Seeing this from another perspective, the while seen among the three groups of 4 signs (starting from Aries, leo and Sagittarius), the 1st sign starts from 1st pada of a nakshatra and ends with the 1st pada of a nakshatra (for example, Aries starts with 1st pada of Aswini and ends with the 1st pada of Krittika). So the first and last pada of Aries would be Fiery, the first and last pada of Taurus would be Earthy and so on. The beauty of the mapping of the Nakshatra with the rasi is that, among the 9 nakshatra padas which fall in a rasi, the tattva of the first and the last pada belongs to the tattva of the sign. The Nakshatras are reckoned from beginning with Aries which coincides with the beginning of Aswini. While 27 nakshatra scheme is used for all day to analysis, such as analysis of birth chart, analysis of dasas, using navatara chakra etc the 28 nakshatra scheme is used for analysis of few chakras such as sarvatobhadra chakra, the sannadi chakra etc. Both the schemes are useful in their own right. There are two nakshatra schemes, one of which uses 27 Nakshatras and the other uses 28 nakshatras, which include the Abhijit Nakshatra, an intercalary nakshatra. Hence the study of the nakshatras are well warranted.

Even the actual events are important in our l ife, taking a person-centric view point, our reactions to them also matter equally. This implies that the Rasi shows the environment we would be placed with at different times in our life and what we get out of it, on the other hand, the nakshatras govern the different state of mind we shall be having at various times. Among the Rasi (zodiac signs) and the nakshatras (asterisms), the former is overlorded by the Sun, whereas the latter is overlorded by Moon. The nakshatras or asterisms are apparently the fixed bodies in the Zodiac, where the planetary system moves with them placed in the background.

Sarvatobhadra chakra by sanjay rath