Nakshatra
Revati Nakshatra
The gentle guide — the last nakshatra, protector of journeys and kind to everything small.
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The temperament
Revati completes the circle, and it has the quality of an ending: gentle, a little wistful, and unusually kind. Its deity protects travellers and animals, and the nakshatra's instinct is to see people safely to where they are going. There is real artistic sensitivity here, a talent for nurturing others' growth, and a tendency to give things away. Being the final nakshatra gives it a certain completeness and also a certain detachment — Revati has, symbolically, been everywhere already.
Strengths
Kindness, artistic and musical ability, a nurturing instinct, spiritual openness, and a gift for helping others find their way.
Where it gets difficult
Over-giving, difficulty with boundaries, and a sensitivity that needs protecting.
Work it suits
Teaching, care work, music and the arts, travel and hospitality, veterinary work and animal welfare, spiritual and pastoral roles.
In relationships
Tender, devoted and idealistic. Revati loves gently and is easily hurt; it does best with someone who treats that sensitivity as valuable rather than inconvenient.
The four padas
Each pada is a quarter of the nakshatra, 3°20′ wide, and each corresponds to a navamsa sign. The pada is where a reading gets specific — it is the difference between describing twenty-seven kinds of person and describing a hundred and eight.
Pada 1 — navamsa in Sagittarius
The guide as teacher. Philosophical, optimistic, drawn to distant places.
Pada 2 — navamsa in Capricorn
Kindness with structure. Practical care, patient, quietly responsible.
Pada 3 — navamsa in Aquarius
Compassion for the collective. Humanitarian and somewhat detached.
Pada 4 — navamsa in Pisces
The final pada of the final nakshatra — the most sensitive, mystical and otherworldly of all 108.
Traditional name syllables, one per pada in order: De, Do, Cha, Chi.
The mythology
Pushan is the Vedic god of roads, herds and safe arrival — the protector of travellers and the finder of lost things. He is toothless in the myth, and eats only mashed food, which gives him a gentle, slightly comic character entirely in keeping with the nakshatra.
How Revati shapes your dasha
Because Revati is ruled by Mercury, anyone born under it begins life in a Mercury mahādaśā. How much of that period remained at birth depends on exactly how far the Moon had travelled through the nakshatra — which is why two people born on the same day can be running completely different periods for decades. Your full chart shows the whole timeline, including the sub-periods within it.
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Common questions
How do I know if Revati is my nakshatra?
Your janma nakshatra is the one the Moon occupied at the moment you were born. Revati spans 16°40′ – 30°00′ Pisces, so if your Moon fell in that range, this is yours. You can check in a few seconds with our free nakshatra calculator — you do not need an exact birth time, because the Moon takes roughly a day to cross one nakshatra.
Which planet rules Revati?
Mercury. That matters for more than temperament: the ruling planet of your birth nakshatra becomes the lord of your first vimshottari mahadasha, so it sets where your life begins in the 120-year dasha cycle. How far the Moon had already travelled through Revati decides how much of that first period had elapsed before you were born.
What are the padas of Revati?
Each nakshatra divides into four quarters of 3°20′ called padas, and each pada corresponds to a navamsa sign. For Revati they run pada 1 in Sagittarius, pada 2 in Capricorn, pada 3 in Aquarius, pada 4 in Pisces. The pada refines the reading considerably — two people born under the same nakshatra a few hours apart can fall in different padas.
What are the name syllables for Revati?
Traditionally, De, Do, Cha, Chi — one syllable per pada, in order. Many Indian families still choose a child's first name to begin with the syllable matching the pada the Moon occupied at birth, which is why the nakshatra is usually asked for before a naming ceremony.
Is Revati a good nakshatra to be born under?
There is no such thing as a good or bad nakshatra, and you should be wary of anyone who says otherwise — particularly if they then offer to sell you a remedy. Classical texts describe temperament and mythology, not worth. Revati describes a disposition, and every disposition has both its strengths and its harder edges.