Bhavat-Bhavam and the
Modern Interpretaon Interpretaon of Nakshatras
by Janos Tamas Melocco, Vedic astrologer (Budapest, Hungary)
The aim of the present arcle is to explain the direct use of Vedic nashatras nashatras in chart interpretaon interpretaon and transits on a basis slightly di!erent from the usual ones, encoded in symbols, deies and other a"ributes, though deeply in harmony #ith those$ % belie&e using nashatras nashatras ac&ely (as in neo'Vedic neo'Vedic astrology) gains tremendously from the applicaon of this element moreo&er, moreo&er, that this #ay of thining about nashatras is deeply encoded into the Vedic odiac itself$ *ddionally, *ddionally, it might thro# a di!erent light upon interpreng Vimso"ari +ashas (planetary periods)$ ie many disco&eries, this -nding has a history$ My teacher of Vedic astrology, Maria .som #as a praccing /estern armic astrologer in Budapest$ 0n the inspiraon of her 1oga master 2#ami3i Mahesh#arananda, Mahesh#arananda, she decided to experiment #ith using Vedic astrology, astrology, then gradually s#itched o&er to using only %ndian charts, e4ual houses, and a sidereal odiac$ Maria became really intrigued by the nashatras, these mysterious mysterious areas of the Hindu odiac, #hich constute the basis of the Vimsotari dashas, a po#erful techni4ue of predicon #ithout e4ui&alent in /estern astrology$ astrology$ Her intuion #as that if the planetary periods 5 so fundamental in Vedic predicon 5 are counted from the nashatra posions of the Moon at the me of birth, perhaps these obscure di&isions of the sy held the real secret of a -ner analysis of birth charts and transits in the %ndian #ay$ 2tarng to study the classic boo published about nashatras by +ennis M$ Harness, she #as trying to relate the mythological and other properes to the Vedic Vedic charts of clients, friends and famous people$ 2tudying ga&e rise to a piece of inspiraon6 to 7translate8 the basics of nashatras nashatras to the language of /estern astrologers astrologers 5 planets in signs$ Then 9ur&a 9halguni could be understood as similar to a eo Venus, Bharani to an *ries Venus and so on$ :no#ing ho# much more signi-cance is generally a"ributed to lords in the e4ual house system of Vedic astrology, Maria began to correlae he naksharas o he signs ruled by he nakshara rulers, gaining addional informaon from the posion of these signs counted from the sign #here the nashatra is found$ Basically, she #as merely applying the bhava bhavam principle 5 counng a house from a house 5 reasoning that if Venus; Venus;ss o#n signs (Taurus (Taurus and ibra) are the third and tenth houses from eo (#here 9ur&a 9halguni is found), 9ur&a 9halguni should display a general meaning that deri&es from ha&ing a nashatra nashatra ruler #hich is a hird house lord and a enh house lord $ The third house, among other things, refers to expression (noted in the charts of famous entertainers), entertainers), communicaon, tests and trials, #hile the tenth house refers refers mainly to profession and occupaon in the Vedic analysis$ eo is a sign of self'expression self'expression and leadership, among other things, #hile Venus (2hura) (2hura) is the patron of arts, therefore therefore 9ur&a 9halguni could be mared in the charts of people #ho use Venusian energy professionally, for example in he ars – music, even psychology, elevision or markeng$ Venus is the ruler of Taurus, the second sign, thus it is a araa of one side of money and enterprises in the 7natural horoscope8 (the %ndian term for the parallel bet#een houses and signs)$ The third house is the parallel of
communica&e use of Venusian energy (=> th and ?rd house)$ 2o the di!erence bet#een these t#o nashatras 5 on top of the di!erence bet#een the themes of the t#o -re signs housing them 5 #ould basically be a di!erence bet#een a eo Venus area #ith Venus;s signs being in the ? rd and =>th house and an *ries Venus area #ith Venus;s signs being in the @ nd house and the A th house from the home sign$ /e started to study #ith the Budapest group of basic Vedic astrology students gathered around Maria .som around the turn of the millennium, and methodically #ent through the #hole circle of signs and nashatras #ith &arious planets in them, trying to correlate the bhava bhavam characteriscs of nashatras and came up #ith far more nuances in the case of oursel&es, friends, rela&es, famous people and the charts of clients$ *nd