Krittika
Purification by fire, cutting away what is false, and the courage to burn.
One of the twenty-seven nakshatras, each 360/27 = 13°20' of the sidereal zodiac from 0° Aries (Ashvini). The nakshatra scheme is sidereal: a tropical chart must be converted by the ayanamsa before the nakshatra is assigned. The ruler sequence is Ketu, Venus, Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury repeating; Rahu and Ketu are lunar nodes rather than planets, so they are recorded as names rather than as planet ids.
Correspondences
- Number
- 3
Practice
- Magical Use
- Purification by fire, cutting away what is false, and the courage to burn.
- Magical Uses
- Electional astrologyNakshatra workVedic astrology
Nature and meaning
- Sanskrit
- कृत्तिका
- Translation
the cutter / the Pleiades
Details
- Start Degree
- 26.667
- End Degree
- 40
- Presiding Deity
- Agni
- Ruler Name
- Sun
- Keywords
- FirePurificationSharpnessCourage
- Deity Id
- Agni
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