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.
Shatabhisha
306°40'00" – 320°00'00" · lord Rahu
- Symbol
- Empty circle
- Deity
- Varuna
- Lord
- Rahu
- Gana
- Rakshasa (fierce — forceful, self-willed)
- Yoni
- Horse
- Nadi
- Adi (vata)
- Varna
- Shudra
- Element
- Ether
Shatabhisha is the hundred healers — an empty circle for a symbol, Varuna for a deity, Rahu for a lord. It is the nakshatra of the physician and the researcher who works alone. It gives an independent, secretive, scientific mind, drawn to what is hidden in the body or the natural world, and it heals in unorthodox ways.
Strengths
Healing ability, scientific independence, resilience, and comfort with solitude.
Needs watching
Isolation, secrecy, and stubbornness that shuts out help.
Suited work: Medicine and research, astrology, aviation and electronics, alcohol and chemical trades, alternative healing.
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.