Mula Pada 2 (Taurus Navamsa)

Mula Pada 2 at a Glance

Pada

2nd of 4 — navamsa 74 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Sagittarius 3°20′ – 6°40′ — 243°20′ – 246°40′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

Sagittarius, the whole of Mula being inside it

Navamsa (D-9)

Taurus, ruled by Venus

Navamsa from the rashi

6th from Sagittarius — a dusthana, so what the navamsa gives it gives through friction

Ketu in Taurus

in a friend’s sign — supported without being strong

Name syllable

Yo

Ketu dasha balance

3 years 6 months to 5 years 3 months of the 7-year period

What Pada 2 Settles About a Mula Birth

All four padas of Mula fall inside Sagittarius, so the pada leaves the rashi alone — a Mula native is a Sagittarius native whichever quarter the Moon occupied. What pada 2 settles instead is the navamsa: Taurus, the 6th sign from Sagittarius, where the other three quarters of Mula give Aries, Gemini and Cancer. The D-9 is where the classical texts look for the strength behind a promise the rashi chart only states, which is why a Mula pada 2 birth and a pada 3 birth are both Sagittarius natives with Jupiter 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: a Mula Moon anywhere in Sagittarius 3°20′ – 6°40′ 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 Mula, and with it the Taurus navamsa and how much of the Ketu mahadasha was left.

Taurus Navamsa: What the D-9 Adds

The second pada of Mula is the Taurus navamsa, lorded by Venus — the 6th sign from Sagittarius, a dusthana, so what the navamsa gives it gives through friction. Sagittarius and Taurus are different signs, so the D-9 shifts the reading rather than confirming it. They have neither element nor mobility in common: Sagittarius is fire and dual, Taurus is earth and fixed. Pada 2 is not the vargottama one and neither are the other three: Mula has no vargottama pada at all, which it shares with 17 other nakshatras.

Two grahas carry this pada: Ketu, which lords Mula, and Venus, which lords the Taurus navamsa. Between Sagittarius 3°20′ – 6°40′ and the Taurus D-9 that arc points to, Ketu counts Venus a natural friend, so the two pull together. Reading Mula pada 2 in a particular chart means reading both Ketu and Venus.

Where Ketu Stands in This Pada

Ketu lords Mula, and in the Taurus navamsa Ketu 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 Mula the grade runs from Ketu in a friend’s sign at padas 1 and 2 down to Ketu in an enemy’s sign in Cancer at pada 4 — pada 2 shares the top grade of the four.

Mula 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 Taurus the Moon is exalted, which is about the mind a Mula pada 2 birth starts with rather than about what Ketu can deliver.

Vimshottari: The Ketu Balance a Pada 2 Birth Starts With

A Moon in Mula means life begins inside a Ketu mahadasha, 7 years long. The pada fixes how much of it is left: pada 2 of Mula runs from 3 years 6 months to 5 years 3 months remaining — 50% to 75% of the 7 years — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Mula leaves the whole 7 years open. Inside Sagittarius 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.

Ketu rules three of the 27 nakshatras, so Mula shares that 7-year opening with Ashwini and Magha — and pada 2 of Mula shares the range above with pada 2 of those two, because the balance turns on the quarter rather than on which Ketu nakshatra it is. Pada 3 of Mula carries a different one. The dasha calculator takes the Ketu balance a Mula pada 2 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: Venus for 20 years, then the Sun.

The Syllable Yo

A child born with the Moon in Mula pada 2 is traditionally named from Yo. The other three quarters of Mula give Ye for pada 1, Bha for pada 3 and Bhee 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 Mula

Mula is Sagittarius 0°00′ – 13°20′, ruled by Ketu, Rakshasa gana, dog yoni, Adi 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 — Sagittarius 3°20′ – 6°40′, Taurus, Yo:

The rashi column is constant on Mula; the navamsa column is what the pada buys you.

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