Rohini Pada 1 (Aries Navamsa)

Rohini Pada 1 at a Glance

Pada

1st of 4 — navamsa 13 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Taurus 10°00′ – 13°20′ — 40°00′ – 43°20′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

Taurus, the whole of Rohini being inside it

Navamsa (D-9)

Aries, ruled by Mars

Navamsa from the rashi

12th from Taurus — a dusthana, so the navamsa's gift is spent rather than held

Moon in Aries

in a neutral’s sign — neither helped nor hindered

Name syllable

O

Moon dasha balance

7 years 6 months to 10 years of the 10-year period

What Pada 1 Settles About a Rohini Birth

All four padas of Rohini fall inside Taurus, so the pada leaves the rashi alone — a Rohini native is a Taurus native whichever quarter the Moon occupied. What pada 1 settles instead is the navamsa: Aries, the 12th sign from Taurus, where the other three quarters of Rohini give Taurus, 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 Rohini pada 1 birth and a pada 2 birth are both Taurus natives with Venus 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 Rohini Moon anywhere in Taurus 10°00′ – 13°20′ is pada 1, 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 1 rather than just Rohini, and with it the Aries navamsa and how much of the Moon mahadasha was left.

Aries Navamsa: What the D-9 Adds

The first pada of Rohini is the Aries navamsa, lorded by Mars — the 12th sign from Taurus, a dusthana, so the navamsa's gift is spent rather than held. Taurus and Aries are different signs, so the D-9 shifts the reading rather than confirming it. They have neither element nor mobility in common: Taurus is earth and fixed, Aries is fire and movable. Pada 2 of Rohini is the vargottama one, not this.

Two grahas carry this pada: the Moon, which lords Rohini, and Mars, which lords the Aries navamsa. Between Taurus 10°00′ – 13°20′ and the Aries D-9 that arc points to, the Moon counts Mars neutral, so neither helps nor obstructs the other across pada 1. Reading Rohini pada 1 in a particular chart means reading both the Moon and Mars.

Where the Moon Stands in This Pada

The Moon lords Rohini, and in the Aries navamsa the Moon is in a neutral’s sign — neither helped nor hindered. That is a statement about pada 1 specifically: the lord of a nakshatra sits in a different navamsa sign in each of its four quarters, and across Rohini the grade runs from the Moon exalted in Taurus at pada 2 down to the Moon in a neutral’s sign in Aries at pada 1 — pada 1 is the weakest of the four on this test.

Rohini pada 1 is one of 27 padas that leave the lord neither helped nor hindered. Because the Moon is both the lord of Rohini and the graha whose position defines a pada at all, the two dignity questions collapse into one here: the Moon in Aries is in a neutral’s sign, and that is the whole answer for a Rohini pada 1 birth.

Vimshottari: The Moon Balance a Pada 1 Birth Starts With

A Moon in Rohini means life begins inside a Moon mahadasha, 10 years long. The pada fixes how much of it is left: pada 1 of Rohini runs from 7 years 6 months to 10 years remaining — the fullest of the four, because the Moon has only just entered Rohini — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Rohini leaves the whole 10 years open. Inside Taurus 10°00′ – 13°20′ it takes the exact longitude to place a birth within that range, and the pada is as far as a nakshatra reading gets.

The Moon rules three of the 27 nakshatras, so Rohini shares that 10-year opening with Hasta and Shravana — and pada 1 of Rohini shares the range above with pada 1 of those two, because the balance turns on the quarter rather than on which Moon nakshatra it is. Pada 2 of Rohini carries a different one. The dasha calculator takes the Moon balance a Rohini pada 1 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: Mars for 7 years, then Rahu.

The Syllable O

A child born with the Moon in Rohini pada 1 is traditionally named from O. The other three quarters of Rohini give Va for pada 2, Vee for pada 3 and Vu 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 Rohini

Rohini is Taurus 10°00′ – 23°20′, ruled by the Moon, Manushya gana, serpent yoni, Antya nadi, and pada 1 shares every one of those with the other three. What belongs to pada 1 alone is the arc, the navamsa and the syllable — Taurus 10°00′ – 13°20′, Aries, O:

The rashi column is constant on Rohini; the navamsa column is what the pada buys you. A · marks the vargottama pada of Rohini — pada 2, not pada 1.

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