5 April 2025
Kept on the day its tithi runs at midday (madhyahna).
- Tithi
- Shukla Ashtami · until 06:56then Shukla Navami from 06:56, the tithi this festival keeps
- Nakshatra
- Punarvasu
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 06:48 – 19:36
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 12:46 – 13:38
Festival · 2025
Rama Navami 2025
Falls on 5 April 2025 in San Francisco, as computed from the real sky for that city.
The portal of Festivals
Today's three riddles
Turn a card. Answer all three rightly and this portal is sealed in your sky. New riddles every morning.
The day, for San Francisco
The day is chosen by the moment the tradition reads its tithi at, and the times are that day's own, computed for this city. A festival-specific puja window is not printed: those rules differ by tradition and await a scholar's review.
What the day is
The birth of Rama — the tradition's model not of power but of conduct under impossible constraint. The point of Rama is never what he could do; it is what he would not do.
One act for the day
Keep a promise today that is costing you something. That is the entire teaching.