The first quarter of Jyeshtha: a Sagittarius navamsa, naam akshar No, and a birth that starts in Budh’s mahadasha with 17 years to 12.8 years of it left.
Jyeshtha pada 1 is the first 3°20′ of Jyeshtha, 16°40′ Scorpio – 20°00′ Scorpio, in Scorpio. A Moon here is named by the syllable No and falls in a Sagittarius navamsa.
Gand Mool nakshatra. Jyeshtha is one of the six Gand Mool nakshatras; many families keep a Mool shanti for a birth in any of its padas, though the junction pada is read as the stronger.
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.
Jyeshtha in Brihat Jataka (16.10) Brihat Jataka says a person born with the Moon in Jyeshtha is cheerful and virtuous but quick to anger, and has few friends. (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.
Jyeshtha gives the Moon its nature through Budh; pada 1 sends it into a Sagittarius navamsa, ruled by Guru. The navamsa (D9) is the chart read for marriage and for the strength behind a placement, so in this pada Guru colours what Jyeshtha gives.
By natural friendship Guru counts Budh an enemy, and Budh counts Guru neutral, so the two pull against each other and the pada asks for balance.
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.
Almost no Hindi names begin with No (नो). Families then often choose a name that begins with the nearest sound, or one of the nakshatra’s other syllables, and use No in the namkaran rite itself.
More names, by nakshatra and pada: baby name finder
A Moon in Jyeshtha starts life in the mahadasha of Budh, 17 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 17 years, at its end 12.8 years.
A suggestion, as your faith allows: the grahas this pada answers to, each on its own day.
6 May 1985, 23:00, Lucknow: the Moon at 19.06° Scorpio, in Jyeshtha pada 1, with Sagittarius rising. The engine gives 13 years, 11 months, 12 days of Budh’s mahadasha left at birth.
In the 8,349 real births the site’s figures are counted on, 0.93% had the Moon in this pada, about one in 108.
No (नो). A child born with the Moon in this pada is traditionally given a name beginning with it.
Rashi Scorpio, navamsa Sagittarius. It runs 16°40′ Scorpio to 20°00′ Scorpio.
Budh, with 17 years to 12.8 years of its 17 years left at birth, depending on the Moon’s exact degree.
Jyeshtha is a Gand Mool nakshatra, though this is not its junction pada. The six, and when the shanti is done, are explained above.
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