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.
Pushya
93°20'00" – 106°40'00" · lord Saturn
- Symbol
- Udder
- Deity
- Brihaspati
- Lord
- Saturn
- Gana
- Deva (divine — gentle, cooperative)
- Yoni
- Sheep
- Nadi
- Madhya (pitta)
- Varna
- Kshatriya
- Element
- Water
Pushya is considered the most auspicious of all 27 — its symbol is an udder, its deity Brihaspati, and Saturn rules it. Nourishment is the theme: feeding, protecting and holding a family or an institution together. This nakshatra gives less flash than most and more substance; what it builds tends to outlast the builder.
Strengths
Reliability, nourishing instinct, patience, and moral steadiness others lean on.
Needs watching
Rigidity, and mothering people who did not ask for it. Slow to let anything change.
Suited work: Food and dairy, medicine and nursing, priesthood and teaching, government, family business.
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.