Rohini (रोहिणी) is the fourth of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 40°00' to 53°20' of the nirayana zodiac. It is ruled by Moon, its deity is Brahma, the creator and its symbol is a cart; a chariot. Rohini nakshatra lies entirely in Vrishabh rashi (Taurus), so every Moon in Rohini is a Vrishabh Moon. Children born with the Moon here are traditionally named with the syllables O, Va, Vi, Vu.
Rohini is Chandra's own nakshatra and his favourite, and it is where the Moon is exalted. It is the nakshatra of fertility, beauty and material growth, the ox-cart of its symbol carrying a harvest. The classical caution is attachment to what has been grown.
Tradition sums Rohini up as “the one that makes things grow”. A person whose Moon is here begins life in the Moon mahadasha, and the nakshatra's Manushya gana is read as the human temperament, practical and driven by its aims. Its symbol, a cart; a chariot, and its deity, Brahma, the creator, 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 Rohini those syllables are O, Va, Vi, Vu.
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 Manushya, 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 serpent, 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 Rohini 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. Rohini nakshatra lies entirely in Vrishabh rashi (Taurus), so every Moon in Rohini is a Vrishabh Moon. Find your birth nakshatra, check your Moon sign, or make the full kundli.
Short answers about Rohini: its lord, rashi, name letters, symbol and gana.
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Find my nakshatraMoon is the lord of Rohini nakshatra. The nakshatra lord decides which Vimshottari mahadasha a person is born into, so someone with the Moon in Rohini 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.
Rohini nakshatra lies entirely in Vrishabh rashi (Taurus), so every Moon in Rohini is a Vrishabh 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 Rohini nakshatra are O, Va, Vi and Vu, 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 Rohini nakshatra is a cart; a chariot and its presiding deity is Brahma, the creator. Tradition sums the nakshatra up as "the one that makes things grow", and the symbol and deity are the starting point for reading its nature. Its yoni animal, the serpent, is a separate classification used in marriage matching.
Rohini is Manushya gana and Antya (kapha) nadi, and its yoni animal is the serpent. 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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