1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,560 This series starts a whole new set of 27 videos about nakshatras but this is only covering 2 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:09,440 the instinct part of it. 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:14,280 We'll start with Ashwini and then we'll go all the way up till Revati. 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:18,680 This was something I thought of for a long time, the animal in the bird symbology in 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:19,680 the nakshatras. 6 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:25,480 There has to be a greater meaning in each one of these, buried underneath. 7 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:48,440 So check this out, roll the intro. 8 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:53,040 Before we get into the nakshatras, let us examine what the instinct houses mean in Vedic 9 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:54,040 Astrology. 10 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:55,680 What could it be? 11 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:02,040 It's marked over there, house number one, house number four, house number five, house 12 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:07,200 number eight and house number twelve as marked there. 13 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:12,200 You should check the planets or the lords of the houses and which nakshatra they decide 14 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:19,040 in to get the instinctual level of things because we are only working with instinct and 15 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:24,280 totems in this series here for every nakshatra. 16 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:30,640 So the first house of the ascendant represents the head, the self, one's personality, physical 17 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:39,160 body, thinking process, intuition and logic, self-identity and expression. 18 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:46,760 The fourth house is associated with the heart center, home, family, emotional contentment, 19 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,160 homeland, local community. 20 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:56,040 It can provide information about a person's instinctual need for security, comfort and 21 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:01,120 their home surroundings and relationship to all these areas of life. 22 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,960 That's house number four. 23 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,760 Look at how house number one and four become very instinctual. 24 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:07,760 Okay. 25 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,040 Maybe you never thought of that. 26 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:16,720 House number five is associated with the navel chakra, the belly button, the creative intelligence, 27 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:26,800 the self expression as identity, your courtship behaviors in romance and such, learning and 28 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:30,280 intelligence and intellectual bent of mind. 29 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,200 Where does your mind go? 30 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,880 That's house number five, creative intelligence. 31 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:42,240 It also means children and therefore instinctual parenting attributes. 32 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:46,960 It also means past life karma. 33 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:54,040 House number eight is associated with root chakra, the sexual center, your innate sense 34 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:55,480 of security. 35 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,040 What does it mean to be secure for you? 36 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:00,160 Are you feeling secure or insecure? 37 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:04,120 House number eight will tell the story. 38 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,320 Handling of changes of life. 39 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,600 Everybody's life has changes as they go through it. 40 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:10,600 Right? 41 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:16,160 Handle those changes is the attributes of the eight life instinct. 42 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:19,120 It also means hidden truths. 43 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:28,400 It also dictates the type as well as the intensity and instincts regarding your copulatory experiences. 44 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:29,400 What does it mean? 45 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:30,400 Copulatory experiences. 46 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,160 How do you deal with sex? 47 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:36,600 What does it mean to have sex with another person for you individually? 48 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,200 How do you experience it? 49 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,160 It's a house matter. 50 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:45,160 That's also like you very well know it's all instinct based. 51 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:49,320 So the lord of the eight and the eight lord of the eight nakshatra, for example, if you 52 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,840 see that that will dictate the instinct level. 53 00:03:52,840 --> 00:04:01,600 House number 12 is next house number 12 is associated with subconscious mind psychology. 54 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:02,600 Your dream time. 55 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,120 What do you dream? 56 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:09,240 The hidden desires exploration of the psychic and the hidden realms. 57 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,160 That's the house. 58 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,040 Last one, the moon placement house. 59 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,600 Where is the moon placed in your chart? 60 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:21,160 It may be placed in any one of these houses, one, four, five, eight and 12 or it may be 61 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,680 placed as the lord of one of these in some other houses. 62 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:30,440 It doesn't matter where the moon is placed, but the moon's nakshatra is vital to consider 63 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:36,600 when you talk about instinct, especially emotional instinct and reactivity of a person. 