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.
Finding your iṣṭa devatā from the chart: the kārakāṁśa and the twelfth house from it.
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 […]