नक्षत्र · Nakshatra 19 of 27 · 0°00′–13°20′ Dhanu
मूल Mūla(Mula)
Data
| Span | 0°00′–13°20′ Dhanu |
|---|---|
| Lord | केतु Ketu |
| Deity | Nirṛti, goddess of dissolution — the clearing that precedes new growth |
| Symbol | A bundle of roots tied together; an elephant goad |
| Gana | rakshasa |
| Temperament | Sharp and radical (tīkṣṇa) — 'radical' in its literal sense: of the root. |
Mula means 'the root': these natives are born investigators who must get to the bottom of things — medicine, philosophy, research, healing — and who can uproot in one season what others cling to for decades. Popular fear around Mula misreads it: the classical texts describe a soul doing foundation work, and its dissolutions consistently clear ground for sturdier growth. Its opening degrees touch the gandanta threshold — a deep passage, fully workable, never a verdict.
Cited fromTaittirīya Brāhmaṇa 1.5BPHS, Chs. 46–49BPHS, Ch. 6Nakshatra tradition
पद · The four padas
| Pada | Reading (by navamsa) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Meṣa navāṁśa (Mars): the fearless digger — direct, courageous pursuit of the root cause. |
| 2 | Vṛṣabha navāṁśa (Venus): the patient excavator — grounding the search in method and material results. |
| 3 | Mithuna navāṁśa (Mercury): the root-analyst — research, diagnosis and the words to explain what was found. |
| 4 | Karka navāṁśa (Moon): the healing root — investigation in service of emotional and ancestral repair. |
Sources
- Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa 1.5Taittiriya Brahmana 1.5 (with parallels in Taittiriya Samhita 4.4.10 and Atharva Veda 19.7): the Vedic nakshatra lists with their presiding deities. Vedic corpus, public domain.
- BPHS, Chs. 46–49Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (attrib. Maharshi Parashara), Chs. 46–49 (97-chapter recension, R. Santhanam ed.): the Vimshottari dasha as the foremost dasha system — sequence and years (Ketu 7, Venus 20, Sun 6, Moon 10, Mars 7, Rahu 18, Jupiter 16, Saturn 19, Mercury 17; total 120), effects of each graha's dasha, and antardasha doctrine. Sanskrit classic, public domain.
- BPHS, Ch. 6Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (attrib. Maharshi Parashara), Ch. 6 'The Sixteen Divisions of a Rashi' (97-chapter recension, R. Santhanam ed.): the navamsa (D9) scheme underlying the pada framework — each pada of 3°20′ is one navamsa. Sanskrit classic, public domain.
- Nakshatra traditionCommon Jyotish nakshatra doctrine — symbols, the deva/manushya/rakshasa gana classification, and temperament — standardized across muhurta and jataka manuals and consistent from the medieval synthesis treatises (e.g., Jataka Parijata) onward. Editorial synthesis in our own words; no copyrighted translation reproduced.