Rohini Pada 4 (Cancer Navamsa)

Rohini Pada 4 at a Glance

Pada

4th of 4 — navamsa 16 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Taurus 20°00′ – 23°20′ — 50°00′ – 53°20′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

Taurus, the whole of Rohini being inside it

Navamsa (D-9)

Cancer, ruled by Moon

Navamsa from the rashi

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

Moon in Cancer

in its own sign — the second strongest, and the steadiest

Name syllable

Vu

Moon dasha balance

none to 2 years 6 months of the 10-year period

What Pada 4 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 4 settles instead is the navamsa: Cancer, the 3rd sign from Taurus, where the other three quarters of Rohini give Aries, Taurus and Gemini. 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 4 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 20°00′ – 23°20′ is pada 4, 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 4 rather than just Rohini, and with it the Cancer navamsa and how much of the Moon mahadasha was left.

Cancer Navamsa: What the D-9 Adds

The fourth pada of Rohini is the Cancer navamsa, lorded by the Moon — the 3rd sign from Taurus, an upachaya house, where effort tells more than ease. Taurus and Cancer 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, Cancer is water and movable. Pada 2 of Rohini is the vargottama one, not this.

The Moon lords both Rohini and Cancer, so on pada 4 the nakshatra lord and the navamsa lord are the same graha and the arc gives one voice rather than two. Wherever the Moon sits in a chart, it answers for Taurus 20°00′ – 23°20′ and for the Cancer D-9 alike — there is no second dispositor to soften or contradict it.

Where the Moon Stands in This Pada

The Moon lords Rohini, and in the Cancer navamsa the Moon is in its own sign — the second strongest, and the steadiest. That is a statement about pada 4 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 4 has 1 of the four above it and 2 below.

Rohini pada 4 is one of 9 padas whose nakshatra lord holds its own navamsa. 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 Cancer is in its own sign, and that is the whole answer for a Rohini pada 4 birth.

Vimshottari: The Moon Balance a Pada 4 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 4 of Rohini runs from none to 2 years 6 months remaining — the shortest of the four, and a Moon on the last minute of Rohini begins with the Moon period already spent, so the next mahadasha starts at birth — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Rohini leaves the whole 10 years open. Inside Taurus 20°00′ – 23°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 4 of Rohini shares the range above with pada 4 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 4 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: Mars for 7 years, then Rahu.

The Syllable Vu

A child born with the Moon in Rohini pada 4 is traditionally named from Vu. The other three quarters of Rohini give O for pada 1, Va for pada 2 and Vee for pada 3, 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 4 shares every one of those with the other three. What belongs to pada 4 alone is the arc, the navamsa and the syllable — Taurus 20°00′ – 23°20′, Cancer, Vu:

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 4.

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