Uttara Bhadrapada Pada 4 (Scorpio Navamsa)

Uttara Bhadrapada Pada 4 at a Glance

Pada

4th of 4 — navamsa 104 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Pisces 13°20′ – 16°40′ — 343°20′ – 346°40′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

Pisces, the whole of Uttara Bhadrapada being inside it

Navamsa (D-9)

Scorpio, ruled by Mars

Navamsa from the rashi

9th from Pisces — a trikona, the other of the two fortunate angles

Saturn in Scorpio

in an enemy’s sign — working against the grain

Name syllable

Tra

Saturn dasha balance

none to 4 years 9 months of the 19-year period

What Pada 4 Settles About an Uttara Bhadrapada Birth

All four padas of Uttara Bhadrapada fall inside Pisces, so the pada leaves the rashi alone — an Uttara Bhadrapada native is a Pisces native whichever quarter the Moon occupied. What pada 4 settles instead is the navamsa: Scorpio, the 9th sign from Pisces, where the other three quarters of Uttara Bhadrapada give Leo, Virgo and Libra. The D-9 is where the classical texts look for the strength behind a promise the rashi chart only states, which is why an Uttara Bhadrapada pada 4 birth and a pada 3 birth are both Pisces natives with Jupiter 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: an Uttara Bhadrapada Moon anywhere in Pisces 13°20′ – 16°40′ 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 Bhadrapada, and with it the Scorpio navamsa and how much of the Saturn mahadasha was left.

Scorpio Navamsa: What the D-9 Adds

The fourth pada of Uttara Bhadrapada is the Scorpio navamsa, lorded by Mars — the 9th sign from Pisces, a trikona, the other of the two fortunate angles. Pisces and Scorpio are different signs, so the D-9 shifts the reading rather than confirming it. They share an element — both water — while differing in mobility, Pisces being dual and Scorpio fixed. Pada 4 is not the vargottama one and neither are the other three: Uttara Bhadrapada has no vargottama pada at all, which it shares with 17 other nakshatras.

Two grahas carry this pada: Saturn, which lords Uttara Bhadrapada, and Mars, which lords the Scorpio navamsa. Between Pisces 13°20′ – 16°40′ and the Scorpio D-9 that arc points to, Saturn counts Mars a natural enemy, so pada 4 asks for two things at once. Reading Uttara Bhadrapada pada 4 in a particular chart means reading both Saturn and Mars.

Where Saturn Stands in This Pada

Saturn lords Uttara Bhadrapada, and in the Scorpio navamsa Saturn is in an enemy’s sign — working against the grain. 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 Uttara Bhadrapada the grade runs from Saturn exalted in Libra at pada 3 down to Saturn in an enemy’s sign at padas 1 and 4 — pada 4 shares the lowest grade of the four.

Uttara Bhadrapada pada 4 is one of 27 padas that put the lord in hostile ground. The Moon matters separately, since a pada is a Moon position: in Scorpio the Moon is debilitated, which is about the mind an Uttara Bhadrapada pada 4 birth starts with rather than about what Saturn can deliver.

Vimshottari: The Saturn Balance a Pada 4 Birth Starts With

A Moon in Uttara Bhadrapada means life begins inside a Saturn mahadasha, 19 years long. The pada fixes how much of it is left: pada 4 of Uttara Bhadrapada runs from none to 4 years 9 months remaining — the shortest of the four, and a Moon on the last minute of Uttara Bhadrapada begins with the Saturn period already spent, so the next mahadasha starts at birth — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Uttara Bhadrapada leaves the whole 19 years open. Inside Pisces 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.

Saturn rules three of the 27 nakshatras, so Uttara Bhadrapada shares that 19-year opening with Pushya and Anuradha — and pada 4 of Uttara Bhadrapada shares the range above with pada 4 of those two, because the balance turns on the quarter rather than on which Saturn nakshatra it is. Pada 3 of Uttara Bhadrapada carries a different one. The dasha calculator takes the Saturn balance an Uttara Bhadrapada pada 4 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: Mercury for 17 years, then Ketu.

The Syllable Tra

A child born with the Moon in Uttara Bhadrapada pada 4 is traditionally named from Tra. The other three quarters of Uttara Bhadrapada give Du for pada 1, Tha for pada 2 and Jha 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 Bhadrapada

Uttara Bhadrapada is Pisces 3°20′ – 16°40′, ruled by Saturn, Manushya gana, cow yoni, Madhya 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 — Pisces 13°20′ – 16°40′, Scorpio, Tra:

The rashi column is constant on Uttara Bhadrapada; the navamsa column is what the pada buys you.

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