VedaChartsNakshatra · #26 of 27
Uttara Bhadrapada
The latter auspicious feet
The deep serpent, contemplative, slow, and ancient-feeling.
Traditional attributes
Ruling planet
♄ Saturn
Deity
Ahirbudhnya
Symbol
A two-faced man; the back legs of a funeral cot; a serpent in the deep
Gana
Manushya
Yoni
Cow (female)
Dosha
Pitta
Motivation
Artha
Body part
Sides, ribs
Direction
South
Where it sits in the zodiac
Sign
Pisces
3°20' to 16°40'
Pada syllables
The four padas (quarters) of Uttara Bhadrapada. In tradition, a child's first-letter name often comes from the syllable of the pada in which their Moon was placed.
Pada 1
Du
Pada 2
Tha
Pada 3
Jha
Pada 4
Na
If your Moon is here
You are a deep contemplative, and your emotional life moves through currents that go much further down than the surface suggests. You feel at home in quiet, in practice, and in inner work. What you build inwardly shows up later in your outer life.
Temperament
Uttara Bhadrapada is the second of the bridge nakshatras, the back legs of the cot, the serpent of the deep. Where Purva Bhadrapada is the fire of crossing, Uttara Bhadrapada is the long underwater current that follows. Ahirbudhnya is the kundalini coiled at the base of the world.
People with Uttara Bhadrapada prominent often feel ancient even when they're young. Their inner life is slow, deep, and wide. They are at their best when they trust the depth and don't try to rush the surface, and they often become the contemplative anchor for the people around them.
Strengths
Depth, patience, contemplative intelligence. The friend who notices what no one else noticed. Strong in writing, meditation, psychotherapy, slow research.
Shadow
Lassitude. Tendency to disappear into the inner world while the outer world demands attention. Difficulty acting on what they know.
Relationships
Quiet, deep, often telepathic with the right partner. Best matches understand that long silences are not absence.
Career & vocation
Writing, contemplative practice, depth psychology, research, water-based work, anything that asks for years of subsurface work before the visible result.