Your Birth Star or Nakshatra
The Ancient Rishis divided the 360 degree zodiac into 12 houses of 30 degrees each and further subdivided it into 27 Nakshatras or star-constellations of 13.20 degrees each. These Nakshatras are further subdivided into four quarters each called Pada. The placement of a planet in these divisions and subdivisions was studied to fine tune the predictions.
The nakshatra in which your moon is placed in your birth chart is called your Janma Nakshatra. The following are some of the basic characteristics of a person born in various Nakshatras. However these get modified based on the other planetary conditions in ones chart.
If you don’t know your Nakshatra, find out using our Online Nakshatra Calculator
Given bellow are the qualities of the nakshatras as given in the scriptures. This is the only site where you will get authentic information about Nakshatras from 3 great scriptures.
The one marked 1 is from the Brihat Jataka of Varahamihira.
The one marked 2 Is from Yavan Jataka of Yavana
and the one marked 3 is from Taittiriya Brahmana an ancient Vedic text.
Click on your nakshatra
| 1 Ashwini | 2 Bharani | 3 Krittika |
| 4 Rohini | 5 Mrigasira | 6 Arudra |
| 7 Punarvasu | 8 Pushyami | 9 Aslesha |
| 10 Magha | 11 Purvaphalguni | 12 Uttaraphalguni |
| 13 Hasta | 14 Chitra | 15 Swati |
| 16 Visakha | 17 Anuradha | 18 Jyestha |
| 19 Moola | 20 Poorvashadha | 21 Uttarashadha |
| 22 Shravana | 23 Dhanistha | 24 Shatabhistha |
| 25 Purvabhadra | 26 Uttarabhadra | 27 Revati |
