Tula Rashifal — Daily Vedic Reading for the Libra Moon Sign

Tula rashifal is the daily reading for anyone whose Vedic Moon sat between 180° and 210° sidereal at birth — the sign Western astrology calls Libra. Tula is Venus’s moolatrikona sign, and the only 30 degrees in the zodiac where the Sun falls and Saturn is exalted. Today’s reading is computed, not pre-written.

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Tula (Libra) · 180°–210° sidereal longitude · rashi lord Shukra (Venus) · Vayu (Air)

Tula rashifal is read from the Moon, not the Sun. Your janma rashi is the sign the Moon occupied at your birth, because Jyotish treats the Moon as manas — the responsive, weather-sensitive mind — and a rashifal is a reading of that mind against the moving sky. For Tula this distinction bites harder than usual, because almost everything written in English about Libra is Sun-sign writing, and a Tula Moon is not a Libra Sun with the vocabulary changed. It is a mind that arrives at every input as a comparison rather than as a fact.

The structural reason sits in the degrees, and it is checkable. Tula holds Venus’s moolatrikona — the first fifteen degrees of the sign are Venus’s functional seat, the placement classical texts rank above simple ownership. It also holds Saturn’s exaltation at 20° Tula, the single point where the graha of time, limit and consequence is at his strongest. And it holds the Sun’s debilitation at 10° Tula, the one place in the whole zodiac where the karaka of self, will, authority and the father reaches his lowest ebb. Three of the seven classical grahas have their extreme in these thirty degrees, and no other sign carries that particular set.

Read plainly, that is the honest shape of a Tula Moon: relationship and structure are given the strongest instruments available, and unilateral self-assertion is given the weakest. This is not a personality adjective about being "diplomatic" or "indecisive" — it is where the Sun sits. A Tula Moon does not struggle to decide; it struggles to decide alone, because the faculty that decides without reference to anyone else is the one operating at its floor here. That is a very different diagnosis, and it is the one the chart actually supports.

Tula rashi today is also carrying a set of transits that belong to this sign and no other, which the sections below count house by house from Tula. The short version: Saturn is in your 6th and retrograde, exalted Jupiter has been sitting in your 10th since June, and in October your own rashi lord turns retrograde inside your own sign and then reverses out of it into the one sign where Venus falls. That last event is the sharpest thing on this page.

The three nakshatras inside Tula — and exactly which padas count

Tula spans 180°–210°, which is nine padas of 3°20′ each, cut from three different nakshatras: the last two padas of Chitra, all four of Swati, and the first three of Vishakha. The navamsa column follows the classical rule for a CHARA (movable) sign — the nine navamsas begin from the sign itself — so Tula’s navamsas run Tula, Vrishchika, Dhanu, Makara, Kumbha, Meena, Mesha, Vrishabha, Mithuna, in that order. Every figure below is arithmetic you can check by hand, and one result is worth flagging before you read the table: both of the sign’s extreme degrees land exactly on pada boundaries. The Sun’s debilitation at 10° Tula (190°00′) is the seam between Swati pada 1 and pada 2; Saturn’s exaltation at 20° Tula (200°00′) is the seam between Swati and Vishakha.

Chitra

173°20′ – 186°40′ (padas 1–2 in Kanya, 3–4 in Tula) · Pada 3 = 180°00′–183°20′ · Pada 4 = 183°20′–186°40′ · Lord: Mangal (Mars) · Navamsa: Pada 3 → Tula (Venus) · Pada 4 → Vrishchika (Mars) · Vyaghra (tiger) yoni · Rakshasa gana · Madhya nadi

Tula opens on Mars, which is not what anyone expects from this sign, and on Vishwakarma, the architect of the gods. Chitra is the cut gem and the drawn plan — brilliance that is constructed rather than received. Pada 3 is the sign’s vargottama slice: it falls in Tula rashi AND Tula navamsa, so the sign’s character is doubled rather than modified, and it is the only pada in the sign where that happens. Born here, the Tula weighing faculty runs at full strength with nothing softening it. Pada 4 drops into a Vrishchika navamsa under a Mars nakshatra, which is the most forceful ground in Tula by some distance — the diplomacy is real but there is something considerably harder underneath it, and people are usually surprised by it exactly once.

Swati

186°40′ – 200°00′ (all four padas in Tula) · Pada 1 = 186°40′–190°00′ · Pada 2 = 190°00′–193°20′ · Pada 3 = 193°20′–196°40′ · Pada 4 = 196°40′–200°00′ · Lord: Rahu · Navamsa: Pada 1 → Dhanu (Jupiter) · Pada 2 → Makara (Saturn) · Pada 3 → Kumbha (Saturn) · Pada 4 → Meena (Jupiter) · Mahish (buffalo) yoni · Deva gana · Antya nadi

The only nakshatra lying entirely inside Tula, and the middle of the sign in every sense. Its deity is Vayu, god of wind, in a vayu-tattva sign — the one place in the zodiac where the star’s presiding force and the rashi’s element are the same thing. Its symbol is a young shoot bending in that wind: independent, mobile, self-directed, and rooted only just enough. Rahu as star lord over a Tula Moon is the sign’s ambition and its restlessness both. Two boundaries matter here more than the padas themselves. The Sun’s deepest fall, 10° Tula, is the exact line between pada 1 and pada 2 — so the second pada opens on the Sun’s weakest point, in a Saturn navamsa, and this is the most self-effacing ground in the sign. All four padas sit in Saturn or Jupiter navamsas, which is why the middle of Tula reads as more principled and less charming than its reputation. Pada 4 closes at 200°00′, which is Saturn’s exaltation degree exactly.

