Moon's Nakshatra Today — Pada, Lord & Tara Bala | AskSoma Panchang

The Moon's current nakshatra and pada — ruling planet, deity, and how Tara Bala is counted from your Janma Nakshatra. Sidereal Swiss Ephemeris.

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The Moon's nakshatra

The zodiac divides into 27 nakshatras of 13°20' each. The Moon crosses one roughly every 24 hours, and the one it occupies at your birth sets your Janma Nakshatra — the anchor for your Vimshottari dasha sequence, for muhurat selection, and for the Ashtakoot matching used in Kundli Milan.

Each nakshatra has a ruling planet, a deity, a gana (temperament class) and four padas of 3°20'. The pada matters: it determines the Navamsa (D9) placement of the Moon, which is why two people born hours apart in the same nakshatra can have different marriage indications.

What it is used for

Day-to-day, the transiting Moon nakshatra decides which activities a muhurat favours — Pushya for purchases and beginnings, Ashwini for travel and medicine, Bharani and Ashlesha generally avoided for auspicious starts.

Counted from your own Janma Nakshatra, the transiting nakshatra also gives the Tara Bala — a nine-fold cycle marking which days run with you and which run against.

Nakshatra and the dasha clock

The Moon's exact degree within its nakshatra at birth sets where you enter the 120-year Vimshottari cycle. The nakshatra lord becomes your first mahadasha, and the fraction of the nakshatra already traversed decides how much of that period had elapsed before you were born.

This is why an accurate birth time matters more than most people expect: the Moon moves about 13° a day, so an hour of error can shift the pada, and a large enough error can shift the nakshatra itself — changing the entire dasha sequence and every date predicted from it.