Chandra

Chandra is the Moon. The Brihat Jataka lists Seetharasmi among its names and makes the Moon the mind of the Kalapurusha, the figure whose body parts are the signs. It stands with the Sun as a king of the planets. The book counts it as a female planet linked with water, the color white, the north-west, a salt flavor, and the months of July and August.

Karka is the Moon's one sign, and Taurus is where it is exalted, at the third degree. Scorpio holds its fall at the same degree. The book lists Taurus as the Moon's mulatrikona too, a named place of added strength, and the Wikisource typing of the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, whose edition is not stated, treats the stretch beyond the first three degrees of Taurus as that mulatrikona. As the quoted line shows, the Moon has friends but no enemies in this table, and Iyer's note spells out that the Moon has no enemies.

Several parts of the system run through the Moon. The nakshatra, the lunar mansion the Moon occupies, picks the lord of the opening dasha period in the Vimshottari scheme, and the Moon's own period lasts 10 years, assigned to Rohini, Hasta and Shravana. The Brihat Jataka also gives the waning Moon a place among the malefic planets, and credits the Moon with strength at night and in the northern or fourth sign.

Two chapters of the book take the Moon as their subject: chapter XVI by nakshatra and chapter XVII by sign. Iyer's introduction says the rising sign, the Lagna, matters in its own right, and the Moon sign topic page takes up how far a Moon-first habit goes back. A planet sees the seventh house fully, as the Moon does, and no special aspect is listed for it.