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Hasta Nakshatra · Lord Moon · Virgo · Astrovene
Hasta sits in the middle of Virgo, from one hundred and sixty degrees to one hundred and seventy-three degrees twenty minutes. The Moon lords it and Savitar, a form of the Sun, presides. Its symbol is an open palm, and the name means hand.
The Moon as lord with Savitar as deity is a subtle combination. The Moon stands for the mind; Savitar is the light that sets things going. Between them the tradition reads a nakshatra where something held in the mind takes form through the hand, and Virgo supplies the field where that precision has somewhere to go.
A hand does five things: it receives, it gives, it makes, it points and it blesses. The symbol is an open palm, so nothing is being concealed. What the tradition draws from it is skill acquired by training rather than by gift, craft, fine work, healing touch, and labour whose quality is visible in the finish.
All four padas fall in Virgo and no rasi boundary is crossed. The navamsa moves through Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer, so the closing quarter's navamsa is Cancer, the lord's own sign. The reading there is of the same skill expressed as gentleness rather than as technique.
In the Vimshottari cycle the Moon carries ten of the hundred and twenty years, a middling share. A Moon placed in Hasta begins the sequence in a Moon mahadasha, so the graha being measured and the lord of the opening period are one and the same, which happens in only three of the twenty-seven. That is structural, not a forecast.
Hasta belongs to the deva gana, and its lord, deity and gana do not vary between texts. The buffalo yoni, along with the bird and the tree assigned to it, does vary from one tradition to another, and those are presented here as attributions.