Uttara Phalguni Pada 4 (Pisces Navamsa)

Uttara Phalguni Pada 4 at a Glance

Pada

4th of 4 — navamsa 48 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Virgo 6°40′ – 10°00′ — 156°40′ – 160°00′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

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

Navamsa (D-9)

Pisces, ruled by Jupiter

Navamsa from the rashi

7th from Virgo — a kendra, and the axis opposite the rashi

Sun in Pisces

in a friend’s sign — supported without being strong

Name syllable

Pee

Sun dasha balance

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

What Pada 4 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 4 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 4 shares Virgo with padas 2 and 3 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 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 Phalguni, 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 Phalguni is the Pisces navamsa, lorded by Jupiter — the 7th sign from Virgo, a kendra, and the axis opposite the rashi. Virgo and Pisces are different signs, so the D-9 shifts the reading rather than confirming it. They share a mobility — both dual — while differing in element, Virgo being earth and Pisces water. Pada 4 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 Pisces navamsa. Between Virgo 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 Phalguni pada 4 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 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 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 4 shares the top grade of the four.

Uttara Phalguni 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 Phalguni 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 Phalguni means life begins inside a Sun mahadasha, 6 years long. The pada fixes how much of it is left: pada 4 of Uttara Phalguni runs from none to 1 year 6 months remaining — the shortest of the four, and a Moon on the last minute of Uttara Phalguni begins with the Sun period already spent, so the next mahadasha starts at birth — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Uttara Phalguni leaves the whole 6 years open. Inside Virgo 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 Phalguni shares that 6-year opening with Krittika and Uttara Ashadha — and pada 4 of Uttara Phalguni 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 Phalguni carries a different one. The dasha calculator takes the Sun balance an Uttara Phalguni pada 4 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: the Moon for 10 years, then Mars.

The Syllable Pee

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

Uttara Phalguni is Leo 26°40′ – Virgo 10°00′, ruled by the Sun, Manushya gana, cow yoni, Adi 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 — Virgo 6°40′ – 10°00′, Pisces, Pee:

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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