Vishakha

200°00′ – 213°20′ (padas 1–3 in Tula, pada 4 in Vrishchika) · Pada 1 = 200°00′–203°20′ · Pada 2 = 203°20′–206°40′ · Pada 3 = 206°40′–210°00′ · Lord: Guru (Jupiter) · Navamsa: Pada 1 → Mesha (Mars) · Pada 2 → Vrishabha (Venus) · Pada 3 → Mithuna (Mercury) · Vyaghra (tiger) yoni · Rakshasa gana · Antya nadi

The last ten degrees of Tula, and the most goal-driven. Vishakha’s deities are Indra and Agni together, its symbol the triumphal arch, and it begins at precisely the degree where Saturn is exalted — the star of arriving opens on the point of maximum consequence, which is an unusually tidy piece of arithmetic. Jupiter as star lord puts purpose behind the weighing, and this stretch of the sign is where Tula stops comparing and commits. Pada 1, in a Mesha navamsa, is the most confrontational ground in Tula and argues rather than negotiates. Pada 2, in a Vrishabha navamsa, is Venus’s other sign underneath Venus’s own — the most materially grounded and the most genuinely acquisitive part of Tula. Pada 3 exits the sign through Mercury, articulate and contract-minded, one pada before Vishakha spills into Vrishchika.

If your Moon is within about half a degree of 180°, 186°40′, 200°00′ or 210°, treat your nakshatra and pada as unconfirmed until you have an accurate birth time. The Moon moves roughly 13° a day — about 0.55° an hour — so a two-hour error moves you a pada, and a pada changes the navamsa lord. That is a larger change to your reading than anything today’s transit will do. Nine padas × 3°20′ = 30°, which is the arithmetic check that the table above is complete.

Venus over a Tula Moon — and why this is not the Vrishabha Venus

Same graha, opposite modality, opposite element, different second lordship.

Venus rules two signs, and the laziest mistake in sign writing is treating them as one placement with two names. They are not. Vrishabha is Venus’s sthira (fixed) prithvi (earth) sign; Tula is Venus’s chara (movable) vayu (air) sign. An earth Venus holds — it accumulates the beautiful thing, keeps it, resists parting with it, and reads value through the senses. An air Venus weighs. It is far less interested in possessing the object than in establishing where the object stands relative to the alternatives. That is the whole difference between a Vrishabha Moon and a Tula Moon in one sentence, and it comes from the element and the modality, not from a temperament label.

Then the dignity, which most pages skip because it takes a lookup. Venus owns Vrishabha, but Venus’s moolatrikona is Tula — the first fifteen degrees of this sign, per Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra. Ownership means the planet is at home. Moolatrikona means it is at its working desk. So a Tula Moon’s dispositor is not merely comfortable, it is operational, and this is why Tula natives characteristically produce judgement rather than taste. Vrishabha knows what it likes. Tula knows what a thing is worth, which is a comparative act and needs a second object in the frame.

One more asymmetry, and it is the most useful of the three for reading an actual chart. Counting houses from the Moon sign, Venus rules the 1st and the 8th for a Tula Moon — because the 8th from Tula is Vrishabha. For a Vrishabha Moon the same planet rules the 1st and the 6th, because the 6th from Vrishabha is Tula. Identical graha, and it lands on radically different second addresses. The 8th is the house of what is hidden, inherited, shared and transformative; the 6th is the house of debt, service, conflict and illness. A Tula Moon’s ruler therefore has one foot permanently in the material other people do not say out loud — which is a much better explanation of Tula’s famous discomfort with open conflict than "Libra hates confrontation" ever was. It is not that conflict is unpleasant. It is that your own lord co-owns the house where things are not stated.

Because Venus is your rashi lord, its two cycles — retrogression and combustion — are not general-interest astrology for you. They are your dispositor changing condition. Venus retrogrades roughly once every nineteen months for about forty-two days, which is less time retrograde than any other planet: around seven percent of its cycle, against Mercury’s nineteen. That rarity is exactly why it matters when it happens. Computed on the Lahiri ayanamsa, the 2026 window runs approximately 4 October to 15 November, and for Tula it is unusually loaded: Venus stations retrograde at about 13°51′ Tula — inside your own sign — retrogrades back out of Tula into Kanya on roughly 5 November, turns direct at about 28°17′ Kanya on 15 November, and re-enters Tula around 24 November. Kanya is where Venus is debilitated. Your rashi lord reverses out of its own moolatrikona and into its own fall, then walks back in. No other Moon sign gets that sequence in 2026.

