Free Chara Karaka calculator

Atmakaraka Calculator

Enter your birth details to find your Atmakaraka (soul planet), your Darakaraka (spouse planet) and all seven Jaimini chara karakas, with what each one means.

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What are the Chara karakas?

In Jaimini astrology, seven planets take on seven roles in your life, called the Chara (moving) karakas. Unlike fixed significators, they change from chart to chart: each planet's role depends on how far it has travelled through its sign, whatever the sign.

How the atmakaraka is found

Take the degree of each of the seven planets from the Sun to Saturn within its own sign. The planet with the highest degree is the Atmakaraka, the next is the Amatyakaraka, and so on down to the planet with the lowest degree, the Darakaraka. This calculator uses the seven-karaka scheme; some astrologers add Rahu, counted backwards, for an eighth (Pitrikaraka).

The seven karakas

  • Atmakaraka (AK): the soul, the main lesson of your life. Its navamsa sign is the Karakamsa.
  • Amatyakaraka (AmK): career and the work you are meant for.
  • Bhratrikaraka (BK): siblings, courage and guides.
  • Matrikaraka (MK): mother, home and education.
  • Putrakaraka (PK): children and creativity.
  • Gnatikaraka (GK): rivals, obstacles and tests.
  • Darakaraka (DK): the spouse and partnerships.

When two planets have almost the same degree, the karakas depend on the exact birth time: check both planets' minutes in the table. See the karakas with Arudha padas and Chara dasha in our Jaimini chapter.

Questions people ask

What is an atmakaraka?

The atmakaraka is the planet with the highest degree within its sign among the seven planets from the Sun to Saturn. In Jaimini astrology it stands for the soul and the main lesson of your life.

What is a darakaraka?

The darakaraka is the planet with the lowest degree within its sign among the seven karakas. Tradition reads it for the spouse and partnerships.

Why are they called Chara karakas?

Chara means moving: the roles move from planet to planet depending on each chart's degrees, unlike fixed significators such as Venus for marriage.

Is Rahu included?

This calculator uses the seven-karaka scheme, Sun to Saturn. Some astrologers include Rahu, counted backwards from the end of its sign, as an eighth karaka.