Lets talk about moon today in your birth chart Vedic Astrology.
The information contained in these blogs will be very specific and to the point….
- Moon is our mind / emotions.
- Karaka (Rules) : Heart, Mind, Emotions, Mother, Travel, Watery places, Salt, Sea, Medicines, Fluids in the body, Gardening, Hernia, Left eye.
- Professions and Occupations it rules: Nursery, Hospitals, Chemicals, Travel, Agriculture, Sailors, Pearls, Shipping, Navy, Milk Dairy, Women welfare, Tourism, Advertising.
- Friends are Sun and Mercury. Enemy to non.
- Neutral to Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
- It rules the sign Cancer.
- Mooltrikona is in Taurus : 3 to 30 degrees (we’ll talk about Mooltrikona in a separate blog).
- Exaltation at 3 degree Taurus.
- Debilitation at 3 degree Scorpio.
- Lucky stone is Pearl and Moon Stone.
- Lucky colour is White.
- Lucky numbers is 2, 11, 20.
- Articles of Donation for a malefic placed Moon: Rice, Milk, Curd and Pearl on Mondays
- Ailments that a malefic moon can give: Asthma, Diarrhea, Dysentery, Kidney problem. Diabetes, Jaundice, Menstrual disorders, skin disease, T.B, Indigestion, Cough, Throat troubles, Bronchitis etc…
- A well placed moon gives a sound mind and an emotionally stable person.
- A weak moon causes various types of emotional and mental disbalance, a fickle mind which lacks decision making capabilities.
- Moon controls rate of flow of vital energy in the body.
- The transit time of Moon in one zodiac takes 2 days and 6 Hours.
- The constellation or Nakshatra of the Moon at the time of birth is called the birth nakshatra.
- Moon is the most important planet for predictive purposes in Vedic Astrology.
- The placement of Moon in the birth chart is your rashi. For example at the time of birth Moon was placed in Gemini sign in your Vedic astrology chart (to make a Vedic astrology chart we need: Day/Time/Place of Birth) that means your birth rashi or moon sign is Gemini or मिथुन राशी. Its different from your Zoidac sign that is solely based on the day and month you were born.
- Western Astrology gives more importance to your zodiac sign than Moon Sign.
- Vedic Astrology is moon based. That is why Moon sign is as important as your birth Ascendant in Vedic astrology (Birth Ascendant is the sign that rises at the time of birth).
Like in this chart : The ascendant rising is number 5 (Leo Sign).
The Moon Sign or Rashi is number 10 (Capricorn).
The next blog will be on the planet Mars…..