Forever Yours Cherry Bomb Girl

“Off-Gas” for BASIC magazine

These are not determining factors of you & your life.

🫀Chitra natives have strong intuitive responses about what is safe, who is trustworthy, etc. These responses are not necessarily correct for the long run but they are in the moment. These natives value safety and they will do or have at least one thing which is conservative and oriented towards cautiousness, and they tend to give advice of this nature. You don’t usually find them doing the most outrageous, loud or extravagant things. They are fond of living in or at least visiting the countryside, being in touch with nature and not having so much of the ultra processed, urban based lifestyle. 

🫀Swati natives enjoy traveling and meeting other cultures although they don’t necessarily incorporate other cultures into their own lifestyle, it’s more like they are connoisseurs of world events but they avoid appropriation. They are not easily impressed by superficial talk and value deep, solid arguments and reflections. Unlike other nakshatras who would influence natives to take on certain challenges head on, these natives really hate feeling threatened and confined so they have clear, quick, instinctive reactions against that. They value forward movement which is attained by knowledge of past mistakes, so they will interact with people and they will mentally revisit old experiences to identify patterns and extract useful insights for the future.

🫀Vishaka natives have a strong urge to do their own thing and this is great for their creative side, by creative I don’t mean the arts only but the overall ability to get one’s ideas and insights to change an aspect of reality. They are not built to be the listener or to blindly do what they are told. If they find that others’ example is worthy of being followed they will take that example and then do their own version. Because of this individuality, if they don’t check themselves they can become boundary-less and this usually starts with them not being very good at mundane things, then not having an accurate sense of themselves and their surrounding reality, then falling into their own delusions. They can diminish the “genius loneliness” when they are part of a group or pairing that anchors them. 

🫀Anuradha natives have strong focus on their convictions and interests. For some this focus takes them to cultivate skills in fields like photography and generally activities that require meticulousness and an eye for detail. They are aware of the whole range of human nature so they know that people can be great or the worst and this makes them quite realistic about people’s motives. They have a special connection to past times so they can wear a lot of vintage clothing, imagery, gadgets, etc., and take care of their belongings for a long time. They are averse to forgetting wrong doings and impunity, they will call you out on your bullshit if you are not holding accountability. They are not averse to delivering a rightly deserved punishment to those who are abusing their power.

🫀Jyeshta natives tend to experience psychological tension due to their awareness of how easy it is to fall into decadence and how they know that there is more to their life. They tend to work in fields associated with conflict and war, like being an attorney for cases of medical malpractice or being a doctor who works alone in a red zone because there’s armed conflict, or being a judge for cases of severe violence and grave crimes, or being a political leader against discrimination, etc. They are somehow very close to or at the center of power struggles. They are built for heavy duties, they don’t overlook the bad, the ugly, the undesirable. They are impatient with the “softies” and respect those who are like minded. However heavy their context is, they themselves are not necessarily harsh mannered and can be quite charismatic. Over time they seek transcendence to more spiritual states, they understand that to be human is to be in touch with pain, scarcity, longing, heartbreak, etc.