Nakshatra....The Gems of Sky

See how... Nakshatras make influence On you

Ashwini: Twins
Often has best friend that looks just (or is) like them
Ashwini Kumars -- healers -- road around in golden chariots and would rescue and heal the Gods and Goddesses through their herbal potions. They grew the healing herbs, horses heads, healing, alternative healing, gardening and agriculture.
(In 4th house, mother might like gardening). Ketu is ruler.

Bharani: Womb Yama: God of Death
Procreativity, creativity, slowly developing within -- mulling over -- (e.g. a thought) finally giving birth, gynecological issues, the womb itself, Yama - the restrainer -- brings up other issues: restraint, binder, judge and judging, going to jail, trouble with law, upholders of the law, feeling restrained or bound, death issues, e.g. working in hospice.
also the idea of Utopianism: a new ideal world, a brave new society.

Krittika: Razor edge Agni
cutting things, sharp things, technical minds, sharp minds with edges to them,
fiery, leadership oriented, Leo-like quality: those with bold, big plans, do tend to be prone to hot, passionate, seductive side, attracted to other people's wives.
(Agni has almost too many associations)

Rohini: The ox cart Brahma
Creativity, magnifies everything, gives rise to it. Improving. If you have money planets in Rohini it thrives, prospers, is blessed. Abundance. Favorite wife of the Moon. He fell in love with her because she excelled in all of music and the arts, especially dancing, and the sexual arts (skilled in the conjugal arts). They often love to dance. Other women are jealous of them (have a charge on them). They have a strong dose of feminine creative energy. To nip jealousy in bud, Rohini person should praise the other person, make them feel special, immediately. (Moon in Rohini in 11th, elder sister loves to dance.) Dramatic. The ox cart: pickup trucks and utility vehicles?

Mrigashirsha: Deer's head Soma: The Moon
Brahma was attracted to his daughter, she took form of deer to escape, Brahma took form of stag to pursue her, Shiva or Indra cut off head of Brahma to protect her, and his head became the constellation. Passion, unwise passions, constantly searching, preyer or prey, attracted to friend's wife, promiscuity, incest, suffering the consequences of unwise sexual attachments, sensitivity, good researchers, curious, good at finding things. (Afflicted Moon in Mrigashirsha in 9th, incest with father)
Soma also seduced the wives of sages. Divine nectar: alcohol and drugs???

Ardra: Teardrop Rudra
Emotional, tears, crying, tears as legitimate release, going through anguish, rain and storms, (he encounters storms when he travels, planet in 12th in Ardra), stormy weather as a metaphor, e.g. my Ardra in the 11th -- storms with friends. Lightning bolts.
with my Sun in Ardra, I work with those who emotionally suffer, because Sun is the career planet, lots of people with Sun in Ardra e.g. psychologists deal with people in anguish.

Punarvasu: Aditi: the Mother of all of the gods Quiver of Arrows
Arrow goes out from bow, mostly stays in quiver. Mostly liking to stay at home, and sometimes traveling. Or mostly staying at an even keel with activity, and then sometimes getting really dynamically involved with activity. In 2nd, generally saves, occasionally likes to spend. Storing up potential energy, with occasional expenditure. Aditi means primordial vastness. Unbounded consciousness (space) that had to exist first to be the mother of the rest of the Gods. Symbol of freedom, they want space. Learn to give each other space -- they need to stretch out and be who they are, and need to give that to others. Because the planet is Jupiter - links to knowledge, philosophical perspective. They're interested in philosophy, yoga, meditation.

Pushya: Brihaspati: mentor/teacher of the rest of the Gods
symbol: udder of the cow nourishment
Pushya is the most auspicious, wealthy constellation.
a good time to start things when Moon in Pushya (like Jupiter rising) ensures success (except you don't get married with Moon in Pushya) Wealth, prosperity, nurturing (like Rohini, Dhanishta, Chitra -- gemstones -- )
good at teaching, wisdom, philosophical, religious, devotion to the teacher, like Jupiter

Ashlesha: Nagas deified serpents Intertwining serpents symbol of healers
found prominently in charts of psychologists, astrologers. Snakes live beneath the ground, so it symbolizes the unconscious, dark side, you do see axe murderers here, like the sign Scorpio, mesmerism/hypnotic, sneaky not quite straightforward quality, manipulative, kundalini energy, foundational energy, poison.

