THE KARAKAS YOU MUST KNOW

(from internet)

THE STHIRA KARAKS (7 planets)

Stronger among Sun and Venus- Father

Stronger among Moon and Mars- Moon
Mars- Younger sister, younger brother brother-in-law, sister-in-law
Mercury- Maternal uncles, aunts and all maternal relatives
Jupiter- paternal grand parents, Husband (for female chart), children
Venus- Wife, maternal grandparents, father & mother-in-law, maternal grand parents
Saturn- Elder brother & Elder sister

THE BHAVA KARAKAS (Controller of Bhava)

Though the primary bhavakarakas are given below, each bhava has many secondary karakas.
Both the primary and secondary karakas are important for protecting the signification of a
bhava. Any bhava whose karaka is well placed in kendra/ trine from the bhava in good dignity or
is aspecting the bhava or is placed with the lord of the bhava try to fulfil the promise of the
bhava.

Lagna- Sun
2nd- Jupiter
3rd- Mars
4th- Moon; Mercury
5th- Jupiter
6th- Mars; Saturn
7th- Venus
8th- Saturn
9th- Sun; Jupiter
10th- Sun; Mercury; Jupiter; Saturn
11th- Jupiter
12th- Saturn

NAISARGIKA KARAKAS (9 planets)

From Uttara Kalamrta and other texts...

Since the world is so much full of variety of various living and non living things each of which is
symbolised by a planet, the list of the karaka can never be comprehensive and it requires
experience to know the karaka of each and everything around us. However, the list of karakas
given by various classics can help us in building up the insights while understanding the
possible planetary lordship of a particular thingl.

The natural karaka cover everything around us may it be tastes, our emotions, the plant or
animals, different metals, clothes, substances, elements and everything which is either
perceptible or non perceptible to our senses.

The Sun
The Soul; Power; Intense Severity (fierce); Fortress; Good Strength; Heat; Splendor; Fire;
Worship Of Siva; Courage; Thorned Trees; Being In Royal Favour; Bitterness; Old Age; Cattle;
Wickedness; Land; Father; Taste; Self-Realization; Skyward Look; One Born of a Timid
Woman; World Of Mortals (Mrtyu Loka); Square shape; Bone (skeletal system); Valour; Grass;
The Belly; Strenuous Effort; Forest; Half A Year (uttarayana / dakshinayana); Eye (right);
Wandering Over The Mountains (wanderer); Quadruped (also the birds); King; Travelling;
Dealing; Bite; Scorch; Circular Shape (??); Eye Disease; Body (vitality in the body); Timber
(wood); Mental Purity; Lordship Of The Whole Country (sovereign); Freedom Form Disease;
Lord Of Saurashtra State; Ornaments; Disease In The Head; Precious stones (gems); Lord Of
Sky; Short Like A Dwarf; Lord Of The Eastern Direction; Copper; Blood; Kingdom; Red Cloth;
Stone; Public Life; River Bank; Coral (??); Ruby; Strong At Mid-Day (Noon); Eastern Direction;
Mouth; Long Standing Anger; Capture Of The Enemy; Sattvik (Pure); Red Chandan Or Saffron;
Hostility; Thick Cord

The Moon
Mind; Imagination; Flower; Good Perfume (incence); Going to a Fortress; Brahmin by caste;
Idleness; Phlegmatic (kapha) Humour; Epilepsy (diseases of mind, if afflicted); Enlargement of
the Spleen (spleed creates bile which help in fat metabolism); Mental Disposition (state of
mind); Heart (feelings); Woman (motherly); Virtue Or Vice (attributes of mind); Saltish taste/
Sleep (peace); Happiness; Anything like Water (any fluid); Bell-Metal; Silver (metal); Sugarcane;
Typhoid (infection of intestine); Travel/ Going To Far Off Countries; Well; Pond; Tank (any water
body); Mother (relations); Pearls; Consumption (infection of lungs/ TB); Whiteness (colour);
Waistband; Short Stature; Ability; Winter Season; White Colour; Belly; Worshipping Goddess
Gauri; Joking; Nourishment; Wheat; Pleasure; Splendour; Face; Sharp in Thought (in good
association such as Jupiter); Love for Curd; Mendicant (sanyasa yoga); Fame (popularity
among masses); Learned; Beauty; Strength at Night; Facing Westward; Learned; Getting A Job;
Love For West; The Middle World; Nine Gems (navaratna); Middle Age; Life; Eating (food);
Ailment of the Shoulders; Umbrella or any Other Royal Insignia; Good Fruits; Blood Purity and
Vitality; Fish and Other Water Creatures; Serpent; Brilliant Things (sparkling); Clean Crystal;
Soft And Velvety Clothes; Silk Garments

