Nakshatra 1 of 27
Ashwini
The first lunar mansion is about speed and starting. People with the Moon here move before they deliberate, recover fast, and are drawn to helping and fixing.
A nakshatra is one of the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology. Yours is the one the Moon stood in when you were born, measured in the sidereal zodiac. Ashwini spans 0°00′ Aries to 13°20′ Aries.
Its ruler, Ketu, also opens the first of your life chapters (the Vimshottari dasha) if your Moon sits here.
Each nakshatra splits into four padas of 3°20′, 108 in all. Each pada falls in a navamsa sign, so the same mansion can lean four slightly different ways.
- Ruled by
- Ketu
- Deity
- the Ashwini twins, healers of the gods
- Symbol
- a horse's head
- Spans
- 0°00′ Aries – 13°20′ Aries
- Padas (navamsa)
- 1 Aries · 2 Taurus · 3 Gemini · 4 Cancer
Gifts
- quick to act
- healing instinct
- fresh starts
Watch for
- impatience
- leaving before the finish