A planet that sits at the highest degree in the sky over the place where you were born at the time of your birth is called Soul Planet or Atmakaraka in Vedic Astrology. Sun is a planet that radiates the energy of leaders. So when Sun is one’s Soul Planet it indicates that the true talent of these people is to take responsibility for themselves, their loved ones, their town, city, country.

Venus is a planet of beauty, luxury, wealth, good taste and artistic talents. This is a planet of artists, musicians, love and romantics. But only a harmonized Venus rewards a person with these qualities. Having Venus as your Soul Planet points to your soul’s desire to work through the qualities of this planet and establish a harmonious relationship with it.

Mercury is a planet of communications, intellect, foreign languages and astrology. Harmonious Mercury makes people sharp, logical, great speakers, polyglots, brilliant writers. It also gives us the ability to lead any type of negotiations, run a successful business and the ability to sell anything under the sun.

Moon is a very sensitive and emotional ‘planet.’ That is why Moon people are impacted significantly by the lunar cycles, new moons, full moons, eclipses. During these times insomnia, worrying, uneasy thoughts and fears might surface up. If people with the Soul Planet Moon practice any mind quieting exercises, they tend to develop very strong intuition and find themselves at the right place at the right moment throughout life.

Mars – is a warrior planet that is masculine, fiery, and feisty. This is a planet of achieving goals, logistics, engineering mindset, strategy, leadership and sport. A person with harmonious Mars is very active, a wonderful organizer and achiever both in personal and business lives.

Saturn is the most serious planet out of the 9 in Vedic Astrology. It is the slowest moving planet as well. Harmonious relationship with this planet’s energy makes a person responsible, gives the ability to bring structure into chaos, organizational skills, love of cleanliness and tidiness, gives the ability to serve others, makes a person patient and serious.

Jupiter is a planet that gives us wisdom, true knowledge, righteousness of thought, wealth, innate unconditional love towards every living being, a good partner to women and a lot of children. These people can be gurus, mentors and teachers.

Rahu is one of the most revolutionary and rebellious planets. It’s always moving in retrograde motion, aka backwards. Similarly, people with highlighted energy of Rahu always stand out in the crowd, they are not like others. They have a ton of ideas, revolutionary spirit, and are not afraid of massive global projects.