VedaChartsNakshatra · #4 of 27
Rohini
The red one; the rising; the favorite
The most fertile of nakshatras, magnetic, sensual, and steady.
Traditional attributes
Ruling planet
☽ Moon
Deity
Brahma / Prajapati
Symbol
A bullock cart
Gana
Manushya
Yoni
Serpent (male)
Dosha
Kapha
Motivation
Moksha
Body part
Forehead, ankles
Direction
East
Where it sits in the zodiac
Sign
Taurus
10°00' to 23°20'
Pada syllables
The four padas (quarters) of Rohini. In tradition, a child's first-letter name often comes from the syllable of the pada in which their Moon was placed.
Pada 1
O
Pada 2
Va
Pada 3
Vi
Pada 4
Vu
If your Moon is here
You are magnetic and sensory, with a natural instinct for comfort, beauty, and what grows well. People feel soothed in your presence. Your emotional life is steady and slow to shift, which makes you a safe harbor for the people you love.
Temperament
Rohini is the favorite child of the Moon, the nakshatra the Moon itself returns to most willingly. People with Rohini prominent radiate a quiet magnetism that other people pick up on without quite knowing why. They tend to be physically attractive, sensorially gifted, and slow in the way that fertile soil is slow: nothing is rushed, but everything that's planted grows.
This is a cultivator's nakshatra. Where Ashwini starts, Rohini *grows*. The shadow is that the same magnetism can become a center of gravity that draws everything toward itself, and Rohini people sometimes need to consciously give back what they've magnetized.
Strengths
Beauty (in person and in what they make), patience, sensory intelligence, hospitality. Excellent gardeners, cooks, hosts, parents. A grounding presence that calms the people around them.
Shadow
Possessiveness with people and things. Resistance to change once comfortable. Can become so good at curating their own world that they isolate gently from anything that would disturb it.
Relationships
Romantic, sensual, deeply loyal once committed. Slow to choose, slow to leave. Partners who are honest about needing space tend to stay; partners who try to compete with the comfort lose.
Career & vocation
Agriculture, design, fashion, cooking, architecture, real estate, music, hospitality. Anywhere beauty and growth meet patient practice.