Moon in Ashlesha means you were born with the Moon between 16 degrees 40 minutes and 30 degrees of Cancer, in the star of the Nagas, the serpent deities, ruled by Mercury. The name means the embrace, the entwining, and the symbol is the coiled serpent, which makes this the most feared birth star on … Read more
Moon in Pushya means you were born with the Moon between 3 degrees 20 minutes and 16 degrees 40 minutes of Cancer, in the star the classical texts call the most auspicious of all twenty-seven. The deity is Brihaspati, guru of the gods, the lord is Saturn, and the symbol is the cow’s udder, nourishment … Read more
Moon in Punarvasu means you were born with the Moon between 20 degrees of Gemini and 3 degrees 20 minutes of Cancer, in the star of Aditi, the boundless mother, ruled by Jupiter. The name translates as the return of light, and the symbol is a quiver of arrows, arrows that come back. After Ardra’s … Read more
Moon in Ardra means you were born with the Moon between 6 degrees 40 minutes and 20 degrees of Gemini, in the star of Rudra, the storm, ruled by Rahu. The symbol is a teardrop, and the name means the moist one, the green freshness of the world immediately after the storm has passed. That … Read more
Moon in Mrigashira means you were born with the Moon between 23 degrees 20 minutes of Taurus and 6 degrees 40 minutes of Gemini, in the star of the deer’s head, ruled by Mars and presided over by Soma. It is the searching star. The deer in the old sky is forever mid-quest, nose lifted, … Read more
Moon in Rohini means you were born with the Moon between 10 and 23 degrees 20 minutes of Taurus, in the star the Moon himself rules and, in the old story, loves above all others. Of Daksha’s twenty-seven daughters given to Chandra in marriage, Rohini was the favourite, the one he could not leave, and … Read more
Moon in Krittika means you were born with the Moon between 26 degrees 40 minutes of Aries and 10 degrees of Taurus, in the star of Agni, the fire, ruled by the Sun. The symbol is the razor, and the reputation is sharpness, but the myth carries the other half of the truth: the Krittikas, … Read more
Moon in Bharani means you were born with the Moon between 13 degrees 20 minutes and 26 degrees 40 minutes of Aries, in the star ruled by Venus and presided over by Yama, the lord of dharma and endings. The symbol is the yoni, the womb, and the whole nakshatra is about carrying: carrying life, … Read more
Moon in Ashwini means you were born with the Moon in the first 13 degrees 20 minutes of Aries, in the nakshatra ruled by Ketu and presided over by the Ashwini Kumaras, the twin physicians of the gods. It is the first birth star of the zodiac, and the people born under it carry that … Read more
Every planet in your chart sits in a sign, and everyone reads that layer. Underneath it runs a finer grid, twenty-seven nakshatras of 13 degrees 20 minutes each, and the nakshatra a planet occupies changes how that planet behaves in ways the sign alone cannot explain. Two people with Moon in Aries can feel entirely … Read more