The 2nd of the twelve rashis · 30°–60° of the sidereal zodiac
Vrishabh Rashi
Taurus Moon sign · ruled by Shukra
Vrishabh is your rashi if the Moon was in Taurus when you were born: the rashi your rashifal, Sade Sati and naam akshar go by. People with the Moon in Vrishabh are calm, patient and steady. Its lord is Shukra, its nakshatras are Krittika (padas 2–4), Rohini and Mrigashira (padas 1–2), and a Vrishabh child’s name traditionally begins with one of I (ई), U (उ), E (ए), O (ओ), Va (वा), Vi (वी), Vu (वू), Ve (वे), Vo (वो).
Also written Vrishabha, Vrushabha, Rishabam.
Vrishabh at a glance
The sign’s own facts, the same for every Vrishabh Moon.
People with the Moon in Vrishabh
The Moon is the karaka (significator) of the mind, so its rashi says how a person feels and takes things. Your lagna and the rest of the chart shape it further.
The Moon is exalted here, so the mind is settled: they value comfort, good food, family and money saved, and once they commit they stay loyal. The other side is stubbornness and a dislike of change. Vrishabh is Shukra's rashi, and Shukra gives a feel for beauty and music.
What Varahamihira says
Brihat Jataka says a person born with Chandra in Vrishabha (Taurus) is good-looking with a graceful walk, generous, patient, pleasant in manner and devoted to friends. The verse gives such a person influence and authority, a hearty appetite and happiness in middle and old age, and says they bear hardship well. It notes a tendency to kapha (phlegm) complaints and cautions of times of separation from kin, wealth and children. Varahamihira adds (17.13) that this holds in full only when the Moon, Vrishabh and its lord Shukra are all strong at birth.
Brihat Jataka 17.2
Strengths
With Shukra as lord, Vrishabh has a good eye for quality, whether it is choosing cloth for a wedding, setting up a home or judging which shop gives honest value. Steady as a Sthira (fixed), Prithvi (earth) sign, it builds slowly and keeps what it builds: a family business, a well-run kitchen, a home where relatives know they are welcome on festival days.
What to watch
Comfort, Shukra's gift, can quietly become a reason not to move, such as staying in a job that has stopped paying fairly or leaving savings in one old account out of habit. A yearly sitting with the family's papers, savings and insurance, around Dhanteras or the new financial year, puts Vrishabh's steadiness to good use.
Work, marriage and health for Vrishabh
Jyotish also reads a chart with the Moon sign as its lagna (Chandra lagna): the 10th from the Moon for work, the 7th for marriage, and the rashi’s own limb and element for health. The 7th sign describes the partner’s nature, not the rashi your partner will have. This is tradition, not a forecast; your full kundli decides.
Work and career
For Vrishabh the 10th sign from the Moon is Kumbh (Aquarius), ruled by Shani (Saturn), which points to work built slowly through discipline: land, engineering, large organisations and long service in one place. Vrishabh's own lord Shukra (Venus) adds a hand for the arts, hospitality, fine goods and vehicles, so a vehicle dealership, a hotel or a family business in clothes and furnishings suits this pairing. In the classical table of graha friendships Shukra and Shani are friends, so craft and discipline sit easily together in one career, as in architecture or a well-run family firm.
Marriage
The 7th sign from the Moon is Vrishchik (Scorpio), ruled by Mangal (Mars), so tradition reads a partner of strong feeling, deep loyalty and a will of their own. Vrishchik is a Sthira (fixed) sign, as Vrishabh is, which points to a bond that lasts, with stubbornness on both sides; a shaadi stays happy here when neither digs in over small things. Vrishabh's own lord Shukra (Venus) is also the karaka (significator) of marriage, so the tradition reads Shukra's strength in the full kundli alongside the 7th.
Health
Tradition links Vrishabh to the face in the Kalapurusha, the zodiac pictured as one body (Brihat Jataka 1.4), and as a Prithvi (earth) rashi to a steady, solid build. The verse above adds a kapha (phlegm) leaning, so the tradition's counsel is moderation at the table and some care with colds and cough in the damp, cold months. (Parashara, in the box below, calls the sign itself vata; Varahamihira's kapha is about the person.)
Vrishabh’s nakshatras and naam akshar
Each rashi holds nine padas, a quarter of a nakshatra each. The pada the Moon was in gives the syllable a name traditionally begins with.
| Nakshatra | Lord | Span in Vrishabh | Padas in Vrishabh | Naam akshar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Krittika | Surya (Sun) | 0°–10° | 2–4 | I (ई), U (उ), E (ए) |
| Rohini | Chandra (Moon) | 10°–23°20′ | all four | O (ओ), Va (वा), Vi (वी), Vu (वू) |
| Mrigashira | Mangal (Mars) | 23°20′–30° | 1–2 | Ve (वे), Vo (वो) |
Shani, Guru and Rahu for Vrishabh now
These houses are counted from your Moon, as the rashifal counts them. Sade Sati is Shani in the 12th, 1st or 2nd from the Moon, about seven and a half years; a dhaiyya is Shani in the 4th (Kantaka) or 8th (Ashtama), about two and a half. The same for every Vrishabh Moon; your own chart decides how they land.
- Shani (Saturn)Now in Meen, your 11th house from the Moon, so neither Sade Sati nor a dhaiyya is running; the 11th is one of the three houses where Shani does good from the Moon (Phaladeepika 26.2). Next: Sade Sati from 3 June 2027 until 20 October 2027, then from 23 February 2028 until 13 July 2034 and Kantaka Shani (a dhaiyya, Shani in the 4th) from 27 August 2036 until 22 October 2038, then from 5 April 2039 until 13 July 2039. Sade Sati · dhaiyya dates.
