Marriage Muhurta Uses Nakshatra, Tithi, and the Wedding Lagna Together

A marriage muhurta uses the day's nakshatra together with the tithi and the wedding lagna. The nakshatras muhurta texts favor most often include Rohini, Hasta, Swati, Anuradha, and the three Uttaras: Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha, and Uttara Bhadrapada. Revati and Magha are accepted by some texts and avoided by others, so there is no single closed list. Moola is Ketu's nakshatra on the gandanta and is a poor default. The Moon's nakshatra on the wedding day is not the couple's birth nakshatras. You still need those for Ashtakoota and for each Vimshottari. A pretty election star does not repair a 7th lord in the 8th.

No solar month is lucky for every couple. Many North Indian customs avoid weddings in Chaturmas, the four lunar months from Ashadha Shukla Ekadashi to Kartika Shukla Ekadashi. That is a custom of pause, not a curse on people born in those months. Other regions observe different pauses. A muhurta inside an allowed month can still fail if the tithi is one the family avoids, or if the lagna of the hour is the 8th from the birth lagna. Rahu kalam is skipped by computing it from that city's sunrise, not from a forwarded table. The vara from sunrise matters. A Friday, Venus's day, is a natural candidate and still loses to a broken tithi.

Choose the season when the 7th lord or Venus is running, then choose the nakshatra inside that season. Doing the reverse, hunting a famous nakshatra during Ketu's 7 years with Ketu in the 7th, decorates a separative chapter. Both birth cities and both zone offsets have to be right before you know those lords. In a place with daylight saving, an hour of clock error moves the birth lagna and then moves which election lagna is the 8th from it. The auspicious star is a filter. The dasha is the gate. If the gate is shut, the filter is a party. If the gate is open, Rohini or an Uttara is a reasonable place to start, and the local panchang has the last word on the hour.