Nakshatra #3 of 27
Krittika
"The cutters"
Krittika is one of the sharpest nakshatras — ambitious, exacting, and unwilling to let sloppiness slide. It corresponds to the Pleiades star cluster and carries a burning, purifying intensity wherever it lands in a chart.
Ruling Planet
Sun
Deity
Agni
Gana
Rakshasa
Nadi
Antya
Yoni (animal)
Goat (female)
Zodiac Span
Mesha (Aries) / Vrishabha (Taurus)
Classical Symbol
A razor or flame
Sharp enough to cut away what doesn't serve the truth — Krittika purifies by force, not persuasion.
Why is it called Krittika?
Named after the Krittikas — six (sometimes counted as seven) star-goddesses in Hindu myth who nursed and raised the war-god Kartikeya (Skanda) after his birth. Its rulership by Agni, god of fire, reinforces the "cutting/burning away impurity" theme its name suggests.
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