Hasta
Nakshatra 13 · 10°00′ Virgo – 23°20′ Virgo
Hasta is the 13th of the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology. Its deity is Savitar, the rising sun, its symbol a hand, and its ruling planet Moon. Tradition reads in it skill, dexterity, practical sense.
Attributes
- Deity : Savitar, the rising sun
- Symbol : a hand
- Lord : Moon
- Animal (yoni) : the buffalo
Gana : Deva (divine)
A gentle, idealistic and kindly temperament.
The four padas
- Pada 1 : 10°00′ Virgo – 13°20′ Virgo · navamsa ♈︎ Aries
- Pada 2 : 13°20′ Virgo – 16°40′ Virgo · navamsa ♉︎ Taurus
- Pada 3 : 16°40′ Virgo – 20°00′ Virgo · navamsa ♊︎ Gemini
- Pada 4 : 20°00′ Virgo – 23°20′ Virgo · 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 Hasta
- From Thursday 5 November at 23:24 to Saturday 7 November at 00:11
- From Thursday 3 December at 04:51 to Friday 4 December at 05:50
- From Wednesday 30 December at 11:04 to Thursday 31 December at 11:41
- From Tuesday 26 January at 19:34 to …
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.