Moon Sign Calculator & Finder

Your Moon sign is the zodiac sign the Moon was in when you were born. Vedic astrology calls it Chandra rashi, and for many Indian families it is the sign that counts most, more than the Sun sign. Each of the 12 signs covers 30° of the zodiac. This finder reports the sidereal sign, the one a Vedic birth chart uses.

The Moon is the fastest body in the chart. It spends only about two and a quarter days in each sign, so two people born a few days apart usually have different Moon signs while sharing a Sun sign. Astrologers read the Moon sign for temperament, habits and emotional responses, and they also use it for dasha, transits and matching. No single sign describes a whole person, though, and a full reading looks at the rest of the chart.

This page is both a Moon sign calculator and a Moon sign finder. It is one free tool, and it works the same way under either name. You enter your date, exact time and place of birth. The service behind GrahaDisha Kundli returns the Moon's sidereal sign and its degree inside that sign. The finder shows the sign directly and uses the Moon's full longitude to work out your birth nakshatra and pada as well.

The signs run in zodiac order from 0° sidereal Aries. Lords, elements and qualities are the traditional classifications. A movable (chara) sign starts a season, a fixed (sthira) sign holds it, and a dual (dwiswabhava) sign carries it into the next.

Every sign holds exactly nine nakshatra padas, which is where the 108 padas of the zodiac come from. That means a sign can contain whole nakshatras and parts of the nakshatras on either side. Families that name a child by the Moon sign pick the first sound from the syllables of those nine padas. Spellings differ by region, so check with your family priest if it matters.

For the pada your Moon is in, use the nakshatra finder.

Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, which follows the fixed stars. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, which follows the seasons. The two have drifted apart over the centuries, and the gap, called the ayanamsa, is about 24° today and grows by roughly 50 arc seconds a year.

Because 24° is most of a sign, your Vedic Moon sign is usually the sign before your Western one. That happens in about four cases out of five. If you were told you are a Taurus Moon in an app, you are likely an Aries Moon here. Neither is wrong, since they answer different questions. Use the sidereal sign when you follow Vedic astrology, Kundli matching or Sade Sati.

• Sade Sati: it begins when Saturn enters the sign before your Moon sign and lasts until Saturn leaves the sign after it. You need your Moon sign to know when. See Sade Sati.
• Transits (gochar): many predictions in Indian astrology count planetary transits from the Moon sign.
• Kundli matching: several of the eight Guna Milan checks compare the two partners' Moon signs and nakshatras. See Kundli matching.
• Dasha: the Moon's nakshatra, not the sign, starts the Vimshottari dasha, but the two are read together.
• Naming: some families choose the first sound of a name from the Moon sign or the pada.

• Use the birth time on a birth certificate or hospital record when you can.
• Check AM and PM, and choose the correct town from the suggestions.
• If the Moon was within a degree of a sign boundary, a time difference of an hour or two can change the sign. The result card warns you when that is the case.
• If another site disagrees, compare the zodiac (sidereal or tropical), the ayanamsa and the time zone it used.
• The Moon sign is one placement. A full Kundli shows the other planets and the houses.

जन्म के समय चंद्रमा जिस राशि में था, वही आपकी चंद्र राशि (मून साइन) है। वैदिक ज्योतिष में 12 राशियां हैं: मेष, वृषभ, मिथुन, कर्क, सिंह, कन्या, तुला, वृश्चिक, धनु, मकर, कुंभ और मीन। हर राशि 30° की होती है।

अपनी जन्म तारीख, सही समय और जन्म स्थान भरें। यह कैलकुलेटर चंद्रमा की निरयन स्थिति से आपकी चंद्र राशि, चंद्रमा की डिग्री, जन्म नक्षत्र और चरण दिखाता है। चंद्रमा लगभग सवा दो दिन में राशि बदलता है, इसलिए राशि की सीमा के पास जन्म समय की छोटी गलती से भी परिणाम बदल सकता है।

पश्चिमी ज्योतिष की राशि सायन पद्धति से निकलती है और वैदिक राशि निरयन से, इसलिए दोनों अक्सर अलग आती हैं। आम तौर पर वैदिक राशि पश्चिमी राशि से एक राशि पहले की होती है। साढ़े साती, गोचर और कुंडली मिलान में निरयन चंद्र राशि ही देखी जाती है। राशि से पूरे जीवन का फल नहीं बताया जा सकता, इसे चिकित्सा या कानूनी निर्णयों का आधार न बनाएं।