Purva Phalguni
Nakshatra 11 · 13°20′ Leo – 26°40′ Leo
Purva Phalguni is the 11th of the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology. Its deity is Bhaga, fortune, its symbol the front legs of a bed, and its ruling planet Venus. Tradition reads in it pleasure, creativity, warmth.
Attributes
- Deity : Bhaga, fortune
- Symbol : the front legs of a bed
- Lord : Venus
- Animal (yoni) : the rat
Gana : Manushya (human)
A human temperament, between ambition and sensitivity.
The four padas
- Pada 1 : 13°20′ Leo – 16°40′ Leo · navamsa ♌︎ Leo
- Pada 2 : 16°40′ Leo – 20°00′ Leo · navamsa ♍︎ Virgo
- Pada 3 : 20°00′ Leo – 23°20′ Leo · navamsa ♎︎ Libra
- Pada 4 : 23°20′ Leo – 26°40′ Leo · 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 Phalguni
- From Tuesday 3 November at 22:55 to Wednesday 4 November at 22:58
- From Tuesday 1 December at 04:29 to Wednesday 2 December at 04:23
- From Monday 28 December at 12:00 to Tuesday 29 December at 11:11
- From Sunday 24 January at 22:09 to Monday 25 January at 20:30
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.