Summary

From the proceeding we understand that the term graha has these meanings:

• A wanderer, a moving celestial body (as compared to the fixed stars)
• Something that grasps, or to hold on to
• Where matter or energy accumulates or is attached to
• Certain qualities of characteristics that each planet "holds"
• Myths that explain nature through metaphor
• Vedic Astrology uses nine grahas: the luminaries, the visible planets and the lunar nodes