- Grahas
- Chandra (Moon)
One of the nine
Chandra (Moon)
Chandra is your mind (manas) — your moods, your sleep, your mother and the comfort of home. It is the quickest graha, changing rashi every two and a quarter days, so it shows how you react, what you need to feel safe, and how the public around you answers you. A waxing Chandra is gentle and generous; a waning one is restless and asks to be looked after.
What it governs
- the mind and emotions
- mother
- home and domestic comfort
- sleep
- the public and the masses
- water, milk and all liquids
- long journeys
- women, and benefit through them
- fragrance and flowers
- the glow of the face
- conception and childbirth
- money that comes and goes
- the arts, and favour from people of standing
The body
- the mind
- blood and body fluids
- breasts and chest
- stomach
- lungs
- face
- left eye for a man, right eye for a woman
- uterus and ovaries
- bladder and lymph
- throat
Relatives
- mother
- mother-in-law
- elder sister
- the women of the house
Work
- dairy and milk supply
- water supply and water works
- navy, shipping and ports
- fishery
- farming — fruits, vegetables and sugarcane
- cooking, catering and hotels
- nursing and care work
- travel and transport; travel agent
- trade in pearls, silver, salt, perfumes, flowers and liquids
- laundries and dry cleaning
- sailor and boatman
- work with the public
Places
- rivers, wells, tanks and the sea
- ports and water works
- dairies and cowsheds
- farmland and gardens
- the kitchen
- the north-west
Strong
A strong Chandra — bright (Shukla Ekadashi to Krishna Panchami is its best stretch), in the 4th house where it has dik bala, exalted in Taurus, in its own Cancer, or in a night birth — gives a calm, kind and sociable mind, a caring mother, comfort at home and a pleasant face. People trust you, the public warms to you, and you travel and come home well. Its promise shows from about 24 to 26.
Weak
A weak Chandra — waning, debilitated in Scorpio, with no graha on either side of it, joined by Rahu or Ketu, or in the 6th, 8th or 12th — makes the mind waver: moods rise and fall, sleep is light and decisions change. The areas to care for are sleep, the chest and lungs, the stomach and the body's fluids; see a doctor for anything persistent. Keep Mondays for Shiv ji, look after your mother, and give rice, milk or white cloth.