Your rashi is the sign the Moon was in when you were born, and your nakshatra the star it was in. Find both from your birth date — the time too, if you know it — or your naam rashi from the first syllable of your name. Free, no signup.
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Your janma rashi is the Moon's sign at the moment you were born. A kundli is read from it, Sade Sati is counted from it, and two charts are matched by it. The Moon takes about two and a quarter days to cross a sign, so your birth date is usually enough; the time decides only on a day the Moon moved into the next sign.
Your naam rashi comes from your name instead: its first syllable belongs to one of the 108 nakshatra padas, and each pada to a rashi. When the birth details aren't known, tradition goes by the naam rashi; when a child is named by the birth nakshatra, the two are the same.
Each rashi holds nine nakshatra padas, and each pada has its syllable, as Hindi panchangs print them. A name is read by its first syllable; short and long vowels count as one.
| Rashi | Lord | Names begin with |
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| Aries Mesha | Mars |
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| Taurus Vrishabha | Venus |
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| Gemini Mithuna | Mercury |
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| Cancer Karka | Moon |
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| Leo Simha | Sun |
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| Virgo Kanya | Mercury |
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| Libra Tula | Venus |
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| Scorpio Vrishchika | Mars |
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| Sagittarius Dhanu | Jupiter |
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| Capricorn Makara | Saturn |
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| Aquarius Kumbha | Saturn |
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| Pisces Meena | Jupiter |
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The 27 nakshatras divide the zodiac into stars of 13°20′ each, and each nakshatra into four padas of 3°20′. The Moon's nakshatra at birth, the janma nakshatra, starts the Vimshottari dasha: its lord rules the first period of your life.
Its pada gives the naam akshar, the syllable a child's name traditionally begins with. With a birth time the tool names it; without one it shows the nakshatra's four syllables, as the Moon crosses a pada in about six hours.
Your rashi is the sign the Moon was in when you were born. Enter your birth date and place above; the time matters only if the Moon changed sign that day, and the tool shows you when it did. Without a birth date, the naam rashi from your name is tradition's stand-in.
Usually not. The zodiac sign in English newspapers is the Sun's sign in the tropical (Western) zodiac. Your rashi is the Moon's sign in the sidereal zodiac Vedic astrology uses, about 24° behind the tropical one: another planet, in another zodiac.
The janma rashi, when you know your birth date: a kundli is read from it, and Sade Sati and matching are counted from it. The naam rashi is for when the birth details aren't known.
Yes, in most cases. The Moon stays in a sign for about two and a quarter days, so the date usually settles it. On a day the Moon changed sign, the tool shows the time it did and the rashi for each part of the day.
Each nakshatra is divided into four quarters of 3°20′, the padas (also called charans). There are 108 in all, nine in each rashi, and each has a syllable for names.
By tradition, the syllable of the Moon's nakshatra pada at birth, the naam akshar. Enter the baby's birth date, time and place above, and the result names it.