Kshema Tara — the 4th, 13th & 22nd Stars From Your Moon

Kshema is the fourth tara, and the tradition counts it among the favourable ones. Its name means well-being, safety or security, and a transit through your Kshema stars is read as a steady, supportive window — good for consolidating, protecting what you have built, and matters that benefit from a settled footing. It is encouraging weather rather than a dramatic high.

How Kshema tara is counted

Counting from your janma nakshatra (your natal Moon's star) as 1, the 4th, 13th and 22nd nakshatras are all Kshema tara. When a transiting body enters one of those three stars, it is moving through your Kshema tara. The nine taras cycle three times across the 27 nakshatras, so each has three stars.

What the classics say

Transits are read from the Moon in the gochara method of Phaladeepika (Ch. 26) and the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra. The nine-tara overlay is the muhurta tradition's tarabalam check used in electional astrology. Kshema sits with the strong taras — Sampat, Sadhaka, Mitra and Ati-Mitra — that the tradition prefers the Moon to occupy when fixing an auspicious beginning.

How Transit Weather reads it

Mitram's Transit Weather tool surfaces a Kshema-tara stretch as a supportive theme and a favourable window — the kind of period the tradition associates with security and steady progress.

A favourable tara tilts the odds the classics describe; it is one factor in the whole chart, and these are tendencies, not promises.

FAQ

Is Kshema tara good for new beginnings?

The tradition reads it as supportive — particularly for consolidating and protecting, and generally favourable for starts, though Sampat is considered the strongest "go" window.

Which nakshatras are my Kshema tara?

The 4th, 13th and 22nd nakshatras counted forward from your natal Moon's star. You need your janma nakshatra to find them.