Libra Ascendant (Tula Lagna)

Libra (Tula, तुला) rising means Libra was on the eastern horizon at your birth, so it becomes the 1st house of your chart and every other house is counted from it. The chart is then read through Venus, the lord of Libra. Saturn is the yogakaraka, ruling the 4th and 5th, and is exalted in Libra itself — this is the chart where Saturn is most clearly a friend. Jupiter rules the 3rd and 6th, so the great benefic becomes a functional malefic

Venus. As lagna lord it signifies the body, vitality and general direction of life, and it also rules the 1st and the 8th houses from Libra. Its condition matters more than any other single factor in the chart.

Saturn — because it rules both a kendra and a trikona from Libra, which makes it powerfully positive for this chart regardless of its natural nature. Only six of the twelve ascendants have one.

The marakas are Mars, as lord of the 2nd and 7th. The badhakesha is Sun, lord of the 11th — the badhaka house for a movable sign. Planets ruling the 3rd, 6th and 11th are treated as functional malefics in the common scheme. The table on this page gives every planet's rulership and role for this ascendant.

No. The ascendant is the sign rising on the eastern horizon at your birth and changes roughly every two hours, so it needs an accurate birth time. The Moon sign is where the Moon was and changes every two to three days. Vedic astrology reads the chart primarily from the ascendant and uses the Moon sign as a second lens — which is why your rashifal and your lagna reading can differ.