in e&ery case, #e found that the bhava bhavam explanaon of nashatras bore addional fruits of interpretaon, and that these #ere &ery much in harmony #ith the original intent coded into the odiac of %ndia, nong also the tradional symbols, deies as #ell as the male'female characteriscs, and other classi-caons, for example the ashasaCManushyaC+e&ic classi-caon (#hich can be roughly translated as ac&e and aggressi&e people'centered or passi&e and idea'centered)$ The parallels of the 7natural horoscope8 help interpret the &arious numbers #here the nashatra ruler could ha&e its sign(s)$ The sixth house could signify sicness and healing, enemies and arma yoga$ Thining about it as a parallel o he sixh sign, Virgo, helps explain #hy it is useful to integrate the /estern idea of the sixth house being a house of #or, along #ith the tradional tenth one of Vedic astrology$ The tenth house is a parallel to the tenth sign, .apricorn, and it is the main house of #or and occupaon, ho#e&er, it does not carry the addional meaning of enemies or sicness and healing$ *t this point % thin it is indispensable to use a graphic representaon to be able to count 7houses8 (or signs really, in this case)$ 2o here it goes6
=$ Nakshatras of the Nodes; Dashas and Nakshatras Do# #e can begin to describe some addional characteriscs of nashatras based on the bhavabhavam logic$ Doce that in the picture, % colored the signs ruled by the same planet as the nashatras they rule$ *ll nashatras are arranged in trines, that is, the same se4uence of nine rulers repeats itself three mes$ The nashatras o#ned by ahu and :etu are less interesng from the point of &ie# of this discussion, because no sign is o#ned by either of the shado#y planets$ %n a birth chart, you #ould relate them to the natal placement of ahu and :etu$ * fe# points turn up in analysis though$ 2o let us 4uicly sum up #hat #e can say about nashatras ruled by ahu or :etu$ The nodes are both enemies of the 2un and the Moon$ .oded into legend, this is because it #as the t#o luminaries that betrayed the stealing of the amria by the demon cut into t#o by Vishnu;s dis$ (They remained immortal, though, ha&ing already had a sip of the amrita of immortality)$ This myth con&eys a praccal piece of informaon for Vedic astrologers6 the 2un and the Moon #ill su!er #hen being aEicted by the male-c aspect of either ahu or :etu, and by extension, they #ill su!er in the nashatras of ahu and :etu$ %n my experience, :etu nashatras are more diFcult for a Moon placement, ahu nashatras are more diFcult for a 2un placement, but naturally this is further re-ned by the aspects and the ruler relaonships of the parcular chart$ Mula could be the hardest of all three :etu'nashatras for the Moon, since he Moon’s on sign – !ancer – is eigh houses aay from "agitarius $ * :etu nashatra placement for the Moon addionally means that the na&e;s life #ould start in :etu dasha, #hich is a separang and fre4uently other#orldly inGuence 5 not easy for a child$ 1ou could say people #ith a Moon in a :etu nashatra arri&es into physical life fully only aer :etu dasha is o&er, and the subse4uent Venus dasha starts$ iterature states that the Moon in the same sign as :etu could lead to the loss of the mother$ %n modern society, % -nd this is not necessarily so direct rather the na&e;s mother can be a more masculine, tough person, or someone #ho su!ers hardships, or that the mother'child relaonship is some#hat disturbed by other factors$ %t is #orst, ho#e&er, #hen the :etu period deri&es from the Moon being in Mula (2agi"arius)$ Because the Moon;s sign being eight houses from 2agi"arius, #hat #e fre4uently see is that the na&e;s mother has undergone a painful loss or separaon #hich has an indirect impact on the early life of the na&e$ *s#ini Moon is also placed in a :etu nashatra, but an *s#ini Moon na&e can ha&e a strong mother 5 unless other aspects spoil that$ The sign of .ancer is four houses a#ay from such a Moon, hence family life is all'important for the mother$ /ith Magha, .ancer falls into the =@ th house, #hich could among other things refer to the na&e;s former life #ith the mother, a medita&e life or a stay in a con-ned situaon 5 or other =@ th house signi-caons$ Moon in a ahu nashatra means a diFcult childhood #hile ahu dasha lasts 5 it is more appropriate for ahu dasha to start in adulthood #hen you are constantly gro#ing and changing yourself, but ne&er