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Rahu degree calculator

What is the degree of your Rahu? Enter your birth details to see it to the arc-minute, with its sign, house and nakshatra.

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Your answer will appear here the moment you press the button, with what it means for you.

How this calculator works

Rahu’s degree fixes everything else about it: its sign (30° each), its nakshatra (13°20′) and pada (3°20′), its Navamsa sign, and its rank among the chara karakas.

Rahu and Ketu are the Moon’s nodes, always exactly 180° apart. We use the mean node, as most Vedic software does; the true node can differ by up to about 1.5°.

Calculated in your browser from the same chart as our free Kundli: sidereal zodiac, Lahiri ayanamsa, whole-sign houses, mean node. The numbers match our free Kundli exactly.

Background

Rahu is not a planet but a point — where the Moon's orbit crosses the Sun's path going north. Vedic astrology counts it among the nine grahas, "seizers", because it seizes the Sun and Moon in eclipses. Rahu in Astrology: The North Node's Myth, Meaning and Dasha →

Questions

What is Rahu’s degree used for?

It places Rahu in a sign, nakshatra and pada, decides its Navamsa sign and its chara karaka rank (the Atmakaraka is the planet with the highest degree in its sign).

Why does another site show a slightly different degree?

A different ayanamsa (we use Lahiri), true versus mean nodes for Rahu and Ketu, or a different birth time or time zone. A few arc-minutes rarely change the sign.

Is a planet weak at 0° or 29°?

Many astrologers treat the first and last degree of a sign with care, but strength is read from dignity, house, aspects and the whole chart, not from one number.