Revati nakshatra, 16°40' to 30°00' Pisces.

Revati, Sanskrit for the wealthy one, is the 27th and final nakshatra of the sidereal circle: its 13°20' arc runs from 16°40' to 30°00' Pisces and closes at the last degree of the zodiac, all four padas in Pisces with the wheel ending where its next turn will begin again in Ashwini. Mercury rules it, so a Moon here opens life inside a 17-year Mercury mahadasha. The presiding deity is Pushan, the god of the way who guides travellers and souls safely across thresholds, and the symbol is the fish moving through the waters of existence. Uttara Bhadrapada before it holds the depth-stillness of the sage and Ashwini after it opens a fresh cycle with the first spark; Revati between them carries the gentle completion of the wayfarer whose journey has arrived. Sources: Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra Chapter 3, Phaladeepika Chapter 7, Sarvartha Chintamani.

Range, ruler, deity and classical attributes

Mythology and meaning

Pushan the presiding deity is the god of the way, the nourisher and guide who safely leads souls across thresholds. As the final nakshatra in the sequence, Revati carries the completion register: the chart owner has 'arrived' in a karmic sense and operates with the gentleness of one whose journey is complete. The fish symbol reflects movement through the waters of existence; the drum-symbol reflects the rhythm of arrival.

The classical reading walks the presiding deity, the symbol and the ruling planet together to derive the nakshatra's full register. Revati's register is shaped by all three: the deity sets the thematic register, the symbol provides the visual-mnemonic and behavioural anchor and the ruling planet anchors the Vimshottari major-period framework and the broader chart-side reading whenever the chart owner runs the ruler's mahadasha.

What Moon in Revati reads as

Natives born with the natal Moon in Revati carry completion-wisdom and gentle compassion as dominant register. The chart operates with the wisdom of arrival, guides others through thresholds and carries the nourishing disposition of the experienced wayfarer. The Moon as the mental and emotional register absorbs the nakshatra's signature directly: the chart owner thinks, feels and habitually responds through the Revati register.

Classical professional registers commonly associated with this nakshatra include spiritual teaching and guidance especially compassionate-axis, hospice and end-of-life care, counselling and gentle-axis psychotherapy, education at primary-and-foundational axis, travel and pilgrimage industries, anything requiring gentle-and-guiding capacity. The professional list is illustrative rather than deterministic. The nakshatra produces structural capacity; the chart owner's specific application depends on the broader chart, the dasha sequence and the natal house position of the Moon within the chart.

The four padas and per-pada navamsa signs

Each nakshatra divides into four padas of 3°20' arc each, mapping to the four navamsa signs starting from the position of the first pada. Pada-level reading qualifies the broad nakshatra register with the navamsa sign that the chart owner's Moon (or natal point) actually occupies. The four padas of Revati.

• Pada 1. Sagittarius / Jupiter: dharmic completion through wisdom register.
• Pada 2. Capricorn / Saturn: structured completion, institutional-arrival register.
• Pada 3. Aquarius / Saturn: progressive completion, reform-arrival axis.
• Pada 4. Pisces / Jupiter: spiritual completion, the mystical-arrival register.

The classical practice reads the pada-level register together with the natal Moon's navamsa sign for full nakshatra reading. The pada determines which navamsa sign the chart owner activates; the navamsa lord then participates in the broader chart reading as a parallel signature alongside the natal lord.

Mercury rulership and the 17-year mahadasha

A native born with the natal Moon in Revati opens life in the Mercury mahadasha. The 17-year window foregrounds Mercury's karaka register: Mercury's natural signification activates as the broad thematic frame for the opening phase of the life.

Combined with Revati's completion register, the opening Mercury mahadasha period often produces early-life communication-formation directed at guidance and teaching, the intellectual-and-compassionate integration for which this nakshatra is renowned.

The exact degree of the Moon within Revati fixes how much of the opening Mercury mahadasha remained at birth. Moon at 0° of the nakshatra inherits the full 17-year period from birth. Moon at the closing degree of the nakshatra inherits only the residual fraction before the next mahadasha begins. The classical computation reduces this to days from the precise degree of Moon within the nakshatra range.

Transit reading: when slow planets cross Revati

Beyond the natal-Moon reading, the Revati nakshatra carries reading-significance whenever slow planets transit through its 13°20' arc. Saturn at approximately 2.5 years per sign passes through Revati once every 29.5 years. Jupiter at approximately 13 months per sign passes through annually within each 12-year cycle. Rahu and Ketu at approximately 18 months per sign pass through every 18 years.

