Magha (मघा) is the tenth of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 120°00' to 133°20' of the nirayana zodiac. It is ruled by Ketu, its deity is The Pitris, the ancestors and its symbol is a royal throne. Magha nakshatra lies entirely in Singh rashi (Leo), so every Moon in Magha is a Singh Moon. Children born with the Moon here are traditionally named with the syllables Ma, Mee, Moo, Me.
Magha opens Simha and is the nakshatra of lineage and inherited authority. Its deities are the Pitris (the ancestors) and its symbol the throne. Ketu rules it. It is read as a strong sense of position and of duty to those who came before.
Tradition sums Magha up as “the inheritor”. A person whose Moon is here begins life in the Ketu mahadasha, and the nakshatra's Rakshasa gana is read as the fierce, independent temperament that does not yield easily. Its symbol, a royal throne, and its deity, The Pitris, the ancestors, 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 Magha those syllables are Ma, Mee, Moo, Me.
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 Rakshasa, compared with the partner's for temperament. Its nadi is Antya (kapha): partners who share a nadi score zero on the largest koota, worth 8 of the 36 points. Its yoni animal is the rat, 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 Magha 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. Magha nakshatra lies entirely in Singh rashi (Leo), so every Moon in Magha is a Singh Moon. Find your birth nakshatra, check your Moon sign, or make the full kundli.
Short answers about Magha: its lord, rashi, name letters, symbol and gana.
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Find my nakshatraKetu is the lord of Magha nakshatra. The nakshatra lord decides which Vimshottari mahadasha a person is born into, so someone with the Moon in Magha begins life in the Ketu mahadasha. How far the Moon had already travelled through the nakshatra sets how much of that first period is left.
Magha nakshatra lies entirely in Singh rashi (Leo), so every Moon in Magha is a Singh 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 Magha nakshatra are Ma, Mee, Moo and Me, 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 Magha nakshatra is a royal throne and its presiding deity is The Pitris, the ancestors. Tradition sums the nakshatra up as "the inheritor", and the symbol and deity are the starting point for reading its nature. Its yoni animal, the rat, is a separate classification used in marriage matching.
Magha is Rakshasa gana and Antya (kapha) nadi, and its yoni animal is the rat. 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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