Nakshatra Cluster · Ruling Planet

Moon-ruled nakshatras, the 10-year group.

Moon rules three of the 27 nakshatras: Rohini, Hasta and Shravana. When the natal Moon falls in any of them, the chart owner opens life in the 10-year Moon mahadasha. The macro register is Moon's shared karaka signature, modulated by each nakshatra's deity, sign and pada.

The three nakshatras at a glance

Nakshatra	Deity	Range	Symbol
Rohini	Brahma / Prajapati	10°00' to 23°20' Taurus	cart / temple
Hasta	Savitar	10°00' to 23°20' Virgo	hand or palm
Shravana	Vishnu	10°00' to 23°20' Capricorn	three footprints (also the ear)

What Moon rules and how that shapes the group

Moon-ruled nakshatras carry the mind-and-mother register: emotional receptivity, nurture-axis disposition, the chart owner's relationship to comfort, fluidity and the mental processing axis. The Moon is the karaka for mind, mother, emotional foundation, comfort and the cyclic register. The three Moon-ruled nakshatras inherit this and modulate through Earth-element signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) producing distinctively material-axis registers.

How the three members differ

Rohini

Rohini runs 10°00' to 23°20' Taurus. The presiding deity is Brahma / Prajapati, the symbol is the cart / temple and the register is sensory beauty and material abundance. Read the full reading at Rohini nakshatra.

Hasta

Hasta runs 10°00' to 23°20' Virgo. The presiding deity is Savitar, the symbol is the hand or palm and the register is manual skill and craft. Read the full reading at Hasta nakshatra.

Shravana

Shravana runs 10°00' to 23°20' Capricorn. The presiding deity is Vishnu, the symbol is the three footprints (also the ear) and the register is listening capacity and wisdom-reception. Read the full reading at Shravana nakshatra.

Moon in any of these three opens the Moon mahadasha

The 10-year Moon mahadasha activates emotional, nurture and mental-axis themes. When the natal Moon falls in Rohini, Hasta or Shravana, the opening Moon mahadasha foregrounds the chart's relationship to sensory comfort (Rohini), skilled manifestation (Hasta) or received wisdom (Shravana). All three nakshatras sit at the 10°00'-23°20' range of their respective signs, the middle band where the Moon's natural register operates most fully.

Sub-period activation through the Moon period

Inside the 10-year Moon mahadasha, the Vimshottari antardasha sequence runs through all 9 planets in proportion to their mahadasha lengths. Each antardasha activates a different karaka pairing with the Moon mahalord. Sub-periods of friend-planets to Moon read constructively, sub-periods of enemy-planets read more challenging. The full antardasha structure is covered in the Moon mahadasha overview.

What this group does not predict

Ruler-group membership reads the macro register of the Moon mahadasha and the shared Moon karaka signature. It does not generate forward calls by itself. Calibration is by chart and signature class, not by ruler group. The personal-chart reading depends on the Moon's specific nakshatra (Krittika reads differently from Uttara Ashadha), the Moon's pada, the natal house of the Moon, the dispositor's strength and the running transit picture. The framework is explicit about this scope limit.

FAQ

How long is the Moon mahadasha in the Vimshottari sequence?

The Moon mahadasha runs 10 years. It activates when the natal Moon falls in any of the three Moon-ruled nakshatras: Rohini, Hasta or Shravana. The exact degree of the Moon inside the nakshatra fixes how much of the Moon mahadasha remains at birth.

What is the shared register of the Moon-ruled nakshatras?

All three carry Moon's karaka register at the macro level. They then split into distinct readings by sign placement, presiding deity and pada structure. What stays constant is the 10-year mahadasha length and the underlying Moon register.

How do the three Moon-ruled nakshatras differ?

Rohini reads as sensory beauty and material abundance. Hasta reads as manual skill and craft. Shravana reads as listening capacity and wisdom-reception. All three carry Moon's shared register but the deity and sign placement determine which dimension foregrounds in a given chart.

Does the Moon-ruled group share a calibrated firing pattern on the corpus?

The three nakshatras share the Moon mahadasha length but do not share calibrated forward-call windows automatically. Calibration is by chart and signature class, not by ruler group. The individual nakshatra readings carry calibrated context where it exists.

Where does the Moon mahadasha sit in the 120-year cycle?

The Vimshottari mahadasha sequence runs Ketu 7, Venus 20, Sun 6, Moon 10, Mars 7, Rahu 18, Jupiter 16, Saturn 19, Mercury 17. total 120 years. The Moon mahadasha enters the sequence whenever the previous mahadasha closes. The entry point on a personal chart depends entirely on the natal Moon nakshatra and degree.