Vishakha (विशाखा) is the 16th of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 200°00' to 213°20' of the nirayana zodiac. It is ruled by Jupiter, its deity is Indra and Agni and its symbol is a triumphal arch; a potter's wheel. Vishakha nakshatra spans two rashis, with padas 1 to 3 in Tula (Libra) and pada 4 in Vrishchik (Scorpio). Children born with the Moon here are traditionally named with the syllables Tee, Too, Te, To.
Vishakha is the nakshatra of fixed purpose. Its dual deities, Indra and Agni, give it force, and Guru rules it. The triumphal arch is the goal reached. It is associated with ambition pursued patiently, and with a tendency to postpone contentment until the goal arrives.
Tradition sums Vishakha up as “the determined one”. A person whose Moon is here begins life in the Jupiter mahadasha, and the nakshatra's Rakshasa gana is read as the fierce, independent temperament that does not yield easily. Its symbol, a triumphal arch; a potter's wheel, and its deity, Indra and Agni, 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 Vishakha those syllables are Tee, Too, Te, To.
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 Antya (kapha): partners who share a nadi score zero on the largest koota, worth 8 of the 36 points. Its yoni animal is the tiger, 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 Vishakha 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. Vishakha nakshatra spans two rashis, with padas 1 to 3 in Tula (Libra) and pada 4 in Vrishchik (Scorpio). 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 Vishakha: its lord, rashi, name letters, symbol and gana.
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Find my nakshatraJupiter is the lord of Vishakha nakshatra. The nakshatra lord decides which Vimshottari mahadasha a person is born into, so someone with the Moon in Vishakha begins life in the Jupiter mahadasha. How far the Moon had already travelled through the nakshatra sets how much of that first period is left.
Vishakha nakshatra spans two rashis, with padas 1 to 3 in Tula (Libra) and pada 4 in Vrishchik (Scorpio). 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 Vishakha nakshatra are Tee, Too, Te and To, 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 Vishakha nakshatra is a triumphal arch; a potter's wheel and its presiding deity is Indra and Agni. Tradition sums the nakshatra up as "the determined one", and the symbol and deity are the starting point for reading its nature. Its yoni animal, the tiger, is a separate classification used in marriage matching.
Vishakha is Rakshasa gana and Antya (kapha) nadi, and its yoni animal is the tiger. 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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