Today's Reading
Libra horoscope
तुला · Tula · the Scales
Sidereal Oct 18 – Nov 16·Tropical Sep 23 – Oct 22
Today's panchang · Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Moon in Vishakha · Priti yoga · Shukla Paksha
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Lucky indicators
Friday is Venus's weekday, which is why it carries here — the day belongs to the sign's lord, not to the sign, and the number follows the same attribution rather than a separate tradition. The colour does not: every graha that rules two rashis is given a different colour in each of them, so this one is attributed to the rashi itself and not to Venus.
About
Libra — Tula Rashi
Libra is a movable air sign ruled by Shukra, and it holds the exact opposition that defines it: Saturn is exalted here at 20 degrees while the Sun is debilitated at 10 — the same two degrees, reversed, that Aries assigns the other way. The sign is therefore read as favouring balance, contract and impartiality over personal authority.
Classification
How Tula is classified
Before any prediction, a rashi is placed on a handful of classical axes. These are not interpretive — every authority gives the same answers, and they are what decide which planet is comfortable here, what part of the body the sign governs, and whether a muhurta chosen under it will hold.
Owns Tula. Its placement is what a Libra reading actually rests on.
Which makes Tula a Shudra sign in Varna Koota, the first of the eight kootas in Kundli Milan.
Ends opens its quarter of the zodiac.
Alternates strictly from Aries, so every male sign sits at an odd number.
Used in prashna and in siting, where the sign of a chart's ascendant points to a quarter.
The zodiac mapped onto a body from head to feet; Tula is the lower abdomen and kidneys.
What chara actually means in practice
Movable signs begin each quarter of the zodiac and correspond to the angular houses. Matters ruled from a chara rashi start quickly and change direction just as readily, and muhurta for travel, launches and anything meant to move is preferred here.
Dignity
Which planets are strong in Tula
A planet's strength is read first from the sign it sits in. The same Mars is a different Mars in each of the twelve, and the classical scheme is fixed: each planet has one sign it owns, one where it is exalted (uccha) and the sign exactly opposite that where it is debilitated (neecha), always at the same degree.
A planet in its own sign (swakshetra) is never weak, whatever else afflicts it.
A specific arc inside the sign, ranked just below exaltation — the degrees where the planet is most fully itself.
Strongest possible placement. The stated degree is the exact point of deepest exaltation, not the whole sign.
Weakest placement — though neecha bhanga, cancellation of debility, is common enough that it must be checked before anything is concluded from it.
Note the symmetry with Aries (Mesha), the sign exactly opposite: Saturn is exalted here and debilitated there, at the same degree. That mirroring is exact across all six axes of the zodiac, and it is why an astrologer reading a planet in Tula always looks at the seventh house from it as well.
Nakshatras
The three nakshatras inside Tula
The rashi is the coarse division. Underneath it the zodiac is cut into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each quartered into padas of 3°20′ — so a 30° rashi holds exactly nine padas and touches exactly three nakshatras, with nothing left over. Your Moon's nakshatra, not your rashi, is what sets your Vimshottari dasha sequence, which is why two people with the same Moon sign can be living through entirely different periods.
| Degrees in Libra | Nakshatra | Pada | Lord | Navamsa |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0°00′ – 3°20′ | Chitra | 3 of 4 | Mars | Libra |
| 3°20′ – 6°40′ | Chitra | 4 of 4 | Mars | Scorpio |
| 6°40′ – 10°00′ | Swati | 1 of 4 | Rahu | Sagittarius |
| 10°00′ – 13°20′ | Swati | 2 of 4 | Rahu | Capricorn |
| 13°20′ – 16°40′ | Swati | 3 of 4 | Rahu | Aquarius |
| 16°40′ – 20°00′ | Swati | 4 of 4 | Rahu | Pisces |
| 20°00′ – 23°20′ | Vishakha | 1 of 4 | Jupiter | Aries |
| 23°20′ – 26°40′ | Vishakha | 2 of 4 | Jupiter | Taurus |
| 26°40′ – 30°00′ | Vishakha | 3 of 4 | Jupiter | Gemini |
The Navamsa column is the D-9 chart placement of each pada — a separate division from the rashi, read for marriage and for a planet's underlying strength. A planet can look well placed in the rashi chart and thin in the navamsa, which is exactly why the two are read together. Both ends of Libra are cut: Chitra (padas 3, 4) and Vishakha (padas 1, 2, 3), with the remaining padas of each sitting in the neighbouring rashi, and only Swati falls wholly inside. Nine of the 27 nakshatras are split this way, and Libra is one of the six rashis that take two of them.