64 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:37,600 Okay. 65 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,840 Now let's get into nakshatras. 66 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:50,280 Let's examine the attributes, the qualities and instincts and totems of the asheni nakshatra. 67 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:52,200 Pulse the sign of Aries. 68 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,680 It is in the Rajasmovable and male sign. 69 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:01,840 Think these attributes in mind always when you are evaluating nakshatras also. 70 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:06,720 This bit over here will give you the nakshatra qualities. 71 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:08,720 This is the qualities of the zodiac. 72 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:10,840 It's a fire sign ruled by Mars. 73 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:12,800 It is Rajasmovable and male. 74 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:18,520 That means the energy is always moving and outward male sign. 75 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:20,440 That's the symbol of Aries. 76 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:24,040 That's the nakshatra and that's the life lesson below the nakshatra. 77 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:32,320 The asheni symbol, the bird is of a wild eagle. 78 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,320 As you can see, the wild eagle characteristics are here. 79 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:41,640 Horse is the animal of asheni or the twin horses. 80 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:46,120 So what is the instinct level of the animal and the bird itself? 81 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,120 Let us start with wild eagle. 82 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,160 It has got a predatory instinct. 83 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:56,560 Eagles have a strong instinctual drive for hunting equipped with sharp vision and powerful 84 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,280 talons to capture the prey. 85 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:04,600 So it's basically a hunting bird. 86 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,640 Monogamous mating habits. 87 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,680 Think of the eight cows. 88 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:10,680 Monogamous mating. 89 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:15,240 Eagles instinctively form monogamous pairs and nests and have sharing responsibility 90 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:16,720 in their young. 91 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,000 This could be the mating instinct. 92 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,880 The copulatory instincts. 93 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:29,320 If your eight lord is sitting in asheni, this might be it. 94 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,840 This might be your drive towards your sexual behavior. 95 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:35,040 Territorial defense instinct. 96 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,960 The instinct to defend their hunting territory. 97 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,480 Strong boundaries. 98 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,120 Migratory patterns where applicable. 99 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:46,280 Some eagle species have instinctual drive to migrate. 100 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:49,160 So that will be applicable to planets in asheni. 101 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:53,160 Especially if it's Mars or Sun because both are shatriya planets. 102 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,280 It will do very well in asheni. 103 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:59,520 Let's look at the horse part. 104 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:00,520 Herbivorous diet. 105 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:08,480 So first off, it's got a meat eating bird but it's got a herbivorous animal. 106 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:09,480 Think about that for a minute. 107 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:15,160 I wanted to use your own logic, your own thinking to evaluate such things. 108 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,560 Animal is herbivorous. 109 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,000 The bird is carnivorous. 110 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,120 How about that? 111 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:25,840 Herb social structure. 112 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:30,280 Horses are inherently social animals when forming herds with a hierarchical structure 113 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,560 led by dominant individuals. 114 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:34,640 So it wants to be the leader. 115 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:38,160 That's why asheni is driven to be a leader. 116 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,560 It's a devgana, one eye we will keep on the nakshatra also. 117 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,320 It is a devgana, so therefore it is looking for higher ideology. 118 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:51,920 Varna is Vaishya, therefore it is looking for trade and commerce and it's a creator energy. 119 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,720 Keep those in mind always. 120 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:57,320 Communication through body language. 121 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:01,560 Oh, before that, light of fight response. 122 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:03,320 We've heard of this. 123 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:07,360 So horses tend to run away when they are faced with potential dangers. 124 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,160 That's the fight of light response. 125 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,680 Asheni can have that. 126 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:19,840 Especially if you're faced with danger, especially if asheni, your sixth lord is placed in asheni, 127 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:20,840 then you might have this. 128 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:32,200 Or if asheni planets and asheni nakshatra, he is falling in your sixth house. 129 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:33,840 That might be the case. 130 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,280 Communication through body language. 