नक्षत्र · Nakshatra 16 of 27 · 20°00′ Tulā – 3°20′ Vṛścika
विशाखा Viśākhā(Vishakha)
Data
| Span | 20°00′ Tulā – 3°20′ Vṛścika |
|---|---|
| Lord | बृहस्पति Bṛhaspati |
| Deity | Indra and Agni together — power and fire in alliance |
| Symbol | A triumphal archway; a potter's wheel |
| Gana | rakshasa |
| Temperament | Mixed and driven (miśra) — the forked branch that ripens toward one chosen fruit. |
Vishakha, 'the forked one', is single-minded purpose wearing many branches: these natives pursue their goals with a patience and fire that eventually pass under the triumphal arch. The classical caution — wanting the fruit before it ripens — becomes their superpower once they learn to love the potter's wheel as much as the finished pot.
Cited fromTaittirīya Brāhmaṇa 1.5BPHS, Chs. 46–49BPHS, Ch. 6Nakshatra tradition
पद · The four padas
| Pada | Reading (by navamsa) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Meṣa navāṁśa (Mars): the front-runner — raw determination aimed at victory. |
| 2 | Vṛṣabha navāṁśa (Venus): the steady climber — ambition secured through persistence and resources. |
| 3 | Mithuna navāṁśa (Mercury): the strategist — goals reached through intelligence, words and alliances. |
| 4 | Karka navāṁśa (Moon): the devoted achiever — ambition finally warmed by emotional purpose. |
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.