Purva Bhadrapada, the burning leg of the cot
The earlier Bhadrapada. Aja Ekapada is the deity named, a one-footed fire. Austerity, a hard vow, a funeral fire's cousin.
The symbol that startles students is the front legs of a funeral cot. Aja Ekapada, a one-footed form of fire, is the deity in the table. The temper is heat turned inward: a vow, a fast that is actually kept, a renunciation that is specific rather than theatrical.
It is a strange star to pick for a wedding lunch. It is a less strange star for a solitary observance. If your family has a practice here, bring the practice. The app will not invent a paddhati to make the star friendlier than your elders consider it.
Birth under it carries the funeral image only if someone insists on narrating the symbol as a biography. Decline that narration. Keep the degree.