Combustion stacks on top of it, and here the arithmetic is almost theatrical. Venus is treated as combust within 10° of the Sun in our engine. The Sun enters sidereal Tula around 18 October 2026, and Venus reaches inferior conjunction with it on 23 October at 6°17′ Tula — the two within six thousandths of a degree of each other, both inside your rashi. So for roughly a fortnight, 18 to 30 October, your rashi lord is simultaneously retrograde and combust in your own sign, while the Sun burning it is transiting the one sign where the Sun itself is debilitated. Mercury adds a third layer, stationing retrograde at about 26°16′ Tula on 25 October and turning direct at 10°29′ Tula on 14 November. For durable planning purposes this is the clearest instruction on the page: late October and early November 2026 is a period for a Tula Moon to renegotiate, revisit and re-price, not to sign, launch or commit.

What Venus does NOT decide is whether Venus is good for you. Functional benefic status is reckoned from the ascendant, not the Moon. For a Tula ascendant our functional table grades Venus, Mercury and Saturn as benefics with Saturn as the yogakaraka, and the Sun, Mars and Jupiter as functional malefics — which surprises people, because Jupiter is assumed universally kind. If Tula is only your Moon sign and not your rising sign, none of that grading is yours, and a page that prescribes off your rashi alone has skipped the step that decides the answer.

The scale’s two weights — Saturn exalted, the Sun fallen, twenty degrees apart

Both extremes sit inside the same thirty degrees, and they sit close together. The Sun’s debilitation point is 10° Tula; Saturn’s exaltation point is 20° Tula. Ten degrees of arc separate the weakest position the Sun can occupy from the strongest position Saturn can occupy — about ten days of solar motion. Every year, the Sun crosses its own fall and then Saturn’s exaltation degree inside a single fortnight, and it does so during what a Western calendar would call the tail of Libra season.

It is worth stating why this pairing is not arbitrary. Sun and Saturn are natural enemies in the classical scheme: the Sun is soul, self, sovereignty and the father; Saturn is time, constraint, service and the outcome of what you deferred. Tula is the exact point in the zodiac where that hierarchy inverts. The instinct to simply decide is at its floor; the instinct to weigh consequence and wait is at its ceiling. Aries holds the mirror image — Sun exalted, Saturn fallen — which is why Tula and Mesha read as genuine opposites rather than merely as opposite signs on a wheel.

For a Tula Moon this shows up as a specific and repeatable pattern, and naming it is more useful than any adjective. Decisions made by consulting, structuring, contracting and deferring tend to hold. Decisions made by declaring — by simply asserting what you want and moving — tend to be revisited, not because they were wrong but because the faculty that made them is working at its weakest dignity here and does not carry conviction forward. Tula natives frequently mistake this for a character flaw. It is a dignity reading, and the correct response is not to force more assertion; it is to build the structure first and let it carry the decision.

The same arithmetic explains why Saturn transits over a Tula Moon behave unlike Saturn transits anywhere else. When Saturn eventually returns to Tula — on our calculations he first touches Kanya, the 12th from Tula, around late October 2038 and settles there from mid-2039, which puts Tula’s next Sade Sati in the late 2030s — he arrives at the address where he is exalted. Sade Sati for a Tula Moon is Saturn at full strength standing on the Moon, which is a heavier and more structural experience than the same phase is for signs where Saturn arrives ordinary. That is more than a decade out and is not a 2026 concern, but it is the reason the phrase means something different here.

The transits that actually matter for a Tula Moon

Counted from Tula, which is the only way a gochar reading means anything for a Moon sign.

Positions below were computed 7 August 2026 on the Lahiri ayanamsa. Ingress and station dates are given at day-or-so precision, which is the honest limit of the fast engine that produced them; the live panel on this page quotes the full Swiss Ephemeris chart engine directly. Houses are counted from Tula: 2nd Vrishchika, 3rd Dhanu, 4th Makara, 5th Kumbha, 6th Meena, 7th Mesha, 8th Vrishabha, 9th Mithuna, 10th Karka, 11th Simha, 12th Kanya.

Saturn first, because for Tula the news is unexpectedly good and almost nobody says so. Saturn is at 20°07′ Meena, retrograde, which is the 6th house from Tula. Saturn in the 3rd, 6th or 11th from the Moon is one of the classically favourable gochar placements — the upachaya houses, where a malefic gains rather than costs — and the 6th specifically is the house of enemies, debts, disputes and illness. Saturn there is the graha of consequence sitting in the house of obligations, which reads as the slow, unglamorous dissolving of things you owe: a debt cleared, a dispute outlasted, a chronic problem finally managed rather than merely tolerated. Saturn turned retrograde on about 27 July 2026 at 20°14′ Meena and turns direct around 12 December at 13°24′ Meena, so the whole of this autumn is Saturn covering ground he has already crossed in your 6th. He reaches Mesha — your 7th — around 6 June 2027, retrogrades back into Meena that autumn, and settles in your 7th for good around late February 2028. That is the dated turn worth marking: the favourable 6th-house Saturn becomes an opposition to your Moon sign, and partnerships come under structural review.

