Nakshatra 14 of 27
Chitra
Chitra makes beautiful things. It has an eye for design and a need to be seen as distinct, which can turn into image over substance.
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. Chitra spans 23°20′ Virgo to 6°40′ Libra.
Its ruler, Mars, 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
- Mars
- Deity
- Tvashtar, the divine craftsman
- Symbol
- a bright jewel
- Spans
- 23°20′ Virgo – 6°40′ Libra
- Padas (navamsa)
- 1 Leo · 2 Virgo · 3 Libra · 4 Scorpio
Gifts
- design sense
- charisma
- making
Watch for
- vanity
- restless dissatisfaction