karakamsha chart

Your Ishta Devata — a personal deity indicated by your chart — is traditionally found through the Atmakaraka and Karakamsha in Jaimini astrology. Here's the method, and why different traditions apply it differently.

The Atmakaraka is the planet at the highest degree in your birth chart — the significator of the soul in Jaimini astrology. Here's how to find it and what each planet means in that role.