Jupiter is the loudest transit of 2026 for this sign. Jupiter is at 13°49′ Karka — exalted, in the 10th from Tula, where it has been since about 4 June 2026 and where it stays until roughly 3 November 2026, when it moves to Simha, your 11th. Exalted Jupiter transiting the tenth from the Moon is as favourable a career gochar as the classical scheme offers, and Karka is ruled by the Moon itself, which for a Tula native means the house of public standing is governed by the same graha that defines your rashi. The practical shape: recognition, mentors, sponsorship, and work that is visible rather than merely done. This is a five-month window and roughly half of it is already behind the date stamped on this page — if you have been waiting for conditions to improve before asking for something, the conditions were the thing you were waiting for. When Jupiter moves to your 11th in November the benefit shifts from standing to networks and income, which is easier but less rare. Jupiter then stations retrograde around 14 December at 2°27′ Simha and slips back into Karka on about 22 January 2027, giving your 10th one final pass until it turns direct at 22°25′ Karka around 14 April 2027.

The nodes are the counterweight. Rahu is at 6°22′ Kumbha — the 5th from Tula — and Ketu opposite at 6°22′ Simha, your 11th. Rahu in the 5th from the Moon amplifies and distorts the house of intelligence, children, creative output and speculation; the characteristic Tula version is an appetite for a clever, high-variance idea that the sign’s own weighing faculty would ordinarily have priced correctly and, under Rahu, does not. Ketu in the 11th empties gains and networks of their savour — friendships go quiet, income arrives without registering as satisfying. Both shift around 6 December 2026, when Rahu moves to Makara (your 4th) and Ketu to Karka (your 10th). Note what that does in combination: Ketu arrives in the 10th just as Jupiter leaves it. The career window described above genuinely closes at the end of 2026, and it closes in a specific way.

Venus, your rashi lord, was at 6°06′ Kanya on the stamped date — debilitated, in your 12th house. That is the weakest combination available for a Tula Moon’s dispositor and it is temporary: Venus enters Tula itself around 3 September 2026, which is your rashi lord returning to its own moolatrikona in your 1st house, and that fortnight is the single best window in the second half of 2026 for a Tula native to initiate anything Venus governs — an agreement, a partnership, a purchase you intend to keep. Do it before October. From 4 October the retrograde and combustion sequence described in the Venus section takes over, and the same lord that was strong in September is retrograde, burned and eventually back in its own fall.

The fast movers, briefly, because they set the texture rather than the year. Mars was at 2°50′ Mithuna, your 9th, having entered on about 3 August 2026, and moves to Karka — your 10th, joining exalted Jupiter — around 19 September. Mars in the 10th from the Moon is drive applied to standing: excellent for finishing and shipping, poor for arguing with anyone senior, and for a Tula Moon it is worth naming that Mars is a functional malefic for this sign’s ascendant and rules your 2nd and 7th houses counted from the Moon. The Sun crosses your own sign from about 18 October to 17 November 2026 — which is, precisely, the month each year when the Sun is transiting the sign of its own debilitation. Vedic "Libra season" is the Sun at its structural weakest. That is not a warning; it is why the classical texts treat Tula as the sign of the other person rather than of the self.

Timing and remedial practice for a Tula Moon

The weekday is Shukravar — Friday — because Venus rules the sign, which Tula shares with Vrishabha. The sharper instrument is the hora, not the day: the first hora after sunrise on Friday belongs to Venus and, in the Chaldean order, his hora returns every seventh hour thereafter. But there is a Tula-specific caveat that matters more than the technique. A hora selects a moment governed by a planet; it does not repair that planet’s condition. Between roughly 4 October and 24 November 2026 your rashi lord is retrograde, combust for a fortnight of it, and briefly debilitated — and choosing a Venus hora inside that window does not undo any of it. Classical electional practice avoids beginning things under a retrograde or combust lord of the lagna or rashi, and for a Tula Moon that is not a general principle this autumn, it is a specific instruction with dates.

For deity association Tula gives you three anchors rather than one, and they come from the sign’s own nakshatras rather than from its lord. Chitra’s deity is Vishwakarma, the divine architect and craftsman of the gods — the presiding intelligence of design, proportion and made things, which is a strikingly exact fit for the opening degrees of a sign named for a measuring instrument. Vishwakarma Puja is observed regionally in September and October, and we name it as devotional tradition, which is what it is. Vishakha’s deities are Indra and Agni, jointly, and its symbol is the triumphal arch — the star of a goal reached, which closes the sign.

The middle anchor is the distinctly Tula one, and it is a genuine structural resonance rather than a poetic reach. Swati’s presiding deity is Vayu, the wind. Tula is a vayu-tattva sign. And Swati is the only nakshatra that falls entirely inside Tula — all four of its padas, 186°40′ to 200°00′, with nothing spilling into a neighbouring rashi. So the sign of air wholly contains the star of the god of air, and that thirteen and a third degrees is the middle of your rashi. Swati’s symbol is a young shoot blown in the wind: independent, mobile, unattached, and rooted just enough. For a Tula native looking for one image to hold, that one is earned by the arithmetic rather than assigned by tradition.

