Nakshatra 27 of 27 · 16°40′ Pisces – 30°00′ Pisces

Revati Nakshatra

Revati is the safe road home — the final nakshatra, where the zodiac exhales. Pushan guards travelers, herds, and souls in transit, and Revati natives inherit the escort's heart: they finish things gently, guide what is lost, and leave every camp better marked than they found it.

Ruling Graha
☿ Mercury
Deity
Pushan, protector of travelers
Symbol
A fish swimming in the sea; a drum keeping time
Gana
Deva
Yoni (animal)
Elephant
The Star
ζ Piscium — the last star of the last sign, the road home

The mind it makes

Kind, imaginative, lightly melancholy — it lives near the border of this world and the next errand. A Moon here filters every other placement in the chart through that temperament — in Jyotish the Moon is the mind, and the nakshatra is its native dialect.

The gift

Completion with grace: the rare power to end chapters — projects, eras, lives' work — without breakage.

The shadow — read without fear

The eternal escort — everyone else delivered home, the guide still on the road; sweetness as avoidance. As with every mansion, the shadow is the gift over-applied: name it, date its seasons through the dasha timeline, and it becomes workable material rather than a verdict.

Revati is the safe road home — protection on the journey, completion, gentleness.

In love

Gentle, devoted, faintly otherworldly; loves travelers and strays, and must not become the lost-and-found.

At work

Hospice and care work, travel, animal vocations, the finishing trades — editors, closers, guides.

The four padas

Each nakshatra divides into four padas of 3°20′ — quarter-steps that fine-tune the mansion and set the navamsa (D9) sign of anything placed there.

PadaFromToNavamsa sign
116°40′ Pisces20°00′ PiscesSagittarius
220°00′ Pisces23°20′ PiscesCapricorn
323°20′ Pisces26°40′ PiscesAquarius
426°40′ Pisces30°00′ PiscesPisces

Your dasha, wound from here

If your Moon occupies Revati, your Vimshottari sequence opens with a Mercury mahadasha of 17 years — entered partway through, according to how far the Moon had traveled through the mansion at your birth. The whole 120-year clock of your life is wound from this single placement, which is why Jyotish begins with the birth star rather than the Sun sign.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Revati nakshatra?
Revati is the 27th of the 27 nakshatras (lunar mansions) of Vedic astrology, spanning 16°40′ Pisces – 30°00′ Pisces in the sidereal zodiac. Its symbol is a fish swimming in the sea; a drum keeping time, its presiding deity is Pushan, protector of travelers, and it is ruled by Mercury. Revati is the safe road home — the final nakshatra, where the zodiac exhales.
Which planet rules Revati?
Revati is ruled by Mercury. In the Vimshottari dasha system this gives Revati natives a Mercury mahadasha of 17 years as their first planetary period — entered partway through, according to how far the Moon had traveled through the mansion at birth.
What are the four padas of Revati?
Each nakshatra divides into four padas of 3°20′. Revati's padas fall in the navamsa signs of Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces — the pada fine-tunes how the mansion expresses, and sets the navamsa (D9) position of anything placed there.
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