Nakshatra 12 of 27
Uttara Phalguni Nakshatra — Meaning, Padas, and Transit Days
- Span
- 26°40′ Leo–10°00′ Virgo
- Ruler
- Sun
- Symbol
- The Back of the Resting Bed
Where its twin begins the celebration, Uttara Phalguni handles what comes after: the contract, the commitment, the morning when the promise has to hold. A placement here is built for alliance — marriage, partnership, patronage, the generous and binding word. The Sun’s rulership gives it a helper-king quality: real power, spent on other people’s stability. These are the ones who show up on the second day, and the tenth, and the four-hundredth. The vulnerability is over-obligation — saying yes as an identity. Uttara Phalguni’s lesson is that a vow means more, not less, when it is chosen slowly.
Anyone can promise. You are built to keep.
Uttara Phalguni is the twin of Purva Phalguni — the pair reads as a before/after. See how they differ →
The four padas of Uttara Phalguni
Pada 1
Jupiter’s Sagittarius gives the vow a philosophy. Here Uttara Phalguni’s loyalty is principled and generous — the ally bound by ethics and belief, faithful to a cause as much as a person. The most high-minded quarter, its commitment rooted in meaning.
Pada 2
Saturn’s Capricorn makes the alliance dutiful and enduring. This pada keeps its word through discipline and time — the reliable partner in work and worldly matters, building something that lasts. The most committed quarter, loyalty as long-term structure.
Pada 3
Saturn’s Aquarius broadens the vow to the collective. Here loyalty serves the group, the cause, the many — humanitarian, principled, less personal than systemic. The most impartial quarter, its faithfulness pledged to an ideal rather than a single bond.
Pada 4
Jupiter’s Pisces makes the alliance compassionate and self-giving. This pada keeps faith through sacrifice and care — the one who supports without condition. The most selfless quarter, its loyalty tender, boundless, and at risk of over-giving.
When the Moon transits Uttara Phalguni
An Uttara Phalguni Moon is a day for binding agreements. It favours alliances meant to last: contracts, partnerships, marriage, patronage, formal commitments, the generous word given slowly and kept. It’s steady and dependable, good for anything you want to still be standing years from now. It’s a strong day to sign, to promise, to move in together, to make the arrangement official. It’s a weak day for the tentative or the reversible — Uttara Phalguni makes bonds that hold, so enter them deliberately. Use it to formalise what you already mean, not to test a thing you might walk back.
The Moon passes through Uttara Phalguni 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 22.6 to 24.5 hours.
Next dates the Moon is in Uttara Phalguni
| Moon enters | Moon leaves | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 24.4 h | ||
| 24.5 h | ||
| 23.9 h | ||
| 23.1 h | ||
| 22.6 h | ||
| 22.6 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 Uttara Phalguni reads in convergence
Uttara Phalguni crosses sidereal Leo into Virgo, and tropically it reads as mostly Virgo, a quarter Libra. The nakshatra’s nature is the reliable ally — the Sun’s helper-king, the vow that holds. Tropical Virgo reads that as service; tropical Libra as partnership. The two frames mostly agree on committed usefulness, which is the reading: a placement built for the long obligation, seen similarly in both systems. Where they split — Leo-sidereal against Libra-tropical — the gap describes whether the loyalty is experienced as quiet leadership or as balance kept between two people.
- Tropical span
- 20°31′ Virgo–3°51′ Libra
- Sun here
- about 13 September – 25 September
Anyone born between about 13 September and 25 September has the Sun in Uttara Phalguni. A Western chart reads those same Suns as Virgo up to 23 September, and Libra from then on — so two people born a day apart, both with the Sun in Uttara Phalguni, are handed different signs by the other system. Nothing happens to the nakshatra on 23 September. 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.
When astrology systems disagree →