On gemstones we will be direct, because Tula gets a specific piece of bad advice constantly. Diamond and white sapphire are Venus’s stones, Venus rules Tula, and the recommendation follows automatically on almost every site you will read. It should not. Gemstone safety is decided by a planet’s FUNCTIONAL nature, which is reckoned from the ascendant, not the Moon sign, and there is a second Tula-specific complication on top of that: for a Tula ascendant, Venus rules the 1st and the 8th, and a planet holding an 8th lordship is not a free amplification even when it is the lagna lord. The stone this ascendant genuinely supports is Saturn’s — Saturn is the yogakaraka for Tula rising, ruling the 4th and the 5th, and he is exalted in the sign as well, which is about as strong a case as the classical logic ever makes. But that applies only if Tula is your RISING sign, which needs an accurate birth time. If all you know is that your Moon is in Tula, the grading cannot be done, and we would rather say so than sell you a stone.

The ownership map from Tula — Saturn on your fourth and fifth, Mars on your second and seventh

Transits move. Lordship does not, and it is the half of a rashifal that is almost never printed.

Take the twelve houses from Tula and the pairs come out in a shape no other rashi produces. Saturn owns Makara and Kumbha, which from here are the 4th and the 5th — the home and the children, the roof and the creative output. Both under the graha of delay and structure, and inseparably: whatever a Saturn period does to one it is already doing to the other. Mars owns the 2nd and the 7th, so the family purse and the marriage answer to the one graha the classical texts treat as the least diplomatic. For a sign whose entire faculty is negotiation, that is the interesting tension on the page — the two departments where Tula most wants to smooth things over are governed by a planet that does not smooth.

Your own lord doubles into the 8th. Venus owns Tula and Vrishabha, and Vrishabha is the 8th from here, so the graha of pleasure and value also runs inheritance, joint finances and what is undergone rather than chosen. Mesha carries the identical arrangement with Mars across its 1st and 8th; the two of us are the whole list. The practical version, for a Tula Moon: money that arrives through someone else — a partner, an estate, a settlement — is not incidental to this chart, it is routed through your own dispositor. The remaining pairs are Jupiter on the 3rd and 6th, and Mercury on the 9th and 12th, which puts your fortune and your losses under one very fast planet.

Now the snapshot. On 7 August 2026 Venus — your lord, owner of the 1st and the 8th — was at 6°06′ Kanya, its own debilitation, sitting in your 12th. The graha the whole sign rests on was simultaneously at its weakest degree-range and in the house of expenditure and retreat, and it owned your 8th while it was there. Saturn, holding your 4th and 5th, was retrograde in your 6th. Five houses — the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 7th — carried no slow planet at all, which is worth knowing before anyone tells you the year is busy.

Tula, Libra, and why your Sun sign probably does not match

Same sign, two spellings, two zodiacs, and — the part that trips everyone — two different planets.

Tula is Libra. Whether you searched Tula rashifal, Libra rashifal or rashifal Libra, you have landed on the same thirty degrees, and this page is written for all of them. The Sanskrit tula means the balance — the beam scale itself, the instrument used to weigh. Not the merchant, not the goods on the pan: the mechanism of judgement. That image is a considerably better summary of the sign than the English adjectives usually attached to it, and it explains something the adjectives cannot. A scale is useless with one object on it. It requires a second thing to compare against before it can report anything at all, which is exactly the operating condition of a Tula Moon.

Now the dates, because this is where the confusion starts and it is worth separating cleanly. Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac fixed to the stars, with the Lahiri ayanamsa; Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac fixed to the equinox. The two have drifted roughly 24° apart through precession, and neither is an error — they are different reference frames answering different questions. The Sun occupies tropical Libra from about 23 September to 23 October. Computed for 2026, the Sun occupied sidereal Tula from 18 October to 17 November. So a great many people who have called themselves Libra their whole lives compute as Kanya in a Vedic chart, and people born in early November discover they are sidereal Tula having never once been told so.

And then the difference that matters far more than the calendar, which the dates above have nothing to do with. In Indian practice "Tula rashi" almost always means your MOON sign — where the Moon actually was at your birth — not your Sun sign. Everything on this page is written for the Moon, because that is what rashifal means by rashi and it is what all the house-counting above is measured from. The Moon changes sign roughly every two and a quarter days, so no date range can ever give you your Moon sign; it needs your real birth date and, for the pada, your time. Roughly one person in twelve who identifies as a Libra actually has a Tula Moon.

This is also the honest answer to why the generic version of this content reads as vague. Search "Libra fortune today" and you will typically get a paragraph about balance, harmony and being fair to others — written for a Sun sign, in a different zodiac, with no chart factor named anywhere in it. A rashifal Tula today reading is a narrower and more falsifiable thing: it is the transiting Moon and the slow grahas counted from 180°–210° sidereal, which is why this page can tell you that Saturn is in your 6th and retrograde and that your own lord goes backwards inside your own sign in October. Those statements are either true of the sky or they are not. That is the standard we would rather be held to.

