Nakshatra 17 of 27
Anuradha Nakshatra — Meaning, Padas, and Transit Days
- Span
- 3°20′–16°40′ Scorpio
- Ruler
- Saturn
- Symbol
- The Following Star
Anuradha is devotion with discipline — friendship as a practice, loyalty as an architecture. A placement here has a rare social gift: it builds bridges in exactly the places where depth usually isolates people, holding intimacy and organization in the same hand. Saturn rules in Scorpio’s water, so the bonds here are not light; they are forged, tested, and kept, often across distance and years. This is the mansion of the one who can work with anyone and abandons no one. The shadow is self-erasure inside the alliance. Anuradha’s maturity is remembering that a bridge is also a structure with its own weight to honor.
Your loyalty is structural. Build with it — don’t disappear into it.
The four padas of Anuradha
Pada 1
The Sun’s Leo gives friendship warmth and leadership. Here Anuradha’s devotion shines — the loyal figure others rally around, generous and bright in company. The most radiant quarter, its bonds led from a warm, confident centre.
Pada 2
Mercury’s Virgo makes devotion practical and precise. This pada serves its people through useful, detailed care — the reliable friend who does the actual work of loyalty. The most diligent quarter, its bonds maintained by attention and service.
Pada 3
Venus’s Libra makes this the quarter of pure relationship — partnership, diplomacy, and harmony. Here Anuradha’s gift for forging bonds is at its most graceful, building alliances everywhere it goes. The most sociable quarter, friendship practised as an art.
Pada 4
Mars in its own Scorpio deepens devotion into intensity. This pada’s bonds are forged in crisis and go to the depths — loyal past reason, transformative, unafraid of the dark in a relationship. The most intense quarter, love as a crucible.
When the Moon transits Anuradha
An Anuradha Moon is a day for alliance and friendship. It favours deepening bonds, organising people, collaboration, devotion kept in practice, and the patient work of holding a group together across distance. Travel among friends goes well. It’s an excellent day to reach out, to mend or strengthen a relationship, to build the bridge that connects rather than isolates. It’s a weak day for solitary hard cuts and cold confrontations; Anuradha wants to gather, not to sever. Use it to tend your people and your partnerships — the loyalties you build today are the kind meant to be structural and long-lasting.
The Moon passes through Anuradha once every 27 days or so, for about 24 hours at a time. The window is not a fixed length — the Moon runs faster near perigee than near apogee, and across the six passes listed below it ranges from 25.6 to 26.6 hours.
Next dates the Moon is in Anuradha
| Moon enters | Moon leaves | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 26.3 h | ||
| 26.5 h | ||
| 26.6 h | ||
| 26.5 h | ||
| 26.1 h | ||
| 25.6 h |
All times UTC. A nakshatra boundary is a single moment worldwide — only the clock you read it on changes — so convert to your own zone rather than expecting a local date to differ.
How Anuradha reads in convergence
Anuradha is sidereal Scorpio — Saturn-ruled devotion, loyalty as architecture — but tropically it reads as mostly Sagittarius, a quarter Scorpio. The split describes a real shift: depth and forged bonds read through a frame of expansion and faith. A placement here often belongs to someone whose friendships run deeper and more disciplined than their optimistic, wide-ranging surface admits. Where the two frames disagree is where the seriousness of the loyalty gets mistaken for easy sociability — the load-bearing bridge read as a casual crossing.
- Tropical span
- 27°11′ Scorpio–10°31′ Sagittarius
- Sun here
- about 19 November – 1 December
Anyone born between about 19 November and 1 December has the Sun in Anuradha. A Western chart reads those same Suns as Scorpio up to 22 November, and Sagittarius from then on — so two people born a day apart, both with the Sun in Anuradha, are handed different signs by the other system. Nothing happens to the nakshatra on 22 November. Only the frame reading it changes.
This is the Sun’s nakshatra, which is the one a birth date alone can give you. The nakshatra a Vedic astrologer means when they ask for yours is the Moon’s, and that needs a birth time — find your Moon’s nakshatra. The dates above move by up to a day with your time zone and your birth year, so if yours falls on an edge, run the chart rather than trusting the range.
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