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Uttara Phalguni Nakshatra · Lord Sun · Leo and Virgo · Astrovene
Uttara Phalguni crosses from Leo into Virgo, from one hundred and forty-six degrees forty minutes to one hundred and sixty degrees. The Sun lords it and Aryaman, deity of contracts and patronage, presides. Its symbol is the back legs of a bed.
Where the preceding nakshatra is about enjoyment, this one is about the agreement that lets enjoyment last. The Sun contributes the quality of standing behind what has been said; Aryaman governs the word that is honoured afterwards. The two together produce a nakshatra concerned with continuing rather than with starting.
The back legs are a deliberate choice of image. The front legs are where ease begins; the back legs are what holds that ease up. They are the unseen and unpraised part without which the arrangement collapses. Marriage, partnership, patronage and duty carried out are the associations.
One pada falls in Leo and the remaining three in Virgo, and that straddle matters: the Leo portion brings standing and regard, the Virgo portion brings exacting and detailed work. The navamsa runs through Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces, and the second quarter's Capricorn navamsa sits closest to the idea of obligation the nakshatra is built around.
In the Vimshottari cycle the Sun carries six of the hundred and twenty years, the smallest share of the nine. A Moon in Uttara Phalguni opens the sequence in a Sun mahadasha and passes early into the Moon's ten. That describes where the nakshatra stands in the cycle, not anyone's years.
Uttara Phalguni belongs to the manushya gana. There is no disagreement between sources about its lord, its deity or its gana. The cow yoni and the associated bird and tree do vary from school to school, and are set down here as attributions of the tradition.