Nakshatra 7 of 27
Punarvasu
Punarvasu means the return of the light. It gives resilience, optimism, and a talent for coming home to itself after losing the way.
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. Punarvasu spans 20°00′ Gemini to 3°20′ Cancer.
Its ruler, Jupiter, 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
- Jupiter
- Deity
- Aditi, mother of the gods
- Symbol
- a quiver of arrows
- Spans
- 20°00′ Gemini – 3°20′ Cancer
- Padas (navamsa)
- 1 Aries · 2 Taurus · 3 Gemini · 4 Cancer
Gifts
- resilience
- generosity
- simplicity
Watch for
- naivety
- restless return