Nakshatra

Chandra in

Shatataraka

Shatabishaja Nakshatra

enormous root-splitting systems

universes

Varuna riding the Makara =

Guardian of the Structures and Systems of the Worlds

attribution unknown, Orissa style

Neolamarkia cadamba = Anthocephalus cadamba

tree

= sacred to Shatataraka nakshatra

• Chandra in Arudra

• Chandra in Swati

• Chandra in Shatavisakhya

Like Arudra and Shatataraka, the Swati folk are much more complexly involved in unconventional, taboo-breaking activities (Rahu) than their balanced superficial appearance might immediately reveal.

Radix Moon in Shatataraka = "a thousand powers"

• double-Rahu = electricity = super-shakti

• moody and mystical; abstract and distant ; often an eccentric genius

• Shani + Rahu + Varuna

Shatabishakya-Chandra =

• ambitious (Rahu)

• risk-taking (Rahu)

• scientific, populist, methodical and systematic (Kumbha)

• visionary universalistic futuristic (Kumbha)

• emotionally (Chandra) oriented to very large-scale communities and networks

• their goal = socially regulated extension of participation in economies of goods and ideas

Shatataraka maximizes Rahu's empowerment to make sudden, highly energized movements like the deadly, fiercely, overwhelmingly powerful Crocodile.

the native sits quietly for a long time. They look normal on the outside.

No-one suspects the power they possess.

• Shatabishaja = not an easy placement for the placid, settled Moon

• herb for Shatabishaja = "bitter apple"

• emotionally Shatabishaja = bitter and disappointed in a lack of nourishment from the mother

there is both oppression (Shani) and disruption of regularity (Rahu) in the relationship with one's mother (Chandra)

• Often becomes an iconic figure in a mass movement.

  Not usually Emotionally attuned to the needs (Chandra) of large-scale social networks (Kumbha).

  Is concerned with distribution of assets within economies of goods and ideas. Wants to ease the economic plight of the downtrodden; feels a special calling to help esxactly those who bite the hand that feeds them. (Rahu + Shani)

  Trapped in a state of internal contradiction and tension, wanting more airy freedom (Rahu) but afraid (Shani) to risk the dignity acquired via their involvement with large groups, assemblies, fan-clubs, large systems (Kumbha).

  A respected but unhappy person as a rule.

While never losing their sense of personal martyrdom, Shatabishakya Chandra natives can produce amazing large-scale healing to the masses. Shatavisakhya hears a very special clarion call to meet the emotional needs of the great hordes who are so much captured by burning desire (Rahu) that they can rarely sustain much material progress (Shani).

Shatavisakhya can be a visionary healer for specifically this population -- always the largest incarnate group - whose identity is churned by a narrative of mixed superstition, oppression, and furious immediate desire.

At its best, Shatavisaja can describe the Revolutionary Principles (first rules) of a New Order (Rahu) in the context of Historic Time and the Old Order (Shani).

This nakshatra can produce extraordinary social figures who articulate Huge Perspectives upon mass movements and social groupings.

• Benjamin Franklin wrote the narrative for an entirely new, rank-breaking (Rahu) civilization, based in interconnected science (Kumbha) and Enlightened governing principles (Shani = rules).

• J.R.R. Tolkien = 'Anglo-Saxon' mythic tales spoke to the waning and wandering masses of post-world-wars Germanic peoples, infusing many with a historicized ethnic identity

• V.S. Naipaul = brilliant narratives of the Indic diaspora gave a living personality and erstwhile sense of dialectical purpose to the seething masses of the subcontinent.

• Shri Yukteswara Giri = provided the much needed meta-cultural narrative describing how huge historic cycles regulate the vast ocean of Time (Shani).

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe = a polymath writer-scientist of daunting scope. a brilliant literary figure

• Elvis Presley = wrote and sang the narrative which defined and validated a nearly-lost people, the rural American south and those with roots there. His validating power was so intense for this population that some came to worship him as a sort of a divine avatar.

• Joe DiMaggio = the baseball player became the mid-century face of a noble American Everyman.