Mars
Prowess; Land (any immovable property); Strength; Kingship; Loss Of Virility; Thief; Battle;
Hostility; Enemy; Generosity; Deep red colour; Owning A Garden; Sound Of A Trumpet;
Affection; Quadruped; Fool; Anger; Going to a Foreign Country; Firmness; Supporter; Fire;
Controversy; Bile; Heat; Wound; Commander in chief; Day; Seeing; Shortness; Disease; Fame;
Tin; Sword; Lance Or Spear; Minister; Fracture Of A Limb; Jewel; Praying To God
Subrahmanya; Youth; Pungent; Dubar Hall; Earthen Pots; Obstacles; Flesh eater; Calumniating
Others; Victory Over Enemy; Bitter; Strong At The End Of The Night; Gold; Summer Season;
Valour; Enemy's Strength; Profundity Of Character; Male; Axe; Forester; Village Headman;
State Inspection; Pain while Passing Urine; Triangle; Goldsmith; Rogue; Burnt Place; Good
Dinner; Leanness; Adept In Archery; Blood (red blood cells); Copper; A Beautiful Cloth; Facing
South; Desire; Anger; Scandal; House; Sataghni, A Weapon; A Tree; Sama Veda; Brother;
Spade Or Hatchet; Looking After The Wild Animals; Independence; Persistency; Judge;
Serpent; World; Speech; Fickle Mindedness; Mounting A Vehicle; Sight Of Blood; Coagulation
Of Blood

Mercury
Formal education (schooling); Horses; Treasury; Mathematics; Speech/ Courteous Speech;
Infantry; Writing; New Garment, Palatial Building; Green Colour; Sculpture; Astrology;
Pilgrimage To Holy Places; Wise Lectures; Temple; Trading; Best Ornaments; Vedanta
Philosophy; Maternal Grandfather; Bad Dreams; Eunuch; Facing North; Skin; Wet; Bell metal;
Renunciation; Ritu (Season); A Beautiful House; Doctor; Neck; Recitation Of Mantras/ Sattvik
Mantras; Childhood; Crooked Look; Heaven; Modesty; Paternal Relation; Fear; Dancing;
Devotion; Humorous Temperament; Powerful In The Morning; Hemanta Ritu; Stone To Sharpen
Knives; Tranquility; Navel; Family Prosperity; Mixed Items; Proficient In Telugu Language;
Worship Of Lord Vishnu; Sudra; Bird; After Born; Depth Of A Language; The Directions; Atharva
Veda; Religious Action; Tower; Dust; Garden; Pudendum Virile; Even; Benefic; Moving In
Villages; Impartial Nature; Fond Of Northwest Quarter; Well Versed In The Legends Of The
Past; Specialist In Grammar; Expert In Testing Of The Precious Stones; A Scholar; Maternal
Uncle; Sacred Prayer; An Amulet

Jupiter
Brahmin; Guru; One's Duty; Chariot; Cow; Infantry; Savings; Meemamsa philosophy; Treasure;
Horse; Honey; Large Body; Valour; Reputation; Logic; Astrology; Children; Grandson; Dropsy;
Philosophy; Grand father; Great grand-father; Palatial House; Gems; Eldest Brother; Lord Indra;
Automn Season; Wrath of Priest; Jewel; Merchant; Physical Health; A Beautiful Mansion; Royal
Honour; Thighs; God (divine blessings); Penance; Charity; Religious Duty; Helping Others;
Impartiality; Facing North; Circular; Yellow Colour; Moving In Villages; Close Friend; Swinging;
Orator; Fat; Old Garment; A New House; Happiness; Mantras; Twice Born (Brahmins- Dvija);
Holy Water; Knee; Movement In Heaven; A House Granting All Comforts; Intellect; Proficiency
In Learning; Literature; Tower; Charming an Audience; Throne; Strong at All Times; a month;
Vessels; Yellow Sapphire; Sweet Juice; Being Good; Happiness; Misery; Length; Gentleness;
Reading Other's Mind; Ornamentation; Ether; Phlegm; Topaz; Vedic Text; Brilliancy; Softness;
Worship Of Lord Shiva; Performing One's Religious Duties; Travelling In A Well-Decorated
Carriage

