and Sustaining

General Suitability of Gems for Karkata Lagna

1. Surya ratna = no, because Surya = L-2 and does not rules any other trinal house

2. Chandra ratna = yes! because Chandra = the auspicious lagnesha

3. Mangala ratna =  yes - because yogakaraka Mangala = L-5 and L-10 

4. Budha ratna = no-no-no because Budha = L-3 and L-12

5. Guru ratna = yes normally, but not if there are significant health issues and not if there is threat of divorce, because Guru = L-6 and L-9

6. Shukra ratna = possibly yes, possibly no -  because Shukra = L-4 and L-11 (will depend on Shukra's house's counted from Chandra)

7. Shani ratna = no-no-no - because Shani = L-7 and L-8

8. Rahu-ratna = unknown, depends on Rahu's lord

9. Ketu-ratna = unknown, depends on Ketu's lord

• The "nodal house pair" = the two domains which are afflicted by association with the "unholy trinity":  Rahu-Ketu + Shani + Mangala.

• These are the two domains which are controlled by Vrischika (Mangala + Ketu) and Kumbha (Shani + Rahu) respectively. 

• Conditions involving (5) divine creativity (including children and wealth from speculation) configured with one's in-laws (8) and the shared wealth of marriage (particularly indicates inheritances) are likely to be highly complex, drawn out, conflicted, and psychologically challenging.

IV. Karkataka

"When the syllables are converted into the corresponding numbers, according to the general mode of transmutation so often alluded to in Mantra Shastra, the word in question will be represented by ////. 

This sign then is evidently intended to represent the sacred Tetragram; the Parabrahma-dharaka; the Pranava resolved into four separate entities corresponding to its four Matras; the four Avasthas indicated by Jagrata (waking) Avastha, Swapna (dreaming) Avastha, Sushupti (deep sleep) Avastha, and Turiya (the last stage, i.e., Nirvana) Avastha (as yet in potentiality); the four states of Brahma called Vaiswanara, Taijasa (or Hiranyagarbha), Pragna, and Iswara, and represented by Brahma, Vishna, Maheswara, and Sadasiva; the four aspects of Parabrahma, as Sthula (gross), Sukshma (subtle), Vija (seed), and Sakshi (witness); the four stages or conditions of the Sacred Word, named Para, Pasyanti, Madhyama and Vaikhari; Nadam, Bindu, Sakti and Kala. 

This sign completes the first quaternary."

~~ T. Subba Row. (1881). "The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac" in Five Years Of Theosophy. George Robert Snow Mead (ed.). London. (1885, 1894).   "Mystical, Philosophical, Theosophical, Historical and Scientific Essays Selected from "The Theosophist". Available at www.gutenberg.org

Parashara says:

• [They] have a heavy body, slender limbs and  powerful claws. 

• The upper portion of their body is generally large.  In later age they get a prominent abdomen.  

• They walk with a rolling gait. 

• Their stature is generally short. 

• The persons with this Lagna are  changeable like the Moon, the lord of this lagna.

• Like the Moon their life is full of tides  and  ebbs (ups and down).  

• They are often emotional  and  over-sensitive  and  also sympathetic. 

• They are timid at one time  and  courageous at other time.  

• In public life, they are generally successful  and  are also able to achieve honors  and  wealth.  

• They are fond of home  and  family comforts.

• The married life of persons of this lagna is generally unhappy.

Sthana (House)

Rashi  and  Pati

Phul (fruits)

[applies as well or better to Chandra lagna]

House 1 - Appearances - Karka [Cancer]

Lagnesha Chandra -Moon: the Whole Mind rules a natural house of neutral Kuja  

Punarvasu - Guru

• Shri Aurobindo

Pushya - Shani

• UK-Prince Charles Windsor

• UK-Duchess Camilla Parker-Bowles

• USA Pres 43, George W. Bush

• USA VP,  Al Gore, Jr.