Transit Jupiter through Revati provides a benefic overlay on the nakshatra's themes for the duration of the Jupiter transit. Transit Saturn through Revati provides a structural-pressure overlay, often producing the consolidation or restructuring of the nakshatra's themes in the chart owner's life. Transit Rahu or Ketu through Revati provides an amplification or dissolution overlay depending on which node is transiting and which house the nakshatra occupies on the chart.

Computed windows, 2024 to 2040

Every pass of Saturn, Jupiter and Rahu through Revati's 13°20' span in this period. Sidereal positions from the Swiss Ephemeris with the PVRN Rao True Pushya ayanamsha and the mean node, the same engine that computes every chart on this site. Separate rows are separate passes, produced by retrograde motion.

Compatibility attributes and Ashtakoota implications

Revati carries gana classification deva (the temperamental class layer, with three values: deva for divine, manushya for human, rakshasa for intense), varna classification shudra (the functional class layer), yoni classification elephant (the animal-axis compatibility marker) and nadi classification kapha (the Ayurvedic constitutional axis). These attributes feed Ashtakoota compatibility scoring used in classical Vedic matchmaking. The cluster documents these for reference, not as a forward-call mechanism.

Where Revati sits in the 27-step sequence

In the fixed 27-step sidereal nakshatra sequence, Revati is the 27th nakshatra. The Moon traverses one nakshatra in approximately 24 hours (the lunar daily motion of approximately 13°10' per day matched against the 13°20' nakshatra arc). The nakshatra boundaries are therefore time-sensitive at the daily and even hourly level: birth time accuracy is the prerequisite for accurate nakshatra identification.

Calibration status

The article documents the classical Revati-nakshatra reading as set out in BPHS Chapter 3 (nakshatra significations), Phaladeepika Chapter 7 and Sarvartha Chintamani. The presiding-deity reading, the symbol-interpretation, the four-pada-per-navamsa framework and the gana-varna-yoni-nadi compatibility attributes are presented as the tradition's own framework. The Tempora calibrated signature library (Note 005) does not currently include nakshatra-specific event signatures. Calibrating nakshatra placements against a labelled chart-corpus is open work.

Born under Revati: what it sets in motion

A Moon in Revati at birth opens the whole life inside the Mercury mahadasha, and Mercury runs 17 years in the Vimshottari cycle. How much of those 17 years a chart receives from birth is set by how far the Moon had already travelled through the nakshatra's 13°20' arc. Born at the very start, a chart inherits close to the full 17-year Mercury period. Born three-quarters of the way through, only one quarter remains: 17 × 0.25 is 4.25 years, about 4 years and 3 months of Mercury before the 7-year Ketu mahadasha takes over. Born halfway, 8.5 years of Mercury remain; born at the closing degree of Revati, which is also the closing degree of the zodiac, only a matter of months.

This is why the birth nakshatra is the entry point of the entire 120-year map. The nakshatra names the first lord and the fraction names the balance, and from that single handhold the whole sequence unrolls: Mercury, then Ketu, then Venus and on through the cycle. A long opening Mercury period reads in the classical texts as a formative chapter of learning, communication and intellect, which sits closely with Revati's own nourishing-guide register when the placement falls in its early padas.

This span in the 2026 to 2028 sky

Revati is pure Pisces, so the whole nakshatra answers to Saturn across this window. Saturn has held Pisces since 20 March 2025 and stays across this span until it enters Aries on 23 May 2027. It then retreats back into Pisces on 4 November 2027 and crosses this arc a second time before re-entering Aries to stay on 11 February 2028. Because Revati closes the zodiac, this is Saturn moving across the final degrees of the entire circle before it steps into Aries and begins the wheel again, which classical reading frames as a consolidation at the threshold of completion. The honest limitation is that Saturn marks where structure is tested, not the outcome of the test, and the house Revati occupies in a given chart decides what the pressure actually reaches. No node touches this span in the window, since Rahu works through Aquarius then Capricorn, and Jupiter stays in Cancer, Leo and Virgo. The Moon still crosses for about a day every 27.3 days, and the Sun spends roughly a fortnight in this arc once a year in late March and early April. Uttara Bhadrapada, its Pisces neighbour, sits under the same Saturn tenancy through the identical dates.

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This article was prepared by Tempora Research as an informational piece in the Nakshatra cluster. Methodology, calibrated lift figures and reconciliation entries are documented in Tempora's research-publishing standards and reproducible against the public engine. Internal audit log maintained. This article does not constitute medical, financial, legal or professional advice. First published 2026-05-29 by Tempora Research.