Nakshatra phal: read through tara bala from your birth star

Read from your janma nakshatra through tara bala, the nine-fold count from your birth star to the star the Moon is passing through.

Your birth star is decided by the Moon's degree, so a birth near a boundary can fall either side of it until the time is settled.

Every birth star

Each of these carries daily, weekly, monthly readings, switchable at the top of the page.

What tara bala actually counts

Count from your birth star to the star the Moon is passing through today, starting at one on your own. The 27 stars fold onto nine taras, so the count reduces to a number between one and nine: Janma, Sampat, Vipat, Kshema, Pratyak, Sadhaka, Vadha, Mitra, Ati-Mitra. The third, fifth and seventh are the difficult ones, and the same arithmetic scores the Tara koota in kundli matching.

It is the oldest muhurta tool in daily use, and it is genuinely per-star: 27 different birth stars read against one transiting Moon produce all nine taras at once, which is why these pages say different things to different readers on the same day.

Your birth star needs a reasonably good time

The Moon crosses a nakshatra in about 21 hours, so the date usually settles it and a rough time is enough. A birth within an hour or two of a boundary is the exception, and there the star is genuinely undecided until the time is. Since the birth star also sets your Vimshottari dasha sequence, a boundary birth moves every dasha date with it, which is usually the faster way to notice.