Nakshatra

Mula - Vichruta - Nirriti - Alaxmi

Moola - Mulam - Mulabarhana - Prabhava

"movement without progress"

Topics of Mula Nakshatra

• Return from the Brink of Disaster

• "The Galactic Root" (Direct route to the Galactic Sun)

• wikipedia = Mula

• "snake-oil salesman" - a charming person, rather unconcerned with consequences

Nakshatra Celestial Location

• the Nineteenth Nakshatra

• 00:00 until 13:20 Dhanushya (Sagittarius)

• pada 73, 74, 75, 76 of total 108

• The Scorpion's Tail: epsilon, mu, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, upsilon (Lesath) and lambda (Shaula)Scorpionis -- The Circle of Stars

David Frawley

Fruits of Worshipping Each Nakshatra

"Prajapati desired, "May I find the root of progeny."

One who makes the appropriate offering to Prajapati, to Mula, gains the root of progeny.

Here Mula is ruled by Prajapati,the Creator, who also rules Rohini.

Mula means root.

It gives the root of progeny or strong creative powers,somewhat like Rohini.

Nakshatra group ruled by Ketu

= static-observer navamsha trine =

• Azwini

• Magha

• Mula

Sacred Tree for Mula

see nakshatra gardens at: www.vedicvanas.com/nakshatravana.html

• western botanical name = Canarium strictum

• Sanskrita namah:

• Common names = Black dammar

Vocabulary for Mula nakshatra

Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionary :

Nakshatra regulator :

• Ketu

Nakshatra Body Part:

• Left Torso of Kalapurushaa

Auspicious events:

[BPHS]

• Making parks and gardens,

• beginning war,

• treaties and breaking treaties,

• digging wells tanks or ponds,

• agriculture.

Nakshatra Deity = bhapa:

• Nirriti (Goddess of destruction)

• Nirriti = "Alakshmi" ="denial of Lakshmi" (denial of abundance and prosperity)

• Another name for Nirriti = Alaxmi="Kali" = the negative or inevitable effect of time

Nakshatra Symbol:

• crouching lion

• A bunch of roots tied together

Nakshatra Gana = Caste, Jati:

• Rakshasa (Demonic)

Tibetan Tradition

• Noop = Nub = root

• Sokpa= Vitality

General Description of Mulacharacteristics -- from Das/ Behari = also applies to Chandra in Mula

Description of the Pada (quarters) of Mula-- also applies to Chandra in Mula -- from Das/ Behari

Pada 1

• [chandra] Rupert Murdoch ( media mogul

)

• Emperor Hirohito of Japan (b. 1901)

• Mary Baker Eddy - Christian Science

-- from Das/ Behari

*for the Male only*

from: Shil-Ponde. (1939). Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra. p 105

• A self-made man who is very independent and ambitious.

  • In the middle part of his life, will be highly respected.

• Due to his own efforts and ability,

  • he will be very well known in business circles.

• Will never remain in a subordinate position very long.

• At the age of thirty-five or thirty-six, he will have an accident

  • either in connection with machinery or by fire ,

  • and may have broken bones.

• At the age of six or seven, will receive a sear or burn.

Pada 2

• Prince William Windsor

Pada 3

• Alan Alda (dramatist )

  Michael Douglas (actor, producer)

Pada 4

• PM-Pakistan Benazir Bhutto

• musical performer Wladzia Valentino "Liberace"

• philanthropist Marla Maples Trump

• inventor engineer Thomas Alva Edison

• scientist Marie Sklodowska Curie (scientific discovery of Radium)

from BPHS, Ch. 94 shloka 11-13

"Remedies from the Effects of Birth in Jyestha Gandanta" (Ranjan edition, 1995, p. 1035 Vol 2.)

Mula has a reputation for failure leading to annihilation (Nirriti) due to misconstrued spiritual confidence = "blind faith". Lacks practical restraints and cannot retain accrued values (Alaxmi).

• However. in daunting circumstances, Mula can inspire others with a curious delight in the hopelessness of the human condition.

Detachment from Ketu + Expansion from Guru

= Reckless yet religious

= self-destructive yet self-regenerating

• Mula = self-destructive, but not deadly. The Mula native seemingly destroys oneself "down to the root" -- but no farther.

• The root itself is not destroyed.

• In fact, the root almost always regenerates.

• he subject matter of Mula's secretly self-destructive agenda will be found in the karaka portfolio of the affected graha, the bhava containing the Mula graha, and incoming drishti to the bhava.

• As always, Chandra is most intensely characterized by the qualities of His Nakshatra . Chandra in Mula: yields more vividly self-destructive results than any other graha in Mula. [ Martha Stewart]

Accidents and life-threatening injuries

• Mula is especially associated with dangerous burns. Also drowning, choking, violent accidents, broken bones, and dangerous sexual behaviors.

• Mula behavior is characteristically negligentand oblivious to precaution. Yet, the Mula native generally will not die from even the most catastrophic accident. Indeed, Mula tends to be long-lived

Sex and drug addictions

• Mula = related to alcoholism and sex or drug addictions. Yet the addictions will not kill the native .

• Addictive cycles begin with sudden and destructive power. Just as suddenly, the addiction is finished. In recovery, one may fill a priestly role in service to the addicted.

"Reckless disregard for consequences".

• The Mula-Soma native may engage in unsupportable or "senseless" risk.

• Mula can also be cruel, due to the reckless detachment under rules of no-boundaries Ketu, which can blunt or even eradicate humane empathy.

Chandra in Mula is especially reckless with matters of emotional health and well-being.

• "An accident waiting to happen."

• Life seems to produce one "accident" after the next. Yet the native recoversfrom each and every crisis, no matter how apparently deadly.

