Uttara Phalguni
Nakshatra 12 · 26°40′ Leo – 10°00′ Virgo
Uttara Phalguni is the 12th of the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology. Its deity is Aryaman, alliance, its symbol the four legs of a bed, a hammock, and its ruling planet Sun. Tradition reads in it loyalty, commitment, generosity.
Attributes
- Deity : Aryaman, alliance
- Symbol : the four legs of a bed, a hammock
- Lord : Sun
- Animal (yoni) : the cow
Gana : Manushya (human)
A human temperament, between ambition and sensitivity.
The four padas
- Pada 1 : 26°40′ Leo – 30°00′ Leo · navamsa ♐︎ Sagittarius
- Pada 2 : 0°00′ Virgo – 3°20′ Virgo · navamsa ♑︎ Capricorn
- Pada 3 : 3°20′ Virgo – 6°40′ Virgo · navamsa ♒︎ Aquarius
- Pada 4 : 6°40′ Virgo – 10°00′ Virgo · navamsa ♓︎ Pisces
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 Uttara Phalguni
- From Wednesday 4 November at 22:58 to Thursday 5 November at 23:24
- From Wednesday 2 December at 04:23 to Thursday 3 December at 04:51
- From Tuesday 29 December at 11:11 to Wednesday 30 December at 11:04
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.