Graha · ☉
Surya (Sun)
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Surya (Sun, सूर्य) is one of the nine grahas of Vedic astrology. It signifies soul, father, authority, vitality, government, bone structure. It rules Simha and the nakshatras Krittika, Uttara Phalguni and Uttara Ashadha, is exalted in Mesha and debilitated in Tula, and its Vimshottari dasha lasts 6 years.
Classical facts
| Sanskrit name | Surya |
|---|---|
| Hindi name | सूर्य |
| English name | Sun |
| Glyph | ☉ |
| Deity | Surya / Agni |
| Nature | Malefic |
| Gender | Male |
| Guna | Sattva |
| Element | Fire |
| Direction | East |
| Signs ruled | Simha |
| Exaltation | Mesha 10° |
| Debilitation | Tula 10° |
| Mooltrikona | Simha 0°-20° |
| Friends | Chandra, Mangala, Guru |
| Enemies | Shukra, Shani |
| Neutral | Budha |
| Aspects (drishti) | 7th |
| Vimshottari dasha | 6 years |
| Nakshatras ruled | Krittika, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha |
| Significations | soul, father, authority, ego, health, vitality, government |
| Karaka | atmakaraka |
| Time in one sign | ~30 days |
Articles about Surya (Sun)
- Yogas in a kundli: what they are and how much they decideA yoga is a named combination of planets that tradition reads as one unit. Most charts carry several. Here is how they form and how much weight to give them.
- Where to start with your own kundliA kundli has four layers: lagna and houses, the nine grahas, rashi and nakshatra, and mahadasha timing, the planetary periods your life runs through. Read them in that order and it makes sense.
- Why a weekly horoscope says so little about youThis is not a weekly forecast. It is a plain explanation of what the twelve-way weekly format can honestly tell you, and what only your own chart can.
- How a wedding muhurat is actually chosenA wedding date is narrowed in four layers, the season, the panchang, both charts, and what the two families can manage. The method, and the open windows.
- How Hindu wedding dates are chosen, and why some months have almost noneMarriage muhurat is chosen from the panchang and the couple's charts. Whole stretches of the year are closed by Chaturmas, Pitru Paksha and Kharmas.
- Vyaghata yoga in the panchang, and what it actually affectsVyaghata is the thirteenth of the 27 daily yogas in the panchang, one of the nine kept aside for beginnings. It is a timing signal, not a verdict on a life.
- Vidaal yoga in the panchang, and what it really isVidaal yoga is an almanac timing rule, counted in nakshatras from the Sun to the Moon. It is not a wellness practice and not one of the 27 daily yogas.
- Venus in Uttara Ashadha, and the dates it actually happensTradition reads Venus in Uttara Ashadha as loyalty over sparkle, slow to commit and slow to leave. Most of the nakshatra sits in Capricorn.
- Ugadi 2026, the new year in the panchang, and what the year actually holdsUgadi falls on Thursday 19 March 2026, the first day of the lunar year. What a year reading can honestly say comes from the slow planets, not your rashi.
- Simha rashi, career and relationships through 2026 and 2027Two things dominate Simha rashi right now. Saturn sits in your 8th house until June 2027, and Jupiter reaches your own sign on 31 October 2026.
- The 7th lord in the 10th house, career and the spouse questionThe 7th lord in the 10th house ties partnership to public life, so work and marriage tend to touch each other. It does not describe a spouse's face.
- Saturn, Venus and the Sun together in the ninth houseThree planets in the ninth house is a mixed placement about belief, teachers and the father. What tradition holds, and what the degrees decide.
- How to read your own kundli, step by stepRead a kundli in this order: the rising sign, then the twelve houses, then the planets sitting in them. The order matters more than memorising meanings.
- Rahu and Ketu in your kundli, and how their positions are worked outRahu and Ketu are the two points where the Moon crosses the Sun's path. They are always exactly opposite, move backwards, and take 18 months per rashi.
- Parivartan yoga: what a sign exchange between planets meansParivartan yoga forms when two planets sit in each other's signs. It ties the houses they rule into one story, and not every kind is a good one.
- Parigha yoga remedies, and the half of the day that stays openParigha is the nineteenth of the panchang's 27 daily yogas. Tradition bars its first half for new work and treats the rest as ordinary. The remedy is timing.
- Parigha yoga in the panchang, and what it actually asks of youParigha is the nineteenth of the panchang's twenty-seven yogas and is counted among the difficult ones. It marks a barrier, not a disaster.
