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Jyotisha — the sidereal zodiac of India, fixed to the stars rather than to the seasons.

The twelve rashis · Capricorn

Makara

Makara · Capricorn

The classical structure

rulerSaturn
elementearth
classChara · movable
odd / eveneven
directionsouth
rising mannerPrishtodaya · rises with its back
oppositeKarkaṭa

Its figure

A makara, described in this translation as crocodile-bodied with a deer-like face.

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 →

Bodhastra documents what astrological traditions have said, and when they started saying it. It is presented as cultural history and entertainment. Nothing here is medical, psychological, financial or predictive advice, and nothing here is a claim about what will happen to you.

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