Uttara Phalguni nakshatra
Uttara Phalguni (उत्तरा फाल्गुनी) is the twelfth of the twenty-seven nakshatras, ruled by Sun.
The facts
- Number
- 12 / 27
- Ruling graha
- Sun
- Deity
- Aryaman
- Symbol
- the back legs of a bed
- Gana
- Manushya (human)
What Uttara Phalguni means
The back of the bed, ruled by the Sun with Aryaman, god of contracts and patronage. Where its first half is pleasure, this half is partnership and obligation kept. Reliable, generous, good at the long agreement rather than the quick one.
What a nakshatra is
Before the twelve-sign zodiac, India divided the sky into twenty-seven lunar mansions of 13 degrees 20 minutes each - roughly one day of the Moon's travel. The nakshatras are older than the rashis and carry more specific meaning.
The nakshatra the Moon occupied at your birth is your janma nakshatra. It is the most important single fact in a Vedic chart after the lagna: it gives the traditional first letter for naming a child, and it decides where your entire Vimshottari dasha sequence begins.
The four padas
Every nakshatra divides into four padas of 3 degrees 20 minutes. Which pada the Moon falls in refines the reading and decides the naming syllable - two people with the same nakshatra and different padas are read differently.