Uttara Ashadha (उत्तराषाढ़ा) is the 21th of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 266°40' to 280°00' of the nirayana zodiac. It is ruled by Sun, its deity is The Vishwadevas and its symbol is an elephant's tusk; planks of a bed. Uttara Ashadha nakshatra spans two rashis, with pada 1 in Dhanu (Sagittarius) and padas 2 to 4 in Makar (Capricorn). Children born with the Moon here are traditionally named with the syllables Bhe, Bho, Ja, Ji.
Uttara Ashadha is 'the later invincible one', victory that lasts because it was earned slowly. The Vishwadevas, the universal gods, are its deities and Surya rules it. It is associated with integrity, leadership and results that hold.
Tradition sums Uttara Ashadha up as “the later victory”. A person whose Moon is here begins life in the Sun mahadasha, and the nakshatra's Manushya gana is read as the human temperament, practical and driven by its aims. Its symbol, an elephant's tusk; planks of a bed, and its deity, The Vishwadevas, 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 Uttara Ashadha those syllables are Bhe, Bho, Ja, Ji.
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 mongoose, 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 Uttara Ashadha 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. Uttara Ashadha nakshatra spans two rashis, with pada 1 in Dhanu (Sagittarius) and padas 2 to 4 in Makar (Capricorn). That is why two people can share a nakshatra and have different Moon signs. Find your birth nakshatra, check your Moon sign, or make the full kundli.
Short answers about Uttara Ashadha: its lord, rashi, name letters, symbol and gana.
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Find my nakshatraSun is the lord of Uttara Ashadha nakshatra. The nakshatra lord decides which Vimshottari mahadasha a person is born into, so someone with the Moon in Uttara Ashadha begins life in the Sun mahadasha. How far the Moon had already travelled through the nakshatra sets how much of that first period is left.
Uttara Ashadha nakshatra spans two rashis, with pada 1 in Dhanu (Sagittarius) and padas 2 to 4 in Makar (Capricorn). 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 Uttara Ashadha nakshatra are Bhe, Bho, Ja and Ji, 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 Uttara Ashadha nakshatra is an elephant's tusk; planks of a bed and its presiding deity is The Vishwadevas. Tradition sums the nakshatra up as "the later victory", and the symbol and deity are the starting point for reading its nature. Its yoni animal, the mongoose, is a separate classification used in marriage matching.
Uttara Ashadha is Manushya gana and Antya (kapha) nadi, and its yoni animal is the mongoose. 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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