Hasta (हस्त) is the 13th of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 160°00' to 173°20' of the nirayana zodiac. It is ruled by Moon, its deity is Savitr, the Sun as giver and its symbol is an open hand. Hasta nakshatra lies entirely in Kanya rashi (Virgo), so every Moon in Hasta is a Kanya Moon. Children born with the Moon here are traditionally named with the syllables Pu, Sha, Na, Tha.
Hasta is the hand: craft, dexterity and the ability to get hold of what you want. Savitr, the Sun in his aspect as giver, is its deity, and Chandra rules it. It is associated with practical skill, humour, and work that requires precision.
Tradition sums Hasta up as “the skilled hand”. A person whose Moon is here begins life in the Moon mahadasha, and the nakshatra's Deva gana is read as the gentle, giving temperament the texts call divine. Its symbol, an open hand, and its deity, Savitr, the Sun as giver, 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 Hasta those syllables are Pu, Sha, Na, Tha.
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 Aadi (vata): partners who share a nadi score zero on the largest koota, worth 8 of the 36 points. Its yoni animal is the buffalo, 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 Hasta 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. Hasta nakshatra lies entirely in Kanya rashi (Virgo), so every Moon in Hasta is a Kanya Moon. Find your birth nakshatra, check your Moon sign, or make the full kundli.
Short answers about Hasta: its lord, rashi, name letters, symbol and gana.
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Find my nakshatraMoon is the lord of Hasta nakshatra. The nakshatra lord decides which Vimshottari mahadasha a person is born into, so someone with the Moon in Hasta begins life in the Moon mahadasha. How far the Moon had already travelled through the nakshatra sets how much of that first period is left.
Hasta nakshatra lies entirely in Kanya rashi (Virgo), so every Moon in Hasta is a Kanya 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 Hasta nakshatra are Pu, Sha, Na and Tha, 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 Hasta nakshatra is an open hand and its presiding deity is Savitr, the Sun as giver. Tradition sums the nakshatra up as "the skilled hand", and the symbol and deity are the starting point for reading its nature. Its yoni animal, the buffalo, is a separate classification used in marriage matching.
Hasta is Deva gana and Aadi (vata) nadi, and its yoni animal is the buffalo. 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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