Nakshatra 27 of 27

Revati (रेवती)

Pisces 16°40′ – 30°00′

Lord Mercury · Pushan · Deva gana · Elephant yoni · Antya nadi

Gandmool nakshatra — shanti puja traditionally advised

Revati at a Glance

Number: 27 of 27
Sidereal span: Pisces 16°40′ – 30°00′
Rashi: Pisces
Ruling planet (lord): Mercury — 17-year Vimshottari dasha
Presiding deity: Pushan
Symbol: Fish
Gana: Deva
Yoni: Elephant (female)
Nadi: Antya (Kapha)
Muhurta class: Mridu (tender)
Keywords: Nurturing, journeying, compassionate

Degrees are sidereal, using the Lahiri ayanamsa as the Indian ephemeris does. A Western chart uses tropical longitudes and will place the same Moon roughly 24° earlier in the zodiac.

Character of Revati Natives

A fish, presided over by Pushan, the protector of travellers and herds, ruled by Mercury. Revati is the last nakshatra, and it carries the quality of completion — these natives finish what other people started, look after whoever is in front of them, and have an unusual gift for arriving at the right moment in someone else's journey. There is a natural gentleness here that is not weakness.

The Four Padas and Their Naming Letters

Each nakshatra divides into four padas of 3°20′, and each pada falls in a different navamsa sign — which is why two people born in Revati on the same day can read quite differently. The pada also fixes the traditional first syllable for a child’s name.

Pada	Navamsa sign	Name syllable
Pada 1	Sagittarius	De
Pada 2	Capricorn	Do
Pada 3	Aquarius	Cha
Pada 4	Pisces	Chi

27 nakshatras × 4 padas = 108 = 12 signs × 9 navamsas, so the padas run through the navamsa signs in one unbroken cycle. Syllables vary a little between regional traditions; a family pandit’s list takes precedence over any table. Each pada above links to its own page: the exact 3°20′ arc, the rashi it falls in, where Mercury stands in that navamsa, and how much Mercury mahadasha a birth there starts with.

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Career and Work

Teaching of young children, veterinary work and animal care, travel and hospitality, nursing, music and dance, logistics, and spiritual guidance.

The nakshatra sets the flavour; the 10th house and its lord decide the actual profession. Where Mercury sits and how strong it is matters more than the list above — see Mercury in Vedic astrology.

What to Watch For

A Gandmool nakshatra at the very end of Pisces — the last quarter of the zodiac's last nakshatra is classically the most sensitive point in the sky, and Gandmool shanti is prescribed. The characteristic difficulties are over-giving to the point of depletion and an idealism that reality disappoints.

Revati in Kundli Milan

Nakshatra matching scores 36 guna across eight kootas. Three of them are read straight off the birth nakshatra, and these are Revati’s values:

Nadi Koota — 8 guna

Revati is Antya (Kapha). A match with another Antya nadi nakshatra scores 0 of 8, which is the single largest deduction available — 8 of the other 26 nakshatras share this nadi. Same-nadi is traditionally excused when both partners share the same birth nakshatra but sit in different padas, or when the Moon signs are the same and the nakshatras differ.

Yoni Koota — 4 guna

Revati carries the elephant (female) yoni. Its classical opposite is the lion, held by Dhanishta and Purva Bhadrapada —those pairings score 0. The same animal in the same gender scores the full 4.

Gana Koota — 6 guna

Revati is Deva gana — the temperament class, nine nakshatras to each of the three. Deva with Deva scores the full 6, and Deva with Manushya scores 5. Deva with Rakshasa is the pairing the classics warn about — it scores 1 when the woman is Deva and 0 when the man is, because a gentle temperament matched to a forceful one is held to suffer more than the reverse.

18 of 36 is the conventional pass mark. Guna Milan is a filter, not a verdict — Mangal dosha, the 7th house and both Venus positions still have to be read, and a high score does not override a badly afflicted 7th.

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Muhurta: What Revati Is Used For

Revati is classed as Mridu (tender) — one of 4 nakshatras in that class, alongside Mrigashira, Chitra and Anuradha. Tender nakshatras suit the gentle and the beautiful: music, dance and the arts, wearing new clothes and ornaments, romance and marriage, making friends, and the naming of a child. They are excellent for marriage and useless for anything requiring confrontation, since a Mridu start tends to produce a soft outcome.

