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.
Rohini
40°00'00" – 53°20'00" · lord Moon
- Symbol
- Ox cart
- Deity
- Brahma
- Lord
- Moon
- Gana
- Manushya (human — mixed, practical)
- Yoni
- Serpent
- Nadi
- Antya (kapha)
- Varna
- Shudra
- Element
- Earth
Rohini is the Moon's favourite, and it shows: this is the most fertile and attractive of the 27. Its symbol is an ox cart and its deity Brahma, the creator — growth, beauty, and material increase all belong here. Whatever is planted in Rohini tends to take. The gift is charm and the capacity to make things grow; the difficulty is that so much comes easily that the appetite for more is never quite satisfied.
Strengths
Beauty, charisma, artistic and material fertility, and steady growth in whatever is undertaken.
Needs watching
Possessiveness, indulgence and jealousy. Comfort can become the whole point.
Suited work: Agriculture, luxury goods, the arts, fashion, real estate, banking, food and hospitality.
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.