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If you're not aware what the corresponding animals to the Nakshatras are, they are:

Ashwini: Male Horse

Bharani: Male Elephant

Krittika: Female Goat

Rohini: Male Serpent

Mrigashira: Female Serpent

Ardra: Female Dog

Punarvasu: Female Cat

Pushya: Male Goat

Ashlesha: Male Cat

Magha: Male Rat

Purva Phalguni: Female Rat

Uttara Phalguni: Bull

Hasta: Female Buffalo

Chitra: Female Tiger

Swati: Male Buffalo

Vishakha: Male Tiger

Anuradha: Female Deer

Jyestha: Male Deer

Mula: Male Dog

Purva Ashadha: Male Monkey

Uttara Ashadha: Male Mongoose

Shravana: Female Monkey

Dhanishtha: Female Lion

Shatabhisha: Female Horse

Purva Bhadrapada: Male Lion

Uttara Bhadrapada: Cow

Krittika is also linked to the word critic.

According to the internet critic comes from the Greek kritikos but that’s way too similar to have no correlation to the Sanskrit word that means the exact same thing

I couldn’t find many other words that can be traced further back than Latin but I find it interesting how some western words resemble nakshatras both phonetically and in meaning.

Arduous = Ardra

Reverie = Revati

Uttara Phalguni is the union of Shakti and Shiva within, which leads to supreme consciousness represented by the forbidden fruit motif, and helps us manifest or attract our ideal partner or soul ☀️ mate on a vibrational level. Marriage is defined by consummation or the sacred sexual union between two. A child is the “fruit” is this union; Uttara Phalguni is when 2 becomes 1, through marriage and having a child. Thus it is the Dawn of Creation, Circle of Life and enlightenment gained through sex (tantra). When we master our own sexual energy we master our freedom to move according to our own destiny in the material world.

Side note — Denebola (Uttara Phalguni’s star) is referred to as a Fall From Grace which is the story of Genesis within itself. Both Phalgunis represent the sexual energy of creativity and how it generates and rules over all life itself.

I think the way that I realized the connection between Uttara Phalguni, Genesis & Kundalini/spine was one of the greatest things I’ve ever done as it helped me breakthrough my own understanding of this nakshatra and its complex nature in regards to the awakening of supreme consciousness through the three nadis.

People are debating over Luigi Mangione’s Moon nakshatra

The entire reason he did what he did is because he had severe spinal issues

Uttara Phalguni is the awakening of the Kundalini (Uttara Bhadrapada) which lies at the base of the spine

This nakshatra connects to law, order and ethics, as well as health & industries. It is a Hero / Warrior / Child of Light that pursues a path that is fruitful for society and/or the Ancestors. All of this happened during Ketu in Uttara Phalguni.

Mona Patel wore this at the most recent Met Gala which occurred during Ketu (revealing raw nature) in Uttara Phalguni (spine). She has Jupiter in Uttara Phalguni

It was inspired directly by Uttara Bhadrapada Sun, Uttara Phalguni Jupiter, Uttara Phalguni Ketu [daemon] ALEXANDER MCQUEEN.

What emerges then occurs in Aries, whose glyph also resembles a sprout but a sprout emerges from a seed, and a seed must first be planted before anything can grow from it. Semen is often called a seed and just as a seed is planted into soil, semen is “planted” into the egg of the fallopian tube and once that egg has been fertilized then it moves to the womb to gestate. Where is the fallopian tube, egg and womb all located? These are all located in women’s reproductive systems. The glyph of Aries happens to resemble the female reproductive system, which Bharani nakshatra can be found to be in the sign of Aries and has the Yoni (the birth canal, the yoni in the physical, a physical doorway, a physical portal) as one of its symbols.

Bharani’s yoni pair, Revati (who symbol is a fish swimming through cosmic waters), on the other hand, is located in Pisces. Revati’s deva is Pushan, the one who protects travelers, including souls journeying toward their destination. Remember how I mentioned earlier that semen (the seed, the fish, the soul) travels through the fallopian tube to the egg and the egg moves to the womb to gestate. Well in this symbolism, the womb becomes the destination in which the soul can birth into the world (the unseen to seen) through the yoni (physical doorway and portal).

Although bharani is ruled by venus, but bharani is mleccha and is all about coming into physical existence. It is not a refined as purva phalguni and purva ashadha — both being brahmin. Venusian qualities in bharani display almost animalistic-like cruelty. Venus exalts in pisces, revati nakshatra — that is all about acceptance of everything and everybody, universal love. It is not in any way shape or form animalistic, cruel or unrefined.

"Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"

"Yes."

"All like ours?"

"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound—a few blighted."

"Which do we live on—a splendid one or a blighted one?"

"A blighted one."

— Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Ardra Moon

Today, we’re going to contemplate Ardra, the nakshatra through which we may understand the exact nature and cause of universal suffering. This understanding of the universe forms the basis of my spiritual philosophy and why I am constantly screaming for our collective liberation.

When we think about what makes us suffer in life, we tend to point the finger at economic systems and societal flaws, describing them as the root causes of all suffering. Money, as we know, is said to be the “root of all evil.” But we must collectively understand that it goes much deeper than that.

