Mula (मूल) is the 19th of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 240°00' to 253°20' of the nirayana zodiac. It is ruled by Ketu, its deity is Nirriti, goddess of dissolution and its symbol is a tied bunch of roots. Mula nakshatra lies entirely in Dhanu rashi (Sagittarius), so every Moon in Mula is a Dhanu Moon. Children born with the Moon here are traditionally named with the syllables Ye, Yo, Bha, Bhee.
Mula means 'root'. Its deity is Nirriti, dissolution, and Ketu rules it. It is the nakshatra of investigation that will not stop at the surface: research, philosophy, and the willingness to pull something up entirely to see what it grew from.
Tradition sums Mula up as “the one that goes to the root”. 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 tied bunch of roots, and its deity, Nirriti, goddess of dissolution, 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 Mula those syllables are Ye, Yo, Bha, Bhee.
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 Aadi (vata): partners who share a nadi score zero on the largest koota, worth 8 of the 36 points. Its yoni animal is the dog, 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 Mula 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. Mula nakshatra lies entirely in Dhanu rashi (Sagittarius), so every Moon in Mula is a Dhanu Moon. Find your birth nakshatra, check your Moon sign, or make the full kundli.
Short answers about Mula: its lord, rashi, name letters, symbol and gana.
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Find my nakshatraKetu is the lord of Mula nakshatra. The nakshatra lord decides which Vimshottari mahadasha a person is born into, so someone with the Moon in Mula 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.
Mula nakshatra lies entirely in Dhanu rashi (Sagittarius), so every Moon in Mula is a Dhanu 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 Mula nakshatra are Ye, Yo, Bha and Bhee, 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 Mula nakshatra is a tied bunch of roots and its presiding deity is Nirriti, goddess of dissolution. Tradition sums the nakshatra up as "the one that goes to the root", and the symbol and deity are the starting point for reading its nature. Its yoni animal, the dog, is a separate classification used in marriage matching.
Mula is Rakshasa gana and Aadi (vata) nadi, and its yoni animal is the dog. 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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