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✦ Birth star 27 of 27 · the compassionate guide ✦

Revati Nakshatra

16°40′ – 30°00′ Pisces · ruled by Mercury · deity Pushan, the shepherd of journeys

✦ The star

Revati, whose deity is Pushan, the shepherd of journeys, is the last star — the fish. It sees travellers home: protective, gentle, and quietly beloved.

The gift: kindness that is remembered, and safe passage for whoever they guide.

The lesson: giving directions they never take themselves — endings hurt them more than they admit. Named kindly: this is the gift pointed the wrong way, and naming it is most of the work.

✦ At a glance
Lord (Vimshottari)Mercury — the planet whose period a Revati birth begins in
DeityPushan, the shepherd of journeys
Span16°40′ – 30°00′ Pisces
Moon sign (Rashi)Pisces (Meena)
Gana (temperament)Deva — the refined class: cooperative, harmony-seeking, uncomfortable with cruelty even when it would be convenient.
Nadi (constitution)Kapha — the constitutional current used in classical matching
Yoni (instinct)Gaja — the elephant, the instinct-symbol used for temperament compatibility
RajjuPada — the feet, an older matching rule read alongside the eight dimensions
GandamoolaYes — Revati sits at a junction where a water sign meets a fire sign. Classical practice reads its padas with care; modern practice treats it as a nuance of timing, never a verdict on a person.
✦ The four padas
QuarterNavamsa shadeName syllables
Pada 1A Sagittarius shade — the most expansive quarter: the star's nature reaches for meaning, teachers and the long viewDe
Pada 2A Capricorn shade — the most structured quarter: the star's gifts are built into something that lastsDo
Pada 3An Aquarius shade — the most independent quarter: the star's nature serves the many, on its own termsCha
Pada 4A Pisces shade — the most dissolving quarter: the star's gifts soften boundaries and lean toward the universalChi

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 Revati exactly. These stars pair most naturally with it:

Stars that share Revati's Kapha nadi — Krittika, Rohini, Ashlesha, Magha, Swati, Vishakha, Uttara Ashadha, Shravana — 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 Revati leads

Names that begin with Revati's syllablesDe · Do · Cha · Chi — 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 Pisces 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 Revati?Mercury. In the Vimshottari system the lord of your birth star opens your first planetary period, so a Revati birth begins life in a Mercury chapter.

Which Moon sign is Revati in?Revati spans 16°40′ – 30°00′ Pisces — the Moon sign is Pisces (Meena).

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