Makara

What Makara describes

Makara builds over time. It tends to mark where a person accepts delay, does the unglamorous work, and measures progress in years rather than weeks. Saturn's discipline is its strength; its cost is a tendency to postpone rest until the work is finished, which it never quite is.

This is the archetype on its own. It is not a reading. Where Makara actually shows up for you — and how strongly — depends on which houses it governs in your chart and which grahas sit in it. Two people with the same rashi emphasised can look nothing alike.