131 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:42,760 Use various instinctual body language and vocalizations to communicate with one another 132 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:50,800 and indicating emotional needs and hierarchy, very hierarchical in nature. 133 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:56,080 Galloping and running skills swift asheni is known to be swift. 134 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:02,920 Now let's have a look at the totem symbols of asheni. 135 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:08,760 When we speak of totems, you got to remember the symbology behind it and also think of 136 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:15,560 the animal or the bird and its general characteristics in terms of esoterics. 137 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:18,720 Eagle vision and perspective. 138 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,600 See the eagle is a bird which flies high. 139 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:28,240 It has got a keen vision and a broader perspective because it flies so high. 140 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,520 Apply all these characteristics to asheni. 141 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:37,320 Eagle's sharp eyesight symbolizes the importance of seeing the bigger picture and gaining insight 142 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:40,160 into life's challenges. 143 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:44,120 This is why asheni can face challenges head on. 144 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,240 It is the sight of an eagle. 145 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:53,960 Freedom and independence like horses, eagles are also seen as symbol of freedom and independence. 146 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:58,920 They soar high in the sky representing the desire for personal liberation and ability 147 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,000 to rise above obstacles. 148 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,880 Again driven by Mars as you can see there in a fire sign. 149 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:07,880 Power and authority. 150 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,600 It is a shatriya nakshatra, right? 151 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,320 Shatriya planet. 152 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:15,800 So they are interested in power and authority. 153 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,360 Eagles are known for their strength and authority in the animal kingdom. 154 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,720 Other birds tend to run away whenever eagles fly around. 155 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,440 Have you seen that? 156 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:32,160 In and aspiration, eagle totem encourages individuals to aim high and pursue their goals 157 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:34,840 with determination and ambition. 158 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:40,520 It represents the pursuit of one's dreams and drive to achieve them. 159 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:42,000 Protection and guidance. 160 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,280 Eagles are often seen as protectors and guides offering support and wisdom to those who connect 161 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,080 with this totem. 162 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,400 Think about this when you think of asheni. 163 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:54,320 The horse. 164 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,240 The horse totem in asheni says this. 165 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,360 Power and energy. 166 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:04,520 In native American and indigenous cultures, which is also the case with Vedic culture, 167 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:12,120 the horse totem represents power, energy and a driving force in one's life. 168 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,440 Freedom and travel. 169 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:20,520 Horses are often associated with the idea of traveling freely, running free in the wild. 170 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:26,120 Like many needs that freedom, it is swift like a horse. 171 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:29,560 It is wild like an eagle. 172 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:31,120 Cooperation and partnership. 173 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:37,680 Horses are herd animals and the totem meaning can emphasize the importance of cooperation, 174 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:43,840 teamwork and forming meaningful partnerships. 175 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,040 Grace and elegance. 176 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:47,960 Horses are known for their grace and elegance. 177 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:50,640 They are powerful yet elegant animals. 178 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:51,640 Isn't it horses? 179 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,800 They are loved by everybody in the world. 180 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:59,480 Their totem meaning can inspire individuals to carry themselves with poise, beauty in 181 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,600 their actions and endeavors. 182 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:07,960 Now let's tie this back into the life lesson and what that could mean. 183 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:14,160 The life lesson of asheni is using what you have to initiate new beginnings. 184 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,160 Be willing to ride it out. 185 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,400 We have covered this in the heart of the nakshatra for every one of these. 186 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:20,400 You can revisit those. 187 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:26,720 I am not going to get into details there for but we will see life lesson using what you 188 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:27,720 have. 189 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:28,720 What does asheni have? 190 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:36,000 It has the qualities of a wild eagle as listed here and the qualities of a horse. 191 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:42,400 This is what asheni must use in order to get ahead in life. 192 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:49,400 In the next one we shall be dealing with barani, the second part of eris. 193 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:56,200 Thank you for listening, watching and in the next one I will see you in barani. 194 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:13,240 Be safe, be awesome people.