Uttara Phalguni (उत्तर फाल्गुनी) is the twelfth of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 146°40' to 160°00' of the nirayana zodiac. It is ruled by Sun, its deity is Aryaman, god of contracts and its symbol is the back legs of a bed. Uttara Phalguni nakshatra spans two rashis, with pada 1 in Singh (Leo) and padas 2 to 4 in Kanya (Virgo). Children born with the Moon here are traditionally named with the syllables Te, To, Pa, Pee.
Uttara Phalguni is the other half of the bed, the half you rest in. Aryaman governs contracts, patronage and friendship, and Surya rules the nakshatra. Where Purva Phalguni enjoys, Uttara Phalguni commits: it is read as the marriage rather than the courtship.
Tradition sums Uttara Phalguni up as “the one that keeps its word”. 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, the back legs of a bed, and its deity, Aryaman, god of contracts, 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 Phalguni those syllables are Te, To, Pa, Pee.
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 Aadi (vata): 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 Phalguni 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 Phalguni nakshatra spans two rashis, with pada 1 in Singh (Leo) and padas 2 to 4 in Kanya (Virgo). 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 Phalguni: its lord, rashi, name letters, symbol and gana.
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Find my nakshatraSun is the lord of Uttara Phalguni nakshatra. The nakshatra lord decides which Vimshottari mahadasha a person is born into, so someone with the Moon in Uttara Phalguni 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 Phalguni nakshatra spans two rashis, with pada 1 in Singh (Leo) and padas 2 to 4 in Kanya (Virgo). 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 Phalguni nakshatra are Te, To, Pa and Pee, 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 Phalguni nakshatra is the back legs of a bed and its presiding deity is Aryaman, god of contracts. Tradition sums the nakshatra up as "the one that keeps its word", 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 Phalguni is Manushya gana and Aadi (vata) 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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