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Purva Phalguni, the earlier fig tree

The earlier of the two Phalguni mansions. Bhaga, the share of delight, is the deity usually named. Rest, music, and a wedding's softer hours gather here.

Phalguni is a pair, split into earlier and later, the way several nakshatras are. Purva Phalguni's deity in the table is Bhaga. The temper people describe is ease: a couch, a song, the part of a wedding that is not the fire but the meal after it.

Ease is not the same as carelessness. A muhurtham that falls in Purva Phalguni still has to clear tithi, karana, and the hours of Rahu. A beautiful star at 11:40 inside Rahu kalam is a beautiful star inside a window the family has agreed to skip.

If you were born here, the useful sentence is about the Moon's nakshatra lord and the dasha it opens. The less useful sentence is that you are doomed to like comfort. Most people like comfort. The star did not discover that.