Your Iṣṭa Devatā comes from the 12th house from your kārakāṁśa. Rāśi dṛṣṭi, the seven or eight kāraka scheme and the chart you read it in can each change the answer, and most people are never told about any of them.
Jaimini’s system: the chara kārakas, aruḍhas, rāśi dṛṣṭi, argala and chara daśā, read from the sūtras and real charts.
By Tirth Doshi, Vedic astrologer in Ahmedabad. Parāśarī and Jaimini, True Citrapakṣa ayanāṁśa. 26 September 2026 The aruḍha padas of all twelve houses, from the aruḍha lagna to the upapada, with the lord that decides each one and the grahas that sit in it. How it works The aruḍha pada of a house is the […]
By Tirth Doshi, Vedic astrologer in Ahmedabad. Parāśarī and Jaimini, True Citrapakṣa ayanāṁśa. 26 September 2026 Your Jaimini chara kārakas, from the ātmakāraka to the dārakāraka, with the sign, house, nakṣatra and navāṁśa of each. Rāhu is counted by default, as in Jagannātha Horā, and you can leave him out. How it works The chara […]
By Tirth Doshi, Vedic astrologer in Ahmedabad. Parāśarī and Jaimini, True Citrapakṣa ayanāṁśa. 26 September 2026 Your iṣṭa devatā by Jaimini’s kārakāṁśa method. The calculator finds your ātmakāraka, its navāṁśa sign, the 12th from it and the graha that decides that house, and gives the deity for that graha, with all your chara kārakas. It […]