Nakshatra nemi, nakshatri, kshamak, shama, samihana.
What does that mean?
That's the words from the thousand names of Vishnu, Vishnu sahasranama.
Which means, nakshatra nemi means, he who is one like the Zodiac.
Nakshatri, who is like the moon, who is the chief of stars.
Kshamak, shama, samihana, who is persistently patient, who remains alone after the deluge.
He who likes the job of creation.
So when we talk of nakshatras, understand we are speaking of the various forms of the great creation itself.
Everything in the nakshatras is the Maya of Vishnu.
It's the way we experience subjective reality.
And each one is a point of view which is different from the others.
And we are a collection or a combination of all these nakshatras.
Every chart has all the nakshatras, but some are more focused with planets and points.
And others are not.
This is the reason why you ignore certain things while another person next to you is sitting and focusing on only that more
and ignoring whatever you are about.
Welcome ladies and gentlemen, let's study the nakshatras.
So what essentially are we talking of when we talk of these 27 constellations of the moon or lunar mansions as they are popularly referred to as.
The nakshata arrangement as you can see on the picture there.
Let's just simplify it into what it is.
We are studying about the basic nakshatra arrangement.
In the Navamsa, the ninth divisional chart, this is the pie chart which will be dissecting step by step
into all these series of nakshatra in this complete playlist as we go along.
So there is a 12 zodiac sign belt right from Aries to Pisces in the innermost one indicated there.
Next to that is the nakshatra belt, the one above it.
After that, the numbering that you see, that belt is the pada or the steps.
Pada is also called the feet.
Vishnu is said to be embodied in the feet.
Pada yor Vishnu stishtetu, like it says in the Rudra Lagunya Sa is the feet.
Vishnu resides in the feet.
The feet is supported by the earth.
We'll come to all of these esoterics later on.
Nakshatra is the study of esoteric energy.
So, the Navamsa next to the pada belt, the last outermost belt which you see indicated by again zodiac signs, is the Navamsa pada belt.
In the Navamsa, each zodiac is split into nine parts as you can see there.
So, that's what we are about to study in this series.
Within Vedic astrology, the 12 zodiac signs fall within the domain of 27 constellation types, also called the nakshatra.
It is just like zooming into a zodiac sign and into each star within the constellation of the zodiac.
How each one affects the theme and the nature of the zodiac, like in the picture you see.
I've just taken a sample here.
Let us say we take a telescope and we focus on the zodiac sign of Leo.
Leo has all those stars which look like that in the night sky.
Nakshatra, which goes in the Navamsa, we are split up into nine parts here.
The zodiac of Leo is split into nine parts.
It goes through the nakshatra of Maga to Purva Phalguni and to the first pada of Uttara Phalguni.
So, this is how we cover it.
Nakshatras are basically zooming in into the zodiac.
So, now you are getting almost like micro examination of your zodiac sign.
We are zooming in.
These 27 nakshatras are constellations of Vedic astrology, also known as lunar mansions,
since they are said to represent the moon, mind, the manas in Sanskrit,
provide us rich esoteric knowledge of what shades and colors a soul experiences in a given lifetime,
and what the soul path may be, what the motive of the soul wants to achieve,
perhaps what it needs to love, what it needs to let go of, release and heal in life.
The Navamsa or the ninth divisional chart is considered to be the evolution of soul in maturing years,
typically after 36 years or the age of Saturn maturity.
So, the natal chart and the navamsa divisional chart are the most consulted charts in India.
Probably the ninth division is given a lot of importance also.
This is just my guess.
It's because Vedic astrology is based on a nine planet point system.
The sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Rao, Ketu, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
And each division here therefore has a different energy signature within a given zodiac.
Within the navamsa, each zodiac sign is divided into nine parts of three degrees, 20 minutes each.
Each nakshatra therefore spans a total of 13 degrees and 20 minutes segment.
Each nakshatra has four divisions of padas. Padas means in this case steps.
As a result of this uneven distribution, many zodiac signs will spill over to the last padas or into different nakshatras.
Or some will even split in half.
For example, Mars.
Mars rule nakshatras are all split in half between two adjacent zodiac signs.
The four padas are designated as dharma, artha, kama and moksha padas,
showing us the graduation steps of soul evolution.
The easiest way to grasp a nakshatra and the theme it represents is by understanding the deity of the nakshatra,
the devic energies that govern that.
And second, by the associated symbols representing each nakshatra.
We shall examine this in the nakshatra videos.
The four steps or padas meaning feet in Sanskrit and with their associated elements dharma,
that is the fire element, artha, the earth element, kama, the air element and moksha, the water element.
These steps are evolution of the soul path and therefore become our individual experience of our body,
senses, mind seeking, achieving faults, trials and tribulations and so forth.
Each step or pada alters the nature of our life themes that play out for us individually.
According to the ruling sign, according to the ascendant, the moon placement and all the rest of the planets, the house placement, etc.
They play out in sets of four, three times in a zodiac.
Aries to Cancer are the first, Leo to Scorpio are the second.
Sagittarius to Pisces, the third set.
The Aries to Cancer padas represent the birth and formative energies of the soul path in life.
