Nakshatra 2 of 27
Bharani
Bharani carries weight: desire, birth, endings, and the discipline to hold all of it. It gives strong appetites and a serious sense of responsibility for them.
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. Bharani spans 13°20′ Aries to 26°40′ Aries.
Its ruler, Venus, 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
- Venus
- Deity
- Yama, keeper of limits
- Symbol
- the womb
- Spans
- 13°20′ Aries – 26°40′ Aries
- Padas (navamsa)
- 1 Leo · 2 Virgo · 3 Libra · 4 Scorpio
Gifts
- stamina
- honesty about desire
- carrying hard things
Watch for
- all or nothing
- moral rigidity