All suffering comes from the foundational nature and structure of the universe. Its duality and therefore its inherent division are what causes us to continuously struggle with little to no returns for our efforts. To elucidate this, I came up with a way to easily visualize the concept through examining that which is the basis of life as we know it: DNA.

DNA is a molecule that not just humanity, but all life forms, strive to maintain the structural integrity of. To do this, life forms need energy. They need energy to carry out basic cellular functions, to protect themselves, and to reproduce—all of which serve to maintain the integrity and continuity of DNA. Energy is a resource that is finite, since all matter and energy in the universe is finite, as far as we know, and as far as what we have access to. Therefore, there is a finite amount of resources, which means that this process of structural maintenance cannot go on forever, because finite resources will run out.

On top of this, the universe is expanding and accelerating in its expansion. This causes an increase in entropy, where the universe becomes increasingly disorderly and it becomes increasingly impossible for things to maintain their structural integrity or “orderliness.” This universal phenomenon of destruction directly threatens the integrity of DNA. It thus becomes clear that life is fighting a fool’s battle against the very forces of the universe, with a finite amount of resources to maintain its own existence. It is a zero sum game.

This constant battle for resources is everywhere. This is what causes violence in all forms of life. It even causes violence (which I define as the destruction of structural integrity) to that which is not alive. And so, violence and oppression are not unique to human beings. In order for creatures to maintain their own structural integrity, they need to absorb resources, which necessarily entails the destruction of the structural integrity of other entities to gain the resources they either contain or possess.

This is why lions kill wildebeest, why cows kill grass, why humans kill non-humans and each other, why plants kill insects, why insects kill each other, and so on, and so on, and so on. Even when there is no direct killing involved, in the case of, for example, non-carnivorous plants, there is, in fact, a destruction of structural integrity. Plants photosynthesize by obtaining light from the Sun, which emits light due to a process in its core called nuclear fusion, where elements are fused together in a process that releases energy. This process is what essentially destroys the structural integrity of the Sun, which will eventually die. And so the destruction of the structural integrity of the Sun maintains the structural integrity of terrestrial plant life. And hell, even plants are incredibly violent to one another, and I know this thanks to this post I read the other day.

My point here, if I haven’t reiterated it enough, is that the process of maintaining one’s structural integrity necessarily entails the destruction of another’s, and this is precisely the violence that is inherent to the universe and that causes suffering for all. Therefore, the very nature of existence is suffering. The desire to exist in this universe is in itself the root of all evil, of all the violence that is enacted in the name of existing on one side of the [exists / does not exist] dichotomy.

In Ardra nakshatra, we are forced to confront this harsh reality head-on. Biblical scripture has referred to this universe as the Valley of Tears, reminiscent of Ardra’s teardrop symbol. This tikshna nakshatra shows exactly how the dualistic foundation of the universe is the cause of all violence. The very nature of conflict requires at least 2 entities, with one causing the destruction of the other or both causing the destruction of each other. An axe cannot cut itself. It must first be divided into axehead and axe handle, at which point the axehead can be used to cut i.e. destroy the handle. And so the very reason that violence, conflict, and suffering can occur is because of the very existence of division and duality. A schism, a rift, a crack, it may be called. Ardra with its core essence allows us to see this violent realm for what it is.

And more importantly, you may have heard it said that Ardra is the fall from the “Garden of Eden”, a supposedly paradisiacal place where everything is sunshine and rainbows in which Adam and Eve are living with all the little birdies and monkeys like it’s some kind of fucking Disney movie. Ardra is supposedly the “Fall” where we are thrust into a world of division and chaos. But it’s not. Now, I will state the most important teaching of Ardra, which is that:

We already exist in Hell.

Ardra is where our eyes are opened to the true horror of existence in this universe where everything is constantly eating each other in an incessant process of destruction and consumption. There are people being bombed, shot, and burned alive in Ukraine, Sudan, and Gaza right now. There is a wildebeest somewhere in Kenya being eaten alive by hyenas. There are thousands dying of terminal cancer. Some are dying of the Ebola virus. A lioness has just killed a wild dog cub. A pack of wild dogs is eating a pregnant impala alive, devouring her fawn too. A polar bear has just killed a seal and her pup. An orca has just eaten the liver of a great white shark and left the rest of the corpse to rot in bacteria that will feast on it. A neutron star is tearing a planet apart. A black hole is ripping a star apart. A baby crocodile has just killed a baby rabbit. There are people being tortured and murdered. There are non-human animals being tortured and murdered, by humans… Hell, even the fucking trees are killing each other. I could go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on.

And so in Ardra, there is no “Fall”. In Ardra, we simply realize that the “Garden of Eden” that we still exist and languish in has been the Hell we’ve been so scared of all along. Hell isn’t some distant subterranean place of fire and brimstone and suffering and torment.

Hell is right here.

I just had this random thought about why didn’t l make any observations of dhanishtha nakshatra, although I have my sun in dhanishtha (aquarius portion) and mercury in dhanishtha (capricorn portion, which is also my atma karaka).

I guess it’s because I do live and breathe this energy to the point, where I cannot really distinguish myself from it so I actually don’t really pay that much attention to it.