Bharani
Nakshatra 2 · 13°20′ Aries – 26°40′ Aries
Bharani is the 2th of the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology. Its deity is Yama, keeper of passages, its symbol the yoni, the womb, shown here as a lotus bud, and its ruling planet Venus. Tradition reads in it endurance, intensity, a sense of limits.
Attributes
- Deity : Yama, keeper of passages
- Symbol : the yoni, the womb, shown here as a lotus bud
- Lord : Venus
- Animal (yoni) : the elephant
Gana : Manushya (human)
A human temperament, between ambition and sensitivity.
The four padas
- Pada 1 : 13°20′ Aries – 16°40′ Aries · navamsa ♌︎ Leo
- Pada 2 : 16°40′ Aries – 20°00′ Aries · navamsa ♍︎ Virgo
- Pada 3 : 20°00′ Aries – 23°20′ Aries · navamsa ♎︎ Libra
- Pada 4 : 23°20′ Aries – 26°40′ Aries · navamsa ♏︎ Scorpio
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 Bharani
- From Sunday 22 November at 23:44 to Monday 23 November at 21:30
- From Sunday 20 December at 10:24 to Monday 21 December at 08:37
- From Saturday 16 January at 19:06 to Sunday 17 January at 18:10
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.