Pushya
Pushya: 3°20′ Cancer to 16°40′ Cancer. Explore its symbolism, Saturn period rulership and four padas.
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- Saturn
- 19 dasha years
- 3°20′ Cancer
- 16°40′ Cancer
- 13°20′ · four padas
Pushya concerns nourishment that can be sustained. The udder and flower imagery connects giving with growth, while Brihaspati brings guidance and teaching into the picture. Its Saturn period rulership adds an important note: care requires continuity, structure and repeated attention, not only a generous impulse.
Understanding the symbolism
Nourishment is effective when it meets an actual need. A teaching must be understandable to the learner, and support must leave room for the supported person to develop. Pushya’s imagery therefore asks how care is organized and whether the giver’s role helps growth or becomes something that must be continually preserved.
The Moon and other placements here
With the Moon in Pushya, examine what creates a dependable emotional rhythm and how responsibility is experienced in caring relationships. Jupiter can bring education and counsel to the foreground; Saturn emphasizes the routines that maintain support. The mansion is entirely in Cancer, keeping care, belonging and a protected base closely connected.
A Moon in Pushya begins the Vimshottari sequence in a Saturn period. The full period lasts 19 dasha years, but the balance at birth depends on how far the Moon has traveled through the mansion. For example, one quarter of the way through leaves three quarters of the period, or 14.25 dasha years. A different planet here does not change the Moon-based starting lord.
The four padas
A pada is one quarter of a nakshatra, measuring 3°20′. These are position boundaries: a placement exactly on a boundary belongs to the next pada. Use the degree in the planetary table to find the correct interval.
Pada 1: 3°20′ Cancer to 6°40′ Cancer.
Pada 2: 6°40′ Cancer to 10°00′ Cancer.
Pada 3: 10°00′ Cancer to 13°20′ Cancer.
Pada 4: 13°20′ Cancer to 16°40′ Cancer.
How this mansion differs from its neighbors
Punarvasu restores a starting point; Pushya tends what can grow from it. Ashlesha, which follows, examines the bonds formed through closeness. Nourishing another person and remaining bound to a particular role in their life are related but different themes.
Common questions
- Is Pushya a zodiac sign?
- No. A sign spans 30°, while Pushya spans 13°20′. Signs and nakshatras are two grids over the same zodiac. Its precise position is shown in the span and pada table above.
- Does every Moon in Pushya have the same dasha dates?
- No. The starting lord is Saturn, but the Moon’s exact degree determines the remaining balance. Two Moon placements in the same mansion can begin with different amounts of time remaining.