Makara
Makara, the Vedic name for Capricorn: the 10th rashi (sign) of the sidereal zodiac. Its lord is Saturn, its element Earth (Prithvi: steadiness, patience, and the practical), and its nature chara, movable: it starts things, and moves on. In the Kalapurusha, the zodiac read as one body, it governs the knees. Because Vedic astrology measures against the fixed stars, Makara sits about 24° behind Western Capricorn, so a planet in the first 24° or so of Western Capricorn is usually in Vedic Dhanu (Sagittarius).
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