Nakshatra 24 of 27
Shatabhisha Nakshatra — Meaning, Padas, and Transit Days
- Span
- 6°40′–20°00′ Aquarius
- Ruler
- Rahu
- Symbol
- The Hundred Healers
Shatabhisha is the empty circle — the veiled mansion of the healer, the researcher, the one drawn to what is hidden, systemic, and hard to cure. A placement here works alone well and often prefers it: there is a hermit streak in this Moon, a need for the sealed room where the real work happens. Rahu rules its own territory here, so the mind is unconventional, drawn to medicine, technology, the occult, the ocean-sized problems. It is called "the hundred physicians" because its remedies are many and its patients rarely include itself. The circle protects the work. It should not become the whole address.
You heal what others can't reach. Stay reachable.
The four padas of Shatabhisha
Pada 1
Jupiter’s Sagittarius gives healing a philosophy. Here Shatabhisha mends through wisdom and truth — the physician-teacher, curing by understanding. The most expansive quarter, its solitary work aimed at meaning and the larger cure.
Pada 2
Saturn’s Capricorn makes the healer disciplined and systematic. This pada mends through structure and persistence — the researcher, the builder of lasting remedies. The most methodical quarter, its cures earned by rigour and time.
Pada 3
Saturn in its own Aquarius is Shatabhisha at its most characteristic — the systemic healer, the technologist, the mind that fixes the mechanism. The most inventive quarter, working alone at the scale of systems, detached and brilliant.
Pada 4
Jupiter’s Pisces makes healing mystical and compassionate. This pada mends the unseen — the spiritual healer, the one who works on the soul as much as the body. The most transcendent quarter, its cure a kind of dissolution.
When the Moon transits Shatabhisha
A Shatabhisha Moon is a day for the sealed room. It favours solitary, focused work — healing and research, technical and medical fixes, systems repair, detox, the unconventional problem worked alone until it yields. Concentration deepens in privacy. It’s a strong day to diagnose, mend, or crack something hard on your own. It’s a weak day for big social launches and public visibility; the energy withdraws to do the real work behind a veil, and forcing it into a crowd wastes it. Use it to fix what’s broken and research what’s hidden — just stay reachable enough that the healing doesn’t seal you in with it.
The Moon passes through Shatabhisha 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 26.3 hours.
Next dates the Moon is in Shatabhisha
| Moon enters | Moon leaves | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 25.6 h | ||
| 26.2 h | ||
| 26.3 h | ||
| 26.1 h | ||
| 25.9 h | ||
| 25.9 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 Shatabhisha reads in convergence
Shatabhisha is sidereal Aquarius — the hundred healers, Rahu-ruled, the veiled circle of the researcher — yet nearly every placement reads as tropical Pisces. The gap is telling: a sign of systemic, technical, unconventional problem-solving filed under the sign of dissolution and compassion. A placement here often describes someone whose clinical, sealed-room way of working is read as dreamy or mystical from outside. The split is the distance between Aquarius’s detached systems and Pisces’s boundlessness — and the disagreement is where the healer’s precision gets mistaken for the mystic’s drift.
- Tropical span
- 0°31′–13°51′ Pisces
- Sun here
- about 18 February – 3 March
Anyone born between about 18 February and 3 March has the Sun in Shatabhisha. A Western chart reads every one of those Suns as Pisces, start to finish. This window does not straddle a Western boundary, so every birthday in it gets the same answer from that system — and whatever distance the paragraph above describes between the two frames, it holds across the whole of it rather than half.
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.
When astrology systems disagree →