Dhanu at a glance
- Name
- Dhanu धनु
- Western name
- Sagittarius
- Ruling graha
- Guru (Jupiter)
- Guru's day
- Guruvara (Thursday)
Why the Gayatri Yantra Card
The collection holds no yantra of Guru's own, so his sign takes the Gayatri's, the yantra tradition keeps closest to wisdom.
Meena (Pisces), the other rashi Guru rules, has a devotional card of its own; Simha (Leo) takes the Gayatri too, for the Sun.
When to begin
Thursday is Guru'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
Devi Gayatri is the mother of the Vedic mantras. Students keep her yantra on the study desk, and many families keep it through the exam months.
Questions about Dhanu and its card
Which yantra is kept for Sagittarius (Dhanu)?
The Gayatri Yantra Card. Dhanu's lord is Guru, the graha of wisdom in tradition, and the Gayatri mantra is a prayer for 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 Dhanu 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)Karka (Cancer)Simha (Leo)Kanya (Virgo)Tula (Libra)Vrishchika (Scorpio)Makara (Capricorn)Kumbha (Aquarius)Meena (Pisces)