{"id":347,"date":"2026-09-24T17:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/?p=347"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T08:39:43","slug":"taksa-lucky-colours-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/taksa-lucky-colours-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Taksa? Lucky and unlucky colours for every birth day, on one page"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group lm-article-summary has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"lm-article-summary__title wp-block-paragraph\">In short<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Taksa is a chart of eight planets set around the eight directions. It shows what role each planet plays for someone born on a given day.<\/li>\n\n<li>Start at your birth-day planet, which is your Boriwan, and count clockwise: Ayu, Det, Sri, Mula, Utsaha, Montri and Kalakini.<\/li>\n\n<li>Colours to avoid (Kalakini): Sunday: light blue \/ navy \u00b7 Monday: red \u00b7 Tuesday: yellow \/ cream \u00b7 Wednesday day: pink \u00b7 Wednesday night: orange \u00b7 Thursday: purple \/ black \u00b7 Friday: grey \/ black \u00b7 Saturday: green.<\/li>\n\n<li>Taksa isn\u2019t only about what to wear. It is used for choosing names, and it has guided the colours of royal celebration emblems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When someone says \u201cborn on Monday, don\u2019t wear red\u201d or \u201cwear green to work\u201d, they aren\u2019t repeating one fortune teller\u2019s taste. They are reading a system called Taksa, long part of Thai astrology. The good news is that it is simpler than it sounds: one chart, counted clockwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Taksa wheel: eight planets, eight directions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-wheel-d2d1c11c.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-wheel-d2d1c11c-1024x768.webp\" alt=\"The Taksa wheel: eight planets round eight directions, Sun north-east, Moon east, Mars south-east, Mercury south, Saturn south-west, Jupiter west, Rahu north-west, Venus north, with arrows counting clockwise\" class=\"wp-image-335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-wheel-d2d1c11c-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-wheel-d2d1c11c-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-wheel-d2d1c11c-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-wheel-d2d1c11c-1536x1152.webp 1536w, https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-wheel-d2d1c11c-16x12.webp 16w, https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-wheel-d2d1c11c-1000x750.webp 1000w, https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-wheel-d2d1c11c.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Taksa wheel. The numbers belong to the planets; the arrows show which way to count.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taksa places eight planets around the eight directions. Following the Royal Society\u2019s dictionary: the Sun (1) in the north-east, the Moon (2) in the east, Mars (3) in the south-east, Mercury (4) in the south, Saturn (7) in the south-west, Jupiter (5) in the west, Rahu (8) in the north-west and Venus (6) in the north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The numbers belong to the planets; they aren\u2019t the counting order. Walk round the wheel clockwise and you get 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 5, 8, 6, the sequence Taksa has always been memorised by. Rahu stands for people born on Wednesday night; Ketu has no place on this wheel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The eight positions and what they mean<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once you know your birth planet, every planet on the wheel becomes one of your positions. The meanings below summarise several schools, as gathered in Amnat Paksasuk\u2019s study. Some teachers word them a little differently; for some, Mula is home and parents and Montri is whoever protects you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Boriwan: you and the people around you, your partner, children, friends and those you look after.<\/li>\n\n<li>Ayu: health, wellbeing and long life.<\/li>\n\n<li>Det: power, reputation, honour and career.<\/li>\n\n<li>Sri: grace, goodness, charm and good fortune.<\/li>\n\n<li>Mula: roots, property and inheritance.<\/li>\n\n<li>Utsaha: diligence, perseverance and study.<\/li>\n\n<li>Montri: patrons, position and the people who back you.<\/li>\n\n<li>Kalakini: obstacles, setbacks and what to steer clear of.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step by step: someone born on Monday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Find your birth planet. Monday is the Moon (2), in the east. This is your Boriwan.<\/li>\n\n<li>Move clockwise to the next planet. Mars (3) is your Ayu.<\/li>\n\n<li>Keep going. Mercury (4) is Det, Saturn (7) is Sri, Jupiter (5) is Mula, Rahu (8) is Utsaha and Venus (6) is Montri.<\/li>\n\n<li>The last planet before you come round again is the Sun (1), your Kalakini. That is why Sunday\u2019s red is the colour Monday-born people are told to avoid.