Rohini Pada 2 (Taurus Navamsa)

Rohini Pada 2 at a Glance

Pada

2nd of 4 — navamsa 14 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Taurus 13°20′ – 16°40′ — 43°20′ – 46°40′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

Taurus, the whole of Rohini being inside it

Navamsa (D-9)

Taurus, ruled by Venus — vargottama

Navamsa from the rashi

1st from Taurus — the rashi itself

Moon in Taurus

exalted — the strongest of the six grades

Name syllable

Va

Moon dasha balance

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

What Pada 2 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 2 settles instead is the navamsa: Taurus, the 1st sign from Taurus, where the other three quarters of Rohini 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 Rohini pada 2 birth and a pada 3 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 13°20′ – 16°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 Rohini, and with it the Taurus navamsa and how much of the Moon mahadasha was left.

Taurus Navamsa: What the D-9 Adds

The second pada of Rohini is the Taurus navamsa, lorded by Venus — the 1st sign from Taurus, the rashi itself. Taurus in the rashi chart and Taurus in the navamsa are the same sign, which makes Rohini pada 2 vargottama — 12 of the 108 padas are, exactly one per sign, and this is the one that belongs to Taurus. A graha anywhere in Taurus 13°20′ – 16°40′ is read as delivering what Taurus promises in the rashi chart rather than qualifying it.

Two grahas carry this pada: the Moon, which lords Rohini, and Venus, which lords the Taurus navamsa. Between Taurus 13°20′ – 16°40′ and the Taurus D-9 that arc points to, the Moon counts Venus neutral, so neither helps nor obstructs the other across pada 2. Reading Rohini pada 2 in a particular chart means reading both the Moon and Venus.

Where the Moon Stands in This Pada

The Moon lords Rohini, and in the Taurus navamsa the Moon is exalted — the strongest of the six grades. 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 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 2 is the strongest of the four on this test.

Rohini pada 2 is one of only 9 padas in the 108 that exalt their nakshatra lord. 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 Taurus is exalted, and that is the whole answer for a Rohini pada 2 birth.

Vimshottari: The Moon Balance a Pada 2 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 2 of Rohini runs from 5 years to 7 years 6 months remaining — 50% to 75% of the 10 years — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Rohini leaves the whole 10 years open. Inside Taurus 13°20′ – 16°40′ 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 2 of Rohini shares the range above with pada 2 of those two, because the balance turns on the quarter rather than on which Moon nakshatra it is. Pada 3 of Rohini carries a different one. The dasha calculator takes the Moon balance a Rohini pada 2 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: Mars for 7 years, then Rahu.

The Syllable Va

A child born with the Moon in Rohini pada 2 is traditionally named from Va. The other three quarters of Rohini give O for pada 1, 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 2 shares every one of those with the other three. What belongs to pada 2 alone is the arc, the navamsa and the syllable — Taurus 13°20′ – 16°40′, Taurus, Va:

The rashi column is constant on Rohini; the navamsa column is what the pada buys you. The · in the navamsa column marks pada 2 itself: Taurus twice over.

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