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Ashwini nakshatra
Associated with swift beginnings, healing and the energy of setting out.
- Number
- 1 of 27
- Hindi
- अश्विनी
- Span
- 0°00′ Aries to 13°20′ Aries
- Sign(s)
- Aries
- Ruled by
- Ketu (dasha lord, 7 years)
- Deity
- the Ashwini Kumaras, divine physicians
- Symbol
- a horse's head
A person born with the Moon in Ashwini begins life in the dasha of Ketu. How much of that period remains at birth depends on how far the Moon had travelled through the star. See dasha.
The four padas
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