Let us define the core characteristics of the second nakshatra, Bharani.
We are examining the instinct and the totem of Bharani.
Falls in the sign of Aries.
What loosely defines a Bharani nakshatra?
Intense and passionate, determined and obstinate, creative and artistic, strong sense of self
and it's all about transformation and regeneration.
So when we examine the instinct level of things, you might have to consider the first, fourth, fifth, eight and 12th houses
and if those are in Bharani, these instincts and totem's meaning plays dominantly.
Let's see the intro.
Before we get to the nakshatra, let us examine what the instinct houses mean in Vedic Astrology.
What could it be?
It's marked over there number one, house number one, house number four, house number five, house number eight and house number 12.
As marked there.
You should check the planets or the lords of the houses and which nakshatra they reside in to get the instinctual level of things
because we are only working with instinct and totems in this series here for every nakshatra.
So the first house of the ascendant represents the head, the self, one's personality, physical body, thinking process, intuition and logic, self identity and expression.
The fourth house is associated with the heart center, home, family, emotional contentment, homeland, local community.
It can provide information about a person's instinctual need for security, comfort and their home surroundings and relationship to all these areas of life.
That's house number four.
Look at how house number one and four become very instinctual.
Okay.
Maybe you never thought of that house number five is associated with the naval chakra, the belly button, the creative intelligence, the self expression.
As identity, your courtship behaviors in romance and such learning and intelligence and intellectual bent of mind.
Where does your mind go?
That's house number five, creative intelligence.
It also means children and therefore instinctual parenting attributes.
It also means past life karma.
House number eight is associated with root chakra, the sexual center, your innate sense of security.
What does it mean to be secure for you?
Are you feeling secure or insecure?
House number eight will tell the story.
Handling of changes of life.
Everybody's life has changes as they go through it.
Right.
How do you handle those changes is the attributes of the eighth life instinct.
It also means hidden truths.
It also dictates the type and as well as the intensity and instincts regarding your populate experiences.
What does it mean?
Populate experiences.
How do you deal with sex?
What does it mean to have sex with another person for you individually?
How do you experience it?
That's eighth house matter.
That's also like you don't even know it's all instinct based.
So the Lord of the eight and eight Lord of the eight nakshatra.
For example, if you see that that will dictate the instinct level.
House number 12 is next house number 12 is associated with subconscious mind psychology.
Your dream time.
What do you dream?
Your hidden desires exploration of the psychic and the hidden realms.
That's 12 thousand.
Last one, the moon placement house, where is the moon placed in your chart?
It may be placed in any one of these houses one, four, five, eight and 12 or it may be placed as the Lord of one of these in some other houses.
It doesn't matter where the moon is placed, but the moon's nakshatra is vital to consider when you talk about instinct, especially emotional instinct and reactivity of a person.
Okay.
Now let's get into nakshatras.
So Bernie as the second nakshatra within eighties.
Let's start from the top.
This position on the left top corner defines the nakshatra characteristics and these characteristics on the right side top define the zodiac characteristics.
Always consider the nakshatra energy playing out through the zodiac into the planet, whichever is sitting in the nakshatra.
Scarf helps distill out whatever is necessary, filter out the garbage, basically unnecessary stuff.
So let's begin with the instinct and everywhere.
We wouldn't try and it is from the nakshatra and the zodiac level into the life lesson to the instinct and to the two times below.
The bottom two boxes on either side represents the totem energy and the top two white boxes beside the animal in the bird.
They represent the instinct and studied by biologists, zoologists.
Okay.
So first let's see the instinct.
The bharani is represented by the bird of grove on the side and the animal of elephant and also remember the symbol of bharani is the womb.
Okay.
The next nakshatra energy itself is keeping a respectable boundaries, bearing restraint and control in order to protect holding the burden with responsibility.
Just like the womb, it holds the child without letting it fall out in an underdeveloped stage because it has to hold the baby through the nine months while it develops.
But it is a downward energy like the womb.
So that's the bearing restraint, bharani needs restraint and control.
That's the life lesson and its drive is to preserve as you can see over there.
Lord is Aries.
Within Aries it is Mars.
So if Mars is situated in bharani, it's more driven, more powerful or if Sun is also sitting in bharani, that's why Sun and Mars are exalted in Aries.
Right.
So we'll see all these aspects.
But let us begin by seeing the instinct crows.
Instinctual scavenging.
Now you got to remember crow is a meat eating animal.
Crows have an instinctual drive to scavenge and opportunistically search for food sources.
Crows are very opportunistic.
Actually all scavengers are more so the crows.
Social behavior.
Crows are highly social birds often forming large complex family and communal groups that collaborate in in foraging and defense.
Like a collective like a pack energy.
Intelligence and problem solving skills.
Crows are known for their instinctual intelligence and problem solving skills.
Using tools and innovative methods to obtain food.
They're very clever.
They're very good at problem solving.
Tell me if you find bharani in your chart, which is driven by any one of these instincts in the comments.
It'll be interesting to study these.
Nesting instinct crows instinctively building nest entries typically using twigs leaves and other materials.
That all birds to so we'll skip the nesting instinct as such.
Vocal communication crows have instinctual capacity for vocal communication using various calls.
And vocalizations for social interactions warnings and coordination within their pack.
So crows is basically a group energy.
They love to work in groups as a pack of birds.
Right.
That's what we can summarize there.
They love to scavenge.
What's the energy of scavenging taking remains or whatever is left over dead carcasses.
You see lying around of animals scavengers.
The cleanup.
There's a cleanup crew.
They're very social.
They're very clever and they're very vocal.
And they run in groups.
You see what I'm saying?
How does this tie to preserving and keeping the life lesson always try to tie that.
