Planet placements, graha by graha
A planet-placement guide asks two separate questions: what does the graha signify, and what kind of setting does the sign provide? The planet pages keep those layers visible instead of turning a placement into a label about a person. Each child guide names the planet's classical portfolio, the sign's element, modality, and lord, and the dignity or host relationship that applies to that exact pairing. The result is a comparison tool for doctrine, not a forecast. Start with the graha you want to understand, then use its linked placements to see which parts remain constant and which change from sign to sign.
What do the planet guides teach?
Every graha hub begins with the significations already recorded in the cited learn registry. Its 12 sign links then hold the planet steady while the surrounding rāśi changes. That structure makes distinctions easier to see: rulership differs from neutral placement, exaltation differs from debilitation, and a friendly dispositor differs from an uneasy host. The annotation beside a placement is a reading aid, not a score for a life. Open the child page for the precise degrees, lord relationship, directional-strength context, and source line behind the short label.
A dignity describes one condition of a planet. It does not replace the house, aspects, conjunctions, divisional context, or timing visible in an individual chart. The child articles repeat that boundary because a generic page cannot know those facts. Use the series to learn the vocabulary and compare configurations; use a calculated birth chart when the question is about an actual person.
How should you move through a planet series?
A useful first pass is to read one planet across several signs rather than treating a single page in isolation. Compare an own-sign placement with the same graha in its exaltation, debilitation, and neutral settings. Then follow the sign link from a child page to compare other planets placed in that same rāśi. Those two directions answer different questions: the planet hub shows what the sign changes around one graha, while the sign hub shows how several grahas respond to one setting.
The related links on each child page are deliberately limited to registry-backed families. They connect to the full sign series, dignity-relevant siblings, and a related dosha only when the repository records that relationship. This keeps the route useful without implying that every graha has every kind of article.
Which related guides are available?
The Sun, Moon, and Mars hubs also link their complete 12-house series because those are the 36 planet-in-house pages currently published. Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn do not show house links here: those matrix cells are not in the learn registry, so this hub does not pretend otherwise. Where a dosha page directly concerns a graha, the relevant planet hub links that explanation as a separate child family. House, sign, and dosha pages answer different questions, and the navigation keeps those scopes clear.
If you would rather begin with the setting, browse the sign hubs. If your starting point is a named concern, the calm dosha guides explain the rule before inviting any personal check. Whichever route you choose, the sources remain on the detail pages, and each page distinguishes general doctrine from the chart-specific factors it cannot see.
Sun in every sign
Sun is the kāraka of ātma (the soul), vitality, authority, the father, and one's sense of dignity and purpose.
Moon in every sign
Moon is the kāraka of manas (the mind), emotion, the mother, nourishment, and one's instinct for comfort and belonging.
Mars in every sign
Mars is the kāraka of śakti (energy), courage, drive, younger siblings, and technical or physical skill.
Mercury in every sign
Mercury is the kāraka of buddhi (intellect), speech, commerce, learning, and skilful communication.
Jupiter in every sign
Jupiter is the kāraka of wisdom, dharma, expansion, teaching, children, and good counsel.
Venus in every sign
Venus is the kāraka of the spouse, relationship, art, beauty, comfort, and the capacity for pleasure and agreement.
Saturn in every sign
Saturn is the kāraka of discipline, longevity, labour, endurance, delay, and the slow rewards of duty.