reaping the results$ Ior a na&e #ith a Moon in ahu nashatra, ho#e&er, life #ill start #ith the remaining poron of ahu dasha (counted proporonally from ho# much the Moon has co&ered out of the gi&en ahu nashatra at the moment of the -rst breath)$ ahu dasha can be brutal, hard and shocing to a child$ Do #onder tradional Vedic texts say ahu is rough, male-c and brutal, though the explanaon of more myscal astrologers (and more in the /est than in modern %ndia) is that :etu points to former li&es and ahu points to#ards future li&es$ The themes of the three ahu nashatras are di!erent, though6 2#a Moon (in ibra) #ould signify that the mother (and by extension, the father) ha&e ma3or relaonship troubles, di&orce, cheang etc$ *rdra Moon (
mean the mother is in&ol&ed in some community #or, a religious sect, or in a more prosaic seng, that she #ors at a demanding community site such as a hospital$ (2atabhisha means 7a hundred physicians,8 and such mothers fre4uently ha&e li"le me or energy for their child$) Tradional texts and teachers maintain that ahu'.handra (a con3uncon of ahu and the Moon) may be mentally unbalanced$ There is some truth in that, though some of the most balanced, praccal and reliable people % no# ha&e exactly that$ et us se"le at a point in the middle and say that ha&ing the Moon in a ahu nashatra may be both rough and upseng to the na&e and that they may also point at future de&elopment in themes of reincarnaon$ This gi&es the reader a taste that Vimso"ari +ashas can also be interpreted as periods of planets counted from the Moon;s nashatra, in addion to the standard interpretaon based upon the ruling planet;s placement in the rashi, the aspects etc$ My o#n chart has a 2#a Moon (ahu nashatra in the sign of relaonships)$ Thus the fact that % started my life in a ahu period 5 #hich #ent on unl % #as se&en and a half 5 really means that # as living hrough a "a period, no a "aabhisha period or an $rdra period% The modern Vedic analysis of a planetary period #ould -rst loo at the placement of the ruling planet, yet % feel the three di!erent nashatras of all the nine planets (including the nodes) are di!erent, due to the three di!erent signs of the nashatras counted from the Moon$ 2ince ahu and :etu thro# rikona aspects (=, K and L 5 plus some say a A th), the inGuence of their nashatras can be more mixed than those of three nashatras of other planets, for example those of Venus or 2aturn, #hich as planets do not thro# rikona aspects$ My second planetary period #as Jupiter, and the second nashatra from my natal Moon is Vishaha, not 9ur&a Bhadra or 9unar&asu$ These are subtle di!erences, but #hen % arri&ed at my 2aturn dasha at the age of @? (the third nashatra from my natal Moon), that #as maredly a 2aturn dasha #ith an *nuradha Ga&or, not "ara Bhadra or 9ushya (the other t#o 2aturn nashatras)$ *nuradha oen in&ol&es mo&es abroad, tra&els or dislocaon on a bhava bhavam basis$ My -rst #ife and % le my na&e country exactly in the hour of the starng of the =L'year'long *nuradha dasha, and % did not return to Hungary unl more than a decade later (she is sll abroad)$ The nashatra of *nuradha #ould fall into my se&enth house 5 though % ha&e no planets there$ Do doubt there are other factors tradionally explaining this sudden change 5 % had my 2ade 2a going during that me, #hich transit made the starng of my 2aturn dasha all'po#erful, and the &ery -rst me in my life #hen % had a reading #ith a Jyosh pandit, he told me the probably month #hen % le my home country for a long stay abroad$ Brihat 9arashara Hora 2hastra also has the interpretaon (actually, an unlucy one from the point of &ie# of Vedic astrology) that if 2aturn dasha starts and 2aturn is #ea, eclipsed or found in the eighth or t#elh house, the na&e could go to li&e in a di!erent country 5 the #orse 2aturn is o!, the sooner it happens in the dasha$ (*pparently, the pandits ruled that my 2aturn #as catastrophic 5 and they did consult the B9H2 for a short #hile)$ But all this understanding #ould come easier if #e suppose that if % start my life #ith 2#a dasha, Vishaha mahadasha is my next one (Jupiter), and *nuradha is the third one (2aturn)$ %f #e tae the bhava bhavam logic, and translate the basic meaning of the area no#n as *nuradha, it #ill be similar to a 2corpio 2aturn #hich rules the third and fourth houses from itself (.apricorn and *4uarius)$ That means a changing of