Atmakaraka calculator
Find your atmakaraka, your soul planet in the Jaimini system of Vedic astrology. You also get the full order of your seven chara karakas, from the highest degree to the lowest.
Your date and place of birth. Add the time if you know it. On about two birthdays in three, the Moon changes the order during the day, and the time adds each planet's house.
What is the atmakaraka?
Atma means soul, and karaka means significator: the planet that stands for something. In the Jaimini system of classical Vedic astrology, the atmakaraka is the planet that stands for the soul in your chart. It is often called the king of the chart, and the other karakas are read in relation to it.
Some karakas are fixed and never change. The Sun always stands for the father, for example. The chara karakas are chara, which means movable. They are picked fresh for each chart, by degree. That is why your atmakaraka can be any of the seven visible planets.
Your navamsa (D9), where your atmakaraka’s sign shows your ishta deity
Why seven planets, not nine?
We use the seven visible planets, the Sun to Saturn. Some astrologers add Rahu to make eight. If another site gives a different answer, that is usually why.
What are the seven chara karakas?
From the highest degree to the lowest:
- Atmakaraka: the self
- Amatyakaraka: the minister, for counsel and work
- Bhratrikaraka: siblings
- Matrikaraka: mother
- Putrakaraka: children
- Gnatikaraka: relatives, rivals and obstacles
- Darakaraka: the spouse
The amatyakaraka, second in line, is named for the minister to the atmakaraka, the king of the chart. Your result lists which planet holds each role. The amatyakaraka and the darakaraka each have their own free page.
Amatyakaraka calculator: your career planet
Darakaraka calculator: your spouse planet, with its house and navamsa sign
What does my atmakaraka mean?
Read the atmakaraka through what its planet stands for. Classical astrology gives each planet its own area:
- Sun: the soul
- Moon: the mind
- Mars: strength
- Mercury: speech
- Jupiter: knowledge and happiness
- Venus: desire and beauty
- Saturn: grief, and what endures it
Your atmakaraka's area is read as the theme your chart keeps coming back to. It describes a leaning, not a fate. How well the planet is placed in your chart shades how that theme tends to show up.
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Open the sample readingWhat if two planets are at the same degree?
The calculator compares their positions down to minutes and seconds of arc, not only whole degrees. So the one further into its sign ranks higher. A true tie at that level is extremely rare. When two planets are within a few minutes of each other, a small error in birth time or data can swap them.
Does birth time matter for the atmakaraka?
Yes, more often than not. The Moon moves about half a degree an hour. So on about two birthdays in three, it climbs past another planet, or leaves its sign and drops to the bottom of the ranking. Without a time, we show each possible atmakaraka with the hours of birth it holds for. If you know you were born in the morning or late at night, that is often enough to settle it.
Why does another site show a different atmakaraka?
Usually for one of two reasons. Some sites use the eight-karaka scheme, which includes Rahu. Others use a different Vedic zodiac setting. A planet near the end of a sign in one setting can fall near the start of the next sign in another, dropping from first place to last. We use the seven-karaka scheme and the Lahiri setting.
Can Rahu be the atmakaraka?
In the eight-karaka version some astrologers follow, yes. There, Rahu's degree is counted backward from the end of its sign, since Rahu moves backward through the zodiac. This calculator uses the seven-karaka scheme, which counts only the Sun to Saturn, so here Rahu is never the atmakaraka.
Where do I find my amatyakaraka and darakaraka?
Your result names both under your atmakaraka, and the table lists all seven. Each one also has its own free page: the amatyakaraka calculator for work, and the darakaraka calculator for the spouse.
Is the atmakaraka the same as the lagna lord?
They are different things. The lagna lord is the planet that rules your rising sign, so the sign fixes it. The atmakaraka is picked by degree, from all seven planets, whatever signs they are in. The two can be the same planet, but only by chance.
The atmakaraka names a theme. Your whole chart shows how it plays out.
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