Rashi profile

Cancer

Karka

the rashi in full

Everything about Cancer, section by section. The part of the sky it covers. The nakshatras inside it. Which grahas are strong here, and what is standing in it right now. Every number on this page is calculated, not written by hand.

Cancer today

01 · Arc, element, ruler

The basics

Arc: 90° – 120°; Sidereal degrees, counted from 0° Mesha. Lahiri ayanamsa.
Element: Water
Modality: Cardinal
Ruler: Chandra (Moon); Rules this sign alone

02 · Significations

What this rashi is like

These points are not written for each sign separately. Every rashi is made of three things — an element, a quality and a ruling graha. Each card below comes from one of those three, and says which one. So any rashi with the same element gets the same points under Nature.

From the element

Nature

Reads the mood of a room before it says anything.
Has a long memory. Old words still matter.
Picks up what others are feeling. That is why it understands people, and also why it gets tired.

From the quality

How it thinks

Decides by starting. It learns what it wants once it begins.
Good at starting things. Less good at finishing them.
Gets restless in a meeting that is not reaching a decision.

From the ruling graha

What it takes on

Looking after people. It feels like love, not like a duty.
The mood at home. It fixes that before its own.
Keeping people connected — remembering dates, staying in touch.

From the element and quality together

Where it struggles

Brings other people’s moods home, then cannot say why it feels heavy.
Starts more than it can finish, then blames others for the pile.

Why we do not tell you your future

Because no one can. Jyotish says what a rashi and a graha stand for. It does not say what will happen to you on a given day. No classical text claims it does. If we wrote that here, we would be making it up. What we can tell you is real, and it is above: which grahas are in this rashi right now, and where its ruler is.

Cancer today

03 · The sky today

What is standing here right now

Calculated for right now. Open this tomorrow and it will be different, because the sky moved.

Mangal (Mars)1°15′
Guru (Jupiter)23°25′

Its ruler, Chandra (Moon), is currently in Sagittarius at 21°25′.
The Sun enters Cancer in 300 days.

04 · Nakshatras

The nakshatras inside it

A rashi is 30° wide. A nakshatra is 13°20′. They do not divide evenly, so a rashi holds two or three nakshatras — some whole, some only partly. What is always the same is the number of padas: nine in every rashi. That is why the full circle has 108.

PunarvasuPart
0° to 3°20′ of the sign
1 pada4
PushyaWhole
3°20′ to 16°40′ of the sign
4 padas1234
AshleshaWhole
16°40′ to 30° of the sign
4 padas1234

05 · Dignity

Which grahas are strong here

Some grahas are strong in this rashi and one may be weak. This is the classical table, with the exact degrees the old texts give. Strong does not mean good luck — it means the graha acts freely here.

Guru (Jupiter)ExaltedDeepest at 5°
Chandra (Moon)Own signRules this rashi
Mangal (Mars)DebilitatedDeepest at 28°

06 · Houses

The twelve houses, counted from Cancer

If Cancer is your rashi, count houses from it like this. Your 1st is Cancer, then each sign in order. Every other page on this site counts the same way.

House	Sign	What it covers
1st	Cancer	you, your body and how you come across
2nd	Leo	money, speech and the family you were born into
3rd	Virgo	courage, siblings and short journeys
4th	Libra	home, mother and peace of mind
5th	Scorpio	children, study and what you create
6th	Sagittarius	daily work, routine, illness and debt
7th	Capricorn	partners, marriage and anyone you deal with one to one
8th	Aquarius	what you share with others, inheritance, and what is out of your hands
9th	Pisces	belief, teachers, fortune and long journeys
10th	Aries	work, standing and what the world sees
11th	Taurus	gains, friends and the wider network
12th	Gemini	spending, rest, letting go and life abroad