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Mula Nakshatra · Lord Ketu · Sagittarius · Astrovene
Mula opens Sagittarius and holds its first thirteen degrees and twenty minutes, from two hundred and forty degrees to two hundred and fifty-three degrees twenty minutes. Ketu lords it, Nirriti presides, and its symbol is a bunch of roots tied together. The name means root.
Ketu and Nirriti face the same direction. Ketu accumulates nothing and claims nothing as its own; Nirriti governs what comes loose. The tradition therefore reads Mula through unbinding rather than through construction, and the logic is plainer than it first sounds: nobody examines a structure they are unwilling to take apart.
Both halves of the symbol carry weight, the roots, and the fact that they are tied. Roots are the part of a plant nobody looks at and the part that settles everything visible above. Pulled up and bundled, they stop being ground to stand on and become an object of study. Enquiry that goes past the given explanation is the association.
All four padas fall in Sagittarius. Mula begins the moment a water sign has finished, and the tradition reads such joins as places of transition rather than continuity. The navamsa moves through Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer. The first quarter, fire under fire, is the most direct; the fourth under a Cancer navamsa is the most inward and sits furthest from Ketu's own dryness.
In the Vimshottari cycle Ketu carries seven of the hundred and twenty years, among the shortest of the nine. A Mula birth opens in a Ketu mahadasha exactly as an Ashwini birth does, and passes early into Venus's twenty. That is a structural fact about the nakshatra, not a forecast about anyone born under it.
Mula belongs to the rakshasa gana. Its lord, deity and gana are constant across sources; the cultural attributions are not. The dog yoni, the bird and the tree differ from school to school and are offered here as attributions.