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✦ Birth star 17 of 27 · the devoted friend ✦

Anuradha Nakshatra

3°20′ – 16°40′ Scorpio · ruled by Saturn · deity Mitra, the god of friendship

✦ The star

Anuradha, whose deity is Mitra, the god of friendship, is the star of devotion — the lotus that blooms in any soil. Friendship, loyalty and cooperation across differences.

The gift: the ability to work with anyone and stay true across years.

The lesson: staying loyal long after loyalty stopped being returned. Named kindly: this is the gift pointed the wrong way, and naming it is most of the work.

✦ At a glance
Lord (Vimshottari)Saturn — the planet whose period a Anuradha birth begins in
DeityMitra, the god of friendship
Span3°20′ – 16°40′ Scorpio
Moon sign (Rashi)Scorpio (Vrishchika)
Gana (temperament)Deva — the refined class: cooperative, harmony-seeking, uncomfortable with cruelty even when it would be convenient.
Nadi (constitution)Pitta — the constitutional current used in classical matching
Yoni (instinct)Mriga — the deer, the instinct-symbol used for temperament compatibility
RajjuKati — the waist, an older matching rule read alongside the eight dimensions
✦ The four padas
QuarterNavamsa shadeName syllables
Pada 1A Leo shade — the most self-assured quarter: the star's nature wants an audience and a stage worth the effortNa
Pada 2A Virgo shade — the most exacting quarter: the star's gifts sharpen into skill, detail and serviceNi
Pada 3A Libra shade — the most relational quarter: the star's nature works through partners, taste and fairnessNu
Pada 4A Scorpio shade — the most intense quarter: the star's gifts run deep and private, and surface transformedNe

The pada is the quarter of the star the Moon occupied at your birth. It sets the navamsa sign and the first syllable tradition gives a name. The calculator below tells you yours.

✦ Star chemistry

Classical matching reads two birth stars across eight dimensions. Four of them — ease (Tara), instinct (Yoni), temperament (Gana) and constitution (Nadi), 21 of the 36 points — depend on the stars alone, so they can be read for Anuradha exactly. These stars pair most naturally with it:

Stars that share Anuradha's Pitta nadi — Bharani, Mrigashira, Pushya, Purva Phalguni, Chitra, Purva Ashadha, Dhanishtha, Uttara Bhadrapada — raise the constitutional flag the tradition watches, which comes with listed cancellations and is a conversation, never a verdict. The other fifteen points read from the two Moon signs, which the padas decide; a full check needs both charts.

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Where Anuradha leads

Names that begin with Anuradha's syllablesNa · Ni · Nu · Ne — the classical first sounds, with curated names for each pada. The Birth Star chapter, written for your own chartYour pada, your gana and nadi as they sit in your placements, and the timeline your star anchors — inside the Birth Book. Is a Scorpio Moon in Sade Sati now?Saturn's passage is counted from the Moon sign — check the phase and when it ends.
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Common questions

Which planet rules Anuradha?Saturn. In the Vimshottari system the lord of your birth star opens your first planetary period, so a Anuradha birth begins life in a Saturn chapter.

Which Moon sign is Anuradha in?Anuradha spans 3°20′ – 16°40′ Scorpio — the Moon sign is Scorpio (Vrishchika).

Which nakshatras match Anuradha best?On the four star-based dimensions of classical matching, Punarvasu, Revati, Uttara Phalguni pair most naturally with Anuradha. The full 36-point reading also needs both Moon signs and weighs the cancellations the tradition lists.