The fourth quarter of Krittika: a Pisces navamsa, naam akshar E, and a birth that starts in Surya’s mahadasha with 1.5 years to almost none of it left.
Krittika pada 4 is the fourth 3°20′ of Krittika, 6°40′ Taurus – 10°00′ Taurus, in Taurus. A Moon here is named by the syllable E and falls in a Pisces navamsa.
Krittika in Brihat Jataka (16.2) Brihat Jataka says a person born with the Moon in Krittika has a large appetite, a bright presence and a name known far and wide. The verse also warns that such a man’s eye may stray to other men’s wives. (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.
Krittika gives the Moon its nature through Surya; pada 4 sends it into a Pisces 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 Krittika gives.
By natural friendship Guru counts Surya a friend, and Surya counts Guru a friend, so the navamsa supports what the nakshatra gives.
The pada tradition reads each quarter by its navamsa’s element: a water navamsa makes this a Moksha pada, turned towards release, inner life and letting go.
More names, by nakshatra and pada: baby name finder
A Moon in Krittika starts life in the mahadasha of Surya, 6 years in all. How much is left at birth depends on how far the Moon had gone: at the start of pada 4 it is 1.5 years, at its end almost none.
A suggestion, as your faith allows: the grahas this pada answers to, each on its own day.
16 June 1985, 17:00, New Delhi: the Moon at 8.73° Taurus, in Krittika pada 4, with Scorpio rising. The engine gives 0 years, 6 months, 25 days of Surya’s mahadasha left at birth.
In the 8,349 real births the site’s figures are counted on, 0.95% had the Moon in this pada, about one in 105.
E (ए). A child born with the Moon in this pada is traditionally given a name beginning with it.
Rashi Taurus, navamsa Pisces. It runs 6°40′ Taurus to 10°00′ Taurus.
Surya, with 1.5 years to almost none of its 6 years left at birth, depending on the Moon’s exact degree.
No. Krittika 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.
It needs a birth time, because the Moon crosses a nakshatra in about a day. The free kundli gives you the nakshatra, the pada and the dasha that follows from it.
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