Nakshatra 16 of 27
Vishakha
Vishakha fixes on a goal and goes after it. It gives determination and ambition, and patience runs short when the goal is slow to come.
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. Vishakha spans 20°00′ Libra to 3°20′ Scorpio.
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
- Indra and Agni together
- Symbol
- a triumphal arch
- Spans
- 20°00′ Libra – 3°20′ Scorpio
- Padas (navamsa)
- 1 Aries · 2 Taurus · 3 Gemini · 4 Cancer
Gifts
- focus
- drive
- conviction
Watch for
- tunnel vision
- envy