- Guru (Jupiter)Now in your 3rd house from the Moon, the house of courage, younger siblings and short journeys. After that it moves to your 4th (home, mother, vehicles, property and peace of mind) from 31 October 2026, back to your 3rd from 25 January 2027, back to your 4th from 26 June 2027 and to your 5th (children, studies and judgement) from 26 November 2027.
- RahuNow in your 10th house from the Moon, the house of work, status and dealings with seniors. After that it moves to your 9th (father, fortune, faith and long journeys) from 5 December 2026.
Upay for Vrishabh: its lord Shukra
A rashi is kept strong through its lord. These are free; each says what it is for.
- Shukra’s mantra, 108 times on Fridaysॐ शुक्राय नमःOm Shukraya Namah. The simplest mantra of Vrishabh’s lord, said for marriage, comforts and harmony at home.
- Beej mantra (the seed mantra), for regular japa (chanting on a mala)ॐ द्रां द्रीं द्रौं सः शुक्राय नमःOm Draam Dreem Draum Sah Shukraya Namah. For a fuller japa of Shukra, said 108 times a day, when Vrishabh’s lord needs strengthening: in its dasha (its planetary period), or when it is weak in your chart.
- Worship of LakshmiThe deity tradition links with Vrishabh, worshipped for prosperity and a home that keeps what it earns; a temple visit or a lamp at home is the simplest form.
A gemstone is not given by rashi. A stone that suits one chart can harm another, so it is chosen from your whole kundli.
Vrishabh in kundli matching
Of the eight kootas (the parts of gun milan), four are read from the rashi alone, worth 15 of the 36 points: Varna (1, the sign’s class), Vashya (2, mutual attraction), Graha Maitri (5, the lords’ friendship) and Bhakoot (7, love and the family’s wellbeing).
- Best and hardest on the rashi aloneTaking Vrishabh as the boy’s rashi, Vrishabh scores highest of the other eleven with Kumbh (14/15) and lowest with Dhanu (1.5/15). Two Vrishabh Moons together score the full 15 on these four. Swap the boy’s and girl’s rashis and Varna and Vashya can score differently, so each pair page gives both ways. The other four kootas, 21 points, need both nakshatras.
- BhakootBhakoot, worth 7 points, scores 0 when the two rashis sit 2nd–12th, 5th–9th or 6th–8th from each other. With Mesh and Dhanu the dosha stands. With Mithun, Kanya, Makar and Tula it is cancelled, because the two lords are the same graha or friends to each other: Bhakoot still scores 0 of 7, but astrologers do not treat the match as blocked by it.
- Vashya (2 points)Vrishabh is Chatushpada (four-footed). Vashya, the koota of mutual attraction, gives Vrishabh the full 2 points with a partner whose Moon is in Vrishabh, Mesh or Makar (first half). Dhanu and Makar change class at 15°, and the counts here take their first half: with a Moon in Dhanu’s second half Vrishabh gets 2 points and with one in Makar’s second half, 1 point.
Vrishabh with every rashi, koota by koota → · Full kundli matching
Vrishabh as Parashara describes it
The sign’s own make-up, apart from any graha in it.
- Colour: white
- Long body
- Quadruped (four-footed)
- Strong at night
- Direction: south
- Earthy
- Prishtodaya: rises with its back
- Lord: Shukra (Venus)
- Sthira (fixed), female, saumya (gentle)
- Vata (windy) temperament
Vata, pitta and kapha are the three doshas of Ayurveda (air, fire and water in the body). A sign rises head first (shirshodaya) or back first (prishtodaya) by how its figure comes up in the east; the texts use this, with day or night strength, to time results. Parashara describes the sign itself; Varahamihira, above, the person whose Moon is in it, so the two can differ.
Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra 4.5, 4.8
Common questions
What is Vrishabh rashi?
Vrishabh (Taurus) is the 2nd of the twelve rashis, 30°–60° of the sidereal zodiac, ruled by Shukra. It is your rashi if the Moon was in it when you were born.
What are the naam akshar for Vrishabh rashi?
I (ई), U (उ), E (ए), O (ओ), Va (वा), Vi (वी), Vu (वू), Ve (वे), Vo (वो): one for each of the nine padas, in order. The pada of the Moon at birth gives the one to use.
Which rashis match Vrishabh best?
On the four kootas a rashi decides, Vrishabh scores highest of the other eleven with Kumbh (14 of 15, Vrishabh taken as the boy’s rashi); two Vrishabh Moons together score the full 15. A real match needs both kundlis: the nakshatra kootas carry 21 of the 36 points.
What is the mantra for Vrishabh rashi?
Om Shukraya Namah, the mantra of its lord Shukra, 108 times on Fridays. The upay section above gives the beej mantra and the deity too.
Is Vrishabh rashi in Sade Sati or dhaiyya now?
Neither now. Shani is in Meen, the 11th from Vrishabh. Next comes Sade Sati from 3 June 2027 until 20 October 2027, then from 23 February 2028 until 13 July 2034; then Kantaka Shani (a dhaiyya, Shani in the 4th) from 27 August 2036 until 22 October 2038, then from 5 April 2039 until 13 July 2039.
How is 2027 for Vrishabh rashi?
2027 is at its best in November and December and slowest in June and August. The 2027 rashifal gives every month, with the Shani, Guru and Rahu moves above.
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