Karka
Karka, the Vedic name for Cancer: the 4th rashi (sign) of the sidereal zodiac. Its lord is Moon, its element Water (Jala: feeling, intuition, and flow), and its nature chara, movable: it starts things, and moves on. In the Kalapurusha, the zodiac read as one body, it governs the chest, heart, and lungs. Because Vedic astrology measures against the fixed stars, Karka sits about 24° behind Western Cancer, so a planet in the first 24° or so of Western Cancer is usually in Vedic Mithuna (Gemini).
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