mental constuon 5 thought and communicaon 5 as #ell as the unconscious mind and emoons 5 the fourth house 5, and possibly the relaonship of the t#o as #ell$ %t is this fourth house placement #hich signi-es the theme of mo&ing and dislocaon for *nuradha, somemes o&erseas$ My eldest daughter 5 born in *merica #ith a 2corpio Moon 5 has an *nuradha Moon, so her life started in 2aturn dasha$ *n *nuradha Moon fre4uently in&ol&es mo&es, e&en abroad, long 3ourneys, dislocaon and a sense of being alien to the en&ironment$ 2he li&ed her life lie going to school for a fe# years in *merica, then in Hungary again, and many mes o&er$ % ha&e seen great &oyagers and geographical disco&erers #ith *nuradha placements$ *s for the Moon itself,
all 2corpio Moons % ha&e seen so far #ere spiritual in some #ay, because by bhava bhavam, the Moon stands there as the ruler of the ninth sign (and the ninth house is, among other things, spirituality and philosophy)$ 2o my asseron is that despie he fac ha my naal "aurn is no even near $nuradha (it is in "ara 2hadha nashatra, 2agi"arius, combust by the 2un, at the last degrees of my eighth house), my "aurn period as really an $nuradha period , since it is the next one aer 2#a and 9unar&asu$ The bhava bhavam interpretaon adds a further element to my story6 :ornelia and % had 3ust married before #e le, and % feel % perhaps #ould not ha&e made the -nal decision to lea&e my na&e country #ithout her inspiring and supporng me all the #ay$ Do# *nuradha is found in my sevenh house (#hich is other#ise empty)$ Ior an astrologer taing into account the nashatra &alues of the mahadashas, this #ould be more than a coincidence$ *nother fact you could menon that in these &ery days, there is an unprecedented recent #a&e of migraon and people trying to escape from the Middle Nast #ar, #hich migraon started in earnest during the recent transit of 2aturn through *nuradha in the sy$ %f you place a planet #ith a more speci-c aspect pa"ern into a nashatra, for example, Mars, you #ould also ha&e to add its o#n 9arashari aspects to the standard explanaon$ Mars thro#s drishs at the = st, Oth, Ath and the P th sign from itself$ This is the third le&el of interpreng a planet in a nashatra, #hich colors the fundamental characteriscs of the sign and the planet, plus the bhava bhavam nashatra themes$ et us add all this up6 if you ha&e Mars in 9ur&a 9halguni, you #ould -rst ha&e to account for the nature and the themes of eo, those of the -re element (in excess because Mars is also -ery), and the friendship of Mars and 2un$ That is the -rst le&el$ Then you #ould see that Venus, the nashatra ruler is the o#ner of the ? rd and =>th houses from eo, so you #ould ha&e strong career and communicaons meanings for this Mars, and possibly troubles #ith younger siblings$ Iinally, you #ould add that a eo Mars #ould directly aspect the signs of 2corpio, *4uarius and 9isces$ % guess a eo Mars person #ould be more than ready to use computers and other inno&aons, and #ould lie dri&ing a car, because of Mars;s aspect on *4uarius$ To analye all that #ould go far beyond the scope of this arcle, so let us restrict oursel&es to those meanings that are deri&ed from the bhava bhavam relaonships of all the nashatras$ 0ne last remar is that this #ay #e really ha&e to examine ?Q nashatra areas in the enre Hindu odiac, since the bhava bhavam counng #ill di!er, say, from the Taurus poron of :ria nashatra than from the *ries poron of the same$ (2ince there are four parts of each nashatra, poinng to a di!erent navamsha sign, the Hindu odiac really consists of =>P parts 5 again, not a coincidence$) The next part of this arcle #ill examine the main house connecons of each nashatra ruler planet (#e co&ered ahu and :etu) from the point of &ie# of bhava bhavam, menoning 3ust a fe# speci-c examples$ 1
Bhavat Bhavam Themes in the Nakshatras of Venus
The three nashatras ruled by Venus are found in the middle of -re signs6 B harani in *ries, 9ur&a 9halguni in eo and 9ur&a 2hadha in 2agi"arius$ Ior the sae of completeness, % repeat #hat % said in my starng example6 Venus is the ruler of the second sign (Taurus) and the se&enth sign (ibra) counng from *ries, thus the themes of Bharani #ill be, for example, money and sex, and holding on to relaonships, plus important relaonships #ith #omen (for both genders)$ Taurus is doubly signi-cant here because it is the second sign and the second house from *ries at the same me, #hile it is simply the most earthbound of all signs, it relates to eang and diets as #ell$ The second house in a chart #ould also signify speech and teeth$ Bharani is diFcult, because *ries means independence and spontaneity, #hile its ruler Venus emphasies relaonships, and it o#ns the
