Revati Nakshatra: Meaning, Symbol, Lord, and Padas

Revati is the twenty-seventh and last of the 27 nakshatras, covering the final stretch of the zodiac from 16 degrees 40 minutes to 30 degrees of sidereal Pisces. Its ruling planet is Mercury, its presiding deity is Pushan, the gentle shepherd god who guards travellers, herds, and lost things, and its symbol is a pair of fish. The name comes from a root meaning wealthy or abundant. A person born with the Moon in this span has Revati as their janma nakshatra, or birth star, and is read in the classical tradition as kind, gentle, protective, and quietly prosperous. Their Vimshottari dasha, the planetary timeline of life, opens in a 17-year Mercury period.

This page goes deep on Revati alone. For the system itself, why there are 27 nakshatras and how padas and lords work, start with the nakshatras and come back.

Revati at a glance

The quick facts first. Everything in this table is unpacked in the sections that follow.

Where Revati sits in the sky

Revati occupies the last 13 degrees 20 minutes of Pisces, which makes it the last nakshatra of the zodiac itself: its final degree is the 360th. Its marker is Zeta Piscium, a modest star lying almost exactly on the ecliptic, the Sun's path, historically used by Indian astronomers as a reference point for measuring the sky.

The span holds one more distinction. The Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra places Venus's point of deepest exaltation at 27 degrees of Pisces, which falls inside Revati's fourth pada. Venus standing there is at the strongest degree available to it anywhere in the zodiac, inside the wheel's most generous closing star. The sign belongs to Jupiter, the star to Mercury, and the two teachers of the classical pantheon share custody of the zodiac's last chapter.

Pushan, the pair of fish, and the road home

Revati's presiding deity is Pushan, one of the solar Adityas of the Vedic pantheon and the kindest figure in it: keeper of roads, protector of herds and travellers, finder of lost animals, people, and things. He asks for nothing fiercer than safe passage, and he grants it. Travels that end well are his signature.

The symbol is a pair of fish swimming together, an image of safe crossing over deep water and of companionship on the way. Read deity and symbol together and Revati's character appears: the star of the guide, the host, the foster parent, the one who makes sure everyone gets home. Where the wheel began with Ashwini's headlong gallop, it ends with Revati walking the stragglers in.

The personality of a Revati Moon

Classical descriptions, consistent across the Brihat Jataka and the Phaladeepika, sketch the Revati-born as well-formed, agreeable, courageous beneath the softness, and comfortably provided for. The signature gift is care: an instinct for noticing who is lost, late, or struggling, and an unforced generosity in setting it right.

Because the Moon in Jyotish is the mind, the birth star colours the inner life above all. A Revati Moon tends to be sociable and well liked, fond of animals, music, and refinement, with Mercury's lordship adding quickness, learning, and a good ear for language. The mridu, or soft, classification the muhurta texts give Revati extends to timing: the star is favoured for marriages, music, fine arts, and setting out on travel.

The heavier register is softness overdrawn: the helper can over-give, absorb other people's troubles as their own, and be slow to claim their share. The tradition pairs the tendency with its balance: a well-placed Mercury lends the discernment that makes kindness sustainable, and Jupiter, lord of the sign, supplies the buoyancy. The standard reading is that Revati's care, with boundaries, is the most dependable form of wealth the star's name promises.

The four padas of Revati

Each nakshatra divides into four padas of 3 degrees 20 minutes, and each pada corresponds to one navamsa sign, which is how the birth star feeds the ninth divisional chart. Revati's padas run from Sagittarius to Pisces in the navamsa, and its fourth pada ends the zodiac.

The fourth pada is doubly marked. It is vargottama, Pisces in both the birth chart and the navamsa, a repetition the classics read as stabilising, and it contains the final degrees of the entire zodiac, including Venus's deepest exaltation point at 27 degrees. The tradition treats this quarter as Revati at full strength.

Revati and your dasha timeline

The lord of the birth star opens the Vimshottari dasha, the 120-year cycle of planetary periods laid out in the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra. For Revati that lord is Mercury, so a Revati birth begins inside a Mercury mahadasha of 17 years. The balance at birth is proportional: a Moon early in the star leaves most of the period, a Moon at 29 degrees of Pisces leaves only weeks of it.

Mercury also closes the cycle of nine lords, so a Revati birth enters the dasha wheel at its last gate; Ketu's 7-year period follows, then Venus (20 years), Sun (6), Moon (10), Mars (7), Rahu (18), Jupiter (16), and Saturn (19). To find your own entry point and the balance remaining, the find your nakshatra page calculates both from your birth details.

The end of the wheel: Revati's gandanta

Gandanta is the name the tradition gives to the three junctions where a water sign ends and a fire sign begins, and the last degrees of Revati form the final one: Pisces closing into Aries, Revati handing the sky to Ashwini. The junction zone is commonly taken as the degrees nearest the border, with conventions ranging from under one degree to the full last pada on each side.

A birth right at the junction is traditionally read as a threshold birth, an old chapter ending and a new one opening in the same moment, and the classical response is careful reading rather than alarm: the whole chart is weighed, and the tradition prescribes naming and shanti, settling rites, where families want them. The same border has a bright side already covered above: the strongest degrees of Venus and the vargottama pada both live in this final quarter. Endings, in Revati's reading of them, are completions.

Revati in compatibility matching

In guna milan, the koota matching used for marriage, several of the 36 points come from the two birth stars. Revati counts as a deva gana star, the godly temperament class, which scores full points with deva and manushya stars in the gana koota. Its Moon sign for the sign-based kootas is always Pisces.

The count runs across eight kootas, with nadi, yoni, and the Moon-sign relationship weighed alongside gana, so no single star or factor decides a match. To see the complete 36-point calculation for two charts, the kundli matching tool runs the whole table.

Revati in the classics

The attributions on this page are the stable, named ones: the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra carries the 27-star scheme, the exaltation degrees, and the Vimshottari sequence seeded from the birth star; the Brihat Jataka and the Phaladeepika describe the temperament of those born under each star, Revati's among the gentlest. The old texts are brief, and this page keeps to what they agree on.

Reading further is best done sideways and around the corner: sideways to Uttara Bhadrapada, the deep stillness that precedes Revati, and around the corner to Ashwini, where the wheel begins again; upward to the 27-nakshatra map for the whole circle in one table. To see where your own Moon falls, run a free birth chart and find the nakshatra column.