Magha: Pitris The deified ancestors Throne Room
Connected to the past, revere the past and ancient traditions, they tend to like yoga, or traditional Chinese medicine, astrology. Protecting the tradition. Having a mentor, older wiser person that they highly respect (e.g. grandparent) if in the right houses in the chart. Searching out the family lineage. Ruler of 10th in Magha owned ice hockey rink (throne room, special room). They're environment is very important to them. Like to have an office, command center. Powerful one, mighty one, power-oriented, self-ruling, they don't like working for other people, like to do their own thing.
Note: all of the Ketu constellations (Ashwini, Magha, Mula) have links to the past and to healing. Mula: root, herbal healers. Magha: traditions of healing.


Purva Phalguni: Bed of marriage (conjugal bed) Bhagha
procreativity, sexuality, creative, (in Madonna, Hugh Hefner, Mick Jagger charts) cannot own their identity ???, great marriage constellation (when people go into period with Moon in Purva Phalguni become interested in relationships), Shiva started his wedding march in this constellation. People getting married. Bhagha means the inherited share. (If ruler of 8th or planet in 8th is in this constellation, person will definitely get an inheritance.) Communal wealth. In ancient times, a person's transition from childhood to adulthood was marked by their being given a part of the share of the communal wealth. Transition into adulthood, maturity. Maturation process (e.g. in the 10th, they may come into a sense of owning what they do, in their work.) Symbol of wealth, great Nakshatra for wealth.

Uttara Phalguni: Healing bed Aruman: god of chivalry
Healing energy, serving, helping, healing. Aruman is god of patronage (goes along with Mitra). Person will find a teacher, will help someone else, be a mentor, or patron. Meeting important people. (If afflicted, you could meet someone who was supposed to help you and it falls through or problems come up.)

Hasta: The hands Surya: the Sun
If a person shows musical abilities here, it's likely to be instrumental (hands). Crafts people and artists. Also indicators of routine work. Sense of humor, clever speech, sometimes they ridicule people, cleverness. Verbal abilities, quick wit.

Chitra: The beautiful one Viswakarma: the celestial architect and craftsman
He made the bows and weapons for the warriors in Mythology.
Creative, crafts, sculptor or craftsperson more likely than the fine arts because Chitra is likely to create something three dimensional. Design. Weapons making. Related to sexuality, passionate, charismatic. Pearl signifies beauty. Love of beauty. Feels beautiful or handsome, wants a beautiful mate.

Swati: Vayu Sprout swaying in the wind
New beginnings, tenuousness, not quite knowing if it's going to take off and fructify. Success after struggling and tenuous beginnings. A sprout becomes a powerful tree later on. Vayu god of wind: air, wind, (e.g. ruler of 12th in Swati, person might travel by air or to windy places), (as ruler of 1st may give Vata complaints, gas). Nothing can stand up to Vayu. Time is on the wind's side. When the wind goes, even the mountains will be worn down. Saraswati is alternative deity, god of arts, esp. Music. creative. The Vina stringed instrument. Saraswati has connotations of wisdom, knowledge.

Vishakha: Indra-Agni

Both Vishakha and Anuradha have same symbol: Triumphal Gateway covered with leaves. Enormous power, goes for success through power. E.g. client who was a race car driver with ruler of 10th in Vishakha, wanted bigger engines, pushing others out of the way. Really try to get ahead by their own power. Seek to have more power. Overpowering, excessive power is its downfall. (E.g. if the voice is here, the person will speak to you too loudly.) Issues with truth, (sagittarius-like), they want to speak the truth, can be blunt.

Anuradha: Mitra God of friendship.
Success through friendship. Mitra rules over all of the rules and regulations of human relationships. Commitments. People value friendships, when they get ahead, they get ahead by a win-win situation, not by overpowering somebody. Lots of therapists and family counselors have this constellation, want to empower their clients. Establishment of relationships is the key to their successes in life. They really have issues with commitment --> if you say you're going to do something, you better follow through with it. Wants self and others to follow thru. Committed to and really value friends. Found in some lawyers charts, the rules of human interaction, make sure people honor their commitments. People who benefit thru relationship. Anyone who deals with clients.

