Uttara Ashadha (उत्तराषाढ़ा)

Uttara Ashadha at a Glance

Number

21 of 27

Sidereal span

Sagittarius 26°40′ – Capricorn 10°00′

Rashi

Sagittarius, Capricorn

Ruling planet (lord)

Sun — 6-year Vimshottari dasha

Presiding deity

Vishvedevas

Symbol

Elephant tusk

Gana

Manushya

Yoni

Mongoose (female)

Nadi

Antya (Kapha)

Muhurta class

Dhruva / Sthira (fixed)

Keywords

Victorious, righteous, leader

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 Uttara Ashadha Natives

The elephant's tusk, presided over by the Vishvedevas, ruled by the Sun. Uttara Ashadha is the nakshatra of final victory — not the fast win but the one that holds. These natives are righteous in a way that is genuinely inconvenient to themselves, take responsibility without being asked, and finish. It is among the most auspicious of the twenty-seven for anything intended to last.

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 Uttara Ashadha on the same day can read quite differently. The pada also fixes the traditional first syllable for a child’s name.

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 the Sun stands in that navamsa, and how much Sun mahadasha a birth there starts with.

Career and Work

Government and public administration, law, the armed forces, large-scale management, teaching, and institution-building.

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

What to Watch For

The only one of the fourteen yoni animals held by a single nakshatra — every other animal is shared by two, so Uttara Ashadha is the odd one out in Yoni Koota. A fixed nakshatra, so it is inflexible: it holds a position past the point of usefulness, and the strong sense of duty leaves very little room for rest.

Uttara Ashadha in Kundli Milan

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

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.

Muhurta: What Uttara Ashadha Is Used For

Uttara Ashadha is classed as Dhruva / Sthira (fixed) — one of 4 nakshatras in that class, alongside Rohini, Uttara Phalguni and Uttara Bhadrapada. Fixed nakshatras are the ones selected for permanence: laying foundations, buying land, planting trees, coronations and installations, signing long agreements, and the griha pravesh of a new house. They are the strongest class for marriage. They are avoided for anything you might want to undo, including surgery and litigation.

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 Vishvedevas, the presiding deity of Uttara Ashadha, particularly on the day the Moon transits this nakshatra — which happens roughly once every 27 days and is listed in the daily panchang.
• Strengthen the Sun, the nakshatra lord, through its beej mantra and weekday observance. This matters most while the Sun mahadasha or antardasha is running.
• Feed or donate on the Sun weekday. Charity attributed to the lord is the remedy the classics prefer over gemstones, because it carries no risk of strengthening the wrong graha.
• Recite the nakshatra’s 108 names or the Nakshatra Suktam during the Moon’s transit through Uttara Ashadha if you want a practice tied to the nakshatra rather than the planet.

If a stone is being considered: the lord here is Sun, whose stone is Ruby (Manik). Selection by janma nakshatra is the more precise of the two routes, so this differs from the rashi recommendation for Sagittarius (Yellow Sapphire (Pukhraj)) and Capricorn (Blue Sapphire (Neelam)) — this nakshatra straddles the boundary, so which one applies depends on the pada.

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

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