Moon star calculator: your birth nakshatra
Your Moon star is the nakshatra the Moon occupied at the moment you were born. Vedic astrology reads that star from the sidereal Moon. Enter your birth date and place; add a time if you have it. Without a time we name every star the Moon visited that day.
How it works
The engine returns the sidereal Moon from NASA JPL DE440 and the Lahiri ayanamsa. We map that longitude onto the 27 nakshatras (13°20′ each) and name the pada.
A result within 0.5° of a nakshatra boundary is flagged. If you omit the birth time, we compute at local noon and use the Moon’s daily speed to see whether it changed star that day.
Place search uses Open-Meteo as you type. Nominatim is only queried when you submit. No India ranking boost. If a place has no time zone we do not compute. For the method behind all of our calculators, see how we compute.
A full natal reading of this Moon star is coming
The free result is the star and pada. A full reading will sit this Moon in the rest of the chart.
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