• Angelina Jolie actrice

• Meryl Streep actrice

• Julia Roberts actrice

• Lisa Marie Presley entertainer

• Stephen King horror fiction writer

Ashlesha - Budha

• USA Pres 3, Thomas Jefferson

• USA Pres 36, Lyndon Johnson (BT uncertain)

• India-PM, Jawaharlal Nehru

• India-PM Indira Gandhi

• Katie Holmes actrice

• Luciano Pavarotti (opera tenor)

• Shri Aurobindo Ghosh 

• Alice Bailey (esoteric writer-teacher)

• Maya Angelou

• Huey P. Long (Gov Louisiana)

• Industrialist entrepreneur Henry Ford

Domain-1 signifies fleshly vitality and personal identity. Tanu bhava energizes individual competition for social validation via physical behaviors and traits.

Physical Body Image

• The fleshly appearance and one's psychological body-image will inevitably fluctuate. 

• Naturally, whichever bhava is ruled by Chandra, the Lord of tides and flows, will fluctuate.

• L-8 and randhra bhava will tell whether the native undergoes transformative surgeries and medical treatments designed to change the fleshly appearance and indentity.

• The Karkata native will experience a lifetime of tidal retreat (apathy) and surge (passion) in the emotional response to body image and identity based on material appearance.

The Karkata native seeks to develop the physical personality identity through association with parental figures, land-owners, stewards of earth, those who care for children, cultural conservators, and patriots. 

The social personality has an inherent affinity for the ocean, roots and cycles, owned lands and properties, and the mother-culture in which one was raised. The native is particularly influenced by the parental behavior (whether favorably or not); one prefers an emotional response to life.

Karkata natives are generally needy, shelter-building, security-seeking, home-loving folk who have a strong emotional interest in caring for children and the Earth. Chandra rules only one domain in the nativity, which gives Karkata (and Simha) natives a singularly focused intensity of personality.  

The Karkata native strives to maintain a competitively emotive personality and physical appearance.

Physical Constitution

• Physical appearance depends on the condition of D-1/D-9 Chandra including rashi, bhava, companion grahas, drishti, etc. Kakata lagna tends toward a soft, pale (even pasty) appearance and a fairly small physique. 

• Karkata lagna can be very successfully competitive in terms of physical appearance, due to the intensity of the emotional need to maintain a competitive appearance.

• Compare the physical appearance of Al Gore Jr vs. G. W. Bush (41).  Both = Karka lagna, but Gore's Moon is ruled by Guru = Dhanusha/6 and G. W. 's Moon is ruled by Budha = Kanya/3.

• Compare Angelina Jolie vs. Marilyn Monroe. Both = Karka lagna, but Jolie's Moon is ruled by Guru = Meena/9 and Monroe's Moon is ruled by Shani = Makara/7.

Mother

• The mother is extremely influential in shaping the social-personality identity of the Karkata native.

• Karkata lagna natives are often born to mothers who are emotionally driven toward creating and maintaining a competitive physical appearance. 

• The mother might be the socialite wife of politician or corporate-executive (George W. Bush, Al Gore, Jr., Indira Gandhi), an actress or fashion model (Angelina Jolie, Lisa Marie Presley), a public icon (Prince Charles) or perhaps even a prostitute (Marilyn Monroe). She will have some life circumstances which bring her into an intense awareness of her fleshly size, shape, and well-managed presentation.

• At a deep emotional level, the child intuitively absorbs the mother's body-competition instincts. Emotional security is forever tied to the one's ability to reflect the projected needs of mainstream society via the vehicle of one's physical body. 

House 2 - Values - Simha [Leo]

Surya rules a natural house of enemy Shukra

Values are surprisingly selfish, but in an "enlightened self-interest" style.  Depending on condition of Surya in D-1/D-9, tend to carry forward the banner of family lineage in their persons.  

Often hold public office or otherwise serve as living icons of their family's traditions.  Children will follow in parents' profession when Surya is good.

Common ascendant in "medical families", "political families", "entertainment families" etc. where the family identity is invested in a business, trade, or public service.

House 3 - Mental Process - Kanya [Virgo]

Budha -Mercury: Mental Tasking rules a natural house of Budha.

Mental health tends toward chronic internal argumentation. Can a placement of severe depression should Shani cast drishti into domain-3.

Depending  on Budha's astrological condition, Karkata's thinking process tends to be highly analytical with an attitude of victimization, or a sub-narrative of unfairness and conflict.  The native is detailed and categorical in writing style, and Karka may surprise others with the size of their working vocabulary.  

