Sun in Capricorn (Surya in Makara)

The Sun in Capricorn is in an enemy's sign. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, and the Sun counts Saturn an enemy.

The relationship runs both ways: the Sun counts Saturn an enemy, and Saturn counts the Sun an enemy. A mutual reading is the simpler case — the graha and its host agree about each other, so the placement does not change character depending on which of the two is stronger.

Capricorn is a chara earth sign governing the knees, and the Sun is reckoned mild malefic, governing soul, ego, vitality, leadership, father. Whatever the Sun signifies — father, government, authority, the soul (atma), medicine, administration — is what this rashi’s restlessness moves along.

The Dignity, Stated Precisely

• In Capricorn: in an enemy's sign.
• The Sun’s own sign: Leo.
• Exalted in: Aries, deepest at 10°.
• Debilitated in: Libra.
• Moolatrikona: Leo 0°–20°.
• Capricorn’s lord: Saturn. Capricorn exalts Mars at 28° and debilitates Jupiter at 5°.

What the Sun Aspects From Capricorn

Every graha casts a full aspect on the 7th house from itself, and the Sun has no special drishti beyond it, so the 7th is the whole of its reach. Counting from Capricorn, that lands on:

• 7th from Capricorn → Cancer (Karka), ruled by Moon.

Cancer is not one of the Sun’s own rashis, so the single aspect the Sun throws from Capricorn lands on Moon’s territory. Whose territory it is decides how the aspect is received.

How Far Capricorn Is From the Sun’s Own Ground

A graha is read partly by how far it has been displaced from the rashi it owns, and that distance is simple counting. Counting inclusively from Leo, Capricorn falls as follows:

• 6th from Leo — a 6/8 — the shashtashtaka relation, the most awkward of the twelve.
• 10th from Aries, the sign of its exaltation — a square, both of them kendra houses.
• 4th from Libra, the sign of its fall — a square, both of them kendra houses.
• Opposite Capricorn stands Cancer, ruled by Moon — the rashi the Sun faces from here, and therefore the one it aspects whatever else it does or does not aspect.

The Company the Sun Keeps in Capricorn

Dignity runs in both directions, and the rashi has its own roster. Capricorn runs from 270°00′ to 300°00′ of sidereal longitude — the arc the Sun crosses about Jan 15 – Feb 12 — faces south, is classed female, and as an earth sign is of the Vaishya varna. Within those thirty degrees:

• Ruled by Saturn.
• Exalts Mars at 28° — not the Sun, so the strongest single degree of Capricorn is not the Sun’s.
• Debilitates Jupiter at 5°, a different graha from the Sun.
• Holds no moolatrikona. Capricorn contains no graha’s moolatrikona stretch, so there is no privileged arc within it.

So the Sun shares Capricorn with both an exaltation degree and a debilitation degree belonging to other grahas. A graha sitting close to either point is read against it, which is a reason the exact degree matters more in Capricorn than in a sign carrying neither. Capricorn’s own traits — ambitious, disciplined, patient, practical, reserved — are the register in which soul, ego, vitality, leadership, father gets expressed when the Sun sits here.

The Nine Padas the Sun Crosses in Capricorn

A rashi is thirty degrees and a pada is three degrees twenty minutes, so every sign holds exactly nine padas — never a round number of nakshatras. Capricorn holds 3 nakshatras in whole or in part: Uttara Ashadha (padas 2, 3, 4), Shravana and Dhanishta (padas 1, 2).

The Sun rules Krittika, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha, and one of them falls inside Capricorn: Uttara Ashadha (padas 2, 3, 4). Those degrees are the part of Capricorn where the Sun is on its own ground regardless of what the sign lord thinks of it — a nakshatra lordship is a second, finer layer of dignity, and it does not have to agree with the first. That matters here, because it gives the Sun a foothold in a sign whose lord it counts an enemy.

When the Sun Is Actually in Capricorn

This is the part of the page that is not in a textbook. Computed from the DE421 sidereal ephemeris, the Sun occupies Capricorn for 2 stretches inside 2026 and 2027:

• 14 January 2026 to 13 February 2026 — 30 days, after which the Sun moves on to Aquarius.
• 14 January 2027 to 13 February 2027 — 30 days, after which the Sun moves on to Aquarius.

Dates rather than clock times, because that is what a placement question needs. The ingress instants are computed and are printed on the monthly readings, where they matter for choosing a day.

Reading the Sun in Capricorn

The Sun signifies father, government, authority, the soul (atma), medicine, administration. In Capricorn those significations are filtered through a chara earth sign ruled by Saturn, and the dignity above says how much support they get in the process. In an enemy’s sign they meet resistance from the host, and the results tend to arrive late or in a form the native did not ask for.

This is not a prediction, and it cannot be one: the house Capricorn occupies from the ascendant, which of the nine padas above holds the graha, and the running dasha all change the answer. The Sun is reckoned mild malefic, and it gains in the 1st, 5th, 9th, 10th and 11th while it struggles in the 4th, 7th and 12th — so Sun in Capricorn is a different placement in each of them. Under Kaal Purush Capricorn is the 10th bhava, so Sun in the 10th house is the same pairing read from the bhava side, with the Capricorn transit dated for each of the twelve ascendants.

For what the Sun does when strong and when afflicted, its 6-year mahadasha, and the full remedy set, see the Sun (Surya) page. The short form: the Sun’s day is Sunday, its gemstone is Ruby (Manik), its mantra is Om Suryaya Namah, and its deities are Surya, invoked through the Aditya Hridayam.

Sun in the Other Eleven Rashis

The Other Eight Grahas in Capricorn