Nakshatra 26 of 27
Uttara Bhadrapadaఉత్తరాభాద్ర
Depth and stillness — wisdom that has stopped struggling.
- Ruling planet
- Saturn
- Deity
- Ahir Budhnya, the serpent of the deep
- Symbol
- The back legs of a funeral cot, a serpent in the depths
- Gana
- Manushya (human)
- Nature
- Sthira — fixed
- Sidereal span
- Meena 3° 20′ – 16° 40′
About Uttara Bhadrapada
Where Purva Bhadrapada burns, Uttara Bhadrapada settles. Its deity is Ahir Budhnya, the serpent coiled in the depths of the ocean — kundalini at rest, the unconscious at peace. This is the nakshatra of hard-won calm, of depth without turbulence, and of the counsel that comes from someone who has already been through it. It is fixed, benefic and among the gentlest placements in the second half of the zodiac.
What it traditionally favours
Meditation and deep practice, giving and receiving counsel, charitable work, and matters requiring patience rather than force.
The four padas
Every nakshatra is divided into four quarters called padas, each three degrees twenty minutes wide. The pada refines the reading: two people born under the same nakshatra but in different padas are held to differ meaningfully, because each pada falls in a different navamsa and so carries a different sub-influence.
The pada also decides the first syllable of a child's name. Where the moon stood at birth gives the nakshatra; which quarter of it gives the syllable. The four syllables below are in pada order — a child born in the first pada takes the first, and so on. This is the naming convention used at namakaranam across most of southern India.
- 1Du3° 20′ →
- 2Tha6° 40′ →
- 3Jha10° 00′ →
- 4Tra13° 20′ →