Karka at a glance
- Name
- Karka कर्क
- Western name
- Cancer (Karka)
- Ruling graha
- Chandra (the Moon)
- Chandra's day
- Somavara (Monday)
Why the Chandra Yantra Card
Karka is the one rashi the Moon rules, and the collection holds Chandra's own yantra, so the sign takes it.
Vedic astrology reads your rashi from the Moon, which makes Karka the one sign whose lord is the graha that decides it.
When to begin
Monday is Chandra's day, and tradition begins the card on that day, at sunrise. The rest of the practice is the same for every rashi: how families begin a rashi's card.
The card
Chandra, the Moon, rules Mondays and, in jyotish, the mind. His yantra is kept by those who look to the Moon in their kundali, often beside the Monday puja.
Questions about Karka and its card
Which yantra is kept for Karka (Cancer) rashi?
The Chandra Yantra Card, the yantra of the Moon, Karka's ruling graha. No other rashi shares it.
Is my rashi my Moon sign or my Sun sign?
Your Moon sign. Vedic astrology reads your rashi from the Moon at your birth, so Karka is yours if the Moon stood in it then. Moon sign or Sun sign says how to find it.
What if my kundali points to another graha?
In tradition the reading comes before the sign: when an astrologer reading your kundali names a graha, families keep that graha's card. When the kundali names another graha.
The other rashis
Mesha (Aries)Vrishabha (Taurus)Mithuna (Gemini)Simha (Leo)Kanya (Virgo)Tula (Libra)Vrishchika (Scorpio)Dhanu (Sagittarius)Makara (Capricorn)Kumbha (Aquarius)Meena (Pisces)