Ashwini
0°00′ Aries – 13°20′ Aries
The 1st nakshatra, ruled by Ketu, 4 padas in Aries. Four padas of 3°20′, each with its navamsa sign and naam akshar.
Where Ashwini is
#1 of 27Ashwini runs from 0°00′ Aries – 13°20′ Aries: 13°20′ of the ecliptic, measured sidereally from 0° Aries with the Lahiri ayanamsa. It is 4 padas in Aries. It follows Revati and is followed by Bharani.
Characteristics of one born in Ashwini
as Brihat Jataka gives themBrihat Jataka, Varahamihira’s sixth-century text on the birth chart, gives each nakshatra a verse on the person born with the Moon in it. This is its verse for Ashwini, in paraphrase. It reads the Moon’s nakshatra alone and, like every text of its age, speaks of a male native: your lagna, the Moon’s rashi and the rest of the kundli decide how much of it shows.
Brihat Jataka says a person born with the Moon in Ashwini is fond of ornaments and good to look at, well liked, skilled at their work and intelligent. The note to the chapter in the 1885 translation adds that these results come in full only when the Moon is strong at birth.
Brihat Jataka 16.1
The four padas
3°20′ each, with naam aksharEach nakshatra divides into four padas of 3°20′. Each pada maps to a navamsa sign (the D9 chart is built from exactly this) and carries a naam akshar, the syllable a child born in it is named by. The Moon crosses a pada in about six hours, so it is the first thing an imprecise birth time puts in doubt.
How it is classified
traditional, and what each is used forThese are classifications from the tradition rather than anything computed from the arc. They are given because kundli matching uses them, and each line says which part.
| Classification | This nakshatra | What it is used for |
|---|---|---|
| Gana | Deva | Temperament class: Deva, Manushya or Rakshasa. Worth 6 of the 36 gun in kundli matching. |
| Yoni | Horse (male) | An animal, used for the 4-gun Yoni koota in matching. The rules are about the animals, not the people. |
| Nadi | Aadi | Aadi, Madhya or Antya. 8 gun, the largest single koota; two charts sharing one is Nadi dosha. |
Below, the matching engine scores Ashwini with each of the 27 on these and on Tara.
Ashwini in marriage matching
the four kootas that need only the nakshatras, 21 of 36 gunKundli matching counts 36 gun over eight kootas. Four of them go by the two birth nakshatras alone: Tara (3), Yoni (4), Gana (6) and Nadi (8), 21 of the 36. Below is how Ashwini scores with each of the 27 on those four, by the rules the kundli matching tool uses. The other 15 gun (Varna, Vashya, Graha Maitri and Bhakoot) go by the two Moon rashis, so a pair that does well here can still lose gun there, and the other way round.
| Nakshatra | Tara | Yoni | Gana | Nadi | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purva Phalguni | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 19 |
| Revati | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 19 |
| Pushya | 1.5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 18.5 |
| Anuradha | 1.5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 18.5 |
| Bharani | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 |
| Purva Ashadha | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 |
| Nakshatra | Tara | Yoni | Gana | Nadi | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mula | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Shatabhisha | 1.5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5.5 |
| Jyeshtha | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Hasta | 1.5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7.5 |
| Purva Bhadrapada | 1.5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7.5 |
Nadi dosha. Ashwini is Aadi nadi, and so are Ardra, Punarvasu, Uttara Phalguni, Hasta, Jyeshtha, Mula, Shatabhisha and Purva Bhadrapada. With any of them the Nadi koota gives 0 of 8: that is Nadi dosha, the heaviest single loss in matching. Two people both born in Ashwini share its nadi too; the dosha is treated as cancelled when their padas differ.
Gana. Ashwini is Deva gana. The lowest it scores on Gana is 0 of 6, with Krittika, Ashlesha, Magha, Chitra, Vishakha, Jyeshtha, Mula, Dhanishta and Shatabhisha, the Deva–Rakshasa pairing usually called Gana dosha.
Yoni. With Hasta and Swati the Yoni koota gives 0 of 4: their animal and Ashwini’s, the horse, are sworn enemies in the yoni table.