- Vaidhriti, Vyaghata and Saubhagya: the yogas in the panchangThese three are yogas of the panchang, not combinations sitting in your kundli. Each is worked out from the Sun and the Moon together and lasts about a day.
- Ananda yoga and Vyaghata yoga, the two things a panchang calls a yogaTwo different counts in the panchang are both called yoga. Vyaghata is the thirteenth of twenty-seven. Ananda comes from weekday and nakshatra together.
- The panchang, and how to read the five things in itThe panchang is the day measured against the sky. Five entries, all of them the Sun and the Moon counted in different units, and none of them a verdict.
- Free numerology calculator, and the arithmetic behind itIndian numerology takes two numbers from your date of birth and a third from the running year. Here is how each one is calculated, and what it is not.
- Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga, the 10th house, and what a calculator can checkNeecha Bhanga relieves a debilitated planet of its weakness when certain other placements hold. What that means for work, and what a calculator can settle.
- Neecha bhanga raj yoga, and the three ways Saturn is involvedNeecha bhanga is the cancellation of a planet's debilitation by other placements. It lifts the weakness, it does not make the planet strong.
- Neech bhang raj yoga, and what actually cancels a debilitated planetNeech bhang raj yoga is the cancellation of a planet's debilitation. Here are the classical conditions, and how to check them honestly.
- Nakshatra and rashi, and what the difference actually isRashi cuts the zodiac into 12 signs of 30 degrees. Nakshatra cuts the same circle into 27 of 13 degrees 20 minutes. Same Moon, finer grain.
- Your moon sign, how it is found, and why India reads it firstThe moon sign is the rashi the Moon occupied when you were born. It is the sign almost all Indian prediction is worked from, and here is how to find it.
- Mahabhagya yoga, what the texts actually say about itMahabhagya asks that the ascendant, Sun and Moon fall in odd signs for a man born by day, or even signs for a woman born at night. It predicts no wealth.
- Lucky numbers for a vehicle or a phone, and what they can honestly doYour number comes from your date of birth, not from a number plate. Here is the arithmetic, the planet each digit is tied to, and what a number cannot do.
- Lucky and unlucky dates, and what the panchang actually marksNo date is lucky or unlucky for everyone. The panchang marks windows that tradition favours or avoids for a specific act, judged against a specific chart.
- Lucky and unlucky colours in Vedic astrologyColours in Vedic astrology belong to the grahas, not to people. No colour causes harm. Here is where the associations come from and how they are actually used.
- How to judge the strength of your lagna lord (lagnesh)The lagna lord rules your rising sign and colours the whole kundli. What actually makes it strong or weak, and what a weak one does not mean.
- Your lagna, and the second chart that is read beside itThe lagna is the rashi rising in the east at the minute you were born. Here is how it is worked out, why the birth time matters, and what it decides.
- What a free kundli calculator can and cannot tell youA kundli calculator computes your chart from date, exact time and place of birth. It draws the chart correctly. Reading it is a separate job.
- Famous people born in Krittika nakshatra, checked against the MoonAnil Kumble, Homi Bhabha, Sushmita Sen and Uday Kotak have strong claims to a Krittika birth. Here is the checked list and how the checking works.
- How yogas in a kundli strengthen and cancel each otherYogas do not add up like scores. Strength of the planets, the house, what else touches them, and whether the period ever runs decide the result.
- Daily horoscope: read from moon signA Vedic daily rashifal is read from your moon sign, not your Western sun sign. That single correction changes which one you should be reading.
- Hasta nakshatra, the famous names, and what auspicious actually meansHasta is called auspicious, but that word describes days chosen for work, not people born under it. Here are the names that survive an actual check.
- A guide to abhisheksoni.in: the free kundli, the panchang and the readingsWhat this site does, where each thing lives, what is free and what is paid, and where the older articles went when the site was rebuilt.
- When the gudi goes up on Gudi Padwa, and why that time is what it isThe gudi goes up in the morning of Chaitra Shukla Pratipada and comes down before sunset. The window follows your city's sunrise, not one national clock.
- Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra: meaning and where to see itGudi Padwa is Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, the Marathi new year and one of the three and a half auspicious days. What it means and where it is kept.
- Gudi Padwa at home, the way it is actually doneThe gudi goes up on the morning of Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, to the right of the door, and comes down before sunset. Everything else is decoration.
- Gudi Padwa 2026, the timings, and the year it beginsGudi Padwa falls on Thursday 19 March 2026. The tithi runs from 06:53 that morning to 04:52 the next. It opens Vikram Samvat 2083 and Shaka 1948.