The native has a strong capacity to organize one's own schedule, so that the typical Budha-driven workload of many meetings and continuous small-group social engagements can be managed. Karkata is a good business administrator, media producer, narrative publisher, and the self-earned income (3) is likely strong from books, movies, and other publications featuring the native.

Karkata possesses good mental skills for staying on the surface of issues communicatively while expressing emotional engagement. 

Always a friendly handshake.  (Helpful in politics!) Disposition of 3rd-from-Chandra will tell more about siblings; domain-3 from radix lagna can signify team-mates and co-workers. Sharp, analytical and systematic organizational skills for small-group process: facilitation, ongoing conversation, etc. 

Very skillful in media production and publication activities, both the script-writing side and the business administration side. Sharp and detailed management of public relations.

House 4 - Thula [Libra] - 

Shukra  rules a natural house of Chandra.

Home, upbringing parents, family, security, education

Love of home and family.  Depending on Shukra's condition, tend to have tastefully decorated homes where they enjoy entertaining guests.  Like to share their extended family feeling of security  and  trust, inviting neighbors and colleagues into their lovely homes.  

Quality and location of home is very important, and decor must reflect balanced color, style,  and  design.  Careers are built through home-based entertaining, building support through gracious living.

House 5 - Vrischika [Scorpio]

Kuja  rules a natural house of friendly Surya

Romance, Creativity, Children, Performance Art, Authorship, Genius  

• theatre of investigation, pursuit

• performance art of  inquisition and control

Dynamic self-expression finds a wellspring of energy for self-promotion.  Depending entirely on the condition of Mars, the Self may express in an elegant or crude way, in literature, politics, or performance arts - but Karka lagna has plenty of energy to harness due to Mars' lordship of the personal-creativity house.  

Some aggressive behavior from children, usually accommodated by Karka lagna's deep love of family. 

Success in political campaigns, theatrical performance, promotion of creative works, sports coaching.  Likes high-energy scenes, children's sports, thrill of competition.

For Karkata lagna, Ketu afflicts the fifth house of children and creative genius.

The Karkata native is raised with an active (Kuja) even dominating but also ambivalent (Ketu) approach toward asserting one's personal intelligence and creativity. The children are is muscularly strong but also very sensitive psychically. They are natural shamanistic healers, especially the eldest one.

The eldest child's body image perception may be confused: on the one hand, Kuja gives sexual prowess, muscular competitive strength, and a joy in movement. On the other hand, Ketu contributes a mystical detachment which can result in a fundamental ambivalence toward the body and its care. 

House 6

Dhanusha [Sagittarius]

Guru -Jupiter: Wisdom Expansion

Enemies, Debts/Finance, Disease

Health can be compromised by abundance. Too much food, or unbalanced food combinations, or eating erratically, can give longer-term indigestion, elimination issues.

Outcome depends as always on the condition of Guru.  The Karkata native will tend to have few real enemies.  One may be unpopular at times, but generous and abundant Guru who rules the evil 6th house assures through his positive "gifting" character that Karka-lagna's good qualities are never forgotten.  

They get into trouble during periods of the 6th lord just like everyone else, but their good works tend to balance out their errors, and their friends will outnumber their enemies.  

Give the impression (true) that they were, in their own misguided but honest way, trying to do the right thing when in fact they chose the wrong path. This person makes their share of mistakes but because they forgive others quickly, they are also easier to forgive.

House 7 - Makara [Capricorn]

Shani rules a natural house of good friend Shukra.

Balance; Marriage; partnership; contracts; deals; agreements; law courts; advising; equality; justice

Marriage expectations are dominated by a profound sense of duty and respectability, rather than a primary drive toward  personal intimacy. Spouses look respectable in public but often there is limited sensual and emotional vitality in the marriage. Outcome depends as always on the condition of Shani.

Contracts, agreements, legal discussions, all types of advising are somewhat difficult  and  tedious.  Divorce is uncommon (unless Shani is damaged).  Despite their tolerance for meetings  and  party talk, these folks dislike adversarial conflict, and they will compromise in order to avoid legal disputes.  They like to talk, not to argue.  

