Anuradha Pada 4 (Scorpio Navamsa)

Anuradha Pada 4 at a Glance

Pada

4th of 4 — navamsa 68 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Scorpio 13°20′ – 16°40′ — 223°20′ – 226°40′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

Scorpio, the whole of Anuradha being inside it

Navamsa (D-9)

Scorpio, ruled by Mars — vargottama

Navamsa from the rashi

1st from Scorpio — the rashi itself

Saturn in Scorpio

in an enemy’s sign — working against the grain

Name syllable

Nay

Saturn dasha balance

none to 4 years 9 months of the 19-year period

What Pada 4 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 4 settles instead is the navamsa: Scorpio, the 1st sign from Scorpio, where the other three quarters of Anuradha give Leo, Virgo and Libra. 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 4 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 13°20′ – 16°40′ is pada 4, 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 4 rather than just Anuradha, and with it the Scorpio navamsa and how much of the Saturn mahadasha was left.

Scorpio Navamsa: What the D-9 Adds

The fourth pada of Anuradha is the Scorpio navamsa, lorded by Mars — the 1st sign from Scorpio, the rashi itself. Scorpio in the rashi chart and Scorpio in the navamsa are the same sign, which makes Anuradha pada 4 vargottama — 12 of the 108 padas are, exactly one per sign, and this is the one that belongs to Scorpio. A graha anywhere in Scorpio 13°20′ – 16°40′ is read as delivering what Scorpio promises in the rashi chart rather than qualifying it.

Two grahas carry this pada: Saturn, which lords Anuradha, and Mars, which lords the Scorpio navamsa. Between Scorpio 13°20′ – 16°40′ and the Scorpio D-9 that arc points to, Saturn counts Mars a natural enemy, so pada 4 asks for two things at once. Reading Anuradha pada 4 in a particular chart means reading both Saturn and Mars.

Where Saturn Stands in This Pada

Saturn lords Anuradha, and in the Scorpio navamsa Saturn is in an enemy’s sign — working against the grain. That is a statement about pada 4 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 4 shares the lowest grade of the four.

Anuradha pada 4 is one of 27 padas that put the lord in hostile ground. The Moon matters separately, since a pada is a Moon position: in Scorpio the Moon is debilitated, which is about the mind an Anuradha pada 4 birth starts with rather than about what Saturn can deliver.

Vimshottari: The Saturn Balance a Pada 4 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 4 of Anuradha runs from none to 4 years 9 months remaining — the shortest of the four, and a Moon on the last minute of Anuradha begins with the Saturn period already spent, so the next mahadasha starts at birth — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Anuradha leaves the whole 19 years open. Inside Scorpio 13°20′ – 16°40′ 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 4 of Anuradha shares the range above with pada 4 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 4 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: Mercury for 17 years, then Ketu.

The Syllable Nay

A child born with the Moon in Anuradha pada 4 is traditionally named from Nay. The other three quarters of Anuradha give Na for pada 1, Nee for pada 2 and Noo for pada 3, 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 4 shares every one of those with the other three. What belongs to pada 4 alone is the arc, the navamsa and the syllable — Scorpio 13°20′ – 16°40′, Scorpio, Nay:

The rashi column is constant on Anuradha; the navamsa column is what the pada buys you. The · in the navamsa column marks pada 4 itself: Scorpio twice over.

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