You know, you know, in the comments, you will find something from your chart.
And remember instinct when it comes to houses as I've covered is all about the houses 1458 and 12.
Interesting that all the moksha houses are instinctual, isn't it?
Okay, back to the animal instinct.
Elephant.
What defines an elephant energy?
Herbivorous diets.
Elephants are herbivores with a natural instinct to graze on a wide variety of plant matter such as grasses, leaves and barks.
Social behavior and family units.
Again, like crows, these people, elephant guys also have a highly
social structure.
You want social structure.
Elephants are highly social animals living in family units led by a matriarch.
Matriarchal energy right there.
womb.
Matriarchal energy.
With strong bonds and cooperation among members.
So elephants is a matriarchal different society.
That energy will be carried into Barani nakshatra migration and foraging instinct in search of food and water.
Elephants often have a seasonal migrational pattern.
You might have seen this in Discovery Channel, for example, right?
Elephants huge herds of them led by the matriarch going in search of water in the dry savanna right in Africa guided by the instinctual knowledge of environment.
Elephants know where the water is.
They love to sit in water.
As everybody knows communication through vocalizations and body language.
Elephants have an innate capacity to communicate through vocalizations and body movements.
Body movement allowing them to convey emotions, warnings and information within their groups.
All animals and birds might say to an extent have this, but there will be some characteristics which you will find through nakshatra.
Elephants are dominated by animals that some characteristics are dominant over others.
Remarkable memory and problem solving skills.
Do you see the commonality now?
Crows are clever problem solving skills.
Elephant has remarkable problem solving skills.
Elephants are known for their impressive memory.
This is very legendary elephant's memory.
They can remember a person after 40 years.
Problem solving abilities which they used to navigate the environment, find food and remember important locations.
So we need to keep this in mind when we are talking of instinctual level of bharni.
Consider tying in both the crows and the elephant not one over the other.
Let me know in comments if you find some of your instincts driven by bharni.
This will be especially strong if your ascended is bharni or moon is in bharni.
For example, considering Vedic astrology or even if it is the Lord of the first fourth fifth, eight or twelve thousand.
And as spoken this is the introduction you can rewind and see that.
Now let's head towards totems and what they represent.
When we speak of totems, it's a more refined kind of esoteric psychic occult kind of meanings.
The occult meanings of these animal symbols and how it ties into the nakshetra.
Let's try to derive that.
Crows in totem symbology, crows have intelligence and wisdom.
Crows are often associated with intelligence and cleverness.
They are known for their problem solving skills and adaptability.
Symbolizing the importance of using one's intelligence to navigate life's challenges,
somewhat similar to their intelligence.
When problem solving here as well as the elephant.
Keep tying in all these dots together.
Boldness and fearlessness.
Crows are fearless birds and their totem meaning can inspire individuals to confront their fears.
Take bold actions and face adversity with courage.
So courage with intelligence is one more thing that's showing up as a talent of burning.
Resourcefulness.
Crows are opportunistic and resourceful creatures.
So the totem meaning highlights the ability to make most of available resources and adapt to different situations of life.
Magic and occult.
In some belief systems, crows are associated with magic occult, the mystical.
The death, the other side of death, crosses a scavenger and just running with it.
They are considered as intermediaries between physical and spiritual realms.
Death and rebirth in some cultures crows are associated with death and afterlife.
The totem meaning can symbolize a cyclical nature of life, death and rebirth.
In the Hindu tradition, for example, to give food to our ancestors, typically after one of our lord once has died on their death anniversary,
they give balls of cooked rice and feed the crows because crows are considered as a vehicle to the other side of life.
Just so you know.
Hindus know this very well.
Now let's talk about elephants and the totem symbol and meaning of elephants.
Elephants are often associated with immense physical strength.
Physical strength, elephant is a very powerful animal.
Symbolizing the importance of inner strength and resilience in the face of challenges.
Family and community because it is made to be occult, it is driven by a family unit.
Elephants don't typically roam around alone unless it's a rebel.
Family and community. Elephants are known for the strong familial bonds and social connections.
That totem represents the value of family unit, unity and community support.
They do things together. Somewhat similar to you might say crows as well in the bird world.
Longevity and endurance. Elephants are wrong-lived animals.
Symbolizing the quality of endurance and longevity. See how that ties in into bearing restraint in the life lesson.
Bearing restraint in order to protect and hold the burden of bringing something new into the world.
The drive of this nakshatra, suddenly jumping towards nakshatra's city preservers,
I've covered this in the heart of nakshatas. If you want to revisit that.
This level of instinct is sort of a graduation of heart of nakshatra itself.
You might say.
Protection and guidance. Elephants are often seen as protectors and guides.
Their totem offers a sense of security and assisting in navigating life's challenges.
So when the Lord of the first or your ascended or your fourth house, fifth house,
eight thousand, twelve thousand are dominantly sitting in bharani, one or more planet, for example,
or moon, for example, in one of these houses, for example. Or if there are more number of planets and points,
especially which are driven towards your intellect, emotion, moon, mercury, your sense of drive,
Mars or sun, if they're sitting in bharani, it would signify a great deal of these prominence of instincts in you.
I'm bringing all this series specifically so that we get an idea of how or what might play in the instinctual level in your chart.
We need to know that unless we know what instinct level we are going from.
So it's ties in loosely to the Freudian psychology of id, id, ego, all that stuff defined by a segment Freud.
We are talking about the id level of things when it comes to nakshatra, I feel, because it's the core of the id itself.
What is really driving you?
Nakshatra is a drive and everything that drives trying to accomplish in the external as well as the internal world of human being.
Next, we shall study krtika nakshatra.
In the meantime, thanks for watching.
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