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Nakshatra quarter

Mrigashira pada 4

The Scorpio navamsa, ruled by Mars. Mrigashira as a whole.

Mrigashira

What this quarter carries

Mrigashira pada 4 directs curiosity toward emotional awareness and intuitive perception.

Why the four quarters differ

A nakshatra is 13°20' wide and divides into four padas of 3°20'. Each pada is one navamsa, so the four quarters of Mrigashira fall in four consecutive navamsa signs — this one in Scorpio. The birth star supplies the impulse; the navamsa decides what it is pointed at. That is why two people sharing Mrigashira are not reading the same chart.

This quarter spans 63°20' to 66°40' of the zodiac measured from the start of Aries.

What is crossing it

No slow graha crosses this quarter in the next eighteen months. Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu are the ones worth watching at this width — the faster grahas pass through a pada in hours or days, which is too brief to read as a period.

How this is put together

The navamsa for a quarter is counted, not looked up: the hundred and eight padas of the zodiac run through the twelve signs nine times from the start of Ashwini. The crossings come from the ephemeris.

The illustration is a symbolic one, drawn from the motifs traditionally associated with this reading. It is artwork rather than a canonical icon — nothing in the reading depends on it.