se&enth house$ Thus Bharani placements could lead to &iolent s#ings bet#een being dependent on relaonships and indi&idual spontaneity$ % found that the possessions of Bharani people can Guctuate depending on #hether they ha&e a good partner or #ithout one (Bharani is romanc but passionate 5 it is in the cardinal -re sign of Mars)$ That is to say, Mars as self'#ill and Venus as relaonships (the theme of ibra, an air sign, is ad3usng to another person) are mixed here and they are in a constant struggle$ Venus #ants you to adapt to your partner and mae compromises #hile Mars as sign ruler #ould #ant you to go ahead and do #hat thou #ilt and conform to no one$ 9ur&a 9halguni, in contrast to Bharani, has the Venusian signs in the third house (ibra) and the tenth house (Taurus) from itself$ Thus it signi-es a more professional aspect of Venus, such as being a professional arst, entertainer, or leadership #ith style$ 2ince the third house can be communicaons and its parallel sign in the 7natural horoscope,8
Bhavat Bhavam Themes in the Nakshatras of the Sun
The next nashatras are solar6 :ria in * ries and Taurus "ara 9halguni in eo and Virgo, and "ara 2hadha in 2agi"arius and .apricorn$ Here #e must tae the -re sign parts separately from the parts of the nashatras falling in the earth signs (the -rst 4uarters of 2un nashatras are found at the ends of -re signs, #hile the remaining three 4uarters 5 => degrees 5 fall to the beginning of the earth signs)$ The 2un;s o#n sign, eo is the -h house from *ries, #hile the 2un means father and rulership among other things$ The combinaon of 2un and Mars (the sign lord) leads to excessi&e -re, thus #hile there is a challenge to -nd personal po#er and crea&ity, the father;s authority could be oppressi&e and po#er in general can be problemac$ 2omemes the placement in *ries :ria is more posi&e as far as -nding po#er, leadership and the atudes of authority -gures$ 2aturn #ould be a tragically bad posion here, in the last degrees of its debilitaon sign$ Ha&ing children is a posi&e inGuence (naturally, it is not easy if you place 2aturn here though), because of the -h house connecon a male o!spring is parcularly good in a armic #ay$ % ha&e seen &ery crical and -ery people #ith *ries :ria placements act &ery nicely #ith their sons (#hile their daughters can be crea&e and slightly masculine)$ The second part of :ria is in the cardinal Narth sign of Taurus this is #here the Moon is exalted according to Vedic tradion 5 and he "un’s on sign falls o he fourh house from here $
Thus the real &alue (Taurus) for this second part of :ria is hisCher family and home 5 adding it all up, it is a bread#inner;s role (somemes alone, #hether the na&e is male or female), and that of someone #ho #ould defend their children (or their crea&e results) at all costs$ % #ould say partner relaonships are not easy for Taurus signi-caons since the se&enth house is 2corpio 5 meaning change or destroy 5 di&orce is fre4uent, especially aer a 2aturn round of @L years$ %n all of :ria, if the 2un;s posion is #ea, the na&e;s father can actually blacmail the na&e by #ithholding family property or money or gi&ing it out only piecemeal$ The eo part of "ara 9halguni is one of the t#o small areas (amounng to a 4uarter nashatra) in the enre odiac #here the nashatra ruler (the 2un) is the same as the sign ruler$ %n these cases, one of the bha&at bha&am numbers #ould be =$ Daturally, such a posion can be about absolute leadership and the father;s example is &ery posi&e here 5 #hether it is the head of a company or that of a country$ 2ince the se&enth house from eo belongs to 2aturn, and because #e can say the 2un truly has a shado#, the person may ha&e a armic debt to#ards a community$ The Virgo part #ill, ho#e&er, ha&e the 2un;s sign in the =@ th house from itself$ *side from emphasiing Virgo roles such as science, healing, being methodical, learning and ser&ice, #e could note that there is an important and close pre&ious life (could be the &ery last one indeed) #here the na&e experienced leadership and no# does not #ant to be the -rst person any