Uttara Bhadrapada Nakshatra

Uttara Bhadrapada personality and character

Uttara Bhadrapada occupies 3°20′ Pisces – 16°40′ Pisces of the sidereal zodiac, and everyone born with the Moon in this span carries it as their janma nakshatra, their birth star. Its symbol, the back of a funeral cot, and its presiding deity, Ahir Budhnya, set the mythic tone: the deep serpent of wisdom: calm on the surface, fathomless below. The ruling planet Saturn adds its own signature, since a Uttara Bhadrapada native begins life in a Saturn dasha and returns to Saturn's lessons at every major turning point.

Temperamentally, Uttara Bhadrapada belongs to the Manushya gana: the human temperament: practical, ambitious, and balanced between the worldly and the spiritual. Its constitutional current is Madhya (Pitta), the nadi of transformation and drive, and its instinctive animal is the female cow, the figure Vedic tradition uses to describe how this star bonds, plays, and protects. Read together, the attributes sketch a coherent nature long before a full chart is drawn, which is exactly how classical astrologers used the birth star for quick assessment.

The four padas of Uttara Bhadrapada

Each nakshatra divides into four padas of 3°20′, and each pada takes the flavour of one navamsa sign: for Uttara Bhadrapada, pada 1 falls in Leo navamsa, pada 2 in Virgo, pada 3 in Libra, and pada 4 in Scorpio. Two people can share a birth star and still differ noticeably because their padas point the same energy through different signs. Your exact pada is shown when you cast your chart with the free Vedic birth chart calculator.

Uttara Bhadrapada in love and marriage matching

In kundli matching, Uttara Bhadrapada contributes three of the eight kootas directly: its Manushya gana (6 points), its Cow yoni (4 points), and its Madhya nadi (8 points, the heaviest of all). The Tara koota is also counted from the birth star. No nakshatra scores well or badly on its own; everything depends on the pairing, which is why the same Uttara Bhadrapada native can score 30 with one partner and 14 with another. Run any two birth details through the calculator for the full 36-point table, and see the western view of the same question in our zodiac compatibility guide.

When the Moon transits Uttara Bhadrapada

Once a month the Moon spends about a day in Uttara Bhadrapada, and that day carries the star's flavour for everyone: a monthly visit from Ahir Budhnya. Panchang followers time activities to these transits, and the daily panchang page shows the current nakshatra in real time. For the wider lunar rhythm behind it, our guides to the moon phases and the 2026 full moon calendar complete the picture.