- What a kundli can and cannot say about a government jobTradition reads a government job from the Sun, Saturn, the 10th house and the 6th. A chart can suggest fit and timing. It cannot predict an exam result.
- What empty 10th house means for your careerAn empty 10th house is completely normal and says nothing bad about your career. Here is how a Vedic astrologer actually reads a house with no planets in it.
- Debilitated planets in a kundli, and why one is not a sentenceA debilitated planet sits where it works least easily. It marks an area earned slowly, not a fault, and the texts describe when it is cancelled.
- Darakaraka in the 7th houseThe darakaraka is the planet at the lowest degree in the chart, read as a significator of the spouse. Sitting in the 7th house, it makes partnership central.
- Atiganda yoga and marriage compatibilityAtiganda is the sixth of the 27 daily panchang yogas. It matters when fixing a wedding date. It plays no part at all in Guna Milan.
- Atiganda yoga in the panchang, and why it has nothing to do with yoga practiceAtiganda is the sixth of the panchang's twenty-seven yogas, a unit of time counted unfit for beginnings. It is not a practice you can do.
- The 7th lord in the 10th house, and how marriage and work pull on each otherThe 7th lord in the 10th ties marriage to working life. Tradition reads a partnership that touches your standing and competes with work for the same hours.
- Weak planets in a kundli, and why some of them still deliverA weak planet has less of its own strength to give, not a verdict on your life. What makes one weak, what lifts it, what it really costs.
- Vyaghata yoga in the panchang, and how much weight to give itVyaghata is the 13th of the 27 daily yogas in the panchang, one of nine that muhurta avoids for beginnings. What it asks of you, and what it does not.
- Vishti karana or Bhadra: what a birth under it meansVishti is one of the eleven karanas in the panchang and covers roughly half a tithi. Tradition avoids starting things under it. A birth under it is a different question.
- Vikram Samvat 2083, the samvatsara year running nowThe year that began at Gudi Padwa on 19 March 2026 is Vikram Samvat 2083, Shaka 1948, called Parabhava. What that does and does not mean.
- Vidaal yoga and Aadal, the almanac pair that is not among the twenty sevenVidaal yoga is not one of the 27 daily yogas. It comes from counting nakshatras from the Sun to the Moon, and it is an almanac rule, not a classical one.
- Vaidhriti yoga in the panchang, and what it does not meanVaidhriti is the last of the twenty seven daily yogas in the panchang. Here is how it is worked out, what tradition asks of a day under it, and what a birth under it does not decide.
- Rahu sitting with a debilitated planet in your kundliWhen Rahu shares a sign with a debilitated planet, tradition holds it exaggerates that planet's uneasy side. It is rarely as bad as it reads.
- What Rahu has to do with fame, cinema and business abroadTradition links Rahu to image, appetite and foreign ground, which is why it comes up around film careers and business abroad. Here is what that means.
- Parigha yoga, the bolt across the gate, and the half of it that is usableParigha is the 19th of the 27 daily yogas. Tradition bars its first half and treats the second half as ordinary. What that means in practice.
- Numerology in 2027: the year number, and what it cannot do2027 adds to 11, which reduces to 2, so it is a two year. How to work out your own personal year, and an honest note on numbers and money.
- Neecha bhanga raja yoga: what it is, and how it is actually worked outA planet at its weakest point does not always stay weak. Here are the conditions that lift it, how the calculation is done, and what it does not promise about a life.
- The Gudi Padwa shobha yatras in Mumbai and PuneGudi Padwa 2026 fell on 19 March. Here is the panchang reason for that date, what the gudi stands for, and how the Mumbai and Pune processions actually work.
- Gudi Padwa 2026, the day, the panchang behind it, and what it is good forGudi Padwa falls on 19 March 2026, the first day of Chaitra and the Marathi new year. What the day marks, and why it needs no separate muhurta.
- Which houses are read for a government jobA government job is read mainly from the 10th house, the 6th house of service and the 1st, with the Sun for authority and Saturn for long service.
- A weak planet in the 10th house, and what it does to a careerA debilitated planet in the 10th house indicates a career that starts slowly and changes often. Tradition also describes conditions that cancel that weakness.
- Darakaraka in the 11th house, and what it actually indicatesDarakaraka is the planet at the lowest degree in your kundli. In the 11th house, tradition reads a partner who arrives through your own circle.
- Career in your kundli: what the chart shows, and what a date of birth alone cannotA birth date alone cannot tell you your career. With the time and place added, the chart shows what work suits you and when work tends to move.
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