A real muhurta needs the tithi, vara, yoga and karana too, not the nakshatra alone — the day’s panchang carries all five, and choghadiya narrows it to the hour.

Remedies and Practice

Worship Pushan, the presiding deity of Revati, particularly on the day the Moon transits this nakshatra — which happens roughly once every 27 days and is listed in the daily panchang.
Strengthen Mercury, the nakshatra lord, through its beej mantra and weekday observance. This matters most while the Mercury mahadasha or antardasha is running.
Feed or donate on the Mercury weekday. Charity attributed to the lord is the remedy the classics prefer over gemstones, because it carries no risk of strengthening the wrong graha.
Gandmool shanti puja on the 27th day after birth, performed when the Moon returns to Revati. If it was missed, it can be done on any later return of the Moon to this nakshatra.
Recite the nakshatra’s 108 names or the Nakshatra Suktam during the Moon’s transit through Revati if you want a practice tied to the nakshatra rather than the planet.

If a stone is being considered: the lord here is Mercury, whose stone is Emerald (Panna). Selection by janma nakshatra is the more precise of the two routes, so this differs from the rashi recommendation for Pisces (Yellow Sapphire (Pukhraj)).

More precise is still not automatic. Remedies are prescribed for a specific affliction, not for a nakshatra as such: nothing above needs doing unless Mercury is genuinely weak or badly placed in your chart, and no stone should be worn on nakshatra grounds alone. See dosha remedies.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the ruling planet of Revati nakshatra?

Revati is ruled by Mercury and presided over by Pushan. Because Mercury is the lord, anyone born with the Moon in Revati begins life in a Mercury mahadasha, which runs 17 years in the Vimshottari system — the balance remaining at birth depends on how far into the nakshatra the Moon had travelled. Mercury also rules Ashlesha and Jyeshtha, so those three nakshatras share the same dasha sequence.

What degrees does Revati nakshatra cover?

Revati occupies Pisces 16°40′ – 30°00′ and sits entirely within Pisces. These are sidereal (Nirayana) degrees using the Lahiri ayanamsa. A tropical or Western chart will place your Moon roughly 24 degrees further on, which is why Western sources give a different nakshatra.

What are the name letters for a baby born in Revati nakshatra?

The traditional first syllables are De for pada 1, Do for pada 2, Cha for pada 3, Chi for pada 4. Which one applies depends on the pada the Moon occupied at birth, not on the nakshatra alone — each pada is 3°20′ wide. The four padas of Revati fall in the navamsa signs Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces.

Which nakshatras are incompatible with Revati for marriage?

On Yoni Koota, Revati carries the elephant yoni, whose classical opposite is the lion — held by Dhanishta and Purva Bhadrapada. Those pairings score 0 of 4. On Nadi Koota, worth 8 of the 36 guna and the heaviest single test, a match with any other Antya nadi nakshatra scores zero. Neither is a veto on its own: 18 of 36 is the usual pass mark, and several kootas have recognised exceptions.

Is Revati nakshatra good or bad?

Revati is one of the six Gandmool nakshatras — the three ruled by Ketu (Ashwini, Magha, Mula) and the three ruled by Mercury (Ashlesha, Jyeshtha, Revati) — because it sits at a junction between a sign ruled by different elements. Tradition prescribes Gandmool shanti puja on the 27th day after birth, when the Moon returns to the same nakshatra. It is not a bad nakshatra; it marks a life with more early turbulence and, classically, more depth as a result.

What kind of work suits Revati natives?

Teaching of young children, veterinary work and animal care, travel and hospitality, nursing, music and dance, logistics, and spiritual guidance. This follows from Mercury's natural significations combined with Pushan's domain. The chart decides whether it happens: the 10th house, its lord, and the dasha running through your twenties and thirties matter more than the birth nakshatra for career questions.

Is Revati Your Birth Nakshatra?

Your nakshatra is set by the Moon’s exact longitude at birth, so it needs the time and place, not just the date. A free kundli gives you the nakshatra, the pada, and the Vimshottari balance you started life with.

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