Shatabhisha (शतभिषा) is the 24th of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 306°40' to 320°00' of the nirayana zodiac. It is ruled by Rahu, its deity is Varuna, god of cosmic waters and its symbol is an empty circle; a hundred flowers. Shatabhisha nakshatra lies entirely in Kumbh rashi (Aquarius), so every Moon in Shatabhisha is a Kumbh Moon. Children born with the Moon here are traditionally named with the syllables Go, Sa, See, Su.
Shatabhisha means 'a hundred physicians' or 'a hundred stars'. Varuna is its deity and Rahu rules it. It is the nakshatra of healing, of secrecy, and of systems too large to see at once, associated with medicine, research and a solitary streak.
Tradition sums Shatabhisha up as “the hundred healers”. A person whose Moon is here begins life in the Rahu mahadasha, and the nakshatra's Rakshasa gana is read as the fierce, independent temperament that does not yield easily. Its symbol, an empty circle; a hundred flowers, and its deity, Varuna, god of cosmic waters, 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 Shatabhisha those syllables are Go, Sa, See, Su.
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 horse, 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 Shatabhisha 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. Shatabhisha nakshatra lies entirely in Kumbh rashi (Aquarius), so every Moon in Shatabhisha is a Kumbh Moon. Find your birth nakshatra, check your Moon sign, or make the full kundli.
Short answers about Shatabhisha: its lord, rashi, name letters, symbol and gana.
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Find my nakshatraRahu is the lord of Shatabhisha nakshatra. The nakshatra lord decides which Vimshottari mahadasha a person is born into, so someone with the Moon in Shatabhisha begins life in the Rahu mahadasha. How far the Moon had already travelled through the nakshatra sets how much of that first period is left.
Shatabhisha nakshatra lies entirely in Kumbh rashi (Aquarius), so every Moon in Shatabhisha is a Kumbh 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 Shatabhisha nakshatra are Go, Sa, See and Su, 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 Shatabhisha nakshatra is an empty circle; a hundred flowers and its presiding deity is Varuna, god of cosmic waters. Tradition sums the nakshatra up as "the hundred healers", and the symbol and deity are the starting point for reading its nature. Its yoni animal, the horse, is a separate classification used in marriage matching.
Shatabhisha is Rakshasa gana and Aadi (vata) nadi, and its yoni animal is the horse. 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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