VedaChartsNakshatra · #10 of 27
Magha
The mighty; the throne
The throne of the ancestors, dignified, weighted, and old.
Traditional attributes
Ruling planet
☋ Ketu
Deity
Pitris
Symbol
A royal throne; a palanquin
Gana
Rakshasa
Yoni
Rat (male)
Dosha
Kapha
Motivation
Artha
Body part
Lips, chin
Direction
West
Where it sits in the zodiac
Sign
Leo
0°00' to 13°20'
Pada syllables
The four padas (quarters) of Magha. In tradition, a child's first-letter name often comes from the syllable of the pada in which their Moon was placed.
Pada 1
Ma
Pada 2
Mi
Pada 3
Mu
Pada 4
Me
If your Moon is here
You carry ancestral weight, and your emotional life is shaped by where you come from and who came before you. You feel settled when you honor your lineage and unsettled when you forget it. There is a quiet dignity in you that does not need a stage to exist.
Temperament
Magha sits on the ancestral throne. The Pitris are the line of fathers, the unbroken chain of ancestors whose karmas, debts and gifts both, pass forward into the living. Magha people grow up sensing that they're part of something older than themselves, and they often carry an early dignity that others read as gravitas.
They are at their best when they honor the lineage and at their hardest when they forget it or try to escape it. The throne is not just metaphor, Magha people often end up holding family responsibility, leadership of inherited institutions, or some other version of the seat someone before them sat in.
Strengths
Natural authority, sense of duty, dignified bearing. Long memory for what others have given. Generous when respected. A connection to lineage, family, and institution that others lean on.
Shadow
Pride, especially when challenged. Can be quietly rigid about how things ought to be done because someone before them did it that way. Carries old grief that wasn't theirs to carry.
Relationships
Faithful, ceremonial, traditional. Wants partnership that honors the family line on both sides. Difficulty when partners come from a culture that does not weight ancestry as heavily.
Career & vocation
Family business succession, government, judiciary, archaeology, history, classical arts, anything that interfaces with institutional or ancestral memory.
Spiritual note
Ketu rules Magha. Ancestor work, pitr-paksha rituals, simple weekly remembrance, naming the line in meditation, is the most direct practice for this nakshatra.