Nakshatra Calculator & Finder

A nakshatra is one of 27 equal slices of the sidereal zodiac. Each slice is 13°20′ wide. Your birth nakshatra, also called your birth star or janma nakshatra, is the slice the Moon was passing through when you were born. It is different from your Sun sign. It is also different from your Moon sign, which is 30° wide and so holds a little over two nakshatras.

In Vedic astrology the nakshatra does a lot of work. It sets where your Vimshottari dasha timeline starts, it is one of the factors in Kundli matching, and many families use it to pick the first sound of a baby's name. This page tells you where the Moon was at your birth. What that means for your life is a bigger question, and one position cannot answer it alone.

This page is both a nakshatra calculator and a nakshatra finder: it is one free tool, and you use it the same way whichever name you know it by. You enter your date, exact time and place of birth, the same details you would use for a free Kundli. The astrology service returns the Moon's sidereal sign and degree. We turn that into a single position between 0° (the start of Aries) and 360° (the end of Pisces), then find which of the 27 segments holds it and which of its four padas.

Every nakshatra has four padas, numbered 1 to 4, and each is 3°20′ wide. Two people can share a nakshatra and still have different padas, because their Moons sat in different quarters of it. Each pada also corresponds to one navamsa sign, which is why padas matter in deeper chart reading.

The Moon crosses a pada in roughly a few hours. If your recorded birth time is approximate, the pada can change once the time is corrected, so a result close to a boundary deserves extra care.

Your Moon sign, or Chandra rashi, covers 30° of the zodiac. Your nakshatra covers 13°20′. Both come from the Moon's position at birth, so the calculator reports both. Because 30 does not divide evenly by 13°20′, some nakshatras sit across two signs. Krittika, for example, starts in Aries and finishes in Taurus. The table below shows which signs each nakshatra touches.

The sequence runs from 0° Aries to 360° Pisces. The nine lords repeat three times. Deities and symbols are the traditional ones, and a few texts give variants.

Many families choose the first sound of a baby's name from the pada the Moon was in. The syllables below are listed for padas 1 to 4 in order. Regions spell some of them differently, so treat the list as a guide and check with your family priest if it matters to you. The span and sign columns show where each nakshatra begins and ends.

The Vimshottari dasha system spreads 120 years across nine planets. Your first dasha belongs to your nakshatra lord. You were not born at the very start of that period, though. If the Moon had already crossed half of your nakshatra, half of the first dasha was already gone. That leftover time is your dasha balance at birth, and the calculator shows it in your result. Every later dasha follows in the fixed order below.

For the full timeline with every sub-period, open your Kundli. The balance shown here is a calculation from the Moon's position and can differ by a few weeks between software, depending on how a year is counted.

Six nakshatras are called Gandmool: Ashwini, Ashlesha, Magha, Jyeshtha, Mula and Revati. They sit at the points where a water sign gives way to a fire sign, which tradition treats as a sensitive junction. In some families a baby born under one of these gets a small ritual, often called Mool Shanti, a few weeks after birth.

This is a custom, and practices vary a lot from one community to another. It does not mean anything is wrong with the child. Many people born in these nakshatras never perform a ritual, and plenty of astrologers do not require one. If someone uses the word to frighten you into an expensive puja, step back and ask someone your family trusts.

• Use a recorded birth time from a hospital paper or birth certificate. A time remembered as "around noon" can change the pada.
• Check AM and PM. Mixing them up moves the Moon by about six nakshatras.
• Choose the exact town from the suggestions. Many place names repeat across districts.
• If your time is near a boundary, ask an astrologer about birth time rectification before relying on the pada.
• If another site disagrees, compare the Moon's sign and degree and the ayanamsa each one uses. Your full Kundli shows the Moon position.

जन्म के समय चंद्रमा जिस नक्षत्र में था, वही आपका जन्म नक्षत्र है। पूरे राशि चक्र को 27 बराबर नक्षत्रों में बांटा गया है। हर नक्षत्र 13°20′ का होता है और उसके चार चरण (पाद) होते हैं, जिनमें से हर एक 3°20′ का है।

जन्म नक्षत्र जानने के लिए जन्म की तारीख, सही समय और जन्म स्थान चाहिए। ऊपर के फ़ॉर्म में तीनों भरें। कैलकुलेटर चंद्रमा की स्थिति से आपका नक्षत्र, चरण, चंद्र राशि, नक्षत्र स्वामी और नाम का पहला अक्षर बताएगा।

ध्यान रहे कि चंद्रमा एक दिन में लगभग एक नक्षत्र पार करता है, इसलिए जन्म का समय कुछ घंटे भी गलत हो तो नक्षत्र या चरण बदल सकता है। नक्षत्र से विंशोत्तरी दशा का आरंभ तय होता है और कुंडली मिलान में भी इसका उपयोग होता है, पर अकेले नक्षत्र से जीवन का फल नहीं बताया जा सकता। ज्योतिष एक पारंपरिक विद्या है, इसे चिकित्सा या कानूनी निर्णयों का आधार न बनाएं।