Tula rashi (तुला) is Libra in English, the seventh sign of the Vedic zodiac. It is ruled by Venus, belongs to the air element, is movable (chara) in quality and is symbolised by the scales. In Vedic astrology Tula is your rashi only if the Moon was in it when you were born; the Sun crosses it 17 Oct – 15 Nov in 2026.
Tula is the only rashi represented by an object rather than a living thing, and the object is a measuring instrument. Shukra owns it and Shani is exalted here, pairing beauty with judgement. The sign is built for relationship, trade and fairness. Its difficulty is the one the scales imply: weighing long after the decision needed to be made.
The classical meaning of a rashi comes from its lord, its element and its quality taken together: Venus ruling a sign of the air element and movable quality. Read as shorthand, a Moon in Tula 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 Tula falls in from your lagna and the dasha that is running change the picture a great deal.
The name letters of Tula rashi are Ra, Ree, Ru, Re, Ro, 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 Tula as its naam rashi. The naam rashi is a naming convention; your Moon sign still comes from your birth time.
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Tula rashi holds Chitra (3–4), Swati, Vishakha (1–3). 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 Kanya and Vrishchik. The nakshatra your Moon sits in inside Tula decides your Vimshottari dasha and much of your marriage matching.
Only if the Moon was in Tula 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 Tula 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 signTula rashi (तुला) is Libra in English. It is the seventh sign of the sidereal zodiac, spanning 180° to 210°, and its symbol is the scales. The Vedic and Western Libra share a name but not dates: the sidereal zodiac sits about 24 degrees behind the tropical one, so the Sun reaches Tula about three weeks later.
Venus is the lord of Tula rashi. The lord, or rashi swami, is the planet that owns the sign, and a reading of the sign always goes through it: where Venus sits in your chart, how strong it is and when its dasha runs matter more than the sign alone. Venus also rules Vrishabh rashi.
The name letters of Tula rashi are Ra, Ree, Ru, Re, Ro, 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 Tula. The naam rashi is separate from the Moon sign, which comes from the birth time.
Tula rashi holds Chitra (3–4), Swati, Vishakha (1–3). 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 Tula decides your Vimshottari dasha and much of your marriage matching.
In 2026 the sidereal Sun is in Tula rashi from 17 Oct – 15 Nov. 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 Tula only if the Moon was in Tula 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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