Uttara Ashadha Pada 4 (Pisces Navamsa)

Uttara Ashadha Pada 4 at a Glance

Pada

4th of 4 — navamsa 84 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Capricorn 6°40′ – 10°00′ — 276°40′ – 280°00′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

Capricorn — Uttara Ashadha straddles Sagittarius and Capricorn, and the pada decides which

Navamsa (D-9)

Pisces, ruled by Jupiter

Navamsa from the rashi

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

Sun in Pisces

in a friend’s sign — supported without being strong

Name syllable

Ji

Sun dasha balance

none to 1 year 6 months of the 6-year period

What Pada 4 Settles About an Uttara Ashadha Birth

This is the pada that matters most on Uttara Ashadha, because Uttara Ashadha crosses a sign boundary and pada 4 lands in Capricorn. The rest of the nakshatra divides differently — pada 1 is in Sagittarius — so two people who both read Uttara Ashadha as their birth star can have different rashis, different rashi lords and different monthly readings. Pada 4 shares Capricorn with padas 2 and 3 of Uttara Ashadha.

The pada is fixed by the Moon’s exact longitude, so it needs the birth time and place rather than the date: an Uttara Ashadha Moon anywhere in Capricorn 6°40′ – 10°00′ 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 Uttara Ashadha, and with it the Pisces navamsa and how much of the Sun mahadasha was left.

Pisces Navamsa: What the D-9 Adds

The fourth pada of Uttara Ashadha is the Pisces navamsa, lorded by Jupiter — the 3rd sign from Capricorn, an upachaya house, where effort tells more than ease. Capricorn and Pisces are different signs, so the D-9 shifts the reading rather than confirming it. They have neither element nor mobility in common: Capricorn is earth and movable, Pisces is water and dual. Pada 1 and 2 of Uttara Ashadha are the vargottama one, not this.

Two grahas carry this pada: the Sun, which lords Uttara Ashadha, and Jupiter, which lords the Pisces navamsa. Between Capricorn 6°40′ – 10°00′ and the Pisces D-9 that arc points to, the Sun counts Jupiter a natural friend, so the two pull together. Reading Uttara Ashadha pada 4 in a particular chart means reading both the Sun and Jupiter.

Where the Sun Stands in This Pada

The Sun lords Uttara Ashadha, and in the Pisces navamsa the Sun is in a friend’s sign — supported without being strong. 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 Uttara Ashadha splits two ways rather than running down a scale: the Sun in a friend’s sign at padas 1 and 4, and the Sun in an enemy’s sign at padas 2 and 3. On that test pada 4 shares the top grade of the four.

Uttara Ashadha pada 4 is one of 30 padas that put the lord in a friendly sign — the commonest of the six grades. The Moon matters separately, since a pada is a Moon position: in Pisces the Moon is in a neutral’s sign, which is about the mind an Uttara Ashadha pada 4 birth starts with rather than about what the Sun can deliver.

Vimshottari: The Sun Balance a Pada 4 Birth Starts With

A Moon in Uttara Ashadha means life begins inside a Sun mahadasha, 6 years long. The pada fixes how much of it is left: pada 4 of Uttara Ashadha runs from none to 1 year 6 months remaining — the shortest of the four, and a Moon on the last minute of Uttara Ashadha begins with the Sun period already spent, so the next mahadasha starts at birth — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Uttara Ashadha leaves the whole 6 years open. Inside Capricorn 6°40′ – 10°00′ it takes the exact longitude to place a birth within that range, and the pada is as far as a nakshatra reading gets.

The Sun rules three of the 27 nakshatras, so Uttara Ashadha shares that 6-year opening with Krittika and Uttara Phalguni — and pada 4 of Uttara Ashadha shares the range above with pada 4 of those two, because the balance turns on the quarter rather than on which Sun nakshatra it is. Pada 3 of Uttara Ashadha carries a different one. The dasha calculator takes the Sun balance an Uttara Ashadha pada 4 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: the Moon for 10 years, then Mars.

The Syllable Ji

A child born with the Moon in Uttara Ashadha pada 4 is traditionally named from Ji. The other three quarters of Uttara Ashadha give Bhe for pada 1, Bho for pada 2 and Ja 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 Uttara Ashadha

Uttara Ashadha is Sagittarius 26°40′ – Capricorn 10°00′, ruled by the Sun, Manushya gana, mongoose 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 — Capricorn 6°40′ – 10°00′, Pisces, Ji:

The rashi column is the one to read first on Uttara Ashadha: it changes inside the nakshatra, which is true of only nine of the 27. A · marks the vargottama pada of Uttara Ashadha — pada 1 and 2, not pada 4.

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