Nakshatra 4 of 27 · Ruled by Moon
Rohini Nakshatra
The Red One
The Moon’s favourite: fertile, magnetic, and made for beauty and growth.
Zodiac range
10°00′ Taurus – 23°20′ Taurus
Symbol
Ox cart
Deity
Brahma
Lord
Moon
Gana
Manushya
Yoni
Serpent (male)
Nadi
Antya
Rohini personality and character
Rohini occupies 10°00′ Taurus – 23°20′ Taurus of the sidereal zodiac, and everyone born with the Moon in this span carries it as their janma nakshatra, their birth star. Its symbol, the ox cart, and its presiding deity, Brahma, set the mythic tone: the moon’s favourite: fertile, magnetic, and made for beauty and growth. The ruling planet Moon adds its own signature, since a Rohini native begins life in a Moon dasha and returns to Moon's lessons at every major turning point.
Temperamentally, Rohini belongs to the Manushya gana: the human temperament: practical, ambitious, and balanced between the worldly and the spiritual. Its constitutional current is Antya (Kapha), the nadi of endurance and stability, and its instinctive animal is the male serpent, the figure Vedic tradition uses to describe how this star bonds, plays, and protects. Read together, the attributes sketch a coherent nature long before a full chart is drawn, which is exactly how classical astrologers used the birth star for quick assessment.
The four padas of Rohini
Each nakshatra divides into four padas of 3°20′, and each pada takes the flavour of one navamsa sign: for Rohini, pada 1 falls in Aries navamsa, pada 2 in Taurus, pada 3 in Gemini, and pada 4 in Cancer. Two people can share a birth star and still differ noticeably because their padas point the same energy through different signs. Your exact pada is shown when you cast your chart with the free Vedic birth chart calculator.
Rohini in love and marriage matching
In kundli matching, Rohini contributes three of the eight kootas directly: its Manushya gana (6 points), its Serpent yoni (4 points), and its Antya nadi (8 points, the heaviest of all). The Tara koota is also counted from the birth star. No nakshatra scores well or badly on its own; everything depends on the pairing, which is why the same Rohini native can score 30 with one partner and 14 with another. Run any two birth details through the calculator for the full 36-point table, and see the western view of the same question in our zodiac compatibility guide.
When the Moon transits Rohini
Once a month the Moon spends about a day in Rohini, and that day carries the star's flavour for everyone: a monthly visit from Brahma. Panchang followers time activities to these transits, and the daily panchang page shows the current nakshatra in real time. For the wider lunar rhythm behind it, our guides to the moon phases and the 2026 full moon calendar complete the picture.
Rohini FAQs
- What is Rohini nakshatra?
- Rohini is the 4th of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 10°00′ Taurus – 23°20′ Taurus of the sidereal zodiac. Its name means the red one, its symbol is the ox cart, its presiding deity is Brahma, and its planetary lord is Moon.
- Which planet rules Rohini?
- Moon rules Rohini. In the Vimshottari dasha system, anyone born with the Moon in Rohini begins life in a Moon planetary period, which colours their early years with Moon’s themes.
- What gana is Rohini?
- Rohini belongs to the Manushya gana, the human temperament: practical, ambitious, and balanced between the worldly and the spiritual. Gana carries 6 of the 36 points in traditional kundli matching.
- What is the yoni of Rohini?
- The yoni of Rohini is the male Serpent, used in the Yoni koota of marriage matching, worth 4 points. Yoni compatibility compares the instinctive natures of the two birth stars.
- Is Rohini good for marriage matching?
- Rohini contributes its Manushya gana, Serpent yoni, and Antya nadi to the eight-koota Guna Milan. No nakshatra is good or bad in isolation; the score depends entirely on the partner’s star. Run any pairing through the free kundli matching calculator to see the full 36-point breakdown.