Nakshatra 14 of 27
Chitraचित्रा
23°20' Virgo – 6°40' Libra sidereal
Vishwakarma, the divine architect. Associated with design and with brilliance of surface — beautiful work, and an awareness of how things appear.
Classical attributes
Used directly in compatibility scoring
- Ruling planet
- Mars
- Deity
- Vishwakarma
- Symbol
- Bright jewel
- Gana
- RakshasaTemperament group
- Yoni
- Tiger (female)
- Nadi
- MadhyaConstitutional humour
- Varna
- Shudra
- Element
- Fire
- Nature
- Soft
The four padas
Each quarter falls in a different navamsha sign
- Pada 1
- Virgo23°20' Virgo – 26°40' Virgo
- Pada 2
- Virgo26°40' Virgo – 0°00' Libra
- Pada 3
- Libra0°00' Libra – 3°20' Libra
- Pada 4
- Libra3°20' Libra – 6°40' Libra
What this nakshatra decides in a chart
If the Moon sits here at birth, Chitra is the birth nakshatra — and it fixes the entire Vimshottari dasha sequence. The first mahadasha is Mars's, and how far the Moon had travelled into these 13.33° decides how much of it had already elapsed before birth. Every dasha date in the chart follows from that one number.
The gana, yoni and nadi above are not decorative. They are read directly in Ashtakoota matching, where nadi alone carries eight of the thirty-six points.