Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra

Span

3°20′ Pisces to 16°40′ Pisces

Ruling planet

Saturn (Vimshottari dasha of 19 years)

Deity

Ahir Budhnya

Symbol

The back of a funeral cot, or twins

Nature

Dhruva (fixed)

Gana

Manushya (human)

Yoni (animal)

Cow

Nadi

Madhya (Pitta)

The meaning of Uttara Bhadrapada

Uttara Bhadrapada (उत्तरभाद्रपदा) is the 26th of the 27 nakshatras. Its presiding deity is Ahir Budhnya, the serpent of the deep waters, and its symbol is the back of a funeral cot, or twins. In Jyotish the deity of a nakshatra is the key to its nature: what the deity does, the nakshatra does.

It is ruled by Saturn, so a person whose Moon is in Uttara Bhadrapada begins life in the Saturn dasha. The other two nakshatras ruled by Saturn are Pushya and Anuradha; together they share something of Saturn’s character.

Good for: Dhruva work

In the muhurta texts Uttara Bhadrapada is a dhruva (fixed) nakshatra, favoured for foundations, house-building, planting, coronations and anything meant to last. When the Moon passes through Uttara Bhadrapada (about once every 27⅓ days) it is a good day for those kinds of beginnings.

The four padas

Each nakshatra divides into four padas of 3°20′. Each pada falls in a navamsa sign, and each has the traditional first syllable used for naming a child born in it.

In marriage matching

In guna milan, Uttara Bhadrapada is of Manushya gana, cow yoni and Madhya nadi. Two partners with the same nadi lose all eight points of nadi koota. Match two charts.

Find your birth nakshatra · Pisces (Meena) · Chapter 5: the 27 nakshatras

Sources: Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra and Phaladeepika for the signs, planets and houses; Muhurta Chintamani for the nakshatra classes and the guna milan attributes. Wording is our own.