Asavyo vasar patinilag grivo vilohitakh
utainam gopa atrishan atrishan nadaharyakh
utainam vishvabhutani sedristo mdayadina
These are the wonderful lines from Rudra Prashna.
We are asking questions to Rudra, the Lord of Desolution.
Why are we talking about that?
Because we are speaking about the 26th nakshatra out of the 27th
called Uttarabhadrapada nakshatra which falls
in the zodiac sign of Pisces between 3 degrees 20 minutes to 16 degrees 40 minutes of Pisces.
The Navamsa goes from Leo up till Scorpio.
Uttarabhadrapada is a twin brother of the previous one which we did, Purvabhadrapada.
So this also has the energy of Rudra buried in it.
But this is kind of the opposite.
Purvabhadrapada was all about fire and this is all about water.
So it's completely opposite for this nakshatra.
The nature of this nakshatra is fixed and the symbol is of a water serpent of the deep.
Ahirbudhyana is the deity, the water serpent of the deep.
Now think about the symbology of water serpent of the deep.
The serpent itself represents in Vedic tradition about transformation.
Wherever the serpent goes, it's transforming something.
It is shedding old skin, it is becoming something new.
That's what serpent represents.
In every one of these nakshatra we have done so far, look at the serpent symbology.
It's about transformation.
Spiritual mental, emotional at whatever level you want to wish to call it, it represents
transformation.
Now Uttarabhadrapada has got a transformation of emotion because water represents moksha
science, the cancer, the scorpio and the Pisces.
So in Pisces this represents the ultimate transformation.
And coming after Purvabhadrapada, which is all about fire and burning everything to
cinders, what does Uttarabhadrapada have left?
Uttarabhadrapada is therefore the energy of seeking permanence, stability in a fleeting
world.
They see everything in their life as fleeting, it's gone, it comes for a minute and then
it's gone.
Where is my stability?
This is the question Uttarabhadrapada asks itself.
They are all about endurance, they are very enduring people.
Forbearance, realizing the true emotional fortunes of life is their theme.
They are looking for emotion because it falls in Pisces.
Remember Pisces is represented by the ocean, the final dissolution place of all rivers
so to speak, the ocean.
So they are wanting to realize the emotional fortunes of life.
On the downside they can be very procrastination type, especially in Padha 3, Pisces going
into Libra.
They could be scholarly and counselors and needing fame, especially in Padha 1 going
into Leo.
They could be analytical in Padha 2.
They could have the theme of passivity in Padha 3, again going with Libra.
They are wanting to share knowledge with the public.
They have an energy of mysticism, occult with action and they could also on the downside
be lost in an internal emotional turmoil, especially in Padha 4, Pisces going into Scorpio.
If Pisces goes back into Scorpio, it is kind of taking a step back, isn't it?
That's why they can get lost in internal turmoil, emotional turmoil.
Why are such things happening to me?
You are trying to define what's happening by the way of your emotions.
You can do it multiple ways, you can understand it in a mental plane or you can understand
it in an emotional level.
Pisces being all about water and moksha, the 12th traditional house looks at everything
in an emotional color.
The life lesson for this beautiful nakshatra is finding emotional connect with external
beings through spiritual essence inside.
It should be through spiritual essence inside.
Anyway, finding permanence within temporary aspects.
If everything in life is fleeting, they need to find the so-called thread of permanence
which lies hidden within those temporary aspects.
If anything is temporary also, it has a permanent emotional signature to it.
The challenge of Uttaravadrapada is to discover that emotional thread which runs through everything
temporary.
It's like looking at secrets which are hidden in plain sight.
This is the theme and doing it with an emotional body.
Finding emotional connect with external beings, the true spiritual essence inside, they need
to find this.
This is the life lesson.
So the mantra therefore Rudra Prasna will help them discover it because Rudra is both
the fire, Rudra is both the water.
Rudra when it becomes Shiva, it resides in the heart, the peaceful one, the calm one,
the one who is contained with oneself that is Shiva.
It resides in the heart.
The Rudra resides in the third eye which looks at everything in its true aspect is not interested
in anything anymore.
That's why the third eye of Shiva is designated that which burns the entire creation to ashes.
The destructive force of the third eye which what is it destroying here?
It's just destroying illusions.
That's it.
So Uttaravadrapada and Purva-Bhadrapada in this sense represent the heart chakra and
the third eye chakra.
We are graduating out of all the materialistic planes of existence.
We are distilling it down to emotion or knowledge in its purest form.
The ages active for this nakshatra is 11, 18, 19, 24, 64, 68, 70 and 75.
So next we shall be doing the Revati-Nakshatra, the prosperous one.
Take care.
Thank you.