Saturday, July 5, 2014

Vishaka Nakshatra in Astrology


Vishaka Nakshatra:
Range 20°00’ Libra - 03°20’ Scorpio.

Ruling Planet: Jupiter.
Deity: God of fire.
Symbol: Archway, potter’s wheel.
Gana (Nature): Rakshasa (demon).
Animal Symbol: Male tiger.
Sounds: Thee, Thoo, They, Tho.
Primary motivation: Dharma, Right activity.

Vishaka Nakshatra comes under in the domain of planet venus ( libra ) and mars ( scorpio) ruled by planet jupiter. Vishaka is the sixteenth Nakshatra called ‘’The Star of Purpose’’. It resides in the constellation of Libra and consists of four star forming the scales while extending towards the sign of the scorpion. This nakshatra called ‘’the forked’’ or two branched’’. The symbol ‘’two branch’’ means that, native often offered two different path in life, and they have to make a conscious choice to stay on the right one. The other symbols associated with Vishakha are an archway or triumphal gateway decorated leaves a potter’s wheel. The potter's wheel as a symbol of the nakshatra represents the great turmoil and whirlwind produced by this influence. The symbolism points to transformation in life, and moving towards spiritual path. The primary motivation of Vishakha nakshatra is trying to achieve higher goals of life, and purification of the soul through hard work (tapas). These natives are good planners, they do not act impulsively. The inherent nature of cultivation and then reaping the harvest takes time, means these natives are very patient and persistent.

The Deities of Vishakha are Indra and Agni
. Indra is the Sanskrit word “indriyas”, or senses. so there is the ability to master control over one’s senses. Controlling one’s senses is essential to achieve higher states of spiritual evolution. Indra achieved his power through self-sacrifice and deep meditation. Agni is the God of the fire, and burning desire is the theme of transformation. The three quarters of Vishakha within Libra provide affluence, comfort, and the pleasant experiences of life, which all come under the domain of Indra, the king of the gods and ruler of heaven. The last quarter of the asterism, falling in Scorpio, is full of the trials and tribulations which are essential for every kind of transformation. Jupiter is the ruling planet which gives enthusiasm, faith, optimism and hope for the future and reflecting the deep connection with one’s soul purpose. It gives the power to achieve many and various fruits in life. Vishaka is reflected through plowing or cultivation and finally obtaining the fruits of harvest. They often will make good farmers and gardeners. Vishakha natives will cultivate their ideas and creations until they have reached perfection. The deities are ones of lightning and fire, so therefore are extremely intense and often will disregard others in their pursuit of their desire. The power of Vishaka to give patience and determination to accomplish work is very strong for creating the foundation of success.


The Shadow side can be an aggressive, dictatorial nature. A quarrelsome personality may be present here. There can be issues with suppressed anger and frustration. These people have kind of bitterness and resentment which may result in dissatisfaction with the existing conditions of life, restlessness, and a great psychological turmoil raging within. They have strong sexual appetite, which often leads to infidelity in married life, non-fulfillment of promises in personal relationships. They have a envy and jealous attitude and It is very difficult for them to hide these feelings and due to these feelings they are not able to contribute to help others. They get success in relationship later in life. They are extremely competitive, with their harsh opinions they may force their will and ideas on others. They  using others to get what they want. They need to be careful not to win the every battle.

Vishaka Nakshatra Pada 1: Falls in Navamsa falls in Aries and is ruled by Mars. This pada is all about energy, impulse, and social ambition. Here focus on relationship but likely to dominate with passion and no commitment.

Vishaka Nakshatra Pada 2: Falls in Navamsa falls in Taurus ruled by Venus.This pada gives strong the material ambition and gives success in venusian stuff. Endurance and durability are the hallmark of this pada.

Vishaka Nakshatra Pada 3:
Falls in Navamsa falls in Gemini ruled by Mercury. This pada is more thoughtful, communicative, philosophical and have religious attitude. The native is jovial and little bit open minded.


Vishaka Nakshatra Pada 4: Falls in Navamsa falls in Cancer ruled by Moon. This pada is most pointed one and transformative through emotional turmoil and making highly volatile and dangerous pada.

Ascendant in Vishaka Nakshatra: Can be wise, devoted to forms of worship, politically inclined, aggressive, impatient, and easily angered.

Sun in Vishaka Nakshatra: Relationship oriented, believing enjoying life, or self-centered, ambitious, introverted, secretive nature, and research oriented.

Moon in Vishaka Nakshatra:
Bright appearance, attractive, attracts a crowd, and humanitarian and intense in feelings. Debilitated in last pada where shadow side of this nakshatra can be found.


Mars in Vishaka Nakshatra: Interested in the material pleasures, have strong sexual appitite, sexual relationship oriented, aggressive, secretive and harsh in actions if in last pada.

Mercury in Vishaka Nakshatra: Good writer, pleasing communication, artistic, if in last pada then too much thinking and confusion in thought process.

