Singh rashi (सिंह) is Leo in English, the fifth sign of the Vedic zodiac. It is ruled by Sun, belongs to the fire element, is fixed (sthira) in quality and is symbolised by the lion. In Vedic astrology Singh is your rashi only if the Moon was in it when you were born; the Sun crosses it 17 Aug – 16 Sep in 2026.
Simha is Surya's only rashi and the only sign no other graha owns a share of. It is the seat of the self: authority, recognition, and the refusal to be diminished. Magha, the nakshatra of the ancestors and the throne, opens it. A Simha Moon needs to be seen; denied that, the classical texts warn of pride hardening into isolation.
The classical meaning of a rashi comes from its lord, its element and its quality taken together: Sun ruling a sign of the fire element and fixed quality. Read as shorthand, a Moon in Singh leans towards the four qualities above. Treat them as the sign's raw material rather than a portrait of a person: the planets that sit with the Moon, the house Singh falls in from your lagna and the dasha that is running change the picture a great deal.
The name letters of Singh rashi are Ma, Mee, Moo, Me, Mo, Ta, Tee, Too, Te. Each is the naming syllable of one of the nine nakshatra padas that fall inside the sign, so a name that begins with one of these sounds has Singh as its naam rashi. The naam rashi is a naming convention; your Moon sign still comes from your birth time.
Choosing a name for a baby? The baby name letters calculator gives the syllable for the exact nakshatra pada, and the rashi by name calculator reads the rashi of a name you already have.
Singh rashi holds Magha, Purva Phalguni, Uttara Phalguni (1st pada). A rashi is 30 degrees wide and a nakshatra 13°20', so a sign holds two and a quarter nakshatras and shares the padas at its edges with Kark and Kanya. The nakshatra your Moon sits in inside Singh decides your Vimshottari dasha and much of your marriage matching.
Only if the Moon was in Singh when you were born. Western horoscopes use the tropical Sun sign, which sits about 24 degrees away from the sidereal zodiac every Indian panchang uses, so a newspaper column and a Vedic chart often give different signs. The Moon crosses a rashi in about two and a quarter days, which is why the date alone cannot settle it and the birth time is needed. Calculate your Moon sign, find your birth nakshatra, or make the full kundli to see the lagna and all nine planets.
Short answers about Singh rashi: its English name, lord, name letters and dates.
Your own rashi is your Moon sign. It takes a date, a time and a place.
Find my Moon signSingh rashi (सिंह) is Leo in English. It is the fifth sign of the sidereal zodiac, spanning 120° to 150°, and its symbol is the lion. The Vedic and Western Leo share a name but not dates: the sidereal zodiac sits about 24 degrees behind the tropical one, so the Sun reaches Singh about three weeks later.
Sun is the lord of Singh rashi. The lord, or rashi swami, is the planet that owns the sign, and a reading of the sign always goes through it: where Sun sits in your chart, how strong it is and when its dasha runs matter more than the sign alone. Sun rules no other rashi.
The name letters of Singh rashi are Ma, Mee, Moo, Me, Mo, Ta, Tee, Too and Te. They are the syllables of the nine nakshatra padas that fall in the sign, and a name that begins with one of them gives a naam rashi of Singh. The naam rashi is separate from the Moon sign, which comes from the birth time.
Singh rashi holds Magha, Purva Phalguni, Uttara Phalguni (1st pada). A rashi spans 30 degrees, which is two and a quarter nakshatras, so the padas at either end of the sign are shared with the neighbouring rashis. The nakshatra your Moon occupies inside Singh decides your Vimshottari dasha and much of your marriage matching.
In 2026 the sidereal Sun is in Singh rashi from 17 Aug – 16 Sep. The day it enters the sign, the sankranti, moves by about a day across the leap-year cycle, so it is computed for each year. Western horoscopes give earlier dates because they use the tropical zodiac. Your own rashi is your Moon sign, which these Sun dates do not decide.
Your rashi is Singh only if the Moon was in Singh when you were born. Vedic astrology reads the Moon sign, not the Sun sign, and the Moon crosses a rashi in about two and a quarter days, so the date alone is not enough. A Moon sign calculator finds it from your birth date, time and place.
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