Navtara Chakra

The Sun is the lord of the signs (the body), and the Moon is the lord of the nakshatra (the mind). The Atma is entangled to the mind; wherever the body goes the atma must go. Therefore the nakshatras are very important. The Navtara chakra is the 27 nakshatras divided into 3 groups of nine. This chakra is used for fine-tuning the vimshottari dasa results as well as in major transit like Sade Sati or any other transit which is specific to an individual chart.

	Navtara	Lord	Nakshtra 1	Nakshtra 2	Nakshtra 3
1	Janma	Saturn	Anuradha	Uttarabhadrapad	Pushya
2	Sampat	Mercury	Jeyeshtha	Revti	Ashlesha
3	Vipat	Ketu	Mool	Ashwani	Magha
4	Kshema	Venus	Porvashada	Bharni	Porva falguni
5	Pratyak	Sun	Uttarashada	Kritika	Uttara falguni
6	Saadhana	Moon	Shravan	Rohini	Hasta
7	Naidhana	Mars	Dhanishtha	Mragshira	Chitra
8	Mitra	Rahu	Shatbhisha	Ardra	Swati
9	Parama Mitra	Jupiter	Porvabhadrapad	Punarvasu	Vishakha

1. Janma – the birthstar, one’s own nature, the most influential nakshatra in one’s life.

2. Sampat – wealth, it shows the kind of wealth you should possess, how your mind works in taking the resources available.

3. Vipat – danger shows dangers to life and business, bad days.

4. Kshema – well-being, cure, time to get healed, if not healed here then can cause problems in next nakshatra.

5. Pratyak – obstacles, bhadaka, can cause death or death-like suffering, if start an activity on this nakshatra there will be many obstacles.

6. Sädhana – achievement, good for starting activities as they will succeed.

7. Naidhana – death, the worst of the bad stars (3, 5, and 7).

8. Mitra – friend, friends who are close.

9. Parama Mitra – best friend, supporters, community, and friends will meet you, well for things dealing with crowds.

How do we use the navtara chakra?

Example- we see a horoscope where Saturn mahadasha is going on with sade sati and the birth moon (janam rashi) is placed in Scorpio in anuradha nakshtra so as per the above table we will set the nakshatra starting from anuradha in sequence of janam, sampath, vipat etc.

Now we see at the time of birth Saturn was in capricon in sharvana nakshatra and in transit Saturn is in Sagittarius in porva falguni nakshtra. The lords of the both stars are moon and venus and in tara chakra sharvana falls in saadhana and porva falguni falls in kshema and both taras are considered good as per the above description.

Now in conclusion we can say that mahadasha lord Saturn may be auspicious as well as the position of the Saturn in nakshatra in transit is also favorable as per the tara chakra. No matter that Saturn is the lord of any inauspicious house in natal chart or sade sati is always suppose to be a depressing period but tara chakra is very important for consideration the result of the time line and transit as per the nakshtras technique But we should keep always remember that there are numerous technique in hindu astrology for consideration the results of dasha and transit and tara chakra is only a part of it.