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In short
Your Moon sign is the sign the Moon occupied at birth. In this app it is always measured on the sidereal zodiac, so it is the same as your Janma Rashi, and it is the sign Vedic astrology means by "your rashi". A Western Moon sign uses the tropical zodiac and is often one sign later.
What the term means
The Moon sign is the rashi the Moon was in at the moment of birth. On this site it always means the sidereal sign, which makes it another name for the Janma Rashi. Vedic practice treats it as a person's sign by default, where Western sun-sign columns use the Sun.
Where the term comes from
Saravali's translation uses the phrase directly, setting "the Lord of Moon Sign" beside the lord of the Ascendant (Ch. 5 Sl. 18), and devotes Ch. 23 to the Moon in each of the twelve rashis. BPHS gives the reason the Moon's sign is read at all: Ch. 12 Sl. 11 tells the reader to judge effects from the Moon as from the Lagna.
How this app computes it
- The Moon's position comes from the lunar series in Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms, measured from the equinox; the Lahiri ayanamsa is subtracted and the result divided by 30.
- For 19 January 1985, 11:14 IST, New Delhi, the tropical Moon is at 276.30 degrees, which is Capricorn 6.30. Less the ayanamsa of 23.64 degrees it is 252.66 sidereal: Sagittarius 12.66. A Western chart would call this a Capricorn Moon; this app calls it Sagittarius.
- It needs only a birth date. Without a time the Moon-sign calculator also shows the sign at both ends of the date, because the Moon changes sign on many birth dates.
- Guna Milan reads the two Moon signs for three of its eight kootas, Vashya, Graha Maitri and Bhakoot.
Pages that use this term
- Moon sign and nakshatra - the full essay on both, and on the Western difference.
- The Moon in Vedic astrology - the graha behind the sign.
- Sagittarius (Dhanu Rashi) - the Moon sign in the example above.
- Aries and Leo Moon-sign compatibility - matching two Moon signs.
- Moon sign calculator - your Moon sign from a birth date.
Related terms
- Sun sign - the Sun's rashi, sidereal or tropical.
- Chandra Lagna - the Moon sign used as the 1st house.
- Tropical zodiac - where a Western Moon sign is measured.
- Bhakoot koota - the koota read from two Moon signs.
Moon Sign (Chandra Rashi)
Your Rashi in the sidereal zodiac, with the nakshatra the Moon was standing in.
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