Ashwini with all 27
| Nakshatra | Tara | Yoni | Gana | Nadi | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashwini | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 13 |
| Bharani | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 |
| Krittika | 1.5 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 12.5 |
| Rohini | 1.5 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 16.5 |
| Mrigashira | 1.5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17.5 |
| Ardra | 1.5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8.5 |
| Punarvasu | 1.5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 10.5 |
| Pushya | 1.5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 18.5 |
| Ashlesha | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 14 |
| Magha | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 14 |
| Purva Phalguni | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 19 |
| Uttara Phalguni | 1.5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8.5 |
| Hasta | 1.5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7.5 |
| Chitra | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 10.5 |
| Swati | 1.5 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 15.5 |
| Vishakha | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 10.5 |
| Anuradha | 1.5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 18.5 |
| Jyeshtha | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Mula | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Purva Ashadha | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 |
| Uttara Ashadha | 1.5 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 16.5 |
| Shravana | 1.5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17.5 |
| Dhanishta | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 10.5 |
| Shatabhisha | 1.5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5.5 |
| Purva Bhadrapada | 1.5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7.5 |
| Uttara Bhadrapada | 1.5 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 16.5 |
| Revati | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 19 |
What a day in Ashwini is good for
its class, and the muhurat rulesThis is about days, not people. The Moon passes through Ashwini once in about 27 days and stays a little over a day, and a muhurat (an auspicious time) is chosen partly by that nakshatra.
When the Moon is in Ashwini, the muhurat rules allow the day for opening a shop or business, namkaran (naming a baby), mundan (the first haircut), janeu (the sacred thread), vidyarambha (starting study) and a planned operation. They keep it out for a wedding, griha pravesh (moving into a new house), buying land or a house, buying a vehicle, joining a job, setting out on a journey and building work on the house.
Ashwini on a Tuesday, Thursday, Friday or Sunday makes Sarvartha Siddhi yoga, a day the muhurat pages count good for any work. Ashwini is one of the six Gand Mool nakshatras (Ashwini, Ashlesha, Magha, Jyeshtha, Mula and Revati), which sit where a water rashi ends and a fire rashi begins. A child born with the Moon here is traditionally given a Mool Shanti puja, usually on the 27th day after birth, when the Moon is back in the same nakshatra.
The dasha you are born into
Ketu, and how much of it is leftVimshottari dasha starts from the nakshatra the Moon was in. Ashwini is ruled by Ketu, so anyone born with the Moon here begins life inside a 7-year Ketu mahadasha, but almost nobody gets the whole of it: the part remaining is the part of the nakshatra the Moon had not yet crossed.
| Moon in | From | Ketu mahadasha remaining | Of the arc still ahead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | 0°00′ Aries | 7.0 – 5.2 years | 75–100% |
| Pada 2 | 3°20′ Aries | 5.2 – 3.5 years | 50–75% |
| Pada 3 | 6°40′ Aries | 3.5 – 1.8 years | 25–50% |
| Pada 4 | 10°00′ Aries | 1.8 – 0.0 years | 0–25% |
The exact figure needs the Moon's degree, not just the pada: find yours, and the dasha pages carry the 120-year sequence that follows it.
All 27
in order round the eclipticCommon questions
7 questionsWhat are the characteristics of a person born in Ashwini?
Ashwini’s deity is Ashwini Kumaras and its symbol a horse's head. Brihat Jataka gives the person born in it a verse of its own (16.1), quoted above; it reads the Moon’s nakshatra alone; the rest of the kundli decides how much of it shows.
Which nakshatras match best with Ashwini for marriage?
On the four kootas that go by the nakshatras alone (Tara, Yoni, Gana and Nadi, 21 of the 36 gun), the highest are Purva Phalguni (19 of 21), Revati (19 of 21), Pushya (18.5 of 21) and Anuradha (18.5 of 21). With Ardra, Punarvasu, Uttara Phalguni, Hasta, Jyeshtha, Mula, Shatabhisha and Purva Bhadrapada it has Nadi dosha. The other 15 gun go by the two Moon rashis, so the full match needs both kundlis.
Is Ashwini nakshatra good for marriage and other muhurat?
A day with the Moon in Ashwini is allowed for opening a shop or business, namkaran (naming a baby), mundan (the first haircut), janeu (the sacred thread), vidyarambha (starting study) and a planned operation, by the muhurat rules here; the tithi, weekday and season must agree too.
What degrees is Ashwini?
0°00′ Aries to 13°20′ Aries: 13°20′ of the sidereal ecliptic, Lahiri ayanamsa.
Which planet rules Ashwini?
Ketu. Anyone born with the Moon here begins life in a 7-year Ketu mahadasha, with the part already elapsed depending on how far through the nakshatra the Moon was.
What are the naam akshar of Ashwini?
One per pada: pada 1 Chu (चू), pada 2 Che (चे), pada 3 Cho (चो), pada 4 La (ला). A child is named from the syllable of the pada the Moon was in.
What is the gana, yoni and nadi of Ashwini?
Gana Deva, yoni Horse (male), nadi Aadi. Kundli matching uses them: 6 gun for gana, 4 for yoni and 8 for nadi, out of 36.
Your nakshatra is where the Moon was, to the minute.
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