Nakshatra 13 of 27
Hasta
Hasta is skill in the hands and quickness of mind. It is clever, practical and funny, and it can be restless or a little controlling.
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. Hasta spans 10°00′ Virgo to 23°20′ Virgo.
Its ruler, Moon, 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
- Moon
- Deity
- Savitar, the sun's light
- Symbol
- an open hand
- Spans
- 10°00′ Virgo – 23°20′ Virgo
- Padas (navamsa)
- 1 Aries · 2 Taurus · 3 Gemini · 4 Cancer
Gifts
- craft
- wit
- resourcefulness
Watch for
- nervous control
- cleverness over honesty