Namaste, asthubhagavan, vishveshvaraya maha devaya,
trahyam bakaya, tripuranthakaya, trikaagmi kaalaya,
kaalagni rudraaya, nila kantaya, mrityanjaya,
sarveshvaraya, sadashivaya, shreeman maha devaya, nama.
These are the lines from Rudra Prasna.
The salutations to Lord Rudra,
which means salutations to you called,
who is the Lord of the universe, who is the greatest among gods,
who has three eyes, who destroyed three cities,
who is the master of the three fires,
who is the Rudra who burns the world,
who has a blue neck, who has won over the God of death,
who is the Lord of everything, who is ever peaceful,
who is ever great with goodness, salutations again.
Why do I speak of Shiva and Rudra here?
Because we come to the sixth nakshatra of Aardra,
Aardra meaning a teardrop,
which falls in the zodiac sign of the Gemini,
between six degrees, forty minutes, and twenty degrees of Gemini.
So it's got the same four padals, dharma, kakama and moksha,
which go in Navamsa, from Gemini to Sagittarius, Capricorn Aquarius and Pisces.
The tattva is water, the nature is movable, Aardra is constantly moving.
And to understand Aardra really, you must understand
what Rudra is portrayed as in the Vedic tradition.
But what is the energy of Aardra?
Since in these series we are only focusing on the energy of the nakshatra,
its transformation through difficulties of life,
its keen intellectual capacity, change, lots of ups and downs,
its transformation through grief, grief transformation is the unique thing about Rudra.
Rudra is the Lord of the sign, this nakshatra.
So lots of ups and downs, great sorrow and rejuvenation after that.
This is about crying, this is about grief and rejuvenation that comes
after that great sorrow and great grief.
Okay, this is the theme of this nakshatra.
So if more planets and points in your chart, especially personal ones,
are dominated by Aardra, it means you are here to transform some form of grief.
Okay, that's the karmic path we are talking about here, grief transformation.
Easily influenced and determined, hardworking in Padat 2, because it's
going into Capricorn, hardworking practical,
kind of engineering kind of mentality, Aardra people tend to dig deep within every subject.
They are explorers, they are free spirited explorers.
They are easily influenced, determined, hardworking maybe in Padat 2,
acting to rise from ashes, optimistic, hope and futuristic.
First, Padat, because it goes into Sagittarius,
investigative shrewd, intuitive power, Padat 3 probably because we are talking Aquarius.
This nakshatra is ruled by Rahu.
This is the first of the Rahu ruled nakshatras, which you can see the sign there,
the North Node of the Moon.
They are investigative shrewd, they have emotions connected to the intellect.
This is the one key theme you got to understand about Aardra.
Aardra is emotionalizing the intellectual capacity.
They understand with emotions everything that has to be transmitted,
because Aardra only knows how to transform through emotions,
through expression of that grief. That's why it's called the Howler.
Rudra, the Lord is a Howler.
It's a pure energy form that moves through all the earth, through all the universe.
It does not have a restrictive energy about it, breaks all boundaries.
That's why the word destruction, it is just breaking through all boundaries.
They have artistic and they want comforts probably in Padha 4,
because it's pices. They need freedom and want to break from monotony.
Non-traditional and free-spirited to the maximum.
There's that Rahu signature again there, as well as the Rudra signature, the Lord of this Nakshatra.
They love adventure probably in Padha 3, again because there's a
Kama sign and it goes into Aquarius. What is the life lesson of
Rudra, Aardranitives? Using anger and grief to transform negativity.
You can get angry very quickly, especially if personal planets are
in this like Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars and so on.
Especially if Mars is there, they can get really angry. Quick to anger and very
extreme sort of anger, extreme emotions and they wouldn't know how to handle it.
So I would recommend Mantra definitely as Rudra Prashna.
Definitely do this, especially when Moon is transiting over Aardranakshatra.
It's a very good time to chant Rudra Prashna and to do it regularly.
The ages active is 11, 15, 18, 37, 24, 52 and 61. So if Aardran is very strong in your
horoscope, if Moon number of planets and points are there or if the Ascendant and the Moon is there,
these years can be transformative for you. Remember that.
A beautiful Naksha Taha.