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Magha Nakshatra · Lord Ketu · Leo · Astrovene
Magha opens Leo, from one hundred and twenty degrees to one hundred and thirty-three degrees twenty minutes. Ketu lords it and the Pitris, the ancestors, preside. Its symbol is a throne, and the name means the mighty one.
Ketu lording the entrance to the sign of the king is the fact to notice. Ketu owns nothing: it does not accumulate, it lets go. The Pitris are not merely the dead, they are the ones who left something behind. Between them the two produce a nakshatra read through what is received rather than what is built.
A throne is not made by whoever occupies it: it existed before and will outlast an occupant who is temporary by definition. The tradition does not read this only as authority but as custody of something entrusted. That is why lineage, ceremony and obligation to those who came before are the associations here.
All four padas fall in Leo, with the navamsa running through Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer, the first four signs of the zodiac in order, an arc from fire to water. The opening quarter under an Aries navamsa is the most direct; the closing one under Cancer meets the same inheritance as something felt rather than claimed.
In the Vimshottari cycle Ketu carries seven of the hundred and twenty years, among the shortest of the nine spans. A Moon in Magha begins the sequence in a Ketu mahadasha and passes early into Venus's twenty. That describes the order of the cycle, not the shape of a life.
Magha is placed in the rakshasa gana, one of the three traditional temperament groups and no more than that. Its lord, deity and gana are the same in every source; the rat yoni, the bird and the tree differ between schools and appear here as attributions.