Uttara Phalguni Pada 2 (Capricorn Navamsa)

Uttara Phalguni Pada 2 at a Glance

Pada

2nd of 4 — navamsa 46 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Virgo 0°00′ – 3°20′ — 150°00′ – 153°20′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

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

Navamsa (D-9)

Capricorn, ruled by Saturn

Navamsa from the rashi

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

Sun in Capricorn

in an enemy’s sign — working against the grain

Name syllable

To

Sun dasha balance

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

What Pada 2 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 2 lands in Virgo. The rest of the nakshatra divides differently — pada 1 is in Leo — so two people who both read Uttara Phalguni as their birth star can have different rashis, different rashi lords and different monthly readings. Pada 2 shares Virgo with padas 3 and 4 of Uttara Phalguni.

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 Virgo 0°00′ – 3°20′ is pada 2, 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 2 rather than just Uttara Phalguni, and with it the Capricorn navamsa and how much of the Sun mahadasha was left.

Capricorn Navamsa: What the D-9 Adds

The second pada of Uttara Phalguni is the Capricorn navamsa, lorded by Saturn — the 5th sign from Virgo, a trikona, the strongest place a supporting sign can fall. Virgo and Capricorn are different signs, so the D-9 shifts the reading rather than confirming it. They share an element — both earth — while differing in mobility, Virgo being dual and Capricorn movable. Pada 2 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 Saturn, which lords the Capricorn navamsa. Between Virgo 0°00′ – 3°20′ and the Capricorn D-9 that arc points to, the Sun counts Saturn a natural enemy, so pada 2 asks for two things at once. Reading Uttara Phalguni pada 2 in a particular chart means reading both the Sun and Saturn.

Where the Sun Stands in This Pada

The Sun lords Uttara Phalguni, and in the Capricorn navamsa the Sun is in an enemy’s sign — working against the grain. That is a statement about pada 2 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 2 shares the lowest grade of the four.

Uttara Phalguni pada 2 is one of 27 padas that put the lord in hostile ground. The Moon matters separately, since a pada is a Moon position: in Capricorn the Moon is in a neutral’s sign, which is about the mind an Uttara Phalguni pada 2 birth starts with rather than about what the Sun can deliver.

Vimshottari: The Sun Balance a Pada 2 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 2 of Uttara Phalguni runs from 3 years to 4 years 6 months remaining — 50% to 75% of the 6 years — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Uttara Phalguni leaves the whole 6 years open. Inside Virgo 0°00′ – 3°20′ 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 2 of Uttara Phalguni shares the range above with pada 2 of those two, because the balance turns on the quarter rather than on which Sun nakshatra it is. Pada 3 of Uttara Phalguni carries a different one. The dasha calculator takes the Sun balance an Uttara Phalguni pada 2 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: the Moon for 10 years, then Mars.

The Syllable To

A child born with the Moon in Uttara Phalguni pada 2 is traditionally named from To. The other three quarters of Uttara Phalguni give Tay for pada 1, 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 2 shares every one of those with the other three. What belongs to pada 2 alone is the arc, the navamsa and the syllable — Virgo 0°00′ – 3°20′, Capricorn, To:

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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