Anuradha Pada 2 (Virgo Navamsa)

Anuradha Pada 2 at a Glance

Pada

2nd of 4 — navamsa 66 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Scorpio 6°40′ – 10°00′ — 216°40′ – 220°00′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

Scorpio, the whole of Anuradha being inside it

Navamsa (D-9)

Virgo, ruled by Mercury

Navamsa from the rashi

11th from Scorpio — an upachaya house, and the plainest of the gaining ones

Saturn in Virgo

in a friend’s sign — supported without being strong

Name syllable

Nee

Saturn dasha balance

9 years 6 months to 14 years 3 months of the 19-year period

What Pada 2 Settles About an Anuradha Birth

All four padas of Anuradha fall inside Scorpio, so the pada leaves the rashi alone — an Anuradha native is a Scorpio native whichever quarter the Moon occupied. What pada 2 settles instead is the navamsa: Virgo, the 11th sign from Scorpio, where the other three quarters of Anuradha give Leo, Libra and Scorpio. The D-9 is where the classical texts look for the strength behind a promise the rashi chart only states, which is why an Anuradha pada 2 birth and a pada 3 birth are both Scorpio natives with Mars as rashi lord and still do not read the same.

The pada is fixed by the Moon’s exact longitude, so it needs the birth time and place rather than the date: an Anuradha Moon anywhere in Scorpio 6°40′ – 10°00′ is pada 2, and the Moon crosses 3°20′ in roughly five to seven hours depending on how fast it is moving. A free kundli will say pada 2 rather than just Anuradha, and with it the Virgo navamsa and how much of the Saturn mahadasha was left.

Virgo Navamsa: What the D-9 Adds

The second pada of Anuradha is the Virgo navamsa, lorded by Mercury — the 11th sign from Scorpio, an upachaya house, and the plainest of the gaining ones. Scorpio and Virgo are different signs, so the D-9 shifts the reading rather than confirming it. They have neither element nor mobility in common: Scorpio is water and fixed, Virgo is earth and dual. Pada 4 of Anuradha is the vargottama one, not this.

Two grahas carry this pada: Saturn, which lords Anuradha, and Mercury, which lords the Virgo navamsa. Between Scorpio 6°40′ – 10°00′ and the Virgo D-9 that arc points to, Saturn counts Mercury a natural friend, so the two pull together. Reading Anuradha pada 2 in a particular chart means reading both Saturn and Mercury.

Where Saturn Stands in This Pada

Saturn lords Anuradha, and in the Virgo navamsa Saturn is in a friend’s sign — supported without being strong. That is a statement about pada 2 specifically: the lord of a nakshatra sits in a different navamsa sign in each of its four quarters, and across Anuradha the grade runs from Saturn exalted in Libra at pada 3 down to Saturn in an enemy’s sign at padas 1 and 4 — pada 2 has 1 of the four above it and 2 below.

Anuradha pada 2 is one of 30 padas that put the lord in a friendly sign — the commonest of the six grades. The Moon matters separately, since a pada is a Moon position: in Virgo the Moon is in a friend’s sign, which is about the mind an Anuradha pada 2 birth starts with rather than about what Saturn can deliver.

Vimshottari: The Saturn Balance a Pada 2 Birth Starts With

A Moon in Anuradha means life begins inside a Saturn mahadasha, 19 years long. The pada fixes how much of it is left: pada 2 of Anuradha runs from 9 years 6 months to 14 years 3 months remaining — 50% to 75% of the 19 years — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Anuradha leaves the whole 19 years open. Inside Scorpio 6°40′ – 10°00′ it takes the exact longitude to place a birth within that range, and the pada is as far as a nakshatra reading gets.

Saturn rules three of the 27 nakshatras, so Anuradha shares that 19-year opening with Pushya and Uttara Bhadrapada — and pada 2 of Anuradha shares the range above with pada 2 of those two, because the balance turns on the quarter rather than on which Saturn nakshatra it is. Pada 3 of Anuradha carries a different one. The dasha calculator takes the Saturn balance an Anuradha pada 2 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: Mercury for 17 years, then Ketu.

The Syllable Nee

A child born with the Moon in Anuradha pada 2 is traditionally named from Nee. The other three quarters of Anuradha give Na for pada 1, Noo for pada 3 and Nay for pada 4, which is why a naming list keyed to the nakshatra alone gets it wrong three times out of four — the syllable follows the pada, and the pada follows the longitude.

The Other Three Padas of Anuradha

Anuradha is Scorpio 3°20′ – 16°40′, ruled by Saturn, Deva gana, deer yoni, Madhya nadi, and pada 2 shares every one of those with the other three. What belongs to pada 2 alone is the arc, the navamsa and the syllable — Scorpio 6°40′ – 10°00′, Virgo, Nee:

The rashi column is constant on Anuradha; the navamsa column is what the pada buys you. A · marks the vargottama pada of Anuradha — pada 4, not pada 2.

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