Jyeshtha: Indra King of the Gods Talisman is the symbol
Rulership, leadership, e.g. CEOs of companies, people who are good at being in charge. Indra once seduced the wife of a great sage who was away, when he came back, he cursed Indra to have 1000 vaginas all over his body, and was miserable for years and had to do many austerities, and finally the vaginas turned into 1000 eyes, and he's now called "the 1000 eyed one". Indra is known to burst into people's homes to get his Soma (that the person is keeping for him). Some of his clients have seduced the wives of others, or smoked opium. The seduction of the Soma is using drugs. Backlash from illicit affairs. If they get into sexual promiscuity (someone else's lovers) they get ill will directed towards them (or cursed). Arrogance. Talisman is the symbol of occult means, the ability to protect, indication of being protected. Possibly a secret interest or activity in the occult, e.g. chanting and meditating, seeking astrologers.

Mula: Nirriti: The Goddess of calamity (like Kali)
A traditional view is that it's bad to be a woman who's born with her Moon in Mula. Different padas tell which relative is going to die because someone married a woman with Moon in Mula. (He hasn't seen this to be true.) Many kinds of propititiations for a woman with this lunar Nakshatra. Makes a woman a Kali type, someone who is in touch with her "inner bitch". Psychologically, it allows a person to integrate both dark and light parts of themselves, without pushing out the dark and only going for sweetness and light. Associated with calamities, sudden challenging difficult experiences. He's heard it said that this is bad for finances, e.g. financial losses. Person will have issues with being paid what they're worth. Earning enough money. Person goes deeply into things, (the root), so whenever they do things, they do them with a tremendous amount of depth and get to the root of everything, a profound job, researchers, plumb to the depth of ideas. He noticed this constellation in the charts of very wealthy people, so it doesn't prohibit a person from wealth. Root is a symbol of going to the center of things. Mars/Ketu combination does energy healing, when he saw it in Mula, he said "You do Chi Gung" and was right, because Chi Gung is about rooting. Associated with the root chakra and Kundalini energy. Healing and ancient traditions (Ketu) because of the root concept.

Purva Ashada: Winnowing Basket Apah
Separating the wheat from the chaff. Judgement, judgementalness, discernment, discrimination. Fighting quality. Apah, water, client who's 10th house ruler is here installs sprinkler systems. Ascendant or Moon, gravitate towards water. Good position for accomplishing things, starting projects, successes. Sexual, romantic, emotional, sensual energy (Venus constellation), they love music. Higher octave of spiritual energy (due to Sagittarius)


Uttara Ashada : Vishuadevas Many virtues. Tusk
Multi-virtuousness, allows successes, connection to Ganesh, particularly good for starting new things (if someone's bhukti planet is in this constellation, they'll start something new -- sort of like Aries). If the planet in this constellation falls in the Dasamsha chart in the first house or Aries, they'll start something in their career. New beginning.

Shravana: Ear and three offset footprints Vishnu (and Saraswati)
Listening, oral traditions, therapists, musicians, good at convincing other people, teachers. Love to use their feet, they walk, hike, bike, run. One his clients is a teacher who has strong verbal abilities, is mesmerizing and convincing, extremely good listener, and also has biked all over the U.S., hiked up and down the Cascade range, etc. If you were in a period where the ruler of the 9th in the 12th, or the ruler of the 9th in the 3rd, was placed here, they'll travel and do a bit of walking. Ruler of 6th in Shravana if afflicted or with malefics (esp. if in the 8th house), possible problems with the ears or the feet. (Vishnu) Well read, into philosophy and spirituality, knowledgeable, virtuous, auspicious constellation for good character.

Dhanishtha: Drum: musical drum.
People who have this enjoy rhythmic music. The wealthy. Can have misogyny (hate women). Musicians. Precious things, money, gems, beautiful objects.

