The first quarter of Uttara Ashadha: a Sagittarius navamsa, naam akshar Bhe, and a birth that starts in Surya’s mahadasha with 6 years to 4.5 years of it left.
Uttara Ashadha pada 1 is the first 3°20′ of Uttara Ashadha, 26°40′ Sagittarius – 0°00′ Capricorn, in Sagittarius. A Moon here is named by the syllable Bhe and falls in a Sagittarius navamsa.
Vargottama. The navamsa sign is the rashi itself (Sagittarius), so a Moon here is vargottama: the same sign in the birth chart and the navamsa, which the texts read as a steady, strong Moon.
Uttara Ashadha in Brihat Jataka (16.11) Brihat Jataka says a person born with the Moon in Uttara Ashadha is modest and well-mannered, versed in dharma, rich in friends, grateful, quick to return a kindness and well liked. (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.
Uttara Ashadha gives the Moon its nature through Surya; 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 Uttara Ashadha 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 fire navamsa makes this a Dharma pada, turned towards right conduct, duty and purpose.
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A Moon in Uttara Ashadha 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 1 it is 6 years, at its end 4.5 years.
A suggestion, as your faith allows: the grahas this pada answers to, each on its own day.
20 January 1985, 17:00, Jaipur: the Moon at 29.17° Sagittarius, in Uttara Ashadha pada 1, with Gemini rising. The engine gives 4 years, 10 months, 14 days of Surya’s mahadasha left at birth.
In the 8,349 real births the site’s figures are counted on, 0.97% had the Moon in this pada, about one in 103.
Uttara Ashadha · before: Purva Ashadha 4 · after: Shravana 1
Bhe (भे). A child born with the Moon in this pada is traditionally given a name beginning with it.
Rashi Sagittarius, navamsa Sagittarius (vargottama). It runs 26°40′ Sagittarius to 0°00′ Capricorn.
Surya, with 6 years to 4.5 years of its 6 years left at birth, depending on the Moon’s exact degree.
No. Uttara Ashadha 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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