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The moon travels a little over thirteen degrees a day, and the sidereal zodiac is divided into twenty-seven equal parts to match — one for each night of a lunar circuit. These are the nakshatras. Each is thirteen degrees and twenty minutes wide, and the one the moon occupies at a given moment is the nakshatra of that moment.

A nakshatra is not a prediction. It is a description of where the moon is, and the character that tradition has attached to that stretch of sky over several thousand years of observation and practice. Each has a ruling planet that orders the vimshottari dasha sequence, a presiding deity that gives it its temperament, a symbol that compresses its meaning into an image, and a classification — gana and nature — that muhurta uses to decide what a day suits.

Your own janma nakshatra is the one the moon stood in at the moment you were born. It is what your family uses for your birthday rituals, and its four padas supply the syllable your name traditionally begins with. Each page below gives that syllable set along with the rest of the nakshatra's attributes.