Nakshatra 5 of 27
Mrigashira
Mrigashira is the search itself. Curious, gentle and restless, it keeps looking for the next thing and can find it hard to stay with one.
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. Mrigashira spans 23°20′ Taurus to 6°40′ Gemini.
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
- Soma, the nectar
- Symbol
- a deer's head
- Spans
- 23°20′ Taurus – 6°40′ Gemini
- Padas (navamsa)
- 1 Leo · 2 Virgo · 3 Libra · 4 Scorpio
Gifts
- curiosity
- gentleness
- research
Watch for
- restlessness
- suspicion