Mula in Ashtakoota: Adi Nadi, Rakshasa Gana, Dog Yoni

Adi nadi is the Vata group in the matching tradition. The other Adi nakshatras are Ashwini, Ardra, Punarvasu, Uttara Phalguni, Hasta, Jyeshtha, Shatabhisha, and Purva Bhadrapada. Two Moons inside that list, including two Mula Moons, are same-nadi and take 0 of the 8 Nadi points. Rakshasa gana also includes Krittika, Ashlesha, Magha, Chitra, Vishakha, Jyeshtha, Dhanishta, and Shatabhisha. Gana koota is uncomfortable, in the usual tables, when a Rakshasa Moon is paired with a Deva Moon. Dog yoni is Mula's animal for the 4 yoni points. Enemy and friend yonis are a table of their own. The rest of Ashtakoota, varna, vashya, tara, graha maitri, and bhakoot, still has to be counted. Mula does not skip them.

A low Nadi score is the heaviest single deduction in the 36 points. The matching tradition associates it with constitution and with children. That association is a guna rule. It is not a medical finding and not a prediction of a particular illness or of childlessness. Classical exceptions exist: the same Moon sign with different nakshatras, or the same nakshatra falling in two signs because the nakshatra crosses a sign boundary. Mula itself sits inside Dhanu and does not cross into another sign, so the second exception does not arise for two Mula Moons. Jupiter, dispositor of both, can still be strong in each natal chart. The 7th houses can still agree.

Compatibility points do not replace either person's 7th lord, Venus, and D9. A Mula Moon describes a mind under Ketu's nakshatra lord, root-deep and hard to distract, disposited by Jupiter. The marriage is the 7th from the lagna, which may not be Dhanu. Timing remains the dasha of the 7th lord and of Venus, whose mahadasha is twenty years. Jyothish SI can compute both Moon nakshatras with Lahiri ayanamsa when both birth times are known. A guna total without those times fails if either Moon is near a nakshatra edge. Mula's edge with Jyeshtha is exactly that kind of edge.