Hi Ernst;
there is a website, thenakshatras.com, that portrays each of the nakshatras and among many other things attributes a "desire" for each of them
For Rohini, my eldest son´s nakshatra the desire is, supposingly "to attract a lover and unite with her/him". That would be valuable to know, if it´s true.
For my own nakshatra, Uttara Phalguni, it´s "to become lord of the animals", and it´s true that in my spiritual practice the power animals play an important role, as do animal omens.
My question is whether you think there is something to this. I have no idea what the source may be.
Staffan
I've seen that on David Frawley's site as he did a translation of that. I think its from another part of the Taittiriya Brahmana.
One thing that stood out is Prajapati, instead of Nirriti, for Mula. Prajapati desired to find the "root of all progeny". (I guess that would involve finding himself, since he is that.)
@mitryendra80 Interesting, that we must ask our Mula teacher about! I have Mercury in Mula and is quite in love with the terrible Nirriti - as well as in her sister, of course. My mother-in-law has her Moon in Mula and she´s terrible in a Mula way. Throw people´s things away like nothing... 😆 I´m fond of her too!
Thank you Mitryendra, your input is alway interesting!
Staffan
So cool! I didn't know about her and am watching her YT videos on Nakshatras now.
How do we know what our Nakshatra is? Is it from our AK? Sun?
Thank you!
@curioussoul It´s where your Moon is placed. If you have Kala software, just go to your chart and click on the Moon.
Ernst made a wonderful audio course on the nakshatras that I recommend, I took it a while ago and really enjoyed listening to it. Beats - as usally - everything else I´ve seen "on the market". But it´s a matter of taste and declination, of course.
Staffan
@staffan Thanks so much Staffan.
I've had Nakshatras in the back of my mind. I'm currently studying Varshaphal and in one of the examples Ernst pointed out how either the Year Lord or the Muntha Lord (I don't remember) was in the Krittika Nakshatra and how that was another thing that pointed to the native going through a major surgery. I was shocked! It made me dig into it a bit deeper, and now I see your comment!
Haha, aren't we lucky to study from Ernst? I'll give that course a shot after I finish my Varshaphal studies. Much gratitude!
@curioussoul I didn´t spot your answer until now. Yeah, good one! Have a happy fall into yet another of astrology´s/Ernstology´s many rabbit hole. Stop the bad habit of being surprised, or your jaws are going to get stuck and bugs will fly into your mouth! 😆
Staffan
@scott-m-19 I´m very new to the nakshatras actually, so I can´t say that I have done that much yet. But it´s of course a key key (!) to unluck their true potential.
From a strictly personal point of view I find it deeply meaningful that my nakshatra Uttara Phalguni, which is all about marriage, has the Sun as it´s lord and that the aditya Bhaga is it´s deity. The Moon is my AK, but the Moons nakshatra Lord Sun is in the 7th... It´s quite intricate.
For many years I was forced, due to having the responsability for children, to live in a place that almost everyone / especially women / loved and praised, but that I disliked from the first day. "Too much Moon energy", I said. "I don´t need more Moon in my life, the Moon is already my AK, what I need is the Sun!" That was very much confirmed when I learned about the Sun ruling my nakshatra and Bhaga being it´s deity. I now a thrive in a much more Sun ruled city and my Moon is just fine. 🙂 And so is my marriage, God´s will be done.
Staffan
@staffan "Ernstology" -- LOL. Hey now, I have Rahu in the 8th. The occult is all so new to me. So I'll be enjoying all of those bugs flying into my mouth for a while! 😆
@curioussoul Fair enough. Something tells me we are all going to be amazed in a couple of months, when he starts revealing the secrets of the Adityas to us.
Staffan
@staffan Can't wait. I just saw his newest video on Handwriting as well. I feel so grateful to have him as a teacher!
