The Ocean of Auspicious Moments

		The Lunar Mansions Sanskrit: Nakshatras; the 27 divisions of the sky through which the moon passes.
Hasta	Chitra	Svati	Vishakha	Anuradha	Jyeshtha	Mula	Purva-ashadha
The Sun	Tvashtar The divine artisan/architect.	Vayu The wind god.	Shakra-Agni Indra and the Fire god.	Mitra The god of friendship and alliances.	Indra	Nirriti The goddess of destruction/dissolution.	The Waters
Installation of deities, firm boundary-marking, rites for children, new clothes, sacred thread ceremonies, tonsure Ritual hair-cutting, weaponry, and consecration rituals.	Entering a home, new clothes, parting the hair A pregnancy rite, installations, vow-taking, consecration, hymns, overcoming obstacles, tonsure, and jewelry.	Installations, warfare, weapons, parting the hair, jewelry, marriage, ritual baths, and tonsure.	Gathering clothes, jewelry, commerce, cattle, and grain. Dancing, singing, crafts, and writing.	Entering a home, installations, warfare, weapons, vow-taking, and the eight auspicious signs. Clothes, jewelry, health, and forming alliances.	Heroic deeds, weapons, commerce, cattle, buffalo, and water-related work. Dancing, singing, crafts, metalwork, and writing.	Marriage, agriculture, commerce, speech, and medicine. Dancing, crafts, health, and writing.	Time of ripening/completion.

		The Lunar Mansions
Uttara-ashadha	Abhijit	Shravana	Dhanishtha	Shatabhisha	Purva-bhadrapada	Uttara-bhadrapada	Revati
The Universal Gods	Vidhi The Creator, Brahma.	Govinda Vishnu.	The Vasus Elemental deities.	Varuna God of the cosmic waters.	Aja-Ekapada The one-footed goat/fire dragon.	Ahirbudhnya The serpent of the deep.	Pushan The nourisher/protector of travelers.
Time of ripening.	Time of ripening.	Installations, parting the hair, tonsure, planting, and medicine. Crown-prince ceremonies, starting a house, and warfare.	Clothes, sacred thread ceremonies, tonsure, installations, and medicine. Architecture, parting the hair, entering a home, and horses/jewelry.	Establishing health, tonsure, installations, and medicine. Tending to horses, parting the hair, and architectural work.	Time of ripening.	Time of ripening.	Marriage, vow-taking, horses, installations, and jewelry. Entering a home, clothes, parting the hair, tonsure, and medicine.