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Mrigashira Nakshatra · Lord Mars · Taurus and Gemini · Astrovene
Mrigashira crosses from Taurus into Gemini, fifty-three degrees twenty minutes to sixty-six degrees forty. Mars lords it, Soma the Moon presides, and its symbol is a deer's head.
Mars as lord with the Moon as deity is a telling combination. Mars pursues; the Moon perceives. Together they make searching rather than finding, which is the theme the tradition returns to for this nakshatra. It is worth noticing that the deity here is itself a graha, which is true of only a handful of the twenty-seven.
A deer is always scenting the air, and not out of fear, out of interest. Curiosity, travel undertaken to look for something, and a restlessness that is not unhappy are the associations. It is a seeking nakshatra rather than an arriving one.
Two padas fall in Taurus and two in Gemini, with the navamsa moving through Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio. The rasi change and the navamsa change together make this one of the more internally varied nakshatras: its four quarters read genuinely differently, and the sign lord changes from Venus to Mercury halfway through.
In the Vimshottari cycle Mars carries seven of the hundred and twenty years, level with Ketu and second only to the Sun's six in brevity. A Mrigashira birth begins in a Mars mahadasha and moves early into Rahu's eighteen, which is one of the sharpest transitions in the sequence. Both are facts about the cycle's order.
Deva gana. The structural facts, lord and deity and gana, hold wherever you look them up, and that consistency is what makes them safe to state without a source. The serpent yoni, the bird and the tree are school-dependent and are given here without any claim that they are the only version in circulation.