more, although he or she can be a really experienced #orer, indispensable at mes$ *t the same me, their father could also be an authority -gure in the past$ % ha&e seen many mo&ie actors and actresses #ith Virgo "ara 9halguni planets 5 #hich goes on to sho# that doing mo&ies is a hard 3ob and it re4uires special tenacity plus detailed, precise #or in the material #orld, and submission (ser&ice) of the leading director, script#riter and producer$ Many -lm actors in turn end up direcng mo&ies on their o#n, #hich sho#s they already had leadership 4ualies in them$ The 2agi"arius part of the solar nashatra "ara 2hadha #ill ha&e eo as the ninth house from there, #hich could say this is the absolutely 2agi"arian importance of a father #ho has &ery strong beliefs or ideals and could be an important person or an inspiring leader$ 9eople #ith planets lie Jupiter or 2aturn here could be 7religious leaders,8 or they ha&e been ones in the past (if it falls into the eighth or t#elh house)$ The .apricorn part of "ara 2hadha is problemac for the na&e both referring to the father and any authority, including his or her o#n, because bhava bhavam #ould -nd the 2un;s sign eight houses a#ay$ 1ou could say that both the na&e;s sense of authority and their image of their father are in transformaon$ This area holds part of *bhi3it, considered as the @Pth nashatra, playing a prominent part in the charts of many saints, religious leaders and healers$ The na&e could feel that he or she has to manifest those leadership 4ualies in an earthlier, praccal and day'to'day manner$ % ha&e seen an example #here the father #as a company;s .N0, #hile his daughter, the na&e #ith a .apricorn "ara 2hadha 2un #as doing healing #or$ 3
Bhavat Bhavam Themes in the Nakshatras of the Moon
The Moon has one sign, .ancer, but there are three lunar nashatras$ 2o already in the case of ohini, the -rst lunar nashatra, #e #ould loo for its distance from .ancer only$ .ancer is the third house from there$ 2ince the Moon is exalted in Taurus (though deeply in :ria), and ohini is the Moon;s o#n nashatra, the meaning is natural to be natural, a healing, peaceful person #ho could be sensi&e, good #ith plants, animals, children, e&en the disabled$ % ha&e seen ohini persons al#ays exude such a natural charm #hich is actually nourishing people around them by its &ery essence, but % ha&e also seen that the mother of ohini Moons could ha&e gone through real stressful mes and obstacles, missing precisely the peace and nature that is inherent in the charts of their na&e daughters or sons$ 9erhaps this is the me #hen #e can see that a third house relaonship could mean obstacles also$ Do #onder 2aturn thro#s a third aspect as one of its 9arashari aspects$
Hastha, the next lunar nashatra in Virgo means hand$ &hava bhavam analysis re&eals a special role here$ The nashatra ruler Moon;s sign of .ancer is found in the = = th house from Virgo$ Because of this, the na&e has fre4uently themes of ser&ice, learning or arma yoga (Virgo themes) in groups #hich are someho# connected to his or her mother, communies #ith roots in the past since the Moon means the past$ The elder brother or sister may ha&e an important role in the na&e;s life$ %n my boo on the nashatras published in Hungarian (@>=@), % lengthily explored this horoscope #ith a 9luto retrograde in the *scendant;s nashatra Hastha$ The na&e;s elder sister died #hile she #as sll a baby and that le diFcult psychological traces leading to a self'disco&ery leading in turn to learning a &ery deep form of group therapy in the style of Bert Hellinger;s Iamily .onstellaon$ (9luto is not used by most Hindu astrologers, but neo'Vedic Joni 9atry also uses outer planets, and here it could mean a depression out of #hich the only #ay is healing and deep transformaon #or)$ *ddionally, the na&e has a .apricorn Moon in 2hra&ana, so her horoscope is doubly lunar, and naturally, 9luto aspects her Moon$ Je#ish roots are also there to be explored, though the person considers herself a Buddhist$ .ancer is the *scendant of her Da&amsha chart, #hich could mean that someho# she -lls the &acancy le by her sister through her #or and becomes family'oriented in the second part of her life$ 2hra&ana has a se&enth house bhava bhavam connecon6 it is in the middle of the tough sign of .apricorn, but there are armic es to .ancer being the A th house$ 2hra&ana Moons ha&e many interesng aspects, among them being a lone shaman, an arst, a saint, a psychologist healing in a one'to'one relaonship, or a social #orer #ho listens to people lo#er do#n in society and helps them, but a armic relaonship is there in all cases bet#een the mother and the 2hra&ana Moon na&e 5 hisCher mother could ha&e been hisCher partner in a pre&ious life, and unconsciously, she sll holds onto the na&e as a partner in a subtle #ay$ 4