Venus
White Umbrella; Garment; Marriage; Income; A Biped (Human); Woman; Brahmin;
Auspiciousness; Whiteness; Wife; Sexual Happiness; Short; Sour; Flower; Command; Fame;
Youthful Vigour; Vehicle; Silver; South-East; Ogling; Scratching; Half A Month; The Quality Of
Passion; Strong; Pearl; Yajur Veda; Vaisya; Beauty; Trading; Love-Making; Watery Resort;
Elephant; Horse; Variegated Colour; Poetry; Dancing; Middle Age; Singing; Enjoyment;
Happiness From The Wife; Gems; Fond Of Humour; Swimmer; Servant; Luck; Variegated
Lustre; A Handsome Youth; Kingdom; Scents; Garland; Veena (a string instrument); Flute;
Amusement; Lovely Gait; Eight Kinds Of Wealth; All Sorts Of Pleasures; Well Formed Limbs;
Sparing In Meals; Spring Season; Ornaments; Eye; Truth Speaking; Proficiency In Art; Semen;
Water Sports; Profundity Of Character; Pre-Eminence; Sharp-Witted; Decoration for The Stage;
Fond Of Amorous Sports; Broken Health; Love, Greatly Respected And Highly Esteemed;
Fondness For White Garments; Bharat Natyama (a form of dance in India); Government Seal;
Worshipping Goddess Parvati and Lakshmi; Gentleness; Much Emaciated; Day Sitting Mothers;
Literary Composition, Adept at Writing Poetry; Black Hair; Auspicious; Genital Organs; Urine;
Afternoon; Diamond

Saturn
Laziness, Obstruction; Horse; Elephant; Skin (nerves, tendons and ligaments); Gain; Witness;
Distress; Sickness; Misunderstanding; Misery; Death; Happiness Through A Woman; Maid
Servant; Asses And Mules; Outcast; One With Disfigured Limbs; Haunting Woods; Handsome
Look; Gift; A Lord; A Portion Of Life; Eunuch; One Born Of The Lowest Caste; Birds; A Servile
Duty; Unrighteous Conduct; One Without Manliness; Telling Lies; Long Lasting; Wind; Old Age;
Tendons And Muscles; Strong At The End Of The Day; Sisira Ritu (Winter); Great Anger;
Exertion; Born Of A Very Low Mother; Bastard; Golaka (abode of lord Krsna); Dirty Clothes And
House; Wicked Mind; Friendship With The Wicket; Black Colour; Evil; Cruelty; Ashes; Black
Grains; Gems; Iron; Nobility; A Year; Sudra; One Representing The Father; Learning The Trade
Of Another Class; Crippled; Sharp; A Blanket; Facing West; Life Saving Drugs; Downward Look;
Agriculture; Life Saving Drugs; Arsenal; A Student Belonging To Another Caste; External
Position; North-Eastern; Serpent World; Downfall; Lost in Battle; Wandering; A Spear; Lead;
Misdirected Strength; A Turk; Worn Out; Oil; The Tamas Guna; Travelling Through Forests and
Over Mountains; Hard-Heartedness; Fear; Long Standing Distress; Hunter; Ugly Hair; Entire
Sovereignty; Alarm; Goats And The Like; Buffalos And The Like; Indulging In Sex Pleasure;
Dressing Oneself For Amorous Appeals; Worshipping God Yama; Dog; Theft And; Cruel-
Hearted

Rahu
Umbrella; Kingdom; Gathering; Fallacious Argument; Hurting By Speech; Downcast; Wicked
Woman; An Irreligious Man; Decorated Vehicle; Gambling; Strong At Twilight; Intriguing With A
Wicked Woman; Going Abroad; Impurity; Bone; Enlargement Of Spleen; Falsehood; Downward
Look; Perplexity; Emerald; Facing The Southern Quarter; Shelter Of Outcast Or Low People;
Painful Swelling; A Big Forest; Wandering In Rugged Places; Mountain; Pain; Staying Outside;
Tending Towards Southwest; Wind; Phlegm; Sorrow; Serpent; Night Breeze; Sharp; Long;
Reptile; Reading Of Dreams; Travel; A Muhurata; Old Age; A Vehicle; World Of Serpents;
Mother; Father Or Maternal Grandfather; Air; An Acute Or Sharp Pain; Catarrh; Breathing; Great
Prowess; Forest; Worshipper Of Goddess Durga; Wickedness; Cohabitation With Quadrupeds;
Urdu Script; Harsh Words

