Uttara Phalguni (उत्तर फाल्गुनी)

Uttara Phalguni at a Glance

Number

12 of 27

Sidereal span

Leo 26°40′ – Virgo 10°00′

Rashi

Leo, Virgo

Ruling planet (lord)

Sun — 6-year Vimshottari dasha

Presiding deity

Aryaman

Symbol

Back of bed

Gana

Manushya

Yoni

Cow (male)

Nadi

Adi (Vata)

Muhurta class

Dhruva / Sthira (fixed)

Keywords

Reliable, kind, marriage-oriented

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 Phalguni Natives

The back legs of the bed, presided over by Aryaman, the god of patronage and friendship, ruled by the Sun. Where Purva Phalguni enjoys, Uttara Phalguni commits. This is one of the strongest marriage nakshatras of the twenty-seven and one of the most reliable friends — the native who actually turns up. It carries genuine generosity, but organised rather than impulsive.

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 Phalguni 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

Charity and philanthropy, medicine, teaching, HR and personnel, marriage and family counselling, banking, and any role built on long-term trust.

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

A fixed nakshatra, so the loyalty extends to situations that no longer deserve it. Uttara Phalguni stays too long — in jobs, in friendships, in relationships — and reads leaving as a failure of character rather than a decision.

Uttara Phalguni 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 Phalguni’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 Phalguni Is Used For

Uttara Phalguni is classed as Dhruva / Sthira (fixed) — one of 4 nakshatras in that class, alongside Rohini, Uttara Ashadha 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 Aryaman, the presiding deity of Uttara Phalguni, 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 Phalguni 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 Leo (the same stone, so both routes agree) and Virgo (Emerald (Panna)) — 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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