Why Marriage Muhurta Avoids Some Stars

Marriage muhurta avoids the tikshna nakshatras, Ardra, Ashlesha, Jyeshtha, and Mula, because those stars are classed as sharp. The avoidance created the reputation that they are the worst birth stars. A muhurta is a chosen hour for a rite. A birth nakshatra is the Moon's position you did not choose. Using the rite's blacklist as a personality rank confuses the two documents.

The stars favored for many rites, Rohini and the fixed Uttaras among them, are favored because the hour should be steady. A person born in Rohini is not thereby the best spouse, and a person born in Jyeshtha is not thereby the worst.

A Moon in Mula can belong to a chart with Venus exalted and the 7th lord in a kendra. A Moon in Rohini can belong to a chart with Ketu in the 7th and a fallen Venus. The wedding you are allowed to schedule under Rohini does not repair the second chart, and the wedding you hesitate to schedule under Mula does not condemn the first. Gun milan scores the two nakshatras against each other. It does not award a penalty for being born in the sharp class beyond what nadi and the other kootas already count.

If two sharp Moons share a nadi, they lose nadi points like any shared nadi. That is the koota, not the tikshna label.

What a sharp birth star does guarantee is an opening mahadasha: Rahu for Ardra, Mercury for Ashlesha and Jyeshtha, Ketu for Mula. Judge that lord's house. An early Ketu balance with Ketu in the 11th is a different childhood from Ketu in the 8th. The star's reputation does not see the house.

For a wedding day, keep the sharp stars out of the muhurta if you follow that custom. For a person, open the lagna. The worst thing in a marriage reading is still a broken 7th lord, wherever the Moon sits.