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Anuradha Nakshatra · Lord Saturn · Scorpio · Astrovene
Anuradha occupies the middle of Scorpio, from two hundred and thirteen degrees twenty minutes to two hundred and twenty-six degrees forty. Saturn lords it and Mitra, the deity of friendship, presides. Its symbol is a lotus, given in some texts as a staff.
Scorpio is the hidden and the deep; Saturn is the graha of patience; Mitra guards friendship and the pacts that go with it. The three produce a particular kind of companionship, not the sort that appears quickly, but the sort that has been tested by time.
A lotus grows in mud. It does not flower by rejecting the mud but by rising through it, and that is the content of the symbol: staying inside a difficult situation rather than stepping around it. Loyalty, the organising of people without commanding them, and devotion maintained over long stretches are the associations.
All four padas fall in Scorpio, with the navamsa moving through Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio, so the last quarter is Scorpio in both rasi and navamsa. The first pada under a Leo navamsa leans towards leading; the last holds the same connections at their most private.
In the Vimshottari cycle Saturn carries nineteen of the hundred and twenty years. A Moon in Anuradha opens the sequence in a Saturn mahadasha and passes next into Mercury's seventeen. Pushya is also a Saturn nakshatra: the same lord, a different setting. That describes the cycle rather than anybody's years.
Anuradha belongs to the deva gana. Sources do not disagree about its lord, its deity or its gana. The hare yoni, together with the bird and tree assigned to it, does differ from text to text, and is noted here as a traditional attribution.