Shatabhisha: Varuna: God of water Circle is the symbol
Veiling star, circle contains or holds within, can conceal things, symbol of infinity, 100 physicians: healing, difficult health problems, interest in alternative medicine, may take a brainstorming approach to solving problems, looking at many possible solutions before they actually get to the right one. Rahu in 12th client in Rahu period had a circle of protection around him (he had been threatened, and had an armored car and guards). Psychologists that use group circles, healing circles. Associated in general with alternative. Connection with outer space, space program, other aspects of technology. Love of astrology and metaphysics.

Purva Bhadrapada: Aja ekaba (relatively unknown deity) form of Agni
You see this in many spiritually-oriented people's charts (even though the constellation has a bad reputation), but also in many axe murders this came up (as did Ashlesha). Passions run amok. People who had run off with a lover, crimes of passion.
Aja: The unmanifest, the unborn one, one awareness, (one footed goat), one being.
Agni: Symbol of deified fire. Passion can be directed to spiritual growth, meditation.
Funeral cot: symbol of transcendent of materialism. A deeply spiritual symbol. Yogis favor meditating in graveyards, because it reminds him of the transience of life, bring his mind to the spiritual level, and to forget the world. (It's considered a good omen to see a dead body.) Connection with death in this and the next two nakshatras. Emergency rooms, sitting with dying parent.

Uttara Bhadrapada: Funeral cot Ahirbudhnya a Sea serpent
Enjoy being around water, kundalini symbol, all of the associations with serpents.
Both Bhadrapada constellations together are called the scorching pair because they're both associated with combustion or heat, and therefore passion and desire. But Uttara Bhadrapada has the capacity for channeling this desire in a constructive direction. More inclined to have a passion for life, or for their work, than to seduce their best friend's mate.

Revati: ruled by Pushan who ushered souls into the realm of Yama (death)
often find hospice workers. Pushan is the ruler of the road, so people love to travel with this Nakshatra. He's also the ruler of animals, he was the animal keeper of the gods, so people who love animals. Pushan is Caretaker of animals. He found lost animals. Herdsman of the Gods. Healers of animals.
Drum symbol: increments in time. Project that's started in this period progresses sequentially.

The world Vedic Astrology

JYOTISHA

Indian astrology is popularly referred to as Vedic astrology. This is not because it is there in the Vedas. There is no mention of astrology in the Vedas. However, it is one of the Vedangas, i.e., limb or branch of Vedas, and dates back to the Vedic period. Several of the Poojas and remedial measures prescribed in the Indian astrology are as per the Vedic system. Hence, it is called Vedic astrology.

The Vedangas are six in number. They are: Siksha or phonetics, Kalpa or ritual, Vyakarana or grammar, Nirukta or etymology, Chhandas or metrics and Jyotishya or astronomy and astrology. These are mentioned in the Upanishads.

It is impossible ascertain the exact time of origin of our astrology. Even the most famous historians differ wildly, from 1200 BC to 2500 BC while trying to fix our Vedic period. A lot of them, especially the westerners, still study India based on the Mahenjadaro and Harappan discoveries, which were discovered in the 1920’s!! Several archeological discoveries of recent times date our culture to 7500 BC, making it the ancient most civilization in the world. Our astrology has details of the horoscopes of Lord Krishna, Lord Rama and many other ancient Indian kings and queens, recorded thousands of years ago. The Bhishma Parva and Udyoga Parva chapters of Mahabharata mention many astrological descriptions and omens just before the Mahabharata war. It also describes a period of draught with several planetary combinations. There is also a very clear reference about two eclipses, a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse occurring, creating a rare 13 day lunar fortnight. Available scientific research data shows that the Mahabharata war must have occurred either in 3129 BC or 2559 BC. According to the Hindu Panchangas, maintained from ages, Kaliyuga era is counted from February 17/18 midnight 3102 BC. Hindu epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana have been written off as myths by the western historians. However the recent discovery of the submerged ancient city Dwaraka, (the site of the legendary city of Lord Krishna, which got submerged in the sea after the death of Lord Krishna), led by Dr. S.R. Rao of the Marine Archaeology Unit of the National Institute of Oceanography of India lends a lot of credence to our mythology. Various texts attribute the origin of Indian astrology to various gods and Rishis. It is futile to ascertain who was the originator. The most popularly followed astrological classics today are the ones written by Rishis like Parashara, Varahamihira, Garga, Jaimini and their followers. People in those days had no satellites or telescopes and yet the planetary positions and their motions recorded by them are as accurate as the planetary positions and degrees recorded today using the space satellites. Our ancient astrologers used their divine intuition to record these planetary movements and their effects on us.

