Mula
Nakshatra 19 · 0°00′ Sagittarius – 13°20′ Sagittarius
Mula is the 19th of the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology. Its deity is Nirriti, dissolution, its symbol a bunch of roots, and its ruling planet Ketu. Tradition reads in it search for roots, radicalism.
Attributes
- Deity : Nirriti, dissolution
- Symbol : a bunch of roots
- Lord : Ketu
- Animal (yoni) : the dog
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 : 0°00′ Sagittarius – 3°20′ Sagittarius · navamsa ♈︎ Aries
- Pada 2 : 3°20′ Sagittarius – 6°40′ Sagittarius · navamsa ♉︎ Taurus
- Pada 3 : 6°40′ Sagittarius – 10°00′ Sagittarius · navamsa ♊︎ Gemini
- Pada 4 : 10°00′ Sagittarius – 13°20′ Sagittarius · 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 Mula
- From Thursday 12 November at 09:46 to Friday 13 November at 12:45
- From Wednesday 9 December at 16:28 to Thursday 10 December at 19:26
- From Tuesday 5 January at 22:34 to Thursday 7 January at 01:35
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.