Magha
0°00′ Leo – 13°20′ Leo
The 10th nakshatra, ruled by Ketu, 4 padas in Leo. Four padas of 3°20′, each with its navamsa sign and naam akshar.
Where Magha is
#10 of 27Magha runs from 0°00′ Leo – 13°20′ Leo: 13°20′ of the ecliptic, measured sidereally from 0° Aries with the Lahiri ayanamsa. It is 4 padas in Leo. It follows Ashlesha and is followed by Purva Phalguni.
Characteristics of one born in Magha
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 Magha, 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 Magha has many people working under them, worships the gods and honours the pitri (the ancestors), and takes on great undertakings. 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 16.6
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 | Rakshasa | Temperament class: Deva, Manushya or Rakshasa. Worth 6 of the 36 gun in kundli matching. |
| Yoni | Rat (male) | An animal, used for the 4-gun Yoni koota in matching. The rules are about the animals, not the people. |
| Nadi | Antya | Aadi, Madhya or Antya. 8 gun, the largest single koota; two charts sharing one is Nadi dosha. |
Below, the matching engine scores Magha with each of the 27 on these and on Tara.
Magha 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 Magha 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jyeshtha | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 20 |
| Shatabhisha | 1.5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 18.5 |
| Mula | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 18 |
| Chitra | 1.5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17.5 |
| Dhanishta | 1.5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17.5 |
| Nakshatra | Tara | Yoni | Gana | Nadi | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rohini | 1.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3.5 |
| Uttara Ashadha | 1.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3.5 |
| Shravana | 1.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3.5 |
| Swati | 1.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 |
| Revati | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Nadi dosha. Magha is Antya nadi, and so are Krittika, Rohini, Ashlesha, Swati, Vishakha, Uttara Ashadha, Shravana and Revati. 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 Magha share its nadi too; the dosha is treated as cancelled when their padas differ.
Gana. Magha is Rakshasa gana. The lowest it scores on Gana is 0 of 6, with Ashwini, Mrigashira, Punarvasu, Pushya, Hasta, Swati, Anuradha, Shravana and Revati, the Deva–Rakshasa pairing usually called Gana dosha.
Yoni. With Punarvasu and Ashlesha the Yoni koota gives 0 of 4: their animal and Magha’s, the rat, are sworn enemies in the yoni table.
Magha with all 27
| Nakshatra | Tara | Yoni | Gana | Nadi | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashwini | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 14 |
| Bharani | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 14 |
| Krittika | 1.5 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 9.5 |
| Rohini | 1.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3.5 |
| Mrigashira | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 10.5 |
| Ardra | 1.5 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 11.5 |
| Punarvasu | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 9.5 |
| Pushya | 1.5 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 11.5 |
| Ashlesha | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| Magha | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 13 |
| Purva Phalguni | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 16 |
| Uttara Phalguni | 1.5 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 13.5 |
| Hasta | 1.5 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 12.5 |
| Chitra | 1.5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17.5 |
| Swati | 1.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 |
| Vishakha | 1.5 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 9.5 |
| Anuradha | 1.5 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 12.5 |
| Jyeshtha | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 20 |
| Mula | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 18 |
| Purva Ashadha | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 14 |
| Uttara Ashadha | 1.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3.5 |
| Shravana | 1.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3.5 |
| Dhanishta | 1.5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17.5 |
| Shatabhisha | 1.5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 18.5 |
| Purva Bhadrapada | 1.5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 12.5 |
| Uttara Bhadrapada | 1.5 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 13.5 |
| Revati | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
What a day in Magha is good for
its class, and the muhurat rulesThis is about days, not people. The Moon passes through Magha once in about 27 days and stays a little over a day, and a muhurat (an auspicious time) is chosen partly by that nakshatra.
Muhurta Chintamani puts Magha among the Ugra (fierce) nakshatras, with Bharani, Purva Phalguni, Purva Ashadha and Purva Bhadrapada.
Brihat Samhita gives the fierce nakshatras destructive work: pulling down, fire, poison, weapons and imprisonment.
Brihat Samhita 98.8
When the Moon is in Magha, the muhurat rules allow the day for a wedding and buying land or a house. They keep it out for griha pravesh (moving into a new house), buying a vehicle, opening a shop or business, joining a job, setting out on a journey, namkaran (naming a baby), mundan (the first haircut), janeu (the sacred thread), vidyarambha (starting study), a planned operation and building work on the house.
Magha does not make Sarvartha Siddhi yoga on any weekday. Magha 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. Magha 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′ Leo | 7.0 – 5.2 years | 75–100% |
| Pada 2 | 3°20′ Leo | 5.2 – 3.5 years | 50–75% |
| Pada 3 | 6°40′ Leo | 3.5 – 1.8 years | 25–50% |
| Pada 4 | 10°00′ Leo | 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 Magha?
Magha’s deity is Pitris and its symbol a throne. Brihat Jataka gives the person born in it a verse of its own (16.6), 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 Magha 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 Jyeshtha (20 of 21), Shatabhisha (18.5 of 21) and Mula (18 of 21). With Krittika, Rohini, Ashlesha, Swati, Vishakha, Uttara Ashadha, Shravana and Revati it has Nadi dosha. The other 15 gun go by the two Moon rashis, so the full match needs both kundlis.
Is Magha nakshatra good for marriage and other muhurat?
A day with the Moon in Magha is allowed for a wedding and buying land or a house, by the muhurat rules here; the tithi, weekday and season must agree too.
What degrees is Magha?
0°00′ Leo to 13°20′ Leo: 13°20′ of the sidereal ecliptic, Lahiri ayanamsa.
Which planet rules Magha?
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 Magha?
One per pada: pada 1 Ma (मा), pada 2 Mi (मी), pada 3 Mu (मू), pada 4 Me (मे). A child is named from the syllable of the pada the Moon was in.
What is the gana, yoni and nadi of Magha?
Gana Rakshasa, yoni Rat (male), nadi Antya. 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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