Free Rudraksha by Rashi and Nakshatra Finder

Choose your Moon sign or birth nakshatra above if you already know it, or enter your birth details, and this free finder names the rudraksha bead that astrologers pair with the planet ruling it. With birth details it gives up to three readings: your Moon sign, your birth nakshatra and, when the time is known, your rising sign. For each bead it also gives what the Shiva Purana says of it. A rudraksha is a devotional bead worn by choice; nothing here is a promise of any result.

How it works

Each sign and each nakshatra is ruled by a planet. The sign lords are the usual ones of our other tools, with Mars for Scorpio and Saturn for Aquarius, and the nakshatra lords are those of the Vimshottari scheme, as our nakshatra calculator gives them. The finder takes that planet and names the bead paired with it in the table of our rudraksha guide, the same table the remedies panel of our free kundali uses:

For example, Rohini is ruled by the Moon, so a Rohini birth star reads as the 2 mukhi bead, and Vrishabha (Taurus) is ruled by Venus, so a Vrishabha Moon reads as the 6 mukhi bead.

With birth details, the Moon sign, nakshatra and rising sign are worked out in your browser from the Moon’s sidereal position (Lahiri ayanamsa) at the moment of birth. Without a time the Moon is taken at midday, and the result says whether the Moon changed sign or nakshatra that day and so whether the bead could change with the time. The rising sign needs the time.

Reading the result

The headline is the bead for the first reading: the Moon sign when you give birth details, or the sign or nakshatra you chose. A table then gives each reading with its lord, its bead and the planet’s day. When the readings differ, as they often do, each is a separate traditional pairing; the astrologer who read your chart can say which to follow.

Under the table, each bead in your readings is given with what the Shiva Purana says of it, usually a deity (Vidyeshvara Samhita, chapter 25, with verse numbers as in J. L. Shastri’s English translation), and where the Devi Bhagavata (Book 11) differs. For example, the Purana names Kartikeya for the 6 mukhi bead and Janardana (Vishnu) for the 10 mukhi.

Where traditions differ

The Shiva Purana names a deity for nearly every bead, but it does not pair the beads with the nine planets. As our rudraksha guide explains, that pairing is a later convention of astrologers, and some sellers use a different one: one common variant gives the 7 mukhi bead to Venus. This site keeps to the one table above everywhere. For the Sun, the guide names the 1 mukhi or the 12 mukhi; the 1 mukhi bead is rare and much faked, which is one reason the 12 mukhi is often named instead. Some teachers also give a sign to Rahu or Ketu as a co-lord; this finder does not use that.

The free kundali names beads another way, only for planets that are debilitated, in an enemy’s sign or combust in your chart, so its list can differ from this one.

What it does not do

It does not judge whether a bead is genuine, and it does not tell you that you need one: no bead is ever needed. It does not read the strength of your planets; for that, see the Navagraha shanti planner or the Shadbala calculator. Our rudraksha guide has notes on how a bead is usually worn and on buying one. For health matters, please speak to a doctor.

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