Purva Ashadha
Nakshatra 20 · 13°20′ Sagittarius – 26°40′ Sagittarius
Purva Ashadha is the 20th of the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology. Its deity is Apas, the waters, its symbol a fan, and its ruling planet Venus. Tradition reads in it conviction, pride, unbeaten energy.
Attributes
- Deity : Apas, the waters
- Symbol : a fan
- Lord : Venus
- Animal (yoni) : the monkey
Gana : Manushya (human)
A human temperament, between ambition and sensitivity.
The four padas
- Pada 1 : 13°20′ Sagittarius – 16°40′ Sagittarius · navamsa ♌︎ Leo
- Pada 2 : 16°40′ Sagittarius – 20°00′ Sagittarius · navamsa ♍︎ Virgo
- Pada 3 : 20°00′ Sagittarius – 23°20′ Sagittarius · navamsa ♎︎ Libra
- Pada 4 : 23°20′ Sagittarius – 26°40′ Sagittarius · 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 Purva Ashadha
- From Friday 13 November at 12:45 to Saturday 14 November at 15:52
- From Thursday 10 December at 19:26 to Friday 11 December at 22:31
- From Thursday 7 January at 01:35 to Friday 8 January at 04:40
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.