Pushya Pada 2 (Virgo Navamsa)

Pushya Pada 2 at a Glance

Pada

2nd of 4 — navamsa 30 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Cancer 6°40′ – 10°00′ — 96°40′ – 100°00′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

Cancer, the whole of Pushya being inside it

Navamsa (D-9)

Virgo, ruled by Mercury

Navamsa from the rashi

3rd from Cancer — an upachaya house, where effort tells more than ease

Saturn in Virgo

in a friend’s sign — supported without being strong

Name syllable

He

Saturn dasha balance

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

What Pada 2 Settles About a Pushya Birth

All four padas of Pushya fall inside Cancer, so the pada leaves the rashi alone — a Pushya native is a Cancer native whichever quarter the Moon occupied. What pada 2 settles instead is the navamsa: Virgo, the 3rd sign from Cancer, where the other three quarters of Pushya 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 a Pushya pada 2 birth and a pada 3 birth are both Cancer natives with Moon 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 Pushya Moon anywhere in Cancer 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 Pushya, 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 Pushya is the Virgo navamsa, lorded by Mercury — the 3rd sign from Cancer, an upachaya house, where effort tells more than ease. Cancer and Virgo are different signs, so the D-9 shifts the reading rather than confirming it. They have neither element nor mobility in common: Cancer is water and movable, Virgo is earth and dual. Pada 2 is not the vargottama one and neither are the other three: Pushya has no vargottama pada at all, which it shares with 17 other nakshatras.

Two grahas carry this pada: Saturn, which lords Pushya, and Mercury, which lords the Virgo navamsa. Between Cancer 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 Pushya pada 2 in a particular chart means reading both Saturn and Mercury.

Where Saturn Stands in This Pada

Saturn lords Pushya, 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 Pushya 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.

Pushya 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 a Pushya 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 Pushya means life begins inside a Saturn mahadasha, 19 years long. The pada fixes how much of it is left: pada 2 of Pushya 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 Pushya leaves the whole 19 years open. Inside Cancer 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 Pushya shares that 19-year opening with Anuradha and Uttara Bhadrapada — and pada 2 of Pushya 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 Pushya carries a different one. The dasha calculator takes the Saturn balance a Pushya pada 2 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: Mercury for 17 years, then Ketu.

The Syllable He

A child born with the Moon in Pushya pada 2 is traditionally named from He. The other three quarters of Pushya give Hu for pada 1, Ho for pada 3 and Da 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 Pushya

Pushya is Cancer 3°20′ – 16°40′, ruled by Saturn, Deva gana, sheep 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 — Cancer 6°40′ – 10°00′, Virgo, He:

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

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