Solar ingress
Tula Sankranti
The Sun enters sidereal Tula at Tula Sankranti, around Oct 18, and stays about a month. This is a real astronomical event rather than a calendar convention, and it is why the sidereal dates above are the ones a Vedic reading uses — Tula Sankranti is Tula Sankramana, kept in Karnataka and Odisha with ritual bathing in the Kaveri and the Mahanadi.
The tropical range you will see elsewhere, Sep 23 – Oct 22, is set from the spring equinox instead of from the stars. The two definitions of 0° Aries drifted apart at roughly a degree every 72 years and now differ by about 24 degrees — the ayanamsa. Neither is a mistake; they answer different questions, and this site answers the sidereal one throughout.
The lord
Venus rules Tula
A daily Libra horoscope is, underneath, a reading of Venus. Where it sits in your chart, which house it occupies, what aspects it, and whether it is running a dasha period decide far more than the sign label does.
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Questions
Libra horoscope — common questions
Is my Libra horoscope read from my Sun sign or my Moon sign?+
From the Moon. This is the single biggest difference between a Vedic reading and the Western one most people have seen: Jyotish treats the Chandra rashi — the sign the Moon occupied at birth — as primary, and reads the Sun sign as a secondary indicator of vitality and standing. So a daily Libra rashifal is written for people whose Moon is in Tula, not for people born between Sep 23 – Oct 22. If you know your Moon sign, read that one. If you do not, cast a free Kundli and it will tell you, along with your nakshatra.
Why are the Libra dates here different from the ones I usually see?+
Because there are two zodiacs and they no longer line up. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, which pins 0° Aries to the spring equinox; Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, which is fixed to the actual stars. The equinox drifts against the stars by about one degree every 72 years, and the gap has now opened to roughly 24 degrees — that offset is the ayanamsa. So tropical Libra runs Sep 23 – Oct 22 while sidereal Libra runs Oct 18 – Nov 16, and the Sun's actual entry into Tula is Tula Sankranti. Both sets are given on this page: the tropical dates because they are what you recognise, the sidereal ones because they are what the reading is computed from.
Which planet rules Libra?+
Venus. In Jyotish Venus owns Tula, and its moolatrikona — the stretch where it is most comfortably itself — falls at Venus, 0°–15°. That matters practically: a Libra reading is really a reading of where Venus sits in your chart, which house it occupies, what aspects it, and whether it is currently running a dasha period. The sign sets the terms; the lord decides the outcome.
Which nakshatras fall in Libra?+
Three, always. Chitra (padas 3, 4, ruled by Mars); Swati (all four padas, ruled by Rahu); Vishakha (padas 1, 2, 3, ruled by Jupiter). The arithmetic is exact rather than approximate: 27 nakshatras of four padas each is 108 padas, and 108 divided among 12 rashis is nine padas per rashi with nothing left over. Two of these are split across rashi boundaries here — Chitra (padas 3, 4) and Vishakha (padas 1, 2, 3) — so two people can share a nakshatra and still sit in different rashis. Your nakshatra decides your Vimshottari dasha sequence, so it matters more for timing than the rashi does.
What does it mean that Libra is a chara sign?+
Movable signs begin each quarter of the zodiac and correspond to the angular houses. Matters ruled from a chara rashi start quickly and change direction just as readily, and muhurta for travel, launches and anything meant to move is preferred here. Tula is one of the four chara rashis, along with the three at 90, 180 and 270 degrees from it. In practice this is what an astrologer reads before anything else when choosing a muhurta, because it decides whether a thing started under that sign is likely to move, hold or repeat.
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