Jupiter in Vishaka Nakshatra: Jupiter here brings the fire of God and his word for humankind. natural love for following scriptures and ritual can make them advocate of lawful marriages and business deal. Can be an great priest who performs wedding.

Venus in Vishaka Nakshatra:
Can be Judge, deal maker, harmonious, peace loving, balanced in nature. if in last pada then have interest in secret and in occult knowledge.


Saturn in Vishaka Nakshatra: Saturn in Vishakha nakshatra brings more decisive power. Determination and focus are key terms associated with Vishakha. There is a consistent drive for to achieve one’s goals.

Rahu in Vishaka Nakshatra: Rahu in vishaka creates a sense of dissatisfaction with both the material and the spiritual sides of life. Rahu first experience sensuality to the extreme with romance and sexual adventures, and later moves into the spiritual aspect.

Ketu in Vishaka Nakshatra: Jupiter is the planetary ruler it gives wisdom to Ketu move towards a spiritual life. Ketu in Vishakha suggests that in a past life the soul understood the knowledge of moksha, but the life was essentially human and full of material and sexual issues.

People with strong natal placements in Vishakha (Moon, Ascendant, or Venus) are often devotees of Krishna.

Nakshatra
Uttra Ashadha Nakshatra in Astrology

Monday, June 30, 2014

Saturn in The Seventh House and Past Life Karma

Saturn is a taskmaster and considered as a “malefic” planet. Saturn always bringing difficulties and learning of in life to whatever house it is placed. The seventh house is the house of Marriage and general partnership. Thus having Saturn in 7th house would be viewed as a bad for Marriages. Saturn is the feeling of Separateness, in 7th house it give a Separative feeling deep within which makes it difficult for this person to relate to others. There can be many reasons for this, possibility of “unfortunate Marriage”, a cold and over-ambitious partner.

The basic interpretation of Saturn in the seventh house is difficulty with partner, distance sorrow, pain or constriction in Marriage or other close relationships in general. Generally these difficulties in the hand of destiny and not connected with the fault of individual himself.

Thus, Padmasambhava, the great saint of Tibetan Buddhism, says, “If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition.” The challenges of life in the present, in other words, are rooted in the past.

Saturn in the seventh house can give many possibilities. People like who are lonely or like to live alone, have unsatisfying relationships, people who are accepting of solitude and celibacy, and they used of it and they do not seem to suffer from it, and some have long, stable, and exemplary relationships. When Saturn is in seventh house the person is born with a blockage or hindrance. They need to learn fact of the life, and to work on it with the realism, discipline, and honesty. If Saturn is in good dignity then these people move on and make progress in relationship. But if Saturn in bad dignity then they feel blockage in relationship.

What can be cause of Saturn in the seventh or what is evolutionary lesson to the person.
Psychology the seventh house is about trust. Thus with Saturn in the seventh house, there is an inborn blockage to the trust-function. Those who have Saturn in 7th house cannot learn very much about trust all by themselves. For them trust is an interactive phenomenon. If you are born with issues around trust, you simply cannot resolve them without the help of people who are worthy of your trust.

Saturn in the Seventh and The Karma of Past life.

Why some people born with Saturn in the seventh? What happened before this lifetime that leads a person to take birth with this alignment? There are a many of possibilities. All have the common thing which can be someone in a prior life and of that wound having not been resolved prior to that death. Most of the possibilities fall into two main categories: abandonment and bereavement.

Imagine that in a prior lifetime you were abandoned by your loved ones or you never heard from again from your partner, or she or he went on to live a happy life with someone else, how long does it take to get over something like that? Or imagine that in a prior lifetime you were happily married to your true love. You were young and you had started your life with your partner. And your partner was hit by some car accident, and dead and gone.

Again, how long does it take to get over something like that? The question of “how long it takes to get over” such a grief in life which is unanswerable. Grief takes its own time to heal and everyone’s experience of it is different. One can repress grief for a while, but it does not go away. And one can cling to grief and become identified with it, to the point that mourning is unnaturally extended. We often observe people going to their graves with unresolved or unowned grief. Their grief May still be fresh and in their new birth chart we might see Saturn in the seventh house.

Saturn is fear, it give fear in Marriage when it placed in 7th house. We can imagine other past-life possibilities for this placement. Maybe in a prior lifetime, you took a premature vow of celibacy in some religious order and your natural urge to bond sexually became a danger and a threat to you, so you had to repress it, make it an enemy. You developed a fearful reaction toward anyone whom you found attractive. Or you May be abused sexually in your past lives and you don’t like to be with someone privately.

Trust betrayed you in a prior life. You died with that issue unresolved. You have now been reborn with that wound unhealed and with the power to heal it.

