Chitra Pada 4 (Scorpio Navamsa)

Chitra Pada 4 at a Glance

Pada

4th of 4 — navamsa 56 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Libra 3°20′ – 6°40′ — 183°20′ – 186°40′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

Libra — Chitra straddles Virgo and Libra, and the pada decides which

Navamsa (D-9)

Scorpio, ruled by Mars

Navamsa from the rashi

2nd from Libra — an artha house, and a panapara

Mars in Scorpio

in its own sign — the second strongest, and the steadiest

Name syllable

Ree

Mars dasha balance

none to 1 year 9 months of the 7-year period

What Pada 4 Settles About a Chitra Birth

This is the pada that matters most on Chitra, because Chitra crosses a sign boundary and pada 4 lands in Libra. The rest of the nakshatra divides differently — padas 1 and 2 are in Virgo — so two people who both read Chitra as their birth star can have different rashis, different rashi lords and different monthly readings. Pada 4 shares Libra with pada 3 of Chitra.

The pada is fixed by the Moon’s exact longitude, so it needs the birth time and place rather than the date: a Chitra Moon anywhere in Libra 3°20′ – 6°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 Chitra, and with it the Scorpio navamsa and how much of the Mars mahadasha was left.

Scorpio Navamsa: What the D-9 Adds

The fourth pada of Chitra is the Scorpio navamsa, lorded by Mars — the 2nd sign from Libra, an artha house, and a panapara. Libra and Scorpio are different signs, so the D-9 shifts the reading rather than confirming it. They have neither element nor mobility in common: Libra is air and movable, Scorpio is water and fixed. Pada 2 and 3 of Chitra are the vargottama one, not this.

Mars lords both Chitra and Scorpio, so on pada 4 the nakshatra lord and the navamsa lord are the same graha and the arc gives one voice rather than two. Wherever Mars sits in a chart, it answers for Libra 3°20′ – 6°40′ and for the Scorpio D-9 alike — there is no second dispositor to soften or contradict it.

Where Mars Stands in This Pada

Mars lords Chitra, and in the Scorpio navamsa Mars is in its own sign — the second strongest, and the steadiest. 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 Chitra the grade runs from Mars in its own sign in Scorpio at pada 4 down to Mars in an enemy’s sign in Virgo at pada 2 — pada 4 is the strongest of the four on this test.

Chitra pada 4 is one of 9 padas whose nakshatra lord holds its own navamsa. The Moon matters separately, since a pada is a Moon position: in Scorpio the Moon is debilitated, which is about the mind a Chitra pada 4 birth starts with rather than about what Mars can deliver.

Vimshottari: The Mars Balance a Pada 4 Birth Starts With

A Moon in Chitra means life begins inside a Mars mahadasha, 7 years long. The pada fixes how much of it is left: pada 4 of Chitra runs from none to 1 year 9 months remaining — the shortest of the four, and a Moon on the last minute of Chitra begins with the Mars period already spent, so the next mahadasha starts at birth — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Chitra leaves the whole 7 years open. Inside Libra 3°20′ – 6°40′ it takes the exact longitude to place a birth within that range, and the pada is as far as a nakshatra reading gets.

Mars rules three of the 27 nakshatras, so Chitra shares that 7-year opening with Mrigashira and Dhanishta — and pada 4 of Chitra shares the range above with pada 4 of those two, because the balance turns on the quarter rather than on which Mars nakshatra it is. Pada 3 of Chitra carries a different one. The dasha calculator takes the Mars balance a Chitra pada 4 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: Rahu for 18 years, then Jupiter.

The Syllable Ree

A child born with the Moon in Chitra pada 4 is traditionally named from Ree. The other three quarters of Chitra give Pe for pada 1, Po for pada 2 and Ra 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 Chitra

Chitra is Virgo 23°20′ – Libra 6°40′, ruled by Mars, Rakshasa gana, tiger 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 — Libra 3°20′ – 6°40′, Scorpio, Ree:

The rashi column is the one to read first on Chitra: it changes inside the nakshatra, which is true of only nine of the 27. A · marks the vargottama pada of Chitra — pada 2 and 3, not pada 4.

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