Tula’s structural facts — what is fixed about this sign before any transit arrives

Everything in this table is a property of the sign itself, not of today. It is here because most Tula rashifal pages describe a mood and never state a single checkable fact about the thirty degrees they are describing.

Sidereal span and index

180°00′ to 210°00′, the 7th rashi. Exactly opposite Mesha, which is why the Sun/Saturn dignities in the two signs are mirror images: Sun exalted in Mesha and fallen in Tula, Saturn fallen in Mesha and exalted in Tula.

Lord and its dignity here

Shukra (Venus), and specifically Venus’s moolatrikona — 0° to 15° Tula per Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra. Vrishabha is Venus’s own sign but not its moolatrikona, so Tula, not Vrishabha, is where Venus does its functional work. This one lookup separates the two Venus signs more cleanly than any amount of temperament writing.

Saturn exalted at 20°00′ Tula

Absolute longitude 200°. The greatest natural malefic reaches his single strongest point inside the sign of partnership and agreement — and lands exactly on the Swati/Vishakha boundary. For a Tula ascendant Saturn is additionally the yogakaraka, ruling the 4th and 5th, which is the strongest functional grading any planet gets for this lagna.

Sun debilitated at 10°00′ Tula

Absolute longitude 190°, i.e. the Sun’s exaltation at 10° Mesha plus 180°. Tula is the only sign in which the Sun falls, and the point lands exactly on the Swati pada 1/pada 2 seam. Read structurally rather than pessimistically: the sign is not weak, the faculty of acting unilaterally is.

Modality, element, and the navamsa rule that follows

Chara (movable) and vayu (air). The movable rule means Tula’s nine navamsas begin from Tula itself, which puts a vargottama pada right at the start of the sign — Chitra pada 3, 180°00′–183°20′, in Tula rashi and Tula navamsa together. A fixed sign like Vrishabha counts its navamsas from the 9th and has its vargottama pada elsewhere entirely.

Houses ruled by Venus, counted from Tula

The 1st and the 8th, because the 8th from Tula is Vrishabha. From a Vrishabha Moon the same planet rules the 1st and the 6th. Same graha, two very different second addresses — and this is the cleanest structural reason a Tula Moon carries so much unspoken material rather than simply "disliking conflict".

What is NOT decided by any of the above

Your ascendant, your Mahadasha, and which planets sit in which of your houses. Every functional grading quoted on this page — Saturn as yogakaraka, the Sun and Mars and Jupiter as functional malefics — is reckoned from a Tula ASCENDANT and applies to you only if Tula is also your rising sign. That needs a birth time this page does not have.

Where today's sky lands for a Tula Moon

Work

10th from Tula = Karka (Moon) — with Jupiter exalted there from 4 June to 3 November 2026

Your 10th house of public standing is Karka, ruled by the Moon — the same graha that defines your rashi — so for a Tula native, reputation is not a separate department from mood. It moves in tides, it is unusually responsive to who is currently paying attention, and it feels personal in a way it does not for signs whose 10th lord is Saturn or the Sun. On 7 August 2026 Jupiter is at 13°49′ Karka: exalted, in that 10th house, where it has sat since about 4 June and stays until roughly 3 November. Exalted Jupiter over the 10th from the Moon is the strongest career gochar in the classical set and it is a five-month window, half of it already spent by the date on this page. The correct use is to ask for the visible thing — the title, the sponsor, the platform — rather than to keep doing excellent work quietly and wait to be noticed. When Jupiter leaves for your 11th in November, Ketu arrives in this same 10th house on about 6 December. The window is real and it is dated.

Money

2nd from Tula = Vrishchika (Mars); 11th = Simha (Sun), currently holding Ketu

Tula’s money houses are handed to the two grahas least interested in comfort. The 2nd — savings, stored value, what you have accumulated — is Vrishchika under Mars, so a Tula native’s resources tend to arrive and move in intense bursts rather than accruing quietly, and the 2nd house being a Mars house is why Tula natives are considerably more willing to fight over money than their reputation suggests. The 11th — gains, income, networks — is Simha under the Sun, and the Sun is the graha whose dignity is lowest in your own sign. That combination produces the recurring Tula money pattern: excellent at establishing what something is worth, unreliable at naming that figure for their own work. Ketu has been transiting that 11th house and moves to Karka around 6 December 2026, which typically reads as gains that arrive without registering as satisfying. Underpricing, not overspending, is the leak this sign actually has.