• Leonardo da Vinci = created a compelling visual narrative of Mediterranean civilization that is still considered the best of breed

The Shatavisakhya native is especially tasked to use their enormously broad and neutral view of the reality of the masses (in their living hells) by utilizing their birth gift of oversight upon the cosmic ocean . Shatavisakhya is blessed by a unique visionary perception. It is tricky indeed to feel 'happy' with this placement but if the question of happiness is put aside, one may be very effective in helping others on a huge human scale.

• Usually a highly eccentric personality.

Double-Rahu effect = Rahu co-lord of Kumbha + Rahu lord of Shatataraka

Shatabishakya-Chandra = have the extraordinary ability to detect "connections" where others see emptiness. Of the three Rahu-rules nakshatra (Ardra + Swati + Shatataraka) this Chandra is potentially the most brilliant and the most influential socially. However when Chandra is controlled by Shani + Rahu, naturally the emotionally life cannot be easy.

One has very little use for social protocol, kow-towing to authority figures, or public displays of piety. Within the first eighteen years of life conditions are likely to be both exceptionally difficult and distinctively socially unusual, due to the native 's birth into the mahadasha of Rahu.

At some point in the lifetime there may be social punishment for this taboo-breaking genius, due to the inherent conflict between the co-lords Rahu and Shani and the "push" from Varuna who insists on upholding a higher lawfulness of cosmic organizing principle regardless of the petty ignorance of human law.

If Rahu is well supported, the native 's bright-blue cosmically electrified aura may extend over a huge range both conceptually and geographically.

• Shata-vishaka is a famous place for healers who have "mega-shakti" (shata-vishaka) for hands-on healing and transformation, including physicians and surgeons .

• Practitioners and purveyors of poison dosing (Rahu) which can act as medicine, and of yogic austeritiesincluding fasting (Shani) which can cure disease

Usually very charismatic, with a remarkable ability to charm the public. Tantrik power to connect psychically with large and diverse crowds of peopleor vast terrains of the spiritual world (Mircea Eliade,J.R.R. Tolkien).

Visionary understanding of the interconnected cosmos.

• Reputation includes skill in varieties of seduction, fraud, magic, and gambling.

• Shani-Rahu is a very difficult combination, and these peculiar folk can be difficult to live with.

• Their reclusive, moody sensitivity and struggle to articulate their bridge-between-life-and-deathideas does not ease their path into conventional society.

Emotional distress

Shatabishak are large-scale visionary planners and system developers. They rely on an intuitive sense of connectivity between multiple worlds.

When emotionally threatened or invalidated, the Shatataraka-Chandra native may retreat into silent depression.

If under siege by negative emotions for a long time period, drug or alcohol abuse may be entertained, for purpose of entering into communication with the guiding cosmic intelligence.

They know what they know through intuition and psychic conviction. Shatataraka can practice their spiritual truth, but may struggle to explain to others and ultimately fail in communication due to the limits of the conventional worldview .

Marital troubles due to restless moodiness . These natives need to connect with the common people, who love them. If one is allowed daily contact with the crowds, all will settle and be well.

Sometimes an obsession with cleanliness and body functions. (Would rather not be trapped in a body.)

• Deep emotional need to lift into the Celestial Vaults

• Varuna

Trauma profile = "circuit-breaker"

Sata-bhisa's psycho-emotional condition is initiated in the current life, by the native 's profound attachment to a loved one - most often, the mother - who is lost early, by abandonment or untimely death.

• Attachment can be to one's lost child or sibling also, and abandonment can be mental illness-caused as well as physical.

The trauma-healing instinct creates a deep longing to generates "shoots" which cross over (like a ferryman, or a lotus shoot).

Satabisa experiences a lifetime of seeking bridges into the unknown. As a result one may be plunged into distant moodiness or mystical revelry, a good part of the time.

In order to mirror one's own subconscious emotional patterns, one attracts a core partner who expresses Shatataraka behavior.

Under emotional stress in relationships, Shatataraka navamsha Chandra can evoke the native 's inner fear of loss of constant movement.

Reactions to this fear of losing core vitality include compulsive drumming, dancing, party-going and traveling in moving groups, in order to keep the movement alive.

Navamsha Moonin Shatataraka =

• Franklin D. Roosevelt,

• Indira Gandhi