bhava-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 identity.

• 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 seasonal 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 graha, drishti, etc. Karkata lagna tends toward a soft, pale (even pasty) appearanceand a fairly small physique.

• Karkata lagna can be very successfully competitive in terms of physical appearance, due to the intensityof theemotional needto maintain a competitive appearance .

• Compare the physical appearance of Al Gore 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 = Karkata lagna, but Jolie's Moon is ruled by Guru = Meena/9and Monroe's Moon is ruled by Shani = Makara/7.

Mother

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

• Due to Mangala = L-10, Karkata lagna natives are often born tomothers who are emotionally driven toward creating and maintaining acompetitive physical appearance.

• The mothermight 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).

• 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 securityis forever tied to the one's ability toreflect the projected needs of folk society via the vehicle of one's physical body.

Bhava 2 - Values - Simha = Leo

Surya rules a natural house = swabhava ofenemy Shukra

Sahaja Bhava 3- Mental Process- Kanya = Virgo

• Budha -Mercury: Mental Tasking rules a natural house = swabhava ofBudha.

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

• Self-earned income (3) can be generates 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; bhava-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.

Bhava 4 - Thula = Libra-

Shukra rules a natural house = swabhava ofChandra. Home, upbringing parents, family, security, education

• Negotiator of security

• needs a gracious, balanced-designed home property

• usually white, pastel, or pale in color

• may practice diplomacy, bargaining, or contract-making at home

• pleasant females in the home and homeland

Whether male or female, this native takes a wifely, help-mate, partnering role at home.

For Karkata lagna, bhava-4 is ruled by Shukra ( Enemy of Chandra) ; therefore, some complications along the path to achieving the deepest physical and emotional security in life, due mainly to human sensuality.

• Shukra + Chandra = "spoiled" patterns of emotionally triggered sensual indulgence.

Sweetness in the roots of home and homeland. Karkata takes delight (Shukra) in the parents and their home. A pleasant childhood is usually provided.

Strives for diplomatic balance in matters of home and family. Likes to negotiate on matters of national, local, and home-based security.

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 gracious homes.

Quality and location of home is very important, and decor must reflect balanced color, style, and design. Careers (7) are built through home-based entertaining, building support through gracious living.

Shukra ( Enemy of Chandra) rules bhava-4, therefore expect some complication some complication along the path to achieving the deepest physical and emotional security in life.

Selected placements:

• Shukra (auspicious) = (Malavya Yoga) or favors the acquisition of luxurious estates, palatial houses, and highly expensive vehicles.

• Shukra = sweet relationship to the parents, tend to acquire wealth via lands and shelters, a gracious entertainer of local folk. Marvelous placement for the home-based partner of a politician or ascending business executive.

• Chandra (uchcha) in 4 = auspicious, = deep rotted relationship to one's ethnic peoples, parents, customary practices. A splendid, nurturing parent.

• Surya (inauspicious) = selfish parents who crave attention but fail to give back. A sterile home life.

Bhava 5 - Vrischika = Scorpio

Kuja rules a natural house = swabhava offriendly Surya

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

• theatre of investigation, pursuit

• performance arts of inquisition and control

Bhava 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.

Bhava 7 - Makara = Capricorn

Shani rules a natural house = swabhava ofgood 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.

Does well to marry an elder or deeply conventional spouse. Lawful approach to matters of contractual obligation, including marriage. Naturally if Shani is not well disposed, the marriage alliance might not be perfectly lawful nor entirely easy to endure. However, with Shani lord of 7, 'endure' is the key concept.

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 SutramCh. 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 SutramCh. 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.

~~BPHSCh. 80, shloka 22-25

Bhava 8 - Kumbha = Aquarius

Shani + Rahu rule a natural house = swabhava ofMangala (!)

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 houseof 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 history 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.

Bhava 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 compromisedthere 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.

Bhava 10 - Mesha = Aries

Kuja rules a natural house = swabhava ofShani.

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 Kuraja'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.

Bhava 11 - Vrishabha = Taurus

Shukra rules a natural house = swabhava ofShani.

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.

G.W. Bush-43 = 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 thecompany of (11) the wealthy and beautiful (Vrishabha).

Bhava 12 = Mithuna = Gemini

Budha rules a natural house = swabhava ofGuru.

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.