When you think of the fifth nakshatra of Murgshisha in terms of totems and instincts,
think of a young child, one who has just started to walk, one who is curious about parents,
asking all kinds of questions, they are full of 20 questions, they are never satisfied with their curiosity.
Murgshisha has a very curious nakshatra, a gentle curious nature of a child, that's this nakshatra.
So let's examine the hen as well as the cobra which can qualify this and what instincts are developing in Murgshisha nakshatra.
Let's get into it.
Before we get into the nakshatra, let us examine what the instinct houses mean in Vedic Astrology.
What could it be? It's marked over there, house number one, house number four, house number five, house number eight and house number twelve as marked there.
You should check the planets or the lords of the houses and which nakshatra they decided 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 eight life instinct.
It also means hidden truths.
It also dictates the type as well as the intensity and instincts regarding your populate experiences.
What does it mean?
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 very well know it's all instinct based to 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 there's Mrikshisana.
Let's investigate the totems and the instinct level of this nakshatra temperament is Dave.
So it is always seeking higher knowledge in some form of fashion.
Drive is steady.
It wants to preserve something and Mrikshisana Mars rule nakshatra was half in dollars, half in Gemini.
So it's a transitioning one from earth to air kind of energy.
Life lesson seems to be finding core commitment, which resonates deeply to work with.
So whenever you think Mrikshisana think like a young child inquisitive young child comes in the sign of Gemini more or less from Taurus.
But it's an infantile kind of energy curiosity.
It is symbolized by hen on the bird side and a cobra or a snake on the animal side.
So let's see what the instincts of a hen is brooding and nesting.
So it is very domesticated sort of creature.
Yes.
Hens have a strong instinct for nesting incubating eggs and caring for their chicks.
Motherly domesticated softer kind.
Foraging and scratching hence have an instinctive behavior of foraging for insects, seeds and small plants.
Social flock behavior.
Hens are naturally social birds often forming flocks of small groups for protection and companionship.
Egg laying hence exhibit naturalizing to lay eggs. Yes. Clucking and vocalization. Yes.
To communicate with other members of the flock.
To signal presence of food or protected chicks.
So think in terms of bird in terms of mind think like a hen when you think of Mrikshisana.
Soft or domesticated more or less living a quieter home life.
Mind is still developing.
I think of instincts in animals and birds in nakshatra has more like birds for mind animals for our animal instinct should speak mating instinct nesting instincts away we hunt for food that is the animal.
Cobra on the other side is a venomous predator with natural instinct to use the venom to immobilize or kill prey.
Solitary behavior. So there is a solitary side to Mrikshisana you might say.
Solitary reptiles reptilian instinct is strong when one is an infant.
Ambush predators cobra or instinctive ambush predators relying on stealth.
So there is the element of stealth once again when it comes to cobra.
Hooding the kind of developer hood as a threat to their enemies when they feel threatened.
So it's like a child responding to any perceived threat.
Thermoregulation they are able to regulate the body temperatures.
This is on the instinct animal purely.
Now let's see the totem side.
When you consider the instinct side of the hen over there nurturing in motherhood this totem meaning emphasizes the importance of caring for protecting caring and protection of family and loved ones.
Once again there is the infant energy which needs to be protected which needs to be cared for.
That's the symbol.
So if this totem keeps appearing and you have a dominant Mrikshisana it's time to shield yourself.
It's time to cocoon yourself in the nurturing caring protective energy of a family of a home.
Simplicity and home life.
Their totem may represent significance of maintaining a balanced and harmonious home life.
Fertility and abundance.
Their totem can symbolize potential for growth creativity and prosperity.
So there's one more clue there.
Prikshisaya is a creative nakshatra.
If this totem is appearing and you have a dominance of Prankshisya then it symbolifies you might be creative person wanting to germinate infantile nature.
Think infant.
Not as in baby-nams but a young infant who is just able to walk about with curiosity asking questions about everything.
Community and social bonds.
Their totem can represent the value of community, cooperation and the need for interconnectedness with others.
Big one, isn't it?
On the cobra side of things transformation and rebirth.
Once again, snake symbol is the symbol of transformation.
Because they are able to shed their skin from time to time and move into new skin all over the body.
Meaning they are able to re-unit their complete body and being.
Cobras are often associated with transformation and rebirth due to their ability to shed their skin.
So therefore this totem meaning symbolizes opportunity for personal growth, shedding of old habits and embracing change.
New way of being.
Power and energy.
So they are powerful energy creatures.
Cobras, the totem represents personal power, vitality, vitality of a young child.
And the ability to harness one's energy to overcome challenges.
See, cobra is simplified in many nakshatras in Vedic astrology.
But you have got to evaluate with respect to age here.
I would suggest be careful about that.
Mystery and hidden knowledge.
Cobras are seen as creatures of mystery and hidden knowledge.
So sometimes the young child will try to bring in their own innate knowledge which they have just arrived on this earth from the other side.
And they may say curious things like I see an angel or I see a figure or I see something.
Their totem may encourage individuals to explore the mysterious side of life and seek deeper meanings.
Balance and duality.
Cobra are often depicted with hooded displays symbolizing the balance between opposing forces and all duality.
Their totem can represent importance of finding harmony and equilibrium in life.
So just to wrap up, think of Rajas fixed female in Taurus where first upada is the next two is Rajas dual and male.
So it might say this is a balance of male and female energies like an infant.
And they are constantly curious.
They seek wisdom and they might also think in terms of trade and commerce.
Give me two chocolates and I will tell you the truth.
You know how children bargain right?
Think of that kind of an energy.
I'll see you in the next one.
6th one.
Adra nakshatra instincts and totems.
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