Spouse can be made into a workhorse, piled up with duties  and  schedules, treated as a fixture in public life, emotionally ignored.  Intimacy problems. Does better with an older or more conservative spouse whose self-image is also invested in public role-playing.

"The female born will murder her husband if 

• the rising Trimsamsha or the Trimsamsha occupied by the Moon be that of Saturn, 

• while the Ascendant or the sign occupied by the Moon at the time of birth is Karkata."

~~ Bhrigu Sutram Ch. 4 Shloka 48-56

"If, during birth, Capricorn or Aquarius be descending or Saturn's Navamsha be descending, the woman will get an old fool for her husband."  ~~ Bhrigu Sutram Ch. 24 Shloka 11

If at woman's birth, the 7th bhava or the setting Navamsha be that Saturn, her husband will be an old man and a fool.  ~~ BPHS Ch. 80, shloka 22-25

House 8 - Kumbha [Aquarius]

Shani + Rahu rule a natural house of Mangala (!)

Joint assets of marriage, secret matters, in-laws, therapeutics, healing, taboos, taxes, tantra

Joint financial assets of marriage are subject to considerable stress due to the extreme behavioral difference between the co-rulers Shani and Rahu.

One's partner contributes less land  and  wealth into the marriage - although, depending on Shani's condition and Rahu's, the spouse may be helpful in promoting public identity (8th house is 11th-from-10th, spouse's contribution to joint assets is normally gainful for career.) Rahu adds an exotic twist so that the spouse-partner may affect the joint assets in peculiar way. The in-laws are also rather odd people - perhaps ideologues or eccentrics.

E.g., if the native's 10th-house is favorable, spouse may have a good formal education which contributes status if not money toward the native's career. 

G. W. Bush - 43 = example of the Karka-lagna joint-assets in marriage situation.  His 10th house - signifying the spouse's education - is strong in both radix  and  navamsha, while L-8 Shani is rising yuti Budha  and  Shukra - indicators of intelligence  and  beauty.  Thus his lovely  and  articulate but repressed-from-Shani wife Laura Bush, brings valuable non-monetary assets into the marriage which smoothly advance G. W.'s career.  

Whether or not the spouse helps the Karka-lagna native's career (and they usually do), the spouse earns less money and brings less material wealth into the marriage from her birth family.  The spouse is normally from a family of lesser social standing, and in-laws may prove quite difficult (because in-laws bring in past-life karma.)

Normally it's difficult for the Karka-lagna native to access deep healing such as psychotherapy, therapeutic massage, and other regenerative therapies. Their defensive hard shell doesn't easily permit a healer to enter their private psycho-physical space. 

For Karkata lagna, Rahu co-lord of Kumbha afflicts eighth house of spouse's family, marital wealth, emergencies, and secret knowledge. 

Mixed signals operate in the relationship to the spouse's family (in-laws), toward the management of emergencies. and regarding secret knowledge collections (8).  The joint assets of marriage (8) are materially well connected and scientifically managed, but the native or the spouse's family may interrupt (Rahu) the steady development (Shani) of marital wealth acquisition by imprudently taking out monies for secret, risky or impulsive ventures. 

While overall a socially stable group with definite goal-orientation, the spouse's family of origin is nevertheless subject to sudden emergencies and upheavals due to passionate behavior of the family members. Spouse's family will be ideologically rigid and culturally unusual.   

Naturally there will be more upheaval in the spouse's family, more emergencies on one's life, and more contact with the conditions of death during any dasha period of Rahu or transit of Rahu-Ketu through the Simha-Kumbha axis.

House 9 - Meena [Pisces]

Guru- Jupiter: Wisdom Expansion

Ceremonial Religion; the Temple; Priesthood; Guru; Professor; University; Wisdom; Father; Religious teachers and beliefs; Divine Law

The inspiration  and  consolation of Religion is easily accessible to Karka-lagna natives.  However as always if Guru is compromised there may be less happiness in the dharma.

An easy faith arises in their lives, due partly to their privilege of staying within a religiously homogenous culture for most of their lives. Heart-centered, childlike faith. Karka natives have no desire to question their beliefs... they prefer to accept, with devotion, the inherited values of their family lineage.

