Uttara Bhadrapada (उत्तर भाद्रपद) is the 26th of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 333°20' to 346°40' of the nirayana zodiac. It is ruled by Saturn, its deity is Ahirbudhnya, the serpent of the deep and its symbol is the back of a funeral cot; twins. Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra lies entirely in Meen rashi (Pisces), so every Moon in Uttara Bhadrapada is a Meen Moon. Children born with the Moon here are traditionally named with the syllables Du, Tha, Jha, Da.
Uttara Bhadrapada is the calm that follows the intensity of the previous nakshatra. Ahirbudhnya, the serpent of the depths, is its deity and Shani rules it. It is associated with wisdom held quietly, with patience, and with charity given without announcement.
Tradition sums Uttara Bhadrapada up as “the deep and quiet one”. A person whose Moon is here begins life in the Saturn mahadasha, and the nakshatra's Manushya gana is read as the human temperament, practical and driven by its aims. Its symbol, the back of a funeral cot; twins, and its deity, Ahirbudhnya, the serpent of the deep, 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 Bhadrapada those syllables are Du, Tha, Jha, Da.
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 Madhya (pitta): partners who share a nadi score zero on the largest koota, worth 8 of the 36 points. Its yoni animal is the cow, 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 Bhadrapada 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 Bhadrapada nakshatra lies entirely in Meen rashi (Pisces), so every Moon in Uttara Bhadrapada is a Meen Moon. Find your birth nakshatra, check your Moon sign, or make the full kundli.
Short answers about Uttara Bhadrapada: its lord, rashi, name letters, symbol and gana.
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Find my nakshatraSaturn is the lord of Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra. The nakshatra lord decides which Vimshottari mahadasha a person is born into, so someone with the Moon in Uttara Bhadrapada begins life in the Saturn mahadasha. How far the Moon had already travelled through the nakshatra sets how much of that first period is left.
Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra lies entirely in Meen rashi (Pisces), so every Moon in Uttara Bhadrapada is a Meen 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 Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra are Du, Tha, Jha and Da, 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 Bhadrapada nakshatra is the back of a funeral cot; twins and its presiding deity is Ahirbudhnya, the serpent of the deep. Tradition sums the nakshatra up as "the deep and quiet one", and the symbol and deity are the starting point for reading its nature. Its yoni animal, the cow, is a separate classification used in marriage matching.
Uttara Bhadrapada is Manushya gana and Madhya (pitta) nadi, and its yoni animal is the cow. 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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