Many possible stories abandonment and bereavement are very different phenomena, but all this stories give emotional impact. If we trust someone and our trust fails, or others trust fails, in either case we internalize and trusting someone is not easy job. Whatever the case the person is born with a blockage to the trust-function and an evolutionary intention of healing it. There are a lot of sad stories out there. One out of every twelve people has Saturn in the seventh house, so it must represent a very large number of those possibilities.

Saturn in the seventh house teaches us quite a lot. Saturn teaches us to accept the truth of life. Let’s say if you lose someone dear one or someone has died and we think it is bad. Of course it’s hard to accept that we lost loved ones, the things we love the most.  But in reality we should not have attachment to the things too strongly and should be accepting that nothing last forever. Suffering does not comes from losing the things, suffering comes from the attachment to the things, and not to see death as a creative force rather than thinking something done harmful to us. In fact we don't lose anything this is an illusion around loss, but the real thing is that we don’t know how to LET GO the things. Hanging on the things too long is the main cause of suffering. The pain of suffering is due to no correlation or acknowledge with the lesson of Saturn, is that Nothing is Permanent.

In present life those people have Saturn in 7th house or Saturn conjunct with 7th lord, Saturn making their life difficult by giving breaks in relationship or and giving sorrow related with relationship. These people need to understand that Saturn making their mind mature by giving issues with  relationship. These people need to accept the situation rather than taking things serious and making their own life miserable. Everyone should Learn ''How to Let Go things not attached with the things or situations or with the person''.    


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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Guru Purnima in Astrology

A Guru is where, we really trying to understand the nature of life. Guru purnima is the day when we get to guru’s teachings and honor our teachers. Full Moon in Sagittarius and Sun in Gemini celebrated as Guru poornima. Sagittarius sign is important because Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter. Gemini and Sagittarius axis where the plane of the galaxy runs which is the sacred spot in all spiritual traditions and is very importance in our spiritual growth in life. On the guru poornima  we can recognize the teachings of the guru. The Sun in Gemini and the Moon in Sagittarius is that point of contrast that our individual intelligence with the deeper bigger picture of life with belief hopes and have spiritual guidance with grace of a guru.

The Sun in Gemini is about intelligence, and moon in Sagittarius about truthful path, and wisdom. Sun in Gemini is very strong for the truthful intelligence and gathering information and being curious about life through the mind. This is a time when our mind is most susceptible to seeing the truth and what is correct. We are most receptive keep getting the teachings and getting what the guru is all about. Whoever your greatest teacher in your life, you want to do your best to imbibe those teachings on that day which leads you to the truth.   

Understanding about teaching and wisdom of life it actually comes more from Gemini sign even than Sagittarius sign. Gemini sign is all the details of life, it's our curiosity, our desire to understand the world intellectually, and use the faculties of discrimination to separate truth from fiction. Sagittarius sign just carries religion, belief, and abstract thinking, but the challenge that belief and to uncover a deeper meaning and purpose in life, you need to access Gemini sign.  Gemini and Sagittarius axis and Virgo and Pisces axis is where we try to understand things intellectually. This is why on full moon in Sagittarius and sun in Gemini have very powerful energy flow for teaching of Guru. So guru purnima is the time to really imbibe your teachings, because you will feel that harmonizing between your intellect and your curiosity of life which is Sun in Gemini and the emotional connection to the bigger picture which is the Moon in Sagittarius.

Gurus or our teachers they inspire us to give us a sense of meaning and a higher truth in life, a higher purpose, and sense of meaning in life.  Purpose comes from Jupiter and it comes in the form of gurus which are teachers things like children, but more specifically what those things doing us is to connect us to our hearts desire, the things we love the most gives us this hopeful approach in life. Planet Jupiter is not just the big rock in the sky but the energy the force the power what Jupiter represent. Jupiter creates Guru or things that teach us in life the great lessons in life such as, it creates children. Children are Great Teachers and things that inspire us and give us a sense of purpose, meaning and hope in life to live and give selflessly. If you have a child, you love that thing the most and it's really give you a sense of meaning and purpose and hope. People have children because its gives them a higher purpose automatically, but that doesn't mean if you don't have a child you don't have a higher purpose. The sense of creative joy in life that's really what Jupiter is. The joy of life as a creative force, the sense of meaning, and purpose that comes from the Jupiter is THE GURU.  

Many people don't really know what their bigger purpose, so having a child, boom right away they come to know what is their bigger purpose in life. But what happens often as once the children grow up and don't need them anymore, then they think, what's my purpose now, “what is it wealth’’ ? and people start to look to things like religion, belief systems, philosophies this is all Jupiter stuff.

Jupiter is not only spiritual but all the planets have a quality of spirituality.  
Sun is the spirituality of confidence and individual power,
Moon is the spiritual quality of receptivity and selfless love,
Mars is the spirituality of being disciplined and doing the right thing,
Mercury is the spirituality of discrimination,
Venus is the spirituality of balanced and compromise in relationship,
Saturn is the spirituality letting go of things in making peace with changes and being mature in life.

Happy Guru Purnima to Everyone!!

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