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Your **Amatyakaraka** ("minister/counselor indicator") is the classical planet with the **second-highest degree** in its sign — immediately after the Atmakaraka in the Jaimini ranking. Where the Atmakaraka signifies your soul's core drive, the Amatyakaraka signifies the counsel, career, and professional direction that supports and expresses that drive.

Ayanamsa: Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) · System: Jaimini Saptakaraka (7-karaka) · Rule: the classical planet with the second-highest degree-in-sign among Sun through Saturn

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What Is the Amatyakaraka?

Continuing the same degree-in-sign ranking used for the Atmakaraka, the Amatyakaraka is simply the runner-up — the planet just behind the highest-degree planet. Classical Jaimini texts name it for the role of a king's trusted minister: it doesn't hold the top position, but it advises, executes, and shapes how the Atmakaraka's core agenda is actually carried out in the world.

Why It's Read for Career

Because the Amatyakaraka handles the "worldly execution" role in Jaimini's framework, it is classically assigned to career, professional counsel, and public role — often read alongside (and sometimes weighted more heavily than) the 10th house and its lord when assessing vocational direction.

How the Amatyakaraka Shapes Career Themes

A Mercury Amatyakaraka often points toward analytical, communicative, or trade-oriented work; a Jupiter Amatyakaraka toward teaching, counsel, or advisory roles; a Saturn Amatyakaraka toward structured, disciplined, or service-oriented careers. The house it occupies and its dignity there further refine what kind of professional path is indicated.

Amatyakaraka Calculator FAQs

What is the Amatyakaraka?
The classical planet with the second-highest degree-in-sign in your chart (right after the Atmakaraka), treated in Jaimini astrology as the significator of career, counsel, and professional direction.
Is the Amatyakaraka more important than the 10th house for career?
They are typically read together — the Amatyakaraka adds a Jaimini-specific layer to career analysis, complementing rather than replacing the 10th house and its lord from the Parashari system.
What happens if two planets are at nearly the same degree?
The ranking is still determined strictly by degree, however close — even a fraction of a degree's difference is enough to separate the Atmakaraka from the Amatyakaraka.
Can the Amatyakaraka change over someone's lifetime?
No — like all chara karakas, it's fixed at birth based on natal degree-in-sign and does not change as you age; only transits and dashas of the Amatyakaraka planet activate its themes at different times.
How does the Amatyakaraka relate to the other five chara karakas?
It sits second in the full seven-karaka ranking (Atmakaraka, Amatyakaraka, Bhratrikaraka, Matrikaraka, Putrakaraka, Gnatikaraka, Darakaraka) — see the Chara Karaka Calculator for the complete ranked list.

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