The nakshatra is the lunar mansion the Moon occupied at the moment you were born — one of twenty-seven, each divided into four padas. It fixes your Vimshottari dasha, the first syllable of a traditional name, and much of what a Vedic reading says about temperament.
The Moon moves about one nakshatra a day, so the time matters near a boundary. If you do not know it, noon gives the right answer on most days; the result says when yours is uncertain.
Each nakshatra spans 13°20′ of the sidereal zodiac and belongs to one of nine planetary lords in a repeating sequence; that lord rules the first period of your life in the Vimshottari system.
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