Astrology has a twofold purpose. On one hand it is used as a tool to select the right month the right date and the right time to start various auspicious rites and rituals so that the results are better. On the other hand it is used as a guide to study the destiny of an individual.
Indian astrology is based on the theory of fate. The good and the bad actions of the past life determine your fate or Karma of your present life, and the actions of your present life determine your future Karma. According to Indian astrology a person is born at that place, on that day and on that moment when his individual fate is in perfect mathematical harmony with the progress of the stars in heaven. However it does not preach total dependence on fate. Astrology lets you know what you were born with, what your possibilities are, the limitations, your strong points and your drawbacks. What type of life partners and professions suit you and to expect is also indicated. It also prescribes various remedial measures to ward off the bad effects and to enhance the good results. Astrology is your roadmap of destiny. However your fate is in your hands. The scriptures guide us by telling us what is good and what is bad; what to do and what not to do; how to do and how not to do. You are given a piece of land and the seeds to sow. How much effort to put in to it, what amount of manure and water to add and when how to reap the produce is your job. After that it is you who have to act using your knowledge intelligence, discrimination and experience. Fate is like a game of cards where you cannot help the cards that have been dealt to you but how to play them is in your hands. You may get good cards but if you play badly you will lose and you may get bad cards and still may win if you play carefully. Don’t blame the roadmap if you get drunk, drive badly and have an accident! In the Mahabharata Lord Krishna gave advise to Arjuna and also to Duryodhana. One listened and the other did not!
In the Egyptian, Greek, western and Chinese systems of astrology only the birth chart is cast to give predictions. This is hopelessly inaccurate and insufficient. For example, moon, the fastest moving of the nine planets, remains in one sign fro two and half days. The ascendant, or Lagna, extends for a period of two hours. In these two hours, according to the present birth rate, several thousand people are born in the world with the same birth chart! All of them cannot have the same destiny. Hence their predictions based on this and the monthly transits tends to be inaccurate. They are somewhat accurate about the nature of signs etc., but when it comes to predicting the events in ones life and their timing they are nowhere. You don’t really need an astrologer to tell you that, for example if you are Scorpio sign, you tend to be jealous and possessive! Vedic astrology has a four dimensional approach.

Firstly, we have the divisional chart system, called the Varga system. Based on the planetary degrees at the time of birth, sixteen divisional charts are prepared, by dividing the degrees of the planets. These divisional charts are studied to ascertain the strength and weakness of planets and houses and also to study various aspects of ones life. For example, one-ninth division called Navamsa to study spouse and married life, one-tenth division to study profession, one-seventh for children and so on. The last Varga, called Shodashamsa, is prepared by dividing the planet’s degrees in to one-sixtieth part! Second is the dasa system. Based on ones moons degrees at birth, we calculate the Dasas, or the ruling periods of various planets, which keeps changing during ones life. It is not just one planets dasa but Maha dasa, or main dasa, of a planet, Antardasa, or sub period, of another planet and so on till we arrive at a fifth level dasa to study each day.

Third is the Gochara, or transit of planets. Planets transiting various houses produce various results. But a planet transits a sign for quite some time. For example Saturn transits a sign for two and half years. During this entire period its results cannot be totally good or bad. Vedic astrology further pinpoints its good and bad periods even during its transit in one sign. We have the Asthakavarga and Prastharasthakavarga system, which divides a planets transit in a sign into eight parts and shows which part is good and which part is bad.

Lastly, there is the Prasna Kundali system, or chart cast based on the time of the query. This is studied as an add-on chart to give predictions. The modern scientists do not accept astrology. But it is a known fact that planets do have their effects on us. The doctors of almost all mental asylums accept the fact that during the full moon and the new Moon periods the mental patients behave erratically. The police record the same effects on many criminals. The modern scientists know some of the effects of the ultraviolet rays, gamma rays and beta rays of the planets. But unfortunately they don’t have the divine wisdom of our ancient is to know all the effects fully.