Ketu
Worship Of God Chandeeka, God Ganesha And Many Other Gods; Doctor; Dog; Cock; Vulture;
Salvation; All Kinds Of Wealth; Consumption; Pain; Fever; Bathing In The Holy Ganges; Great
Penance; Wind; A Hunter; Friendship; Conferring Of Prosperity; Stone; Wound; Witchcraft;
Inconstancy; Knowledge Of Brahma; Belly; Eye Sore; Stupidity; Thorn; Deer; Knowledge;
Observing Silence As A Fast; Philosophy; All Sorts Of Luxuries; Luck; Trouble Form Enemies;
Loss Of Appetite; Indifference To The World; Paternal Grandfather; Hunger; Severe Stomach
ache; Boils And The Like Skin Troubles; Revolving The Orders Of Arrest; Association Of Sudra.

Houses: Significances

First House :
Body, appearance, personality, face, health, character, temperament, intellect, longevity,
fortune, honour, dignity, prosperity.
Second House :
Wealth, family, speech, right eye, nail, tongue, nose, teeth, ambition, food, imagination, power
of observation, jewelry, precious stones, unnatural sex, loss by cheating and violence between
life partners.
Third House :
Younger brothers and sisters, cousins, relatives, neighbors, courage, firmness, valour, chest,
right ear, hands, short journeys, nervous system, communication, writing – editing books,
reporting to newspapers, education, intellect.
Fourth House :
Mother, conveyance, relatives, domestic environment, treasure, land, house, education, landed
property, hereditary tendencies, later portion of life, hidden treasure, private love affairs, chest,
interference in married life by parents-in laws and family, ornaments, clothes.
Fifth House :
Progeny, intelligence, fame, position, stomach, love affairs, pleasures, and amusements,
speculation, past birth, soul, position in life, artistic talent, heart and back, proficiency in games,
success in competition.
Sixth House :
Disease, debt, disputes, miseries, injuries, maternal aunt or uncle, enemies, service, food,
clothes, theft, ill fame, pet animals, subordinates, tenants, waist.
Seventh House :
Spouse, personality of spouse, relations between life partners, desires, partnership, open
enemies, recovery, journey, litigation, danger to life, influence in foreign countries and fame,
relations between self and public, sexual or urinary disease.
Eighth House :
Longevity, kind of death, sexual organs, obstacles, accident, unearned wealth, inheritance,
legacy, will, insurance, pension and gratuity, theft, robbery, worries, delay, battles, enemies,
inheritance of money, mental affliction, extramarital life.
Ninth House :
Fortune, religion, character, grand parents, long journeys, grandson, devotion towards elders
and god, spiritual initiation, dreams, higher education, wife’s younger brother, brother’s wife,
visit to holy places, philosophy, communication with spirits.
Tenth House :
Profession, fame, power, position, authority, honour, success, status, knees, character, karmas,
ambition in life, father, employers and superiors, relationship between self and superiors,
success in business, promotion, recognition from government.
Eleventh House :
Gains, prosperity, fulfillment of desires, friends, elder brother, ankles, left ear, advisers,
favorites, recovery of illness, expectation, son’s wife, wishes, success in undertakings.
Twelfth House :
Harm, punishment, confinement, expenditure, donations (given), marriage, work related to water
resorts, vedic sacrifice, fines paid, sexual enjoyment outside wedlock, contacting sexually
transmitted disease, weakness in sexual act, sleeping comforts, enjoying luxuries, loss of
spouse, losses in marriage, termination of employment, separation from own people, long
journeys, settlement in foreign land.

Significators of Houses
The significators or karakas of various houses are as under:-
1st House Sun
2nd “ Jupiter
3rd “ Mars, Mercury
4th “ Moon, Venus
5th “ Jupiter
6th “ Mars, Saturn
7th “ Venus
8th “ Saturn
9th “ Sun, Jupiter
10th “ Mercury, Sun, Jupiter and Saturn
11th “ Jupiter
12th “ Saturn
Significations of Planets
Sun - Father, influence, energy
Moon - Mother, mind
Mars - Brothers, courage
Mercury - Profession, speech, education,
Jupiter - Progeny, wealth, prosperity wisdom
Venus - Marriage, material comforts, pleasures
Saturn - Longevity, sorrows, delays
Rahu - Maternal relations
Ketu - Paternal relations