Atmakaraka - Desire of the Soul

Atma Karaka (AK) is the planet in your chart which indicates the desire of the soul. The planet act as King in the horoscope and all other planets must work for him. What happens if different planets act as Atma karaka si shown in Table below.

The house the Atmakaraka rules shows the area from where you can find fulfillment or where you experience the life lessons/pain. When the Atmakaraka planet rules two houses, pay extra importance to the house which is it’s mooltrikona position.

If Atmakaraka Grah or Planet is	Desire to achieve	One must practice
Sun	Success, Fame, Power	Letting go of the ego, humility
Moon	Happiness, Love, Satisfaction	Understanding Unhappiness; Difference between true and false love
Mars	Passion, Victory, Adventure	Conceding defeat, patience, unrequited passions
Mercury	Intellectual superiority	Crossing intellectual barriers, Divine communication, Learning to face the truth
Jupiter	Children, Spirituality	Tolerating other's spirituality, wisdom, putting your children before you, For women, imperfect husbands.
Venus	Sex, Relationships, Luxury, Sensuality	Accepting relationships the way they are, avoiding excessive behavior, controlling sensuality
Saturn	Democracy, Duty	Facing harsh truths, loneliness
Rahu	Achievement, Experience	Disappointments, fears, doubts

Lets Try this on various charts as shown below.

Indira Gandhi, Allahabad, Time of Birth 23 Hrs 11 Minutes

Indira Gandhi has Saturn as Atma karaka. saturn represents no change , cold behaviour, no nonsense , strict rules approach.Therefore the desire of atma will be to follow these paths.  Atma karaka in lagna itself is give of fame and power to the individual.

In her Chart, Saturn Rules 7th house (representing external world) and 8th House (Transformation, sudden change, sudden force, Hidden) and mool trikona house of Saturn is 8th house which represents Transformation. Therefore these two houses will indicate desire and suffering.

 Saturn in her lagna in sign cancer whose dispositor is Moon.  Moon has occupied capricorn sign in 7th house which is sign of leader ship and social rank. Therefore her  mind set was to gain leadership and rank . Saturn is again placed in Capricorn navamsa and aspecting 5th house of power confirming this. Capricorn sign (makar rasi) represents social order, law , Recognition, reputation, Respect for Positions of Power punishments, consequences, system-wide rules, no individual exceptions etc. She imposed emergency in 1975-77 to restore the social order post allahabad high court decision against her on electoral malpractices. shani in makar rasi  means (service with strict rules)

Saturn  represents masses and general working class, poor people . Her landslide victory came with a campaign called " Garibi Hatao' (look Saturn effect here) in 1971

Her husband Feroz died in very early age giving her lifetime loneliness. She had a lonely childhood as her younger brother died in early age. Her father Jawaharlal Nehru was mostly away and had limited contact with her through letters. we find that atmakaraka is placed in Arudha of 9th and 11th house in lagna confirming huge gains and luck for her.

Profession in Company selling Xerox machines

I was working with Modi Xerox ( selling photocopy and printing machines and fax machines) in 1998 in delhi and had a colleague who also worked in my department. I recently met him after 15 years and told him my interest in jyotisa . He requested me to do his Chart reading.

His date of birth is as follows

20/7/66

Delhi

Time of birth 8.35 am.

 As far as my own horoscope is concerned , it's gemini sign in 10th house confirming my karma shetra in printing and telecom. ( I left Xerox in 2000 and then worked with  Telecom companies. 

When I looked at his chart , it was Taurus sign in 10th house in his chart whose Lord venus was occupying gemini sign in 11th house confirming his karmashetra also in printing. I then asked him that since Taurus is ruling 10th house , there must be some association with the banks ( Taurus represents financial institutions) . He told me that he has been recently shifted from delhi to Mumbai and has been made incharge as service delivery manager taking care of banking clients. Interestingly his 8th house had Saturn (6th Lord of service and 7th Lord ( 7th is 10th from 10th) . Saturn was aspecting his 10th house from 8th. Saturn represents  shadow and Xerox  machine is shadow based printing. He has been working there for now almost 17 years earlier as secretary and now made as service delivery manager recently. Saturn occupying 8th and aspecting 10th confirm service  for such a long duration. Taurus is fixed sign ( pruthi tatva)  in his 10th house has also contributed to no career or job change. 

He then shared and confessed that he has lack of confidence since early childhood age. I looked at his chart and found that he was leo ascendant and sun was in Marana karaka Sthan . I told him this is the single biggest reason of his lack of confidence and advised him to worship sun and enchant surya Beej mantra.