Find your janma nakshatra, pada and ruling lord
For entertainment and self-reflection. Without a birth time, the Moon's position is approximated to noon.
Enter your birth date and time to find your birth nakshatra, its pada and its ruling planet, along with your Vedic Moon sign. Free, no sign-up, about a minute.
The zodiac is divided into twenty-seven nakshatras of 13Β°20β² each, and yours is whichever one held the Moon at your birth β measured on the sidereal zodiac, with the Lahiri ayanamsa subtracted from the tropical longitude. Each nakshatra is quartered into four padas, so the pada narrows the position to 3Β°20β², and the ruling planet follows the nine-graha cycle beginning at Ketu.
The Moon crosses a full nakshatra in roughly a day, and a pada in about six hours, so an approximate birth time can move your pada and occasionally the nakshatra itself. Positions come from a low-precision lunar model, which is close but not the full ephemeris an astrologer would use. Read it as a light Vedic reading rather than a chart to act on.