Relationships

7th from Tula = Mesha (Mars) — and Venus retrograde in Tula itself, 4 October to 24 November 2026

The 7th from Tula is Mesha, ruled by Mars, and that is the honest and slightly uncomfortable structure of this sign’s partnerships: the sign of weighing and consulting looks directly across at the sign of acting first and asking later. Tula natives are reliably drawn to decisiveness they do not themselves supply, and reliably exhausted by it. Note also that Mesha is where the Sun is exalted — so the partner’s self-assertion sits in the exact sign where yours is at its floor. That is not a compatibility verdict; it is a description of the axis. The dated event this autumn is your own rashi lord: Venus stations retrograde at about 13°51′ Tula on 4 October 2026, backs out into Kanya — its debilitation sign — around 5 November, turns direct at 28°17′ Kanya on 15 November, and returns to Tula about 24 November. Retrograde Venus in your own sign is a revisiting transit, not a breaking one. It reopens agreements rather than ending them. Do not sign a new partnership inside that window; do use it to renegotiate one that has been quietly mispriced for years. Saturn arrives in this same 7th house for good in early 2028, which is the longer-range date to keep.

Health

6th from Tula = Meena (Jupiter) — with Saturn transiting there, retrograde, on 7 August 2026

Your 6th house of illness, debt and daily maintenance is Meena under Jupiter, which is a comparatively forgiving 6th lord, and Tula being a vayu-tattva sign gives the constitution a vata lean — dryness, nervous-system load, sleep, and the lower back and kidneys, which the Kalapurusha scheme assigns to Libra. On 7 August 2026 Saturn is at 20°07′ Meena and retrograde, sitting in that 6th house. This is one of the transits people are needlessly frightened of and should not be: Saturn in the 3rd, 6th or 11th from the Moon is classically favourable, and the 6th is his most useful address of the three. Saturn here grinds down chronic problems rather than creating acute ones — a long-standing condition finally gets managed, a debt finally gets cleared, an opponent finally runs out of patience before you do. He is retrograde from about 27 July to 12 December 2026, which means covering the same ground twice; the useful discipline for a Tula Moon in that window is regularity and warmth rather than new interventions. None of this is a diagnosis, and a symptom needs a doctor, not a rashifal.

Tula rashifal — frequently asked

Is Tula rashi the same as Libra?

The same thirty degrees by name, measured from a different starting point, and covering different calendar dates. Vedic Jyotish uses the sidereal zodiac fixed to the stars with the Lahiri ayanamsa; Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac fixed to the equinox, and precession has drifted them about 24° apart. The Sun is in tropical Libra roughly 23 September to 23 October; computed for 2026, the Sun was in sidereal Tula from 18 October to 17 November. The content differs too, not just the calendar — a Libra rashifal written from Jyotish will tell you that Saturn is exalted at 20° of this sign and the Sun is debilitated at 10°, which is where most of Tula’s real character comes from and which Western Libra writing almost never mentions. And the largest difference is neither of those: your rashi is set by the Moon, not the Sun at all.

My Sun sign is Libra but an app says my rashi is Kanya. Which is right?

Both, answering different questions. If your birthday falls in the tropical Libra window, a sidereal calculation will usually place your Sun in Kanya, because of the roughly 24° ayanamsa gap. Neither system is wrong; they use different reference frames. But for a rashifal the Sun is not the input at all — the Moon is. Roughly one person in twelve who calls themselves a Libra actually has a Tula Moon, which is precisely why generic Libra horoscopes feel vague to most of the people reading them. The Moon changes sign every two and a quarter days, so there is no date range that can tell you yours; it has to be computed from your birth date.

Is Tula rashi in Sade Sati right now?

No, and it is not close. Sade Sati runs while Saturn transits the 12th, 1st and 2nd from your Moon — for a Tula Moon that means Saturn in Kanya, Tula and Vrishchika. On 7 August 2026 Saturn is at 20°07′ Meena, the 6th from Tula, which is one of the classically favourable Saturn transits rather than a difficult one. On our calculations Saturn does not first touch Kanya until around late October 2038 and does not settle there until mid-2039, which puts Tula’s next Sade Sati in the late 2030s. When it does arrive it will be heavier than the phrase usually implies for other signs, because Saturn is exalted in Tula — the peak phase is Saturn at full strength standing on your Moon. That is more than a decade away. Anyone selling a Tula native Sade Sati remedies today is selling the wrong decade.

Why is the Sun weak in Tula rashi?

Because 10° Tula is the Sun’s debilitation degree — the exact opposite point to its exaltation at 10° Mesha, 180° away. Tula is the only sign in the zodiac where the Sun falls. The classical reasoning is that the Sun signifies sovereignty, singular will, self and the father, while Tula is the sign of the second party — agreement, comparison, the other side of the scale — so the graha of unilateral authority is structurally out of place there. What that means in practice for a Tula Moon is narrower and more useful than "you are indecisive": decisions built through consultation and structure tend to hold, and decisions made by pure declaration tend to get revisited. It is worth adding that the Sun transits sidereal Tula for about a month every year, from roughly 18 October to 17 November, so the Vedic version of "Libra season" is precisely the month the Sun spends in its own fall.

What does Venus retrograde in Tula in October 2026 mean for a Tula Moon?

