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Krittika Nakshatra · Lord Sun · Aries and Taurus · Astrovene
Krittika runs from the last quarter of Aries into Taurus, twenty-six degrees forty minutes to forty degrees. The Sun lords it, Agni the fire presides, and its symbol is a blade or a flame.
Straddling two rasis is the structural fact about Krittika. One pada sits in Aries, the remaining three in Taurus. The Aries portion is pointed and initiating; the Taurus portion is settled and accumulating. A single nakshatra reaching across two temperaments is unusual, and it shows in how differently the padas read: the first pada answers to Mars, the other three to Venus.
Fire purifies as much as it destroys, and Krittika carries both senses. The blade is not only for cutting; it is for separating what belongs from what does not. The tradition associates the nakshatra with sharp perception and with the willingness to act on it, which is a less comfortable pairing than it sounds, because the same faculty that sees clearly is the one that cuts.
The navamsa moves through Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. The first pada under a Sagittarius navamsa reinforces the fire; the fourth under Pisces dissolves it. Krittika also holds the Moon's deepest exaltation degree, in its Taurus stretch.
In the Vimshottari cycle the Sun carries six of the hundred and twenty years, the shortest span of the nine. A Krittika birth begins in a Sun mahadasha and moves early into the Moon's ten. That describes the sequence, not what anyone receives from it.
Its gana is rakshasa, one of the three traditional temperament groups and not a verdict on anybody. That classification, along with the Sun as lord and Agni as deity, is common ground across the texts. The sheep yoni, the bird and the tree are not: those belong to particular lineages and are noted as such.