The first quarter of Hasta: a Aries navamsa, naam akshar Pu, and a birth that starts in Chandra’s mahadasha with 10 years to 7.5 years of it left.
Hasta pada 1 is the first 3°20′ of Hasta, 10°00′ Virgo – 13°20′ Virgo, in Virgo. A Moon here is named by the syllable Pu and falls in a Aries navamsa.
Hasta in Brihat Jataka (16.7) Brihat Jataka gives Hasta a hard verse: it says a person born with the Moon here is energetic and resourceful, but also brazen and hard-hearted, and it speaks of drink and of taking what belongs to others. (Chapter 16 reads several nakshatras in each verse, one after another.) The text reads the nakshatra as a whole; the pada refines it through its navamsa, below.
Hasta gives the Moon its nature through Chandra; pada 1 sends it into a Aries navamsa, ruled by Mangal. The navamsa (D9) is the chart read for marriage and for the strength behind a placement, so in this pada Mangal colours what Hasta gives.
By natural friendship Mangal counts Chandra a friend, and Chandra counts Mangal neutral, so the navamsa neither helps nor hinders much.
The pada tradition reads each quarter by its navamsa’s element: a fire navamsa makes this a Dharma pada, turned towards right conduct, duty and purpose.
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A Moon in Hasta starts life in the mahadasha of Chandra, 10 years in all. How much is left at birth depends on how far the Moon had gone: at the start of pada 1 it is 10 years, at its end 7.5 years.
A suggestion, as your faith allows: the grahas this pada answers to, each on its own day.
13 July 1986, 17:00, New Delhi: the Moon at 10.09° Virgo, in Hasta pada 1, with Scorpio rising. The engine gives 9 years, 11 months, 4 days of Chandra’s mahadasha left at birth.
In the 8,349 real births the site’s figures are counted on, 0.9% had the Moon in this pada, about one in 111.
Pu (पू). A child born with the Moon in this pada is traditionally given a name beginning with it.
Rashi Virgo, navamsa Aries. It runs 10°00′ Virgo to 13°20′ Virgo.
Chandra, with 10 years to 7.5 years of its 10 years left at birth, depending on the Moon’s exact degree.
No. Hasta is not one of the six Gand Mool nakshatras. Gand Mool are the six nakshatras on the seams where a water sign gives way to a fire sign: Ashwini, Magha and Mula, ruled by Ketu, and Ashlesha, Jyeshtha and Revati, ruled by Budh. The Mool shanti is traditionally done on the 27th day after birth, when the Moon returns to the birth nakshatra.
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