Purva Bhadrapada
Nakshatra 25 · 20°00′ Aquarius – 3°20′ Pisces
Purva Bhadrapada is the 25th of the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology. Its deity is Aja Ekapada, its symbol swords, the front of a funeral cot; here a sword, and its ruling planet Jupiter. Tradition reads in it fervour, idealism, transformation.
Attributes
- Deity : Aja Ekapada
- Symbol : swords, the front of a funeral cot; here a sword
- Lord : Jupiter
- Animal (yoni) : the lion
Gana : Manushya (human)
A human temperament, between ambition and sensitivity.
The four padas
- Pada 1 : 20°00′ Aquarius – 23°20′ Aquarius · navamsa ♈︎ Aries
- Pada 2 : 23°20′ Aquarius – 26°40′ Aquarius · navamsa ♉︎ Taurus
- Pada 3 : 26°40′ Aquarius – 30°00′ Aquarius · navamsa ♊︎ Gemini
- Pada 4 : 0°00′ Pisces – 3°20′ Pisces · 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 Purva Bhadrapada
- From Thursday 19 November at 01:38 to Friday 20 November at 02:24
- From Wednesday 16 December at 09:30 to Thursday 17 December at 10:59
- From Tuesday 12 January at 15:41 to Wednesday 13 January at 17:32
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.