Nakshatras need a tremendous amount of work on all levels, including the astronomical, in my opinion. It's something I have been trying to get to. When I was working with homeopathy for 4 years I gained a lot of new ideas about nakshatras that were very useful and powerful in practice and made me realize we need a ground up revisit of all things Nakshatra. There are a lot of astrologers working had on nakshatras. Many of them, I would say, all I have met personally, are very psychic and I think their results are more due to that than the nakshatra techniques they are using. I do not know this woman and what she is doing but it sounds interesting. There is a batch of other sutras in the Taittiriya Brahmana that I have not worked on seeing what they can do. I have just been too busy developing lajjitaadi avasthas and the Adityas. After the Adityas I plan on diving into nakshatras and also Jaimini to finish developing those to my satisfaction.
The ideas of desire and the nakshatra, yes, that would be well a part of nakshatras as desires come out of the child mind moon. I see nakshatras how we respond to life, the rasis is how we are and how life is. and then we respond in a certain way. Nakshatras do not make the response healthy or unhealthy, they just show the nature of the response. The level of health is based on the condition of the planet involved. BUt does this desire manifest beyond what the rasis and jaimini says a person is and what they will have? What if this desire conflicts with that, are they always feeling empty inside while they do what they are because the child m ind is not aligned, and do the people whose nakshatra desire correspond to what the rasis say they are do great thigns and find fulfillment? Thats the first thing I would test so that we can put this desire thing into perspective.
We can't just take nakshatras and try to do everything with them unless a person is very good in working in the abstract mind, in which case they can do the same based on the way the wind is blowing, but we can't do it from a scientific mind that is looking for statistically accurate results. All nakshatra buffs I have met are working mostly in the abstract mind. WE cant teach good astrology by teaching astrology that is being used with the abstract mind. It won't matter how much a person studies such information, it will only work if they can step into the abstract. So I think its important to only teach astrology that has proven some statistical results and that otherwise we teach people how to use their abstract mind and then say, so it does not matter what technique or calculations you use!
@ernst I´m looking forward to hopefully some day take part of that work and wish you a long, inspired, abundant and productive astrological life!
Staffan
@ernst With that said: What I find really useful, apart from the yoni and the nakshatras as an instrument for compatibility, is the shakti. I think it really says a lot of a person, on the same level as let´s say the Sun sign.
Like your Moon in Mula: at least most of the sidereal community would agree that you are a person that love to tear down things, right? Or me: Uttara Phalguni, and my whole adult life have been about making things work with my women and their families; about joining forces. My career as a crossword writer took off when I started a cooperation with my then mother-in-law who illustrated them. My wife Lupita has her Moon in Hasta and she only has to hold out her hand and some solution will fall into it, every time she has a need.
Both of the guys in ABBA have Hasta Moons; they each brought a girlfriend into the group, and both happened to be one of the best female pop singers in the world; they found the best manager, the best producer, the best bass player and so on. Meanwhile one of the girls, Frida, has her Moon in Purvabhadrapada, bringing a deeper, more spiritual connection to life and humanity into the picture, so that they went from being a quite shallow regular pop band to sing about true connection. While Visaka Agnetha ended up being frustrated, since she couldn´t bear the destiny of being only a singer. She very much wanted to dedicate her life to her children and also be a composer. I guess it´s fair to say that she was the one that caused the break-up of the group, but knowing her nakshatra it´s hard to blame her.
And the chakras I find useful too.
But I´m very much looking forward to an upgrade of this whole branch of astrology, of course! If we can get this much out of so little, I can only imagine what a more complete Moon astrology could do.
Staffan
@ernst There are several fields on the homepage. If you scroll down to the fifth field, below a white one, it´s blue, she presents all the nakshatras. Click on each of them, and a nakshatra is presented. "Read more" it says. There, scroll down to a white field, on which she lists many aspects of the nakshatra in question. Under the headline "Divine influence", she mentions the supposed Desire of the nakshatra.
Staffan