Dharah, Dharasuta, Dhanya, Dharmini, Dharmavartini.
What does this mean? These are lines from
Lalitasa, Sranama, the thousand names of the Mother Goddess of the Universe, which means
she who carries all beings like the earth,
she who is the daughter of the mountain, she who has all sorts of earth,
she who likes Dharma, Dharma in this context being,
doing the right thing, simplified, doing the right thing.
We most of the times know what is doing the right thing.
We would hardly do it, isn't it, for humans?
So we come to the second Naksatra,
Varani Naksatra, which is all to do with Dharma.
So let's discuss it.
So Varani is the second Naksatra,
which is the second part of Aries almost.
The last one comes into Krithika, which we shall see later.
What does Varani mean? Varani is also called the bearer.
The symbol is of a womb.
The womb is what bears us into this world, the mothers who carry us in their womb.
Think of the womb symbology of Varani and you'll understand what this Naksatra really means.
So it falls between 13 degrees, 20 minutes of Aries and goes up to 26 degrees, 40 minutes of Aries.
This part of Aries is more grounded, it's Gana is like Manusha, it's more earthly in nature,
that's why it's earth.
Its nature is rather fierce.
So planets like sun, Mars, etc. will do very well in Varani Naksatra.
D.A.T. is Yama, the lord of Dharma.
So Dharma in this context, don't confuse it with the Badas of the Naksatra itself.
We are talking about the lord here.
Lord Yama is all about doing the right thing.
The lord of rights and wrongs, the person, the guy who stands in judgment of things.
Did you do the right thing or did you not do the right thing in any context of life?
So that's the lord and it is tied to the symbology of the womb.
So these two itself give the essential meaning of what Varani Naksatra plays out in a person's life.
If more number of points, two or more points in your chart fall in the natal chart and the Navamsha chart of yours,
it means you have got a dominant Varani theme playing out in your life, whichever area you have, life, work, personal life, etc.
So what's the path of it?
We'll examine the path more with respect to the energies because this study is all about energies, which the Naksatras provide us.
It's very rich.
The energy of Varani is a passionately driven person, very controlled, maybe very sexual in nature, which is the fourth path.
Why? Because there is Scorpio there.
Scorpio is essentially internally sexual in nature.
It also, we can see there is a lot of creativity if it's in the first path because it Navamsha falls in the sign of Leo,
which is traditionally the fifth house, so it can lead to more creative person.
It's a very receptive kind of energy.
Think womb again.
It's internalizing, cleansing and rebirthing.
It's transformation through life.
Children focus maybe more on the first path again because Leo is the fifth house, which is traditionally of children.
There might be more focused on children if your planets are in the second earth, the first path.
Fight all kinds of struggles.
Varani stands for righteous causes, fighting social causes.
They can become social reformers, fighting for children's causes maybe.
The good of the society, the good of the man, human being.
So what can these kind of people be who are social reformers?
That can be one of the third path.
Why is that?
Because there is Libra there in the Navamsha.
It is going towards Libra.
That's what it means, needle to Navamsha.
So because of this, Libra is all about going for the masses.
And Varani providing that energy of doing the right thing, they might become social reformers.
These are the people who fight for social justice.
They can be very straight and very blunt approach if they are in the second path, which is the Artha path.
You can see over there because he re-transits to Virgo in Navamsha.
Virgo is all about being very blunt.
They are not the ones to mix words.
Mystery and secrets prone to jealousy, judgmental, unpredictable and unusual.
That's the fourth path.
Why it falls from Aries going towards Scorpio in Navamsha, which makes Scorpio is more of secretive,
more of the Aethas, more hidden secrets, more internal.
Life lesson of Varani would be keeping respectable boundaries, bearing restraint and control in order to protect.
Holding burden with responsibility in order to deliver like the womb.
Remember we spoke of symbology of each Nakshatra, the symbols and the deity, the Lord of Dharma in this case, Yama,
mean everything in Varani.
The symbol, a bird and animal are a crow and an elephant.
The crow is symbolized as the vehicle which carries the soul over to the other side.
So it symbolizes death right there in the Vedic tradition.
An elephant means the victory, one who is very strong.
So even the animal and the bird symbology carry a lot of meanings in Nakshatras.
That's why I put the pictures there.
The whole energy should come to you like an instant.
The mantra I recommend is Lalita Satsranama, which is the thousand names of the Divine Mother Goddess.
This is Lalita is the mother of the universe.
We all are in her purview, this entire universe.
The ages that this Nakshatra is active is 7, 8, 24, 28, 33 and 51.
So if you have more Varani Nakshatra planets and points, these are the ages where you will find transformation or your breakthroughs or your success stories.
That is number two, Varani Nakshatra, beautiful Nakshatra.