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Punarvasu Nakshatra · Lord Jupiter · Gemini and Cancer · Astrovene
Punarvasu spans the end of Gemini into Cancer, eighty degrees to ninety-three degrees twenty minutes. Jupiter lords it, Aditi the mother of the gods presides, and its symbol is a quiver of arrows.
The name means to become good or bright again, and return is the governing idea. Aditi is the mother, and returning to her is returning to the starting point; the nakshatra is read through things that come back after being lost. That is a narrower claim than it sounds, and the tradition keeps it narrow.
The quiver matters because it is refillable, not because it is a weapon. Arrows run out; the quiver remains. Recovery, renewal and the capacity to begin again are the traditional associations, and they sit unusually comfortably with Jupiter as lord, a graha the texts read through replenishment rather than through acquisition.
Three padas fall in Gemini and the fourth in Cancer, with the navamsa moving through Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer. The fourth pada is Cancer in both rasi and navamsa, which makes it the most distinct quarter of the four and the only one where the sign lord is the Moon rather than Mercury.
In the Vimshottari cycle Jupiter carries sixteen of the hundred and twenty years. A Punarvasu birth begins inside a Jupiter mahadasha and passes next into Saturn's nineteen, so the first two periods of the cycle are among the longest it contains. What that ordering means for anybody is not something a nakshatra page can say.
The gana is deva. Jupiter as lord, Aditi as deity and that gana are the agreed skeleton of this nakshatra. What hangs on that skeleton culturally, the cat yoni, the bird and the tree, changes between schools and is presented here as attribution rather than as fact.