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title: "Mesha Rashi (Aries) in Vedic Astrology"
url: "https://abhisheksoni.in/learn/rashi/mesha"
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updated: "2026-10-27"
description: "Mesha (Aries), rashi 1 of 12: Movable fire sign of initiative; the head of Kalapurusha. Lord Mangala, 0°00' - 30°00'."
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# Mesha Rashi (Aries)

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Mesha (Aries, मेष) is the 1st of the twelve rashis of Vedic astrology and spans 0°00' to 30°00' of the zodiac. Movable fire sign of initiative; the head of Kalapurusha. Its lord is Mangala, and it holds the nakshatras Ashwini, Bharani and Krittika. Surya is exalted here and Shani debilitated.

## Classical facts

- **Number:** 1
- **Sanskrit name:** Mesha
- **Hindi name:** मेष
- **English name:** Aries
- **Glyph:** ♈
- **Lord:** Mangala
- **Element:** Fire
- **Quality:** Movable (chara)
- **Gender:** Male
- **Symbol:** Ram
- **Body (Kalapurusha):** head
- **Degree range:** 0°00' - 30°00'
- **Nakshatras in this sign:** Ashwini, Bharani, Krittika
- **Exalted here:** Surya 10°
- **Debilitated here:** Shani 20°
- **Mooltrikona here:** Mangala 0°-12°
- **Reference:** [Aries (astrology) (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aries_%28astrology%29)

## Articles about Mesha Rashi (Aries)

- [Ashwini nakshatra and career, and why a yearly forecast cannot be honest](/learn/ashwini-nakshatra-career): What tradition says about Ashwini and work, the transits actually crossing Aries now, and why one forecast cannot cover a twenty-seventh of everybody.
- [Saturn in Pisces through 2026, rashi by rashi](/learn/saturn-in-pisces-2026): Saturn stays in Pisces for all of 2026 and leaves for Aries on 3 June 2027. Here is where it sits from each moon sign, and who is actually in Sade Sati.
- [Sade Sati, how to tell whether yours is running, and what it is not](/learn/sade-sati-what-it-is): Sade Sati is the seven and a half years Saturn spends crossing your moon sign and the rashi on either side of it. It is read from the moon, not the sun.
- [Neecha bhanga raj yoga: what cancels it and how to check](/learn/neecha-bhanga-raj-yoga): Neecha bhanga cancels a planet's debilitation. The rules that cancel it, a step by step check on your own chart, and why calculators over-report it.
- [Saturn in the navamsa chart, read plainly](/learn/saturn-in-the-navamsa-chart): Saturn in the navamsa, the ninth-part chart read for marriage, describes how a marriage matures: slowly, with duty and delay, and often a late reward. It is not a verdict.
- [Sade Sati for Mesha rashi in 2026, and the mistake almost everyone makes about it](/learn/sade-sati-for-mesha-rashi): Sade Sati is counted from the moon sign, not the ascendant. For Mesha rashi it began on 29 March 2025, and 2026 falls entirely in its first phase.
- [Movable, fixed and dual signs, and what cardinal and mutable mean in a kundli](/learn/movable-fixed-dual-signs): The twelve rashis fall into three groups of four, movable, fixed and dual. In Vedic practice they answer one question, how fast a matter moves.
- [Famous people born in Krittika nakshatra, checked against the Moon](/learn/krittika-nakshatra-famous-people): Anil 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.
- [Gudi Padwa at home, the way it is actually done](/learn/gudi-padwa-at-home): The 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 day, the panchang behind it, and what it is good for](/learn/gudi-padwa-2026): Gudi 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.