Karka (Cancer)

Karka (Cancer) rising

With Karka rising you tend to a large upper body and slender limbs, a wide face, a pale complexion and a rolling gait, filling out at the waist in later years. Chandra (the Moon) rules your lagna: you are sensitive, imaginative, sympathetic and emotional, with a tenacious memory, and you can move a gathering with your words; KP calls Karka the sign of the teacher and the prophet. Home, family, the mother and your own place mean everything to you; you are hospitable and protective, and you never forget a kindness or a hurt. Life runs in waves like the Moon, with rises and falls, but you hold to a plan with dogged patience and are fortunate in the end, often through an inheritance that comes slowly. Watch for over-sensitivity, moods when ignored, and pondering so long that the moment passes.

The Moon in Karka (Cancer)

Chandra in its own sign Karka makes the mind deep, caring and intuitive, with a strong memory and a pull towards home, mother and the past. You feel everything and read people well; the mind is protective and self-respecting but takes slights to heart, so it needs a secure base and people who show their affection.

The Sun in Karka (Cancer)

Surya in Karka, a friend's sign: the self is warm, protective and tied to family and home, and your standing grows through care for your people rather than open ambition.

Work

• restaurants, catering and food
• hotels
• nursing and hospitals
• shipping, navy and the sea
• dairy and milk products
• import and export
• history, archaeology and antiques
• teaching and preaching
• public speaking
• agriculture
• social work
• second-hand goods

KP Reader 2 pp.160-172; Gochar Phaladeepika pp.36-37; BPHS 3.49, 4.8