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Pushya Nakshatra · Lord Saturn · Cancer · Astrovene
Pushya occupies the middle of Cancer, from ninety-three degrees twenty minutes to one hundred and six degrees forty. Saturn lords it and Brihaspati, teacher of the gods, presides. Its symbol is a cow's udder, given in some quarters as a lotus.
Saturn and Brihaspati in one place looks like a mismatch, since one withholds and the other gives away. The tradition does not read it as one. Saturn supplies the patience, Brihaspati decides what is worth handing on, and Cancer, the Moon's own sign, supplies the instinct to feed rather than to hoard.
The udder is a working image, not a sentimental one. Milk is produced continuously, drawn off by someone other than the animal producing it, and no choice is made about who benefits. Sustenance that is simply available, rather than granted as a favour, is the sense the tradition takes from it.
All four padas fall in Cancer, so no rasi boundary is crossed, and the navamsa moves through Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio. The first quarter under a Leo navamsa is the most openly visible; the fourth under Scorpio does the same providing out of sight.
In the Vimshottari cycle Saturn carries nineteen of the hundred and twenty years, the longest span after Venus. A Moon placed in Pushya opens the dasha sequence inside a Saturn mahadasha, so the cycle starts slowly by construction rather than by circumstance. That is a fact about where the nakshatra sits, not a forecast about anyone.
Pushya belongs to the deva gana, and it is among the nakshatras the tradition reaches for when a favourable moment is wanted to begin something, with marriage the standing exception. Lord, deity and gana are agreed everywhere; the sheep yoni and the associated bird and tree differ between schools and are offered as attributions rather than settled fact.