Nakshatra 15 of 27
Swatiस्वाति
6°40' Libra – 20°00' Libra sidereal
Vayu, the wind. The symbol is a young shoot bending. Associated with independence, adaptability, and trade.
Classical attributes
Used directly in compatibility scoring
- Ruling planet
- Rahu
- Deity
- Vayu
- Symbol
- Young shoot in wind
- Gana
- DevaTemperament group
- Yoni
- Buffalo (male)
- Nadi
- AntyaConstitutional humour
- Varna
- Shudra
- Element
- Fire
- Nature
- Movable
The four padas
Each quarter falls in a different navamsha sign
- Pada 1
- Libra6°40' Libra – 10°00' Libra
- Pada 2
- Libra10°00' Libra – 13°20' Libra
- Pada 3
- Libra13°20' Libra – 16°40' Libra
- Pada 4
- Libra16°40' Libra – 20°00' Libra
What this nakshatra decides in a chart
If the Moon sits here at birth, Swati is the birth nakshatra — and it fixes the entire Vimshottari dasha sequence. The first mahadasha is Rahu'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.