The physical appearance, talents, abilities, family, home, the Brahma energies, how you are formed,
how the basic concept of an embodied soul is being sculpted and formed in this life.
Leo number five to Scorpio number eight padas represents sustenance, procreation, creativity, knowledge, love, work,
engagement for the soul path in this life, the Vishnu energies, how you preserve whatever is you have in your life,
how you create more, how you procreate, how do you bring forth children in this world, how do you take care of your children.
These houses represent that, how the formed individual is now playing out in the external world, participation and mixing.
Sagittarius number nine to Pisces number 12 padas represent dissemination, expenditure, service to society,
dissolution from self into the external, the Shiva energies, how the adult has now matured through meaningful engagement
of selfless service, higher wisdom, deep learning through losses and gains of life.
How do we all learn? We learn through losses and gains folks.
We don't learn through having tons of money or having that wish list which we all have.
So as you can see, even in this second picture, the Nakshtras themselves have seemed to have a kind of evolution
path to them. So the first four of them, Aries to Cancer as I spoke about, is all about the Brahma, the formative energies.
Right from the time you're born to your family, these create formative energies for you.
And the second four of them, the Vishnu, what I call the bottom one, as you can see, the preservative energies.
The preservative energies is number five to eight, where you engage creatively, where you love, where you have children,
where you engage with the external world, where you do some work, where you have gains and losses of life,
learn through gains and losses of life. That's the second five to eight.
When you go from the Pada of Sagittarius to Pisces, the last Padas, these are the Shiva type of energies.
These are dissolution of energies. It begins with the Moolana Kshatra, by the way, which goes deep, wants to find out the source energy of things,
wants to find out the reason, the deeper reasons and the meanings of life. This is the seeking.
This is the participating in the external karma. The number 10,000 comes here. The 11,000 comes here.
Extreme amount of gains, losses, healthy shoes, people learn through this. This is the last and the dissolution, Shiva phase of the Padas.
Now you've got to remember the Dharma Pada is in every zodiac, in every nakshatra.
The Dharma Pada is the first one, which is the fire element. The artha will be second, kama will be three and moksha will be four.
This is common for all nakshatras. So the Dharma Pada will have either Aries, Lea or Sagittarius.
The artha Pada will always have two six and ten, that is Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.
The kama Pada will have signs of Gemini, Libra and Aquarius, the three seven and eleven and the moksha, the water signs, will have the sign of cancer,
Scorpio and Pisces, the water elements. So these will be common to every nakshatra. Every Pada will have these kind of steps.
We shall see the steps. The steps are the most crucial to understanding the propensity and where the soul is going.
This study is about understanding soul parts here. This study is about understanding the energies of nakshatra.
It's not so much focused on the predictive part of it, although there is always that. This is more on the study part of it.
Lastly, let me describe how the structure of the videos, every one of these nakshatra videos, I have made it like, for ease of understanding.
I got to explain how I am dealing with each one of these. So these are from my notes, essentially. The structure of the videos will be something like this.
The picture on the left is how you will see the video. This first one, for example, Ashwini nakshatra.
And how it is structured is the one on the top right corner, top left corner, issuing the moon, because it is all lunar mansions, and it is showing the symbol of the nakshatra.
The second part which describes the zodiac. It also describes the padas. So remember this table I have taken from my notes.
One to twelve signs. It is the individual fire, the earth, the quality of the zodiac sign is there. Whether it is dharma, artha, kama, or moksha, the sign lord is there.
So that's the second part I have given the details. In the little table there under the moon, we see the padas.
Which is the dharma padas, which is the artha padas, which is the kama padas, which is the moksha padas. In the natal chart and in the navamsha, both will be presented.
So first of all the main zodiac is there and then the padas are also there.
And then on the right hand side top corner, I am presenting the mantras associated. Now this is just my personal take on it. If you have some other mantra you wish to recite, that's up to you.
I have taken these based on my own intuition and what will work well for that nakshatra. Why do we need to recite mantra?
For one thing, the mantras or the sahasranamas are a collection of thousand various forms of the energy that will help in the deciphering and in the proper execution of a person's life path.
We just put it that way. Below the sahasranama which I am presenting, we are discussing the active ages.
What ages is this nakshatra active?
And on the bottom right hand corner, I am showing the pie chart and which slice of the pie we are analyzing.
Which zodiac sign are we analyzing in that particular video and which nakshatra are we analyzing?
So we will go through all the slices of 27 nakshatras in this way.
On the left hand, the bottom most corner is the most important of them all.
It is the energy of the nakshatra. What kind of energy is presented? What life themes will be affecting this particular individual?
If you have more number of planets or points in any given nakshatra and the ascendant and or the moon, this becomes a very dominant theme in your life.
That is the reason why you need to know this. And there is most importantly an associated life lesson.
What do you need to learn from all this stuff you have got going on in your life? That is what we come down to.
Remember where a nakshatra works depends upon which house it falls into in your chart.
The ascendant nakshatra is the soul energy, moon nakshatra is how your mind is working.
The path of a planet or a point strongly influences the energy of the nakshatra.
So with that, we will begin the nakshatra series starting from Ashwini. Check out.