Uttara Ashadha nakshatra

Uttara Ashadha is the 21st of the 27 nakshatras, occupying 26°40' Sagittarius to 10°00' Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac. If the Moon stood in this stretch of sky at your birth, this is your Janma Nakshatra, your birth star.

What is the character of Uttara Ashadha?

The traditional reading is: patient, principled, determined, plays the long game.

The behavioural marker most often named: wins slowly and for good by refusing to compromise the principles it started with.

The classical anchor for this is the shakti, the power assigned to each nakshatra in the Taittiriya Brahmana. For Uttara Ashadha it is unchallengeable victory, and the deity the Vishvadevas and symbol elephant's tusk carry the same idea in image form.

What are the four padas of Uttara Ashadha?

Every nakshatra is quartered. Each quarter, a pada, is 3 degrees 20 minutes wide and maps onto a navamsa sign, which shades the reading:

Pada	Span (sidereal)	Navamsa sign
Pada 1	26°40' Sagittarius – 0°00' Capricorn	Sagittarius
Pada 2	0°00' Capricorn – 3°20' Capricorn	Capricorn
Pada 3	3°20' Capricorn – 6°40' Capricorn	Aquarius
Pada 4	6°40' Capricorn – 10°00' Capricorn	Pisces

Because a pada lasts roughly six hours, you need your birth time to know which of the four is yours.

Which planet rules Uttara Ashadha, and why does it matter?

Uttara Ashadha is ruled by Sun.

Because Uttara Ashadha is ruled by Sun, anyone born with the Moon here begins life in the Sun period of the Vimshottari dasha cycle, which runs 6 years. That starting point shifts the timing of every period that follows, which is why two people of the same age can be in completely different chapters.

Common questions

What is the Uttara Ashadha nakshatra?

Uttara Ashadha is nakshatra number 21 of 27, spanning 26°40' Sagittarius to 10°00' Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac. Its ruling lord is Sun, its presiding deity is the Vishvadevas, and its symbol is elephant's tusk.

What are the padas of Uttara Ashadha?

Each nakshatra is quartered into padas of 3 degrees 20 minutes. For Uttara Ashadha the four padas fall in the navamsa signs Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, in that order.

Which planet rules Uttara Ashadha?

Sun rules Uttara Ashadha. In the Vimshottari dasha system the Sun period lasts 6 years.

Where these details come from

The span and the pada boundaries are arithmetic and exact. The lord, deity and symbol follow the classical sources and vary little between them. The character reading renders the shakti, deity and symbol in plain words; the classical texts themselves are terse here, and anything longer is later compilation.

Recorded source for this entry: BPHS; shakti of unchallengeable victory; deity the Vishvadevas, symbol elephant's tusk, lord Sun