Today's Panchang & Nakshatra

General Characteristics: Brilliant and analytical abilities, few friends, cheerful and virtuous.
Symbol: earring or circular protective talisman that may represent Vishnu's disc.
Animal Symbol: Male Deer or Hare
Ruling Planet: Mercury
Nature: Rakshasa (demon)
Presiding Deity: Mercury

Strengths: Most successful in their family, builds friendship; and a good support network, generous, self-reliant, eventually wealthy, takes charge of the family, passionate, responses to love, reputable, receives fame and honors, takes control, gets things done when they want to, virtuous, satisfied, talented at music, capacity for inventive design, creatively genius, interested in the occult, can accomplish anything they set their minds to, persevere to make a difference.

Weakness: Short tempered, affected by family problems, too intense in nature, self-important, egotism, hides their feelings and intentions, peaceful demeanor; covers impatience and immorality, manipulative, controls freak, makes other dependent on them to gain control, possessive, dramatizes illness and troubles to gain sympathy, possesses many illnesses, many job changes, troubles in early life, tormented, hypocritical and secretive behavior.