Mrigashira's gun milan combines a deva gana, a serpent yoni and the Madhya nadi with a Moon sign that depends on the pada: Taurus for the first two, Gemini for the last two. It is one of the most accommodating nakshatras in the chart, scoring 10.5 to 36 as the groom and 11 to 35 as the bride, with only a handful of pairings in the low band.
The table above holds every total, computed by the engine behind our kundli matching. This page is about why the pattern looks the way it does.
What Mrigashira fixes
Mrigashira, the deer's head, is ruled by Mars and presided over by Soma. It is split evenly between Taurus and Gemini. Its matching profile:
- Gana: deva. It never scores 0 on gana; the worst it gets is 1, against rakshasa partners.
- Yoni: serpent (female). Mongoose is its enemy (Uttara Ashadha); Rohini shares the serpent.
- Nadi: Madhya.
- Moon sign: Taurus (padas 1–2) or Gemini (padas 3–4).
With half the nakshatra in each sign, the pada really does change the result. Taurus is ruled by Venus and Gemini by Mercury, and the bhakoot relation to a partner's sign shifts by one place between them. Many cells in the Mrigashira row are therefore ranges. A kundli tells you your pada.
The shape of the Mrigashira row
As the groom, Mrigashira has only 3 low pairings, 11 average, 11 good and 2 above 32. As the bride it has 2 low, 12 average, 10 good and 3 excellent. That thin bottom end is its distinguishing feature. It comes largely from the deva gana (never 0) and from a yoni that has only one enemy nakshatra.
Rohini leads: 36 with Mrigashira as the groom and 35 as the bride, with a range down to 27. The full score needs both Moons in Taurus; a Gemini Mrigashira sits second from Rohini's Taurus, and that 2/12 bhakoot relation costs the top. Ardra is next (34 as groom, 33 as bride), then Hasta (32 and 33). Punarvasu reaches 31.5 either way even though it falls on a vipat tara counted from Mrigashira, but its range is wide, down to 18 with a Mrigashira groom, since both nakshatras cross sign boundaries.
The lowest usual totals with a Mrigashira groom are Chitra and Dhanishta at 13, then Uttara Bhadrapada at 17. All three share the Madhya nadi, and Chitra and Dhanishta are rakshasa, so gana gives only 1.
Yoni, gana and tara
On yoni, Uttara Ashadha is the single sworn enemy, scoring 0 of 4. Rohini, the male serpent, gives the full 4.
On gana, deva with deva or manushya scores 6 for a deva groom; a manushya groom with a deva bride scores 5. Against the rakshasa nakshatras Mrigashira always takes 1 rather than 0.
Counting tara from Mrigashira, the unfavourable ones are Punarvasu, Vishakha and Purva Bhadrapada (vipat), Ashlesha, Jyeshtha and Revati (pratyari), and Bharani, Purva Phalguni and Purva Ashadha (vadha). Tara is the lightest of the nakshatra kootas, and some schools count it only from the bride.
Madhya nadi partners
Mrigashira shares the Madhya nadi with Bharani, Pushya, Purva Phalguni, Chitra, Anuradha, Purva Ashadha, Dhanishta and Uttara Bhadrapada. With all of these, nadi reads 0 of 8 and no standard exception can apply. Only Mrigashira with Mrigashira has exceptions available, and it has two: different Moon signs (Taurus and Gemini), or different padas.
Tradition sees a shared nadi as one reason for a closer look, not as a closed door. Our tool lists the exception but leaves the nadi score at 0, because astrologers disagree on how much it offsets. The nadi dosha guide explains the rule plainly.
Reading past the score
Mrigashira's many good cells are reassuring, but they are one layer. A full matching adds manglik status, the seventh house, the navamsa and the timing of dashas, and South Indian porutham systems may rank the same partners differently. The couple's own understanding matters most. Compare with Rohini or Ardra, or open the nakshatra compatibility chart.