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The twelve rashis · Sagittarius
Dhanuṣ
Dhanu · Sagittarius
The classical structure
rulerJupiter
elementfire
classDvisvabhava · dual
odd / evenodd
directioneast
rising mannerPrishtodaya · rises with its back
oppositeMithuna
Its figure
An archer: human above and horse below.
What this does not mean
A rashi is a thirty-degree sector used to place planets in a chart. It is not, by itself, a personality diagnosis. The current Vedic corpus supports the structural fields above; Bodhastra will not fill the gap with unsourced sun-sign adjectives.
Source
Varahamihira, Brihat Jataka (trans. Swami Vijnanananda, 1912), Chapter I, especially verses 4–12. Open the scan →