Free Nakshatra Calculator
Find your Janma Nakshatra — your Vedic birth star — plus its pada, ruling planet, deity, and Moon sign from your birth details.
The Moon moves through roughly one Nakshatra each day. Your time and birthplace identify the correct instant and local time zone, which is especially important if the Moon changed stars near your birth.
Enter your birth details
- Nakshatra or birth star
- Pada or quarter
- Rasi or Moon sign
- Ruling planet and deity
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What is a Nakshatra?
A Nakshatra is one of the 27 lunar mansions used in Vedic astrology. Your Janma Nakshatra, also called your birth star or Natchathiram in Tamil, is the segment of the sidereal zodiac occupied by the Moon when you were born. Each star spans 13 degrees and 20 minutes and is divided into four padas.
Your Nakshatra is used in Tamil traditions for naming syllables, Vimshottari Dasha timing, marriage matching, and understanding temperament. The calculator also returns your Rasi because the Moon sign and birth star are normally interpreted together.
Nakshatra versus Rasi
Rasi divides the zodiac into 12 Moon signs, while Nakshatra divides it into 27 smaller star regions. That makes a birth star more specific than a Moon sign. Two people can share the same Rasi while having different Nakshatras and padas.