Revatī

Revatī (रेवती, also written Revati) is the twenty-seventh and final nakṣatra, closing the sidereal ecliptic at 30° Mīna before the cycle begins again at 0° Meṣa. Its register is what the tradition calls saṃyoga-avasāna — the ending that prepares for the next beginning, the nourishment offered at the threshold of transition. Its devatā is Pūṣan, Vedic god of safe passage, nourisher of travellers and cattle, guide of the departed across the threshold. Vimśottarī rulership belongs to Budha, closing his seventeen-year cycle at the zodiac's boundary.

Classical grounding

Parāśara in Brihat Parāśara Horā Śāstra and Varāhamihira's Bṛhat Saṃhitā identify Pūṣan as Revatī's devatā. Pūṣan is a Vedic deity of specific and classically well-attested function: Ṛgvedic hymns (6.53 through 6.58 especially) address him as the nourisher, the protector of cattle, the keeper of pathways, and the guide across transitions — including the final transition at life's end, where Pūṣan is invoked in Īśopaniṣad mantra 16 to lead the departed by the anirvacanīya-pantha, the ineffable path. His domain is not death itself but the safe conduct of what crosses. The yoni is gaja, the female elephant; the classical yoni-kūṭa pair is Bharaṇī's male elephant, a same-yoni match. The gaṇa is deva, the varṇa Śūdra, the nāḍī madhya. The śakti per the classical tradition is kṣīrādyā-śakti — the power of nourishment likened to milk-feeding, or alternatively the power of pathway-protection.

Significations

What Revatī classically governs:

Safe passage and transition — whether across geographic distance, the movement of goods and livestock, or the crossing between life-stages
Nourishment, particularly the gentle and sustaining register associated with Pūṣan's cattle-protection domain
Endings that are prepared for rather than sudden — Revatī's register does not align with rupture
Travel, transport, logistics; the modern extensions of Pūṣan's pathway-guarding domain into shipping and transit work
Veterinary medicine, cattle husbandry, and the care of animals in general
Children, particularly in their nurturing and early-development stage; the protective register of Pūṣan carries over
Devotional and poetic work, often of the closing or summary kind — concluding verses, final stanzas, the ritual's last offering

Pāda-level reading

Revatī's four pādas close the Mīna navāṃśa sequence, which for this dual sign begins at Karkaṭa (the fifth sign from Mīna). Pāda 1 (16°40′–20°) is Dhanus navāṃśa, bringing Bṛhaspati's philosophical register and reading for teacherly or scriptural closure. Pāda 2 is Makara navāṃśa, Śani's discipline, where Revatī's ending register reads as the steady completion of a long undertaking. Pāda 3 is Kumbha navāṃśa, still Śani-ruled, oriented toward collective or institutional endings. Pāda 4 (26°40′–30°) is Mīna navāṃśa — sign and navāṃśa aligned, doubling the dual-water signature — and is the Gaṇḍānta pāda at the zodiac's closing boundary, transitioning to Aśvinī pāda 1 in the next sign. Pāda 4 births carry the full zodiacal-closure weight classical tradition names.

Practical interpretation

A graha in Revatī carries the nakshatra's closing and nourishing register into that graha's functional domain. Janma-nakṣatra Revatī — the Moon here at birth — reads for a nurturing temperament, devotional tendency, and a characteristic comfort with transitions that others find unsettling. In muhūrta reading, Revatī is mṛdu (gentle) and is classically used for devotional activities, beginning journeys, first offerings of food or drink, and gentle inaugurations where the opposite of a hard boundary is required.

Related Concepts

Budha — ruling graha in the Vimśottarī scheme
Meena — rāśi occupied (fully or partially) by this nakshatra
Nāḍī-kūṭa — Aṣṭa-kūṭa compatibility via nāḍī classification
Yoni-kūṭa — Aṣṭa-kūṭa compatibility via yoni classification
Gaṇa-kūṭa — Aṣṭa-kūṭa compatibility via gaṇa classification
Tārā-kūṭa — Aṣṭa-kūṭa compatibility via nakshatra Tārā cycle