• After each recovery, the native begins a new cycle self-destructive choiceswhich rather inevitably produce the next "accident".

Counseling the Mula Client

• When counseling the Mula client, it is important to appreciate that the Mula native rarely realizes that one is making systematically self-destructive choices.

• Indeed, Mula's choices follow a reckless, apathetic, Ketu-driven pattern that is easy enough for an outsider to detect. However, the Mula native subjectively perceives oneself as an innocent victimof a series of "Amazing accidents".

Emotional distancing

• Chandra in Ketu-ruled Nakshatra (Azwini, Magha, Kula) is generally characterized by an emotional distancing from others, even from one's own children.

• Also Ketu imposes a certain blunting of the interpersonal awareness, so that one may be able to engage in intimate relationships only at the most primitive survival or sexual level.

Humble, religious nature

• Naturally, Mula'sfundamental disengagement from the world of "natural consequences"leads to a host of physical, social, emotional, and mental problems.

However, Mula influence issurprisingly good for the religious life. the native feels an ever deepening sense of "shock and awe" at the intensity of life's "random" events.

Mula is characteristically unable to comprehend the cause-and-effect ways in which one's own choices can attract the perfect conditions for a major life catastrophe. Based on a life narrative featuring crisis after crisis, the native may attribute great and glorious powers to a merciful God who seems to be wrathfully destructive -- and who yet offers salvation, time after time.

Although Mula does lack true empathy (Ketu), one may have strongly spiritualized nature (Ketu) and provide surprisingly compassionate (Guru) support for others. The Mula native is usually honest, humble, and sincere.

• Note the self-destructive narrative in this "extreme Mula" nativity with Mula Chandra, Mula Guru, and Mula Shani in bandhu bhava, all receiving drishti of Rahu.

BP Lama viewpoint on Mula Nakshatra:

"Mula" ("the root") causes unusually self-destructivepsychic and spiritualized reasoning patterns.

• Mula natives suffer more than their fair share of accidents, indignities, and loss.

• Yet Mula folk typically remain surprised and bewildered about the roots of their condition.

• The chain of repeating misfortune is a mystery to them.

• How this pattern could be anything else than a strange and magical series of random, terrible accidents?

Indeed there is no random accident. Yet it is the rare Mula native who can discern the Root of the problem!

The Galactic Sun

The image at left represents a top-down view of the Earth's larger region, our "Milky Way" (white) galaxy. The galactic Sun is a bright star which resides at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The image shows the relative position of Earth's Sun (Savitra).

The swas-tika symbol, before it was demonically appropriated by the Nazi regime, served as a millenniums-old map of our home galaxy. (Draw an anti-clockwise Vedic swa (self, home, root) tika (map, marker) upon the photo to right and you will see the old map.]

The "rose" flower, sacred and symbolic to many traditions, bears the map as well. So naturally does the lotus flower. The sacred Tibetan-pronounciation-Buddhist mantra Om Mani Peme Hung [om mani padme hum] = "hail to the jewel in the center of the lotus".

Mula influence suggests that a part of one's divine consciousness still harkens back to a previous incarnation, not in Earth, but in the sacred-but-terrifying world of the Galactic Sun.

In between Earth incarnations (which are rather demanding although quite desirable for karmic purposes) our souls may take intermediary "incarnations" (which is rather a misnomer because only in Earth do we get these famous "meat-bodies"!)

• One of the potential locales for a "stop-over" lifetime is the realm of the Galactic Sun.

This brilliant star is the center of our galaxy and it is a wonderful place in many ways. If one has the privilege to linger there, one becomes more god-like for the duration of one's stay.

The "physical" body form is long-lived while in this realm; stupendously strong, alert and perceptive but not suspicious (suspiciousness is a component of the animal bodies we utilize here in Earth); and glamorously attractive as only the gods can be.

The consciousness here is much closer to the core of divine intelligence and Con-fidence runs very high. Of course, ego runs pretty high too, and there are social issues of competition for attention and dominance, proportional to godly life - on a large scale!

Returning to Earth, one has only the barest background memory, never fully conscious, of this previous incarnational experience. The lingering subconscious memories do however cause trouble for anyone with graha in Mula Nakshatra , particularly Chandra in any of the Mula pada (see Shil Ponde's description of the Mula quarters, above.)

The graha trouble is worst when Chandra (Moon) occupies Mula, but a strong Sun in Mula will also show some effects. Essentially, the native takes crazy risks, believing that the risks have much less destructive potential than they really do have for humans.

Scattered, optimistic Mula = associated with catastrophic events and failures after taking too-bigrisks.

• Due to Mula memories, one subconsciously believes one has the ability, the strength, the determination, or the intelligence to overcome the obstacles which others rightly fear -- or survive the risk.

Mula measurements in all departments of life - but especially the emotional areas - tend to be unrealistic(Ketu). The Mula issues will depend on which graha and which domain.

• The Mula mind tends toward overestimation of human capabilities, and the results are often catastrophic.

• However Mula generally gives a happy attitude of bewilderment, rather than resentment or guilt.

Mula reasoning produces very sensible conclusions for a god or one with a god-like body and god-like access to divine rejuvenating powers.

But we puny humans are much more vulnerable to forces of Earth Nature and the backlash of human social punishment than we sometimes appreciate.

Mula memories signal to the native that one can "beat the system" through one's (super) natural endowment and the power of Faith.

• Ketu-ruled Mula = Intuitive Faith in one's own centrality.

• Unfortunately from an Earth-based perspective, the greater center of our loka is very difficult to see or even imagine. Modern science has not quite matured enough to confirm the vision of the rishi.

• Mula people have a powerful sense of their core importance to the welfare of their group however the group often finds Mula's leadership style to be misinformed, incomplete, over-confident, lacking core strength or core viability.