Parents and nearby society display religious values clearly during their childhoods, and a strong but compassionate moral framework supports early ego development.  Natural trust of religious authorities and very little urge to test their principles against other religious systems. Charmingly pure - if sometimes naive. 

House 10 - Mesha [Aries]

Kuja  rules a natural house of Shani.

With Kuja as the 10th lord, Karka-lagna natives have plenty of energy to invest in career development.  Not only is the ego (L-2 Surya) generally wanting to exemplify their family's values in society, but also their deep need to provide for their families, compensate for a lesser-earning spouse, and be a credit to the mother who raised them are all factors that support high levels of career development for karka-lagna.

Depending on Kuja's strength, Karka-lagna native generally has access to hearty reserves of physical energy necessary to build a professional reputation. Long hours, vigorous public activities, ability to get along on less sleep, competitive ambition, and a warrior's stamina in battle all facilitate a strong leadership position. 

House 11 - Vrishabha [Taurus]

Shukra rules a natural house of Shani.

Venus rules Karka-lagna's 4th house of home  and  family, along with their 11th house of friendships and marketplace associations.  Karka folk love their family and their friends.  They truly enjoy socializing.

Shukra's natural sensuality brings Karka-lagna into the company of attractive, wealthy, and self-indulgent people.  

Unless Shukra is fallen in Kanya (which brings serious trouble with women  and  intoxication) Karka-lagna enjoys the company of many well-meaning and generally well-heeled denizens of one's social world.

See again G.W. Bush-43 whose rising L-11 Shukra lord of Rahu displays his easy social connections with a wide range of constituencies, including the very rich (Rahu) AND the very poor (Shani). 

Seeks the company of (11) the wealthy (Vrishabha).

House 12 = Mithuna [Gemini]

Budha rules a natural house of Guru.

Brihaspati does not like the adolescent upstart Kumara!

The meditation and inner sanctuary house is somewhat disrupted by Budha's ceaseless chatter.  Karka folk may never completely relax.  Vyaya bhava is also the house of bed pleasures and other private sensual enclosures.  Karka folk have a very active imagination but given their Shani-restricted 7th  and  8th houses, bed pleasures might become overly mentalized.

Body-calming meditation and spa-type deep relaxation are too isolated for most Karka folks.  Rather, given their love of family and friends, they prefer to relax in the sanctuary of the home, chatting by the fireside, or walking through ancestral properties.

Enemies of the marriage, always indicated by the L-12 and graha within vyaya bhava, tend to be adolescent or quite young people of either gender (or mixed gender) with articulate and charming conversation skills. They are sexually flexible and open-minded. 

Karka-lagna enjoys foreign travel and may, if Budha is strong, take up residence in a foreign land during Budha's periods.  However Budha ruling house-12 means that the imagination engages the bodily senses. They will always long for the comforts of home and familiar sights, smells, and sounds.

Karkata Lagna Friendly and Non-Friendly Domain Lordships

• domains with planetary animosity between natural  and  temporal lord are marked in yellow

Karkata lagna produces some extremes.

• Note that domain-3 and domain-9 are especially harmonious with natural and temporal lordship matched; while domain-5 and domain-11 also enjoy high compatibility of the house lords.

Domain

Natural Lord

Temporal Lord

Domain

Natural Lord

Temporal Lord

1

Kuja

Chandra

7

Shukra

Shani

2

Shukra

Surya

8

Kuja + Ketu

3

Budha

Budha

9

Guru

 Guru

4

Chandra

Shukra

10

Shani

Kuja

5

Surya 

Kuja+ Ketu

11

Shani + Rahu

 Shukra

6

Budha

Guru

12

Guru

Budha 

Readings applicable to Rashi Lagna  and  Chandra Lagna

Mesha [Aries]

Vrishabha [Taurus]

Mithunya [Gemini]

Karka [Cancer]

Simha [Leo]

Kanya [Virgo]

Thula [Libra]

Vrischika [Scorpio]

Dhanushya [Sagittarius]

Makara [Capricorn]

Kumbha [Aquarius]

Meenya [Pisces]