Swati (स्वाति) is the 15th of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 186°40' to 200°00' of the nirayana zodiac. It is ruled by Rahu, its deity is Vayu, the wind and its symbol is a young shoot bending in the wind. Swati nakshatra lies entirely in Tula rashi (Libra), so every Moon in Swati is a Tula Moon. Children born with the Moon here are traditionally named with the syllables Ru, Re, Ro, Ta.
Swati is the sapling that bends rather than breaks, the nakshatra of independence, movement and trade. Vayu is its deity and Rahu its lord. It is read as self-directed and adaptable, resisting anything that restricts its movement.
Tradition sums Swati up as “the independent one”. A person whose Moon is here begins life in the Rahu mahadasha, and the nakshatra's Deva gana is read as the gentle, giving temperament the texts call divine. Its symbol, a young shoot bending in the wind, and its deity, Vayu, the wind, 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 Swati those syllables are Ru, Re, Ro, Ta.
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 Antya (kapha): 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 Swati 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. Swati nakshatra lies entirely in Tula rashi (Libra), so every Moon in Swati is a Tula Moon. Find your birth nakshatra, check your Moon sign, or make the full kundli.
Short answers about Swati: its lord, rashi, name letters, symbol and gana.
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Find my nakshatraRahu is the lord of Swati nakshatra. The nakshatra lord decides which Vimshottari mahadasha a person is born into, so someone with the Moon in Swati 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.
Swati nakshatra lies entirely in Tula rashi (Libra), so every Moon in Swati is a Tula 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 Swati nakshatra are Ru, Re, Ro and Ta, 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 Swati nakshatra is a young shoot bending in the wind and its presiding deity is Vayu, the wind. Tradition sums the nakshatra up as "the independent one", 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.
Swati is Deva gana and Antya (kapha) 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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