It means your own rashi lord changes condition inside your own sign, which is rarer than it sounds — Venus is retrograde only about seven percent of the time, roughly forty-two days once every nineteen months, less than any other planet. Computed on the Lahiri ayanamsa, Venus stations retrograde at about 13°51′ Tula on 4 October 2026, reverses out of Tula into Kanya (where Venus is debilitated) around 5 November, turns direct at 28°17′ Kanya on 15 November, and re-enters Tula about 24 November. On top of that, Venus reaches inferior conjunction with the Sun at 6°17′ Tula on 23 October, so it is also combust — inside a 10° orb — for roughly 18 to 30 October, and Mercury is retrograde in Tula from 25 October to 14 November as well. A rashifal Tula today reading during that stretch is describing a lord that is reversing, burned and briefly fallen. The durable instruction is the same one classical electional practice gives: renegotiate, revisit and re-price in that window, and sign, launch or commit either before 4 October or after 24 November.

Should a Tula native wear a diamond because Venus rules Tula?

Not on that basis, and we will not tell you otherwise. Venus being your rashi lord says nothing about whether Venus is a functional benefic in your chart, because functional grading is reckoned from the ascendant and needs your birth time. There is also a Tula-specific wrinkle worth knowing: for a Tula ascendant Venus rules the 1st and the 8th, and an 8th lordship is not a free amplification even for the lagna lord. The planet this ascendant genuinely supports is Saturn — yogakaraka for Tula rising, ruling the 4th and 5th, and exalted in the sign besides. But that grading only applies if Tula is your RISING sign. If all you know is that your Moon is in Tula, the question cannot be answered honestly, and strengthening a planet that turns out to be a functional malefic for your lagna is the most common self-inflicted remedy error in Jyotish.

What this page can NOT tell you

• A rashifal is a sign-level reading, which means every statement here lands on roughly one-twelfth of the people alive. Saturn genuinely is in the 6th from every Tula Moon today — that part is real — but the page cannot tell you which of your sixth-house matters he will touch. That needs your houses, and houses need a birth time.
• This page reads the Moon only. It does not know your ascendant, your Vimshottari Mahadasha, or which planets sit in which of your houses. For Tula the ascendant gap is unusually consequential, because Venus rules both the 1st and the 8th from this sign and Saturn — a natural malefic — is the yogakaraka for the lagna. Every functional grading quoted above flips entirely on the rising sign, and a favourable gochar during an unhelpful sub-period is a window that opens onto a wall.
• The pada matters more than the sign, and this page cannot know yours. A Tula Moon in Chitra pada 3 — vargottama, Mars star lord, Vishwakarma — and one in Swati pada 2, which opens on the Sun’s debilitation degree in a Saturn navamsa, are running noticeably different software inside the same rashi. If your birth time is approximate, run the birth time finder before trusting any pada-level reading anywhere, including this one.
• Transit positions here are stamped to the date they were computed for, and they will go stale. Jupiter leaves Karka for Simha around 3 November 2026, the Rahu–Ketu axis shifts on about 6 December 2026, Saturn turns direct in Meena around 12 December 2026, and Venus is retrograde and then combust across October and November. Those ingress and station dates carry roughly a day of uncertainty in the lightweight engine that produced them. Once the stamp above is behind you, treat this block as history and read the live panel instead.
• Two claims here are conventions rather than measurements, and we would rather flag them than let them pass as facts. Venus’s moolatrikona range of 0°–15° Tula is the BPHS figure and some lineages state it differently. And the classical grading of Saturn in the 3rd, 6th and 11th from the Moon as favourable is a gochar convention with genuine variation between texts — we hold it here because it is the standard position, not because the sky enforces it.
• Nothing on this page is medical, legal or financial advice, and no honest Jyotish reading names an outcome as certain. We describe windows and pressures. That caveat carries extra weight for a sign whose whole apparatus is comparison: a Tula Moon will read a relationship line against a specific person and a money line against a specific number, and neither is written that way. What you do inside a window is not in the chart.

All positions on this page are sidereal, computed with the Lahiri (Chitra-paksha) ayanamsa. Full birth charts on AskSoma run on Swiss Ephemeris; the transit, ingress, station and conjunction statements above were produced on 7 August 2026 with the lightweight truncated-series engine that also drives this page’s live panel — it is sign-accurate but not arc-second precise, which is why dates are stated as approximate to within about a day. Classical claims — Venus’s moolatrikona in Tula, Saturn’s exaltation at 20° Tula, the Sun’s debilitation at 10° Tula, the nakshatra lords and deities, and the navamsa counting rule for movable signs — follow Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra. The nakshatra pada boundaries are derived arithmetically rather than transcribed, so they can be checked by hand. Where traditions disagree, such as the precise moolatrikona range or the gochar grading of Saturn in the upachaya houses, we say so on the page rather than picking one silently.

How AskSoma computes and what we refuse to claim · Engine: Swiss Ephemeris for full birth charts; a lightweight truncated-series engine for the live sky panel and for the dated transit statements on this page. · Ayanamsa: Lahiri (Chitra-paksha) — the Rashtriya Panchang standard. · Content reviewed 2026-08-07 · Transit positions computed for 2026-08-07

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