Rohini
Nakshatra 4 · 10°00′ Taurus – 23°20′ Taurus
Rohini is the 4th of the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology. Its deity is Prajapati, the creator, its symbol an ox-drawn cart, and its ruling planet Moon. Tradition reads in it charm, fertility, a taste for beauty.
Attributes
- Deity : Prajapati, the creator
- Symbol : an ox-drawn cart
- Lord : Moon
- Animal (yoni) : the serpent
Gana : Manushya (human)
A human temperament, between ambition and sensitivity.
The four padas
- Pada 1 : 10°00′ Taurus – 13°20′ Taurus · navamsa ♈︎ Aries
- Pada 2 : 13°20′ Taurus – 16°40′ Taurus · navamsa ♉︎ Taurus
- Pada 3 : 16°40′ Taurus – 20°00′ Taurus · navamsa ♊︎ Gemini
- Pada 4 : 20°00′ Taurus – 23°20′ Taurus · 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 Rohini
- From Wednesday 28 October at 08:54 to Thursday 29 October at 06:40
- From Tuesday 24 November at 18:53 to Wednesday 25 November at 16:04
- From Tuesday 22 December at 06:14 to Wednesday 23 December at 03:25
- From Monday 18 January at 16:33 to Tuesday 19 January at 14:22
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.