Jyeshtha
Nakshatra 18 · 16°40′ Scorpio – 30°00′ Scorpio
Jyeshtha is the 18th of the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology. Its deity is Indra, king of the gods, its symbol an earring, an umbrella, and its ruling planet Mercury. Tradition reads in it seniority, responsibility, protection.
Attributes
- Deity : Indra, king of the gods
- Symbol : an earring, an umbrella
- Lord : Mercury
- Animal (yoni) : the deer
Gana : Rakshasa (demonic)
An intense, independent temperament; in the tradition the word carries no moral judgement, it speaks of strength.
The four padas
- Pada 1 : 16°40′ Scorpio – 20°00′ Scorpio · navamsa ♐︎ Sagittarius
- Pada 2 : 20°00′ Scorpio – 23°20′ Scorpio · navamsa ♑︎ Capricorn
- Pada 3 : 23°20′ Scorpio – 26°40′ Scorpio · navamsa ♒︎ Aquarius
- Pada 4 : 26°40′ Scorpio – 30°00′ Scorpio · navamsa ♓︎ Pisces
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 Jyeshtha
- From Wednesday 11 November at 07:06 to Thursday 12 November at 09:46
- From Tuesday 8 December at 13:44 to Wednesday 9 December at 16:28
- From Monday 4 January at 19:42 to Tuesday 5 January at 22:34
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.