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.
Purva Bhadrapada
320°00'00" – 333°20'00" · lord Jupiter
- Symbol
- Sword
- Deity
- Aja Ekapada
- Lord
- Jupiter
- Gana
- Manushya (human — mixed, practical)
- Yoni
- Lion
- Nadi
- Adi (vata)
- Varna
- Brahmin
- Element
- Ether
Purva Bhadrapada is the fire of purification — a sword for a symbol and Aja Ekapada, the one-footed goat, for a deity. Jupiter rules it. This is an intense, otherworldly nakshatra: idealistic, philosophical, and capable of extremes in the service of a belief. It gives real spiritual force and a certain detachment from ordinary comfort.
Strengths
Idealism, spiritual intensity, courage of conviction, and unusual perspective.
Needs watching
Extremism, anxiety, and an impractical relationship with money and the body.
Suited work: Philosophy and religion, research, statistics, funerary and occult professions, writing.
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.