When we come to the sixth nakshatra of Aadra and if we study that in terms of instincts
and totem symbols and instincts, again we are talking about house number one four five
eight and twelve.
It is a brief transformer.
It signifies the stage of a person's life when it is first born out of the mother's
womb and it is crying.
The first cry is Aadranakshatra.
The first instinctual feel of what it is to leave the comfort of the mother's womb and
come into the harsh physical reality.
That's Aadranakshatra.
So let's get into this and let us see what it can mean.
These two symbols, the red-naved eye this is and the dog.
This is the symbol of animal and bird in Aadranakshatra.
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 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 distinct 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?
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.
How do you handle those changes is the attributes of the eighth life instinct.
It also means hidden truths.
It also dictates the type as well as the intensity and instincts regarding your populate
re experiences.
What does it mean?
Populate re experiences.
How do you deal with sex?
What does it means 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.
So the lord of the eight and the 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?
The hidden desires exploration of the psychic and the hidden realms.
That's the house.
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 twelve 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.
The sixth nakshatra of Aadha.
The symbols are the bird representation being the Indian love bird or the red named ibises
and animal representation is dog.
So let's study this instinct from the perspective of the first house, the ascendant nakshatra,
the fourth house, your heart, your instincts of the emotion, the fifth house, your creativity,
the eighth house, the house of change and transformation or the 12th house, the house
of letting go and absorbing the higher Akashic aspects.
The Indian love bird, the red named ibises, let's see the basic instinct of these bird
and this animal.
So the red named ibises are opportunistic feeders with a natural instinct to overcome
a varied diet, including insects, small vertebrates, crustaceans and aquatic plants.
Their social behavior is small to large groups.
So they have a group instinct right there.
Breeding and nesting instincts, which will be applicable to your home front, by the
way, they have instinctual behaviors relating to breeding, including selecting the nest
sites, incubating eggs and raising the young ones in colonies.
Again, a group instinct.
Father nakshatra will have that waiting and foraging skills.
They have an instinctual ability for waiting in shallow waters using their long beaks.
Right.
You can see that in the picture and they use vocalization for communication, which is common
to the animal and the bird kingdom.
Some birds and animals are lone backs.
We shall see that later in other nakshatras.
The dog.
It has a pack instinct dogs as you know, running backs, working in packs, social hierarchy
and cooperative behavior is impacts for dogs.
There's a dominant one in the pack and rest of them follow hunting and retrieval instinct.
Many dogs breeds have written instinct for hunting and retrieval does the typical one
which you see, you know, people throwing things and dogs going and fetching it, right, hunting
and herding retrieving objects.
They have been used even in law enforcement because of this, because of the instinct.
Our daughter nakshatra will have this instinct of retrieving hidden stuff, guarding and territorial
behavior.
Dogs are dogs are very territorial in the nature, as we know, they will sit outside
your house and they'll become the owner of that particular property of that area.
They will guard and bark and defend against all invasions of their territory.
Communication through barking and body language.
Again, same as the bird.
They use communication skills, they're barking and then emotional display, you might say,
dogs are very emotional in nature.
The owners of dogs know this scent detection and tracking skills again, because dogs are
so common as pets.
We know all of these, right?
Remarkable instinct for scent detection.
Apparently they have a million scent detection receptors in their nasal passage as compared
to humans who have only a couple of dozen dogs and thousands of them.
Now we take the consideration of the totem symbols.
We saw the instinct.
Now let's see the totem.
Can you consider the totem aspect of red nape ibises?
Adaptability.
So if you have red nape ibises coming in your dreams or if you see the pictures of them
frequently, this is how you have to understand the symbols and meanings.
Adaptability.
It symbolizes the importance of flexibility and ability to adjust to changing circumstances.
Connection to water.
The red nape ibises because they sit in a lot of water bodies can represent a strong connection
to emotions.
Again, see the life lesson there using anger and grief to transform negativity.
You see, Ardranakshatra represents that stage of human life where the baby's first cry is
born.
The first time the baby cries is Ardranakshatra.
The grief of that, the grief of leaving the comfort of the mother's womb and coming into
the harsh physical reality.
That's what Ardranakshatra is.
So strong connection to water.
There's an emotional connection there.
Serenity and balance.
These birds are often seen as peaceful, balanced creatures.
Their totem can encourage individuals to find inner peace and harmony in spite of the attitude
of, not attitude, that would be a wrong word, in spite of the nature of physical reality
itself being harsh and Ardranakshatra strongly rejecting that by the way of anger and grief.
Right?
It needs to find the serenity and balance.
Reflection and self-examination.
Red nape ibises are often found near reflective bodies of water.
That would symbolize the importance of self-reflection and introspection.
Ardra is a Rahu ruled nakshatra.
Therefore, it is very powerful in its analysis of self-examination.
It's a powerful nakshatra.
All Rahu ruled nakshatras are.
We shall see this much later on.
There's Rahu ruled nakshatra first starting with this one, Ardra.
The next one being Swati, the last one being Shatabhesha.
So these nakshatras have deep involvement with the examination of the mind.
Okay?
The dogs now, the totem of the dog.
What does it mean if you have dogs in your dreams?
Loyalty and companionship.
The totem emphasizes the importance of building strong loyal relationships.
We know this because we stay with dogs.
Protection and guardianship.
If you're watching the symbols in your dreams, it can symbolify you need to have protection
for yourself.
You need to be watchful, especially when it comes to family and loved ones watching over
your loved ones.
Dogs' dogs have very strong protective instincts, as we know.
Trust and intuition.
Dogs have a sense of intuition and their modem and the totem encourages individuals to trust
their instincts and be more aware of their surroundings.
Sorry, the second coffee hasn't kicked in.
Playfulness and joy.
Dogs are very joyful creatures.
They will jump at the first chance they can get for playing with their owners.
All dog owners know this.
Owners know this.
Healing and service.
Dogs have this energy of unconditional service.
Once again, all the people who are dog owners know this so well.
They want to be of service, unconditional love and unconditional service to their masters.
A dog looks for always finding the masters so that they can serve.
So Aadha Nakshatra, if you have a dominant one, just to wrap this up with the life lesson,
if you want to transform your anger and grief, and once again, if you're talking of instinct,
it's house number one, four, five, eight and twelve.
Even if the lords are not in those houses, if the lords of those houses are in this Nakshatra,
why it signifies that?
You have certain anger, you have certain grief and which both of these would lead to some
kind of a frustration.
The reason I'm saying some kind because it can vary a lot depending upon which houses
and dharada, right?
Which house they are sitting in, the lords of the houses.
Maybe you have to transform that anger and grief into some kind of service.
Aadha Nakshatra people will be drawn towards bringing the light of transformation to the
world, like a dog serving its master.
You're looking for that peace which you want to serve others.
With your own mind, you will crunch it in your own mind.
However, the instinct will draw you towards bringing it to others, from yourself, transforming
within yourself and bringing it to others.
Aadha Nakshatra people, you can comment here if you like.
If this is being applicable some way in your life, if Aadha Nakshatra on the other hand
sits there, there's nothing about it.
You have all these anger, you have all this grief combined which translates to frustration
of an nth degree.
We all have frustrations but Aadha Nakshatra has it to a very transformative degree.
That's the positive point.
That frustration you need to transform it as service to others.
Okay?
Next, we shall take the seventh of Purnarvasu.
Meanwhile, happy Diwali.
Take care.
Be safe.
Celebrate.