# Magha Nakshatra -- All 4 Padas & Navamsa Signs

> Magha nakshatra's four padas (quarters) -- exact degree arcs and Navamsa (D9) sign overlays for each. Pick your pada to see how it modulates Magha's traits, career, and relationships.
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Magha (Magha) - Four padas

## The four padas of Magha

Magha spans 0°00'-13°20' Leo, split into four equal 3°20′ quarters. Each pada carries a different Navamsa (D9) sign overlay -- pick yours below.

Magha opens Leo, covering its first 13°20′ under Ketu's lordship, with the Pitris, the ancestors, as its deities. Its padas move through the Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer navamsas, from a bright martial opening to a tender ancestral close. Exact degrees, syllables and lord relations follow in the table.

The four quarters, computed

## All four padas of Magha at a glance

| Pada                                  | Degree span       | Rashi | Navamsa (D9)               | Naming syllable | Lord relation & dignity           |
| ------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ----- | -------------------------- | --------------- | --------------------------------- |
| [Pada 1](https://merirashi.com/en/nakshatras/magha/pada/1) | 0°00′-3°20′ Leo   | Leo   | Aries (Mesha) - Mars       | मा (Ma)         | Friend (mitra)                    |
| [Pada 2](https://merirashi.com/en/nakshatras/magha/pada/2) | 3°20′-6°40′ Leo   | Leo   | Taurus (Vrishabha) - Venus | मी (Mi)         | Friend (mitra) - Ketu debilitated |
| [Pada 3](https://merirashi.com/en/nakshatras/magha/pada/3) | 6°40′-10°00′ Leo  | Leo   | Gemini (Mithuna) - Mercury | मू (Mu)         | Neutral                           |
| [Pada 4](https://merirashi.com/en/nakshatras/magha/pada/4) | 10°00′-13°20′ Leo | Leo   | Cancer (Karka) - Moon      | मे (Me)         | Adversary (shatru)                |

Computed from the classical pada geometry (13°20′ per nakshatra, 3°20′ per pada), the standard navamsa cycle, and the Avakahada naming-syllable table used for Namakaran -- not stored guesses.

Choose a pada

## Pick your exact quarter

[Pada 1 - First quarter0°00′-3°20′ LeoNavamsa sign: Aries (Mesha), ruled by Mars.](https://merirashi.com/en/nakshatras/magha/pada/1)

[Pada 2 - Second quarter3°20′-6°40′ LeoNavamsa sign: Taurus (Vrishabha), ruled by Venus.](https://merirashi.com/en/nakshatras/magha/pada/2)

[Pada 3 - Third quarter6°40′-10°00′ LeoNavamsa sign: Gemini (Mithuna), ruled by Mercury.](https://merirashi.com/en/nakshatras/magha/pada/3)

[Pada 4 - Fourth quarter10°00′-13°20′ LeoNavamsa sign: Cancer (Karka), ruled by Moon.](https://merirashi.com/en/nakshatras/magha/pada/4)

[Find my exact pada](https://merirashi.com/en/birth-chart-calculator)[Back to Magha overview](https://merirashi.com/en/nakshatras/magha)

Rashi placement

## Where Magha sits in the zodiac

All four padas of Magha sit in Leo, the Sun's own rashi, so the star's themes of lineage, dignity and inherited authority play out on royal ground throughout. The one structural caution sits at the very start: 0°00′ Leo is the far side of the Cancer-Leo junction, so the opening degrees of pada 1 belong to a gandanta zone that classical texts handle carefully for the Moon. In practice the first quarter simply asks for an accurate birth time and a calm reading. Beyond that seam, Magha is all throne room: the quarters differ in how they carry the crown, from conquest to stewardship of wealth to the keeping of records to the tending of the family flame.

Navamsa progression

## How the four quarters of Magha unfold

Pada 1, in an Aries navamsa with Mars friendly to Ketu, is the founder: the quarter most willing to win its own throne rather than inherit one, energetic and frank. Pada 2 moves to Taurus, where Ketu is treated as debilitated; the lesson of this quarter is holding wealth and legacy lightly, and its authority matures once possession stops being the point. Pada 3, in Gemini, is the archivist of the dynasty, the teller of the family story, with Mercury neutral toward Ketu. Pada 4 closes in Cancer, where the Moon and Ketu disagree: the most emotionally loyal quarter, bound to home and forebears, working out how to honour the past without being ruled by it. The journey runs from winning the seat to funding it, recording it, and finally feeling what it cost.

Deity, gana & lord

## The forces behind Magha's padas

The Pitris, the ancestral fathers, preside over Magha, and Ketu, planet of roots and release, rules it; the star literally sits where the departed are honoured. Rakshasa-gana intensity here shows as gravity, the weight of representing more than oneself. Quarter by quarter the ancestors ask different service: courage worthy of them in the Aries pada, stewardship of what they left in the Taurus pada, memory of their names in the Gemini pada and offerings at their shrine in the Cancer pada. Ketu keeps one truth under the throne: everything held here was handed on, and will be handed on again.

Find your pada

## How to find your pada

How to find your pada

Your pada is read from the Moon's exact sidereal degree at birth. Magha occupies 0°00'-13°20' Leo, and a new quarter begins every 3°20′ within that band, so a Moon near one of the boundaries in the table above can shift padas with only a small birth-time correction. Enter your date, time and place of birth in the free birth chart calculator to get the Moon's precise degree, then match it against the spans above.

[Find my exact pada](https://merirashi.com/en/birth-chart-calculator)

## Frequently asked questions

Which pada of Magha is my Moon in?

Magha occupies 0°00'-13°20' Leo, divided into four equal 3°20′ quarters: pada 1 covers 0°00′-3°20′ Leo; pada 2 covers 3°20′-6°40′ Leo; pada 3 covers 6°40′-10°00′ Leo; pada 4 covers 10°00′-13°20′ Leo. Your own pada follows the Moon's exact sidereal degree at your birth, which needs a calculated chart -- a birth date alone cannot resolve a band this narrow, but a free birth-chart calculation from date, time and place settles it immediately.

Do all four padas of Magha fall in the same rashi?

Yes. The whole of Magha sits inside Leo, so all four padas share the same Moon sign. What changes from quarter to quarter is the navamsa sign -- Aries, Taurus, Gemini, and Cancer -- which is why two Magha natives with the same rashi can still feel noticeably different.

Which pada of Magha is considered strongest?

Magha is one of the more evenly balanced nakshatras: none of its quarters carries an exalted, debilitated, own-sign or vargottama marker, so its padas differ by element and temperament rather than by classical rank. Pada 2 carries the most demanding note -- Ketu debilitated in the navamsa -- which asks for patience, never fear. In every case the wider chart decides far more than the pada does.

Does the pada of Magha matter for naming a baby?

In the traditional Namakaran system, yes. Each quarter of Magha carries its own starting syllable -- मा (Ma) for pada 1, मी (Mi) for pada 2, मू (Mu) for pada 3, मे (Me) for pada 4 -- chosen from the Moon's pada at birth. Most families treat the syllable as a meaningful custom rather than a binding rule; for chart interpretation it is the pada's navamsa sign, not its sound, that carries the analytical weight.