What's my Atmakaraka?
In Jaimini astrology, the planet at the highest degree in your chart is your Atmakaraka (AK) — the “soul significator,” read as the carrier of your central life-lesson. This tool finds your AK and all eight chara karakas, decoded as soul-themes to grow through — never a verdict, never good or bad.
How chara karakas work
The seven (or eight, including Rahu) chara karakas are assigned by ranking the planets by their degrees within their signs. The highest is the Atmakaraka (soul); the rest fill the roles of mind/career (AmK), siblings (BK), mother (MK), father (PiK), children (PK), obstacles (GK) and spouse (DK). Mitram uses the eight-karaka computation. To go deeper on how self vs. outer image is read, see Arudha Lagna — self vs. image.
The Atmakaraka by planet
Classical sources
- Jaimini Upadesha Sutras — The chara karaka scheme
- Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra — Chara karakas (the movable significators)
The Atmakaraka is read here as the soul's central theme — a classical lens, not a verdict or a fixed outcome. How it expresses depends on the planet's placement in your full chart, and we never attach a fabricated accuracy percentage to it.