Uttara Phalguni Pada 1 (Sagittarius Navamsa)

Uttara Phalguni Pada 1 at a Glance

Pada

1st of 4 — navamsa 45 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Leo 26°40′ – 30°00′ — 146°40′ – 150°00′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

Leo — Uttara Phalguni straddles Leo and Virgo, and the pada decides which

Navamsa (D-9)

Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter

Navamsa from the rashi

5th from Leo — a trikona, the strongest place a supporting sign can fall

Sun in Sagittarius

in a friend’s sign — supported without being strong

Name syllable

Tay

Sun dasha balance

4 years 6 months to 6 years of the 6-year period

What Pada 1 Settles About an Uttara Phalguni Birth

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

The pada is fixed by the Moon’s exact longitude, so it needs the birth time and place rather than the date: an Uttara Phalguni Moon anywhere in Leo 26°40′ – 30°00′ is pada 1, 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 1 rather than just Uttara Phalguni, and with it the Sagittarius navamsa and how much of the Sun mahadasha was left.

Sagittarius Navamsa: What the D-9 Adds

The first pada of Uttara Phalguni is the Sagittarius navamsa, lorded by Jupiter — the 5th sign from Leo, a trikona, the strongest place a supporting sign can fall. Leo and Sagittarius are different signs, so the D-9 shifts the reading rather than confirming it. They share an element — both fire — while differing in mobility, Leo being fixed and Sagittarius dual. Pada 1 is not the vargottama one and neither are the other three: Uttara Phalguni has no vargottama pada at all, which it shares with 17 other nakshatras.

Two grahas carry this pada: the Sun, which lords Uttara Phalguni, and Jupiter, which lords the Sagittarius navamsa. Between Leo 26°40′ – 30°00′ and the Sagittarius D-9 that arc points to, the Sun counts Jupiter a natural friend, so the two pull together. Reading Uttara Phalguni pada 1 in a particular chart means reading both the Sun and Jupiter.

Where the Sun Stands in This Pada

The Sun lords Uttara Phalguni, and in the Sagittarius navamsa the Sun is in a friend’s sign — supported without being strong. That is a statement about pada 1 specifically: the lord of a nakshatra sits in a different navamsa sign in each of its four quarters, and Uttara Phalguni 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 1 shares the top grade of the four.

Uttara Phalguni pada 1 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 Sagittarius the Moon is in a neutral’s sign, which is about the mind an Uttara Phalguni pada 1 birth starts with rather than about what the Sun can deliver.

Vimshottari: The Sun Balance a Pada 1 Birth Starts With

A Moon in Uttara Phalguni means life begins inside a Sun mahadasha, 6 years long. The pada fixes how much of it is left: pada 1 of Uttara Phalguni runs from 4 years 6 months to 6 years remaining — the fullest of the four, because the Moon has only just entered Uttara Phalguni — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Uttara Phalguni leaves the whole 6 years open. Inside Leo 26°40′ – 30°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 Phalguni shares that 6-year opening with Krittika and Uttara Ashadha — and pada 1 of Uttara Phalguni shares the range above with pada 1 of those two, because the balance turns on the quarter rather than on which Sun nakshatra it is. Pada 2 of Uttara Phalguni carries a different one. The dasha calculator takes the Sun balance an Uttara Phalguni pada 1 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: the Moon for 10 years, then Mars.

The Syllable Tay

A child born with the Moon in Uttara Phalguni pada 1 is traditionally named from Tay. The other three quarters of Uttara Phalguni give To for pada 2, Pa for pada 3 and Pee for pada 4, 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 Phalguni

Uttara Phalguni is Leo 26°40′ – Virgo 10°00′, ruled by the Sun, Manushya gana, cow yoni, Adi nadi, and pada 1 shares every one of those with the other three. What belongs to pada 1 alone is the arc, the navamsa and the syllable — Leo 26°40′ – 30°00′, Sagittarius, Tay:

The rashi column is the one to read first on Uttara Phalguni: it changes inside the nakshatra, which is true of only nine of the 27.

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