1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,680 Namaste, asthubhagavan, vishveshvaraya maha devaya, 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,960 trahyam bakaya, tripuranthakaya, trikaagmi kaalaya, 3 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:13,080 kaalagni rudraaya, nila kantaya, mrityanjaya, 4 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:18,800 sarveshvaraya, sadashivaya, shreeman maha devaya, nama. 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:23,040 These are the lines from Rudra Prasna. 6 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,640 The salutations to Lord Rudra, 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:27,800 which means salutations to you called, 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,480 who is the Lord of the universe, who is the greatest among gods, 9 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,000 who has three eyes, who destroyed three cities, 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,080 who is the master of the three fires, 11 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,560 who is the Rudra who burns the world, 12 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,560 who has a blue neck, who has won over the God of death, 13 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,160 who is the Lord of everything, who is ever peaceful, 14 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:51,640 who is ever great with goodness, salutations again. 15 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,120 Why do I speak of Shiva and Rudra here? 16 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,640 Because we come to the sixth nakshatra of Aardra, 17 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,640 Aardra meaning a teardrop, 18 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,240 which falls in the zodiac sign of the Gemini, 19 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:11,520 between six degrees, forty minutes, and twenty degrees of Gemini. 20 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,720 So it's got the same four padals, dharma, kakama and moksha, 21 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:22,760 which go in Navamsa, from Gemini to Sagittarius, Capricorn Aquarius and Pisces. 22 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:27,480 The tattva is water, the nature is movable, Aardra is constantly moving. 23 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,520 And to understand Aardra really, you must understand 24 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:35,640 what Rudra is portrayed as in the Vedic tradition. 25 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,880 But what is the energy of Aardra? 26 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:42,120 Since in these series we are only focusing on the energy of the nakshatra, 27 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,120 its transformation through difficulties of life, 28 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:50,520 its keen intellectual capacity, change, lots of ups and downs, 29 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:58,840 its transformation through grief, grief transformation is the unique thing about Rudra. 30 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:05,080 Rudra is the Lord of the sign, this nakshatra. 31 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:09,880 So lots of ups and downs, great sorrow and rejuvenation after that. 32 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:14,440 This is about crying, this is about grief and rejuvenation that comes 33 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,280 after that great sorrow and great grief. 34 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,680 Okay, this is the theme of this nakshatra. 35 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,560 So if more planets and points in your chart, especially personal ones, 36 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:30,920 are dominated by Aardra, it means you are here to transform some form of grief. 37 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:37,080 Okay, that's the karmic path we are talking about here, grief transformation. 38 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:42,840 Easily influenced and determined, hardworking in Padat 2, because it's 39 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,840 going into Capricorn, hardworking practical, 40 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:52,840 kind of engineering kind of mentality, Aardra people tend to dig deep within every subject. 41 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:58,840 They are explorers, they are free spirited explorers. 42 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,920 They are easily influenced, determined, hardworking maybe in Padat 2, 43 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:08,440 acting to rise from ashes, optimistic, hope and futuristic. 44 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,040 First, Padat, because it goes into Sagittarius, 45 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:18,360 investigative shrewd, intuitive power, Padat 3 probably because we are talking Aquarius. 46 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,000 This nakshatra is ruled by Rahu. 47 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:26,040 This is the first of the Rahu ruled nakshatras, which you can see the sign there, 48 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,640 the North Node of the Moon. 49 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:34,360 They are investigative shrewd, they have emotions connected to the intellect. 50 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,480 This is the one key theme you got to understand about Aardra. 51 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:42,520 Aardra is emotionalizing the intellectual capacity. 52 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,360 They understand with emotions everything that has to be transmitted, 53 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,760 because Aardra only knows how to transform through emotions, 54 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:54,520 through expression of that grief. That's why it's called the Howler. 55 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,400 Rudra, the Lord is a Howler. 56 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:02,760 It's a pure energy form that moves through all the earth, through all the universe. 57 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:07,800 It does not have a restrictive energy about it, breaks all boundaries. 58 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:13,720 That's why the word destruction, it is just breaking through all boundaries. 59 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:18,600 They have artistic and they want comforts probably in Padha 4, 60 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:23,400 because it's pices. They need freedom and want to break from monotony. 61 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,720 Non-traditional and free-spirited to the maximum. 62 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:35,880 There's that Rahu signature again there, as well as the Rudra signature, the Lord of this Nakshatra. 63 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,560 They love adventure probably in Padha 3, again because there's a 64 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,640 Kama sign and it goes into Aquarius. What is the life lesson of 65 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:50,280 Rudra, Aardranitives? Using anger and grief to transform negativity. 66 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:54,520 You can get angry very quickly, especially if personal planets are 67 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,280 in this like Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars and so on. 68 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:04,440 Especially if Mars is there, they can get really angry. Quick to anger and very 69 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:09,800 extreme sort of anger, extreme emotions and they wouldn't know how to handle it. 70 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,800 So I would recommend Mantra definitely as Rudra Prashna. 71 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:18,760 Definitely do this, especially when Moon is transiting over Aardranakshatra. 72 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:24,920 It's a very good time to chant Rudra Prashna and to do it regularly. 73 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:34,040 The ages active is 11, 15, 18, 37, 24, 52 and 61. So if Aardran is very strong in your 74 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:39,160 horoscope, if Moon number of planets and points are there or if the Ascendant and the Moon is there, 75 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:43,880 these years can be transformative for you. Remember that. 76 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:49,480 A beautiful Naksha Taha.