Nakshatra 8 of 27
Pushya
Pushya nourishes. It is the most caring of the mansions, dutiful and protective, and it can confuse looking after people with controlling 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. Pushya spans 3°20′ Cancer to 16°40′ Cancer.
Its ruler, Saturn, 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
- Saturn
- Deity
- Brihaspati, teacher of the gods
- Symbol
- a cow's udder
- Spans
- 3°20′ Cancer – 16°40′ Cancer
- Padas (navamsa)
- 1 Leo · 2 Virgo · 3 Libra · 4 Scorpio
Gifts
- nurture
- reliability
- devotion
Watch for
- over-responsibility
- rigid duty