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Simha (Leo) rasi palan today — Friday, 23 October 2026

Times for Chennai, Tamil Nadu · Change town

As at 9 am

A mixed day

Some things move easily, some need a second push.

The Moon is in the eighth from your sign today — what is traditionally called Chandrashtama. It comes round about once a month and passes in a day or two. It is read as a low-energy day rather than an unlucky one: better for rest and routine work than for beginning something new.

Chandra (Moon) 7th from your sign helps marriage and partnerships; Sevvai (Mars) 12th asks care with rest and letting go.

For the planet weighing most on this part of the day, 8th from your sign: Recite the Chandra mantra, beginning on a Monday. Free, and the first remedy for an afflicted Moon.

The day's times

  • Good time

    in the morning –

    in the morning –

    in the morning – in the afternoon

    in the evening –

    For starting work, deals and money matters
  • Rahu kalam

    in the morning –

    Avoid new ventures and agreements
  • Yamagandam

    in the afternoon – in the evening

    Avoid important talks and journeys
  • Gulikai

    in the morning –

    Avoid it only for new beginnings

Sunrise

Sunset

Star by star

  • MaghaA day for carrying on, not for new starts.next good day to begin: today,
  • Purva PhalguniA good day to begin something new.To begin Fri 23 Oct, – Fri 23 Oct,
  • Uttara Phalguni, pada 1A day for carrying on, not for new starts.next good day to begin: yesterday,

Today, part by part

  • Something newFri 23 Oct, – Fri 23 Oct,
  • Workmixed (until )a new post or position and rivals and opponents overcome, but go carefully with work. (Why: Budha (Mercury) 3rd from your sign.)from mixeda new post or position and rivals and opponents overcome, but go carefully with work. (Why: Chandra (Moon) 8th and Budha (Mercury) 3rd from your sign.)
  • Businessmoney coming in. (Why: Surya (Sun) 3rd from your sign.)A deal or signature –
  • Moneymixedmoney coming in and prosperity, but go carefully with money. (Why: Sevvai (Mars) 12th from your sign.)
  • You and your healthfavourable (until )happier days and good healthfrom mixedhappier days and good health, but go carefully with yourself and your health. (Why: Chandra (Moon) 8th from your sign.)
  • TravelA journey – Soolam West — pariharam: Jaggery

Nothing marked today for: Family and friends

The days ahead

  1. Sat, 24 OctGentlyChandrashtama
  2. Sun, 25 OctGentlyChandrashtama — until PournamiMoon in Meena (Pisces) → Mesha (Aries)
  3. Tue, 27 OctQuietKiruthigaiMoon in Mesha (Aries) → Vrishabha (Taurus)
  4. Wed, 28 OctMixedVasthu day
  5. Thu, 29 OctMixedChaturthiMoon in Vrishabha (Taurus) → Mithuna (Gemini)

The Moon stands strongest for your sign on: Fri, 23 Oct, Fri, 30 Oct, Sat, 31 Oct

This week's sky

  • Shukra (Venus) sets (asta): no wedding muhurtham dates until Thu, 29 OctOrdinary

The next chandrashtama

  • Thu 19 Nov, – Sun 22 Nov,
  • Thu 17 Dec, – Sat 19 Dec,

Chandrashtama comes about once a month and lasts about two and a quarter days — a time to go slowly.

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Why — 8 reasons
Coloured arc = Simha (Leo) · dot = the Moon today

This season

a few weeks

  • Surya (Sun) · Tula (Libra)favourable

    Surya (Sun) is 3rd from your sign: effort and initiative

  • Sevvai (Mars) · Karka (Cancer)Ordinary

    Sevvai (Mars) is 12th from your sign: rest and letting go

  • Budha (Mercury) · Tula (Libra)Ordinary

    Budha (Mercury) is 3rd from your sign: effort and initiative

  • Shukra (Venus) · Tula (Libra)favourable

    Shukra (Venus) is 3rd from your sign: effort and initiative

The background

many months

  • Guru (Jupiter) · Karka (Cancer)Ordinary

    Guru (Jupiter) is 12th from your sign: rest and letting go · until 31 October 2026

  • Shani (Saturn) · Meena (Pisces)Ordinary

    Shani (Saturn) is 8th from your sign: change and what is unsettled · until 3 June 2027

  • Rahu · Kumbha (Aquarius)Ordinary

    Rahu is 7th from your sign: marriage and partnerships · until 5 December 2026

  • Ketu · Simha (Leo)Ordinary

    Ketu is 1st from your sign: how you feel in yourself · until 5 December 2026

Hour by hour

  1. until Fri 23 Oct, MixedChandra (Moon) is 7th from your sign: marriage and partnerships · Chandrabala holds
  2. from Fri 23 Oct, GentlyMoon in Meena (Pisces) is 8th from your sign: change and what is unsettledChandrashtama — until Sun 25 Oct,

Ashtama Sani — until 23 February 2028

How this is worked out

Each of the nine grahas is placed in a sign, and counted as a house from yours. Classical gochara says which of those placements help and which resist. The Moon carries the day because it changes sign every two and a quarter days; Saturn is background, because it has been saying the same thing for two years and cannot be why today differs from yesterday.

The day's panchang

That day's panchang

TithiShukla Dwadasithen Shukla Trayodasiin the afternoon

The lunar day, counted from the new or full moon.

NakshatraPurva Bhadrapadathen Uttara Bhadrapadaat night

The star the Moon stands in today; one of twenty-seven.

YogaDhruvaat night

The day's pattern from the Sun and Moon together; one of twenty-seven.

KaranaBalavain the afternoon

Half of a tithi; two in a day.

WeekdayFridayShukra (Venus)

SoolamWestpariharam: Jaggery

The direction a journey is not started in, today.

Pradosham

The day's yoga

Siddha yoga

Downward day

Tithi

Dwadasi

Bhadra tithi

steady and well-suited to ordinary work

Your own day, read from your birth star rather than your sign