Bhavat Bhavam Themes in the Nakshatras of Mars
*ll Mars nashatras are cut in the middle bet#een t#o signs$ Mrigarshira is bet#een Taurus and
opposite e!ect from #hat they consciously aim at, and because of the combinaon of Mars and Mercury (the sign lord) they can ha&e ner&ous troubles$ Virgo .hitra has the bhava bhavam placements of 2corpio as the ? rd sign and *ries as the P th sign$ % #ould say, for example, that the communicaon of such a person 5 a real #oraholic in the -rst le&el of analysis 5 #ould be in constant transformaon and transforma&e itself$ The nature of struggling or -ghng also undergoes a change o&er the na&e;s life$ 0bstacles and transformaon are found in the -eld of #or, but that maes them e&en stronger$ osing a 3ob #ould be a transforma&e experience for such a person, a deep crisis$ ibra .hitra is 3ust as contradictory as Bharani is6 it has *ries as its se&enth house and 2corpio as its second house$ % #ould say that these people are in a constant struggle #ith their partners, #ant to dominate them or to be dominated, and #ith strong planets such as Mars itself they may blame their partners constantly, but #ill not let go relaonships easily$ Those ma"ers to them$ 2ex and money and earthly &alues are also important themes as in the case of Bharani, another @ nd and Ath dominated nashatra, but perhaps they see money di!erently since the second house is 2corpio 5 they loo at money as a po#er #hich is transformed and #hich transforms #hile marriage could be simply at best a place for contenon and a chi&alrous ri&alry$ %t is a less romanc sy part than Bharani$ +hanishtha connects .apricorn then *4uarius #ith Mars;s signs$ 2corpio is the == th house from .apricorn, so a .apricorn +hanishtha could be a liberator #ith special sills, #ho hones his or her sills alone, lie a co#boy hero in the desert #ho 3umps to help the community #hen the e&il sheri! taes o&er and thereby the community is transformed$ He or she brings these sills for -ghng insnc&ely #ith them, since *ries is found in the fourth house from there (#hich is one of the #ater houses 5 meaning that it parallels the sign of .ancer in the 7natural horoscope8 and as such it relates to the past and ancestors)$ *ddionally, this nashatra is really po#erful for all accomplishments, since Mars is exalted in .apricorn$ 2corpio is the tenth house from the *4uarius part of +hanishtha, so there is a strong professional in&ol&ement 5 military, sports or other things$ The themes of *4uarius suggest a community and a future'oriented seng any#ay$ *ries is the third sign from here, so the person #ould ha&e to face conGict and struggle$ Modern technology and speed can be top themes$
Bhavat Bhavam Themes in the Nakshatras of !upiter
Jupiter nashatras al#ays lead from a more mental air sign to the diFcult last 4uarter in a #ater sign$ Jupiter is the planet of experiencing life$ Irom th house$ 2uch a person can ha&e t#o sets of learning and is a mar&elous teacher, one le&el is at the intellectual plane, and another perhaps at a higher, spiritual plane$ This is one meaning of the 7returning of the light8 aer the summer thunderstorms, as the ancients recorded$ * corollary of bhava bhavam is that this person 5 #ho could easily ha&e an intellectual occupaon, #ill pro-t from their partnership in their professional -eld$ %n other #ords, the experiences they ha&e in partnership #ill be used in the -eld of occupaon$ This part also has an energy of creang di&isions among people$ The other #ay round, they #ill try to apply the things they learned in their pri&ate li&es, ho#e&er, they tend to be authoritarian (Jupiter) #hich is in contradicon to the energy of
intensely mental experience of Jupiter can be too much to bear$ The sixth house is, among other things, the house of sicness, healing and enemies$ %t is one of the more diFcult places on the nashatra #heel$ They are prone to#ards myscism and religion of a self'e!acing ind$ % imagine this could be all the more challenging to men$
