The Moon's 27 mansions
Nakshatras
The zodiac divided into 27 spans of 13°20' each, one for every day of the Moon's circuit.
Anuradha
213°20'00" – 226°40'00" · lord Saturn
- Symbol
- Lotus
- Deity
- Mitra
- Lord
- Saturn
- Gana
- Deva (divine — gentle, cooperative)
- Yoni
- Deer
- Nadi
- Madhya (pitta)
- Varna
- Shudra
- Element
- Fire
Anuradha is friendship and devotion — a lotus for a symbol, Mitra for a deity, Saturn for a lord. It gives the ability to build a life among people, far from where one started, through loyalty rather than force. This nakshatra succeeds abroad and in groups, and its people are the ones who keep a circle together over decades.
Strengths
Loyalty, organising people, devotion, and success away from the birthplace.
Needs watching
Suppressing one's own needs to keep the peace; disappointment when devotion is not returned.
Suited work: Group and organisational work, foreign postings, devotional and spiritual life, management, mining.
Gana, yoni and nadi are the three attributes used in marriage matching; the varna and tattva describe temperament and element. The reading below describes the nakshatra itself, not the whole chart — the Moon's nakshatra is the strongest single indicator of temperament, but it is one factor among many.