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each position takes the colour of the planet that lands on it. So for a Monday birth, green from Mercury is the Det colour, good for work, and purple \/ black from Saturn is the Sri colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The colour table for all eight birth days<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-colour-grid-69a6b16a.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"845\" src=\"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-colour-grid-69a6b16a-1024x845.webp\" alt=\"Taksa colour table for all eight birth days, by position: Boriwan, Ayu, Det, Sri, Mula, Utsaha, Montri and Kalakini\" class=\"wp-image-336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-colour-grid-69a6b16a-1024x845.webp 1024w, https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-colour-grid-69a6b16a-300x248.webp 300w, https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-colour-grid-69a6b16a-768x634.webp 768w, https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-colour-grid-69a6b16a-1536x1267.webp 1536w, https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-colour-grid-69a6b16a-15x12.webp 15w, https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-colour-grid-69a6b16a-1000x825.webp 1000w, https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/taksa-colour-grid-69a6b16a.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Read along the row for your birth day; the last column is your Kalakini colour. Tap the image to see it full size.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The table below picks the five positions people ask about most; the rest are in the chart above. The planet colours are the same set our Lucky Charm Finder uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table lm-compare\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Birth day (own colour)<\/th><th>Det \u00b7 career<\/th><th>Sri \u00b7 luck, charm<\/th><th>Mula \u00b7 property<\/th><th>Montri \u00b7 patrons<\/th><th>Kalakini \u00b7 avoid<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Sunday (red)<\/td><td>Pink<\/td><td>Green<\/td><td>Purple \/ black<\/td><td>Grey \/ black<\/td><td>Light blue \/ navy<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Monday (yellow \/ cream)<\/td><td>Green<\/td><td>Purple \/ black<\/td><td>Orange<\/td><td>Light blue \/ navy<\/td><td>Red<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tuesday (pink)<\/td><td>Purple \/ black<\/td><td>Orange<\/td><td>Grey \/ black<\/td><td>Red<\/td><td>Yellow \/ cream<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Wednesday day (green)<\/td><td>Orange<\/td><td>Grey \/ black<\/td><td>Light blue \/ navy<\/td><td>Yellow \/ cream<\/td><td>Pink<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Wednesday night (grey \/ black)<\/td><td>Red<\/td><td>Yellow \/ cream<\/td><td>Pink<\/td><td>Purple \/ black<\/td><td>Orange<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Thursday (orange)<\/td><td>Light blue \/ navy<\/td><td>Red<\/td><td>Yellow \/ cream<\/td><td>Green<\/td><td>Purple \/ black<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Friday (light blue \/ navy)<\/td><td>Yellow \/ cream<\/td><td>Pink<\/td><td>Green<\/td><td>Orange<\/td><td>Grey \/ black<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Saturday (purple \/ black)<\/td><td>Grey \/ black<\/td><td>Light blue \/ navy<\/td><td>Red<\/td><td>Pink<\/td><td>Green<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Taksa in real life: royal emblems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taksa isn\u2019t confined to fortune-telling books. The Fine Arts Department has used it to explain the colours of several royal celebration emblems. The 2006 emblem for King Rama IX, who was born on a Monday, uses yellow for his birth day together with green as the Det colour, exactly as in the Monday example above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2022 emblem for Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother, who was born on a Friday, uses light blue for her birth day, white as the Det colour and pink as the Sri colour. Count from Venus on the wheel and you land on the Moon for Det and Mars for Sri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Taksa and names<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each planet also has its own group of letters, so Thai naming avoids the letters that fall on the Kalakini of your birth day. As published by the Royal Institute, the letter groups are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table lm-compare\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Planet<\/th><th>Its letters<\/th><th>Kalakini letters for<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Sun (1)<\/td><td>\u0e2d and all vowels<\/td><td>Monday<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Moon (2)<\/td><td>\u0e01 \u0e02 \u0e04 \u0e06 \u0e07<\/td><td>Tuesday<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mars (3)<\/td><td>\u0e08 \u0e09 \u0e0a \u0e0b \u0e0c \u0e0d<\/td><td>Wednesday (day)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mercury (4)<\/td><td>\u0e0e \u0e0f \u0e10 \u0e11 \u0e12 \u0e13<\/td><td>Saturday<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Saturn (7)<\/td><td>\u0e14 \u0e15 \u0e16 \u0e17 \u0e18 \u0e19<\/td><td>Thursday<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jupiter (5)<\/td><td>\u0e1a \u0e1b \u0e1c \u0e1d \u0e1e \u0e1f \u0e20 \u0e21<\/td><td>Wednesday (night)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Rahu (8)<\/td><td>\u0e22 \u0e23 \u0e25 \u0e27<\/td><td>Friday<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Venus (6)<\/td><td>\u0e28 \u0e29 \u0e2a \u0e2b \u0e2c<\/td><td>Sunday<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, people born on a Sunday are told to avoid \u0e28 \u0e29 \u0e2a \u0e2b \u0e2c in their names. As for which position a name should start from, schools disagree: some say a man\u2019s name should begin with a Det letter and a woman\u2019s with a Sri letter, others teach it differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Using Taksa sensibly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taksa is a belief and a tradition, not a scientific fact. Schools also give the planets slightly different colours: the Moon yellow or creamy white, Saturn purple or black, Rahu black, grey or dusky purple, Venus light blue or navy. If you find a table that doesn\u2019t match this one cell for cell, check which set of planet colours it uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A comfortable way to use it is as a small tie-breaker: pick your Det or Sri colour for the little things you carry every day, and when torn between two colours, leave out your Kalakini one. But if you love a colour and feel confident in it, that confidence is worth just as much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Common questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details lm-faq__item is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>What colours are for people born on Wednesday night?<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rahu\u2019s colours, grey or black. The Det colour is red from the Sun, and the Kalakini colour is orange from Jupiter.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details lm-faq__item is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Can I wear my Kalakini colour if I like it?<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes. Taksa is a belief, not a rule. Many people avoid it only on big days, such as a job interview or signing a contract, and wear the colour they like the rest of the time.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details lm-faq__item is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Why do colour tables differ from site to site?<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every text counts Taksa the same way, but a few planets have different colours depending on the school, notably the Moon, Saturn and Rahu. The positions match; only some colour names change.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/lucky\/\">Enter your birthday: see your colours and charms<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-ghost\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/thai-birthday-colours-origin\/\">Where birthday colours come from<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list lm-article__sources\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.orst.go.th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Institute Dictionary: \u201c\u0e17\u0e31\u0e01\u0e29\u0e32\u201d and \u201c\u0e2d\u0e31\u0e10\u0e40\u0e04\u0e23\u0e32\u0e30\u0e2b\u0e4c\u201d (Thai)<\/a><\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/so06.tci-thaijo.org\/index.php\/VANNAVIDAS\/article\/view\/48400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amnat Paksasuk (2013), \u201cTaksa and Thai naming\u201d, Vannavidas, vol. 13, pp. 76\u201394 (Thai)<\/a><\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finearts.go.th\/storage\/contents\/2023\/05\/detail_file\/GOL3N14n2H6zp8jAMBO3XuXobnh2O3iRL8E3g0Tr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fine Arts Department: the colours of royal emblems (Thai, PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarakadee.com\/2025\/04\/09\/taksapayakorn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarakadee magazine: Taksa astrology (Thai)<\/a><\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarakadee.com\/2025\/04\/30\/wakdej\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarakadee magazine: Det and Sri letters in naming (Thai)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why should people born on Monday avoid red, and those born on Saturday avoid green? The answer is the Taksa wheel, a chart of eight planets used for names and colours alike. Here is how to read it step by step, with the colour table for all eight birth days.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lucky-colours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxemorestore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}