Panchang for Tuesday, 8 June 2027
| Tithi | Chaturthi |
|---|---|
| Paksha | Shukla |
| Nakshatra | Pushya, pada 2 |
| Yoga | Dhruva |
| Karana | Vishti |
| Vara | Mangalavara |
| Sunrise (Ujjain, IST) | 05:40 |
| Sunset (Ujjain, IST) | 19:11 |
Today's tithi is Chaturthi, in the Shukla paksha, the waxing half of the lunar month. The Moon moves through Pushya nakshatra, pada 2. The vara is Mangalavara, and the panchang's remaining limbs are Dhruva yoga and Vishti karana.
What is Dhruva yoga?
Dhruva is the twelfth of the 27 nithya yogas, and its name means fixed or immovable, the same word used for the pole star.
The pole star is the one point in the northern sky that does not move while everything else turns around it, and that is the whole of the image. The classical associations are with permanence: foundations, installations, agreements meant to be final, and anything you would rather not have to do twice.
The same word names one of the four classical activity groups of the nakshatras, the fixed group containing Rohini and the three Uttara nakshatras. When a Dhruva yoga coincides with one of those nakshatras, traditional practice takes particular notice, and that is a good example of the five limbs being read together rather than separately.
Its plain use is the decision you want to stop revisiting. Fixing something has an obvious cost, which is that it becomes expensive to change later, and the tradition is describing that cost rather than hiding it.