Anuradha (अनुराधा) is the 17th of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 213°20' to 226°40' of the nirayana zodiac. It is ruled by Saturn, its deity is Mitra, god of friendship and its symbol is a lotus; a staff. Anuradha nakshatra lies entirely in Vrishchik rashi (Scorpio), so every Moon in Anuradha is a Vrishchik Moon. Children born with the Moon here are traditionally named with the syllables Na, Nee, Noo, Ne.
Anuradha is the nakshatra of friendship and of devotion held over time. Mitra is its deity and Shani its lord: affection with staying power. It is one of the more socially capable nakshatras, associated with organising people and with success achieved away from home.
Tradition sums Anuradha up as “the one that keeps company”. A person whose Moon is here begins life in the Saturn mahadasha, and the nakshatra's Deva gana is read as the gentle, giving temperament the texts call divine. Its symbol, a lotus; a staff, and its deity, Mitra, god of friendship, are the images the texts use to describe it. Read these as the nakshatra's character rather than a portrait of a person: the rest of the chart, the Moon's strength and the running dasha shape how it shows.
Each nakshatra is split into four padas of 3°20'. The pada a birth falls in decides the navamsa and, in the naming tradition, the first syllable of the child's name. For Anuradha those syllables are Na, Nee, Noo, Ne.
The baby name letters calculator marks the syllable for a chosen pada, and the rashi by name calculator works the other way, from a name to its rashi.
Guna Milan reads three of this nakshatra's classifications directly. Its gana is Deva, compared with the partner's for temperament. Its nadi is Madhya (pitta): partners who share a nadi score zero on the largest koota, worth 8 of the 36 points. Its yoni animal is the deer, compared for instinctive compatibility. The South Indian nakshatra porutham reads the two birth stars in its own ten tests, and kundli milan gives the full 36-point match.
Only if the Moon was in Anuradha when you were born. The Moon crosses a nakshatra in about a day, so a birth date narrows it to two candidates at best and the birth time settles it. Anuradha nakshatra lies entirely in Vrishchik rashi (Scorpio), so every Moon in Anuradha is a Vrishchik Moon. Find your birth nakshatra, check your Moon sign, or make the full kundli.
Short answers about Anuradha: its lord, rashi, name letters, symbol and gana.
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Find my nakshatraSaturn is the lord of Anuradha nakshatra. The nakshatra lord decides which Vimshottari mahadasha a person is born into, so someone with the Moon in Anuradha begins life in the Saturn mahadasha. How far the Moon had already travelled through the nakshatra sets how much of that first period is left.
Anuradha nakshatra lies entirely in Vrishchik rashi (Scorpio), so every Moon in Anuradha is a Vrishchik Moon. A nakshatra is 13°20' wide and a rashi 30°, so most nakshatras cross a sign boundary and the pada decides which Moon sign applies. The pada is fixed by the birth time, which is why two people with the same nakshatra can have different rashis.
The name letters for Anuradha nakshatra are Na, Nee, Noo and Ne, one for each pada in order. Traditional namkaran gives the child a name beginning with the syllable of the pada the Moon occupied at birth, so the pada is needed as well as the nakshatra.
The symbol of Anuradha nakshatra is a lotus; a staff and its presiding deity is Mitra, god of friendship. Tradition sums the nakshatra up as "the one that keeps company", and the symbol and deity are the starting point for reading its nature. Its yoni animal, the deer, is a separate classification used in marriage matching.
Anuradha is Deva gana and Madhya (pitta) nadi, and its yoni animal is the deer. All three are used in Guna Milan, the 36-point marriage match. Nadi carries the most weight at 8 points, and partners who share a nadi score zero on it; gana carries 6 points and yoni 4.
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