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Arudra nakshatra
Arudra nakshatra (Betelgeuse) In Mithuna from
6:40 to 20:00. The presiding deity the Rudra,
the wielder of the trident. Symbol- a teardrop.
The ruling planet is Rahu. When Surya enters Arudra the earth is said to be starting its
menstrual course that is Ambobachi. Arudra means
wet or surcharged with water, that is fat.
Because the earth is running her menstrual
course there are teardrops falling one after
another. From Rudra comes all suffering,
persecutions and oppressions, anger, ferocity of
countenance or hideousness of noise. Rudra is
another name of Siva, the Five Faced (Panchanana).
In knowledge, asceticism, renunciation, as also
in enjoyment, he is the supreme consummation of
all desires. He is a blue-throated one, the
wielder of the most tremendous powers, what
could not be attempted far less achieved by
other Gods, when the churned Ocean at the time
of Samudra Manthan exhaled poison Siva achieved
quite simply by holding the exhalation in his
throat. On one side he is the symbol of the most
perfect placidity and serenity, on the other
hand he is the symbol of all that is terrible.
He holds the great serpent on his head and on
his forehead crescent Chandra with his
sweet-soft light. He is at the same time the
most peaceful and also the most terrible. And in
all these are to be traced the intrinsic
characteristics of Arudra. Superficially, on the
surface of it, Arudra stands for suffering,
hardness, cruelty, murder, prison, theft,
adultery etc. The root characteristic is
oppression-in order to purify. All male kidney
trouble and connected urethral disease comes
within the jurisdiction of Arudra; so also
uterine diseases of the female. It represents
the skull of Kalapurusha with hair on it.
Those born in the Ardra star are soft, stable
minded, strong, earning by sacrifice, afflicted
by sickness, fear and angry. They suffer due to
hunger, hard bodied, lovable, forget the help
rendered by others, experts in trade and
commerce, cruel, having many relatives, ill
advisers and hate all. Those born in Ardra are
with pride, of lower levels and do jobs, which
are forbidden. They are bereft of money and
corns. Such people are poets, little learned,
long lived, and little interested in things. |