Ashvini
Nakshatra 1 · 0°00′ Aries – 13°20′ Aries
Ashvini is the 1th of the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology. Its deity is the Ashvins, healer twins, its symbol a horse's head, and its ruling planet Ketu. Tradition reads in it drive, speed, the urge to begin.
Attributes
- Deity : the Ashvins, healer twins
- Symbol : a horse's head
- Lord : Ketu
- Animal (yoni) : the horse
Gana : Deva (divine)
A gentle, idealistic and kindly temperament.
The four padas
- Pada 1 : 0°00′ Aries – 3°20′ Aries · navamsa ♈︎ Aries
- Pada 2 : 3°20′ Aries – 6°40′ Aries · navamsa ♉︎ Taurus
- Pada 3 : 6°40′ Aries – 10°00′ Aries · navamsa ♊︎ Gemini
- Pada 4 : 10°00′ Aries – 13°20′ Aries · navamsa ♋︎ Cancer
Each pada covers 3°20′. The 108 padas run through the zodiac nine times: the navamsa is the sign of that second cycle, which Vedic astrology reads as a shade of the first.
The Moon's next passages through Ashvini
- From Sunday 25 October at 14:50 to Monday 26 October at 13:09
- From Sunday 22 November at 01:23 to Sunday 22 November at 23:44
- From Saturday 19 December at 11:26 to Sunday 20 December at 10:24
- From Friday 15 January at 19:18 to Saturday 16 January at 19:06
Paris time, from the Moon's real position (NASA JPL DE440s ephemeris, Lahiri ayanamsa). The Moon goes round the 27 nakshatras in 27.3 days.
Deities, symbols and lords: Wikipedia's nakshatra table, after A. L. Basham (1954). Gana and yoni animal: checked against two Jyotish reference tables. The one-line readings are ours.