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Dear Zamani

The atmakaraka is the planet with the highest number of degrees in the

chart.

In your chart the AK is mars, in the 10H.

take care,

Marcia

At 12:22 PM 12/12/01 -0800, you wrote:

Hi Its Zmaani , what would my

atmakaraka plnet be ? based on my birthdata

Zamani

9 - 19 - 1968

10: 23 am

Eastern Daylight Savings Time

Brooklyn New York

75w10, 39n57 Libra lagna

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Om Sri Krsnaaya Namah!

 

Hi Zamani,

 

>Hi Its Zmaani , what would my atmakaraka plnet be ?

 

While the natural atmakaraka (Naisargika atmakaraka) in jyotish is always

the Sun, the temporary atmakaraka (Chara atmakaraka - often called the

"Jaimini atmakaraka") is not fixed. To find it, you take the longitudes of

the seven planets from the Sun to Saturn (without considering the signs) and

also Rahu's longitude subtracted from 30* (again without sign

considerations). Now, out of this list, the planet with the highest

longitude is the atmakaraka. So in your case it's Mercury at 29*33' Virgo.

 

It should be noted that there is a controversy from ancient times as to

whether or not Rahu should be used or not. Sages Parashara and Jaimini talk

of some of their contemporaries using a seven karaka scheme (excluding

Rahu). However, both of them unanimously recommend the eight karaka scheme.

By all means you can experiment to find which system you find best - having

tried both I find the eight karaka scheme to work better. But when

experimenting with the seven karaka scheme, note that the seven karaka

scheme popularly used today is in fact still different from that used in

ancient times, and therefore, as far as I am aware, it has no classical

backing. In the ancient seven karaka scheme, the putra karaka is omitted

while the pitri karaka is kept, whereas the modern seven karaka scheme does

the opposite. The latter system does not therefore have any remote level of

classical support.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Pursottam

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