Misconceptions in Vedic communities
Or simply what I find annoying in Vedic tumblr
Okay it’s been a moment since I’ve posted since I’m not as active and I’ve also been bugged by a few things on Vedic tumblr especially since April and one of them is all the inventions and misconceptions that people spread about nakshatras mostly but also about Karakas and some placements.
The worst is that most of the time Vedic blogs are almost all like this that even if I indicate that I’m not interested in a blog I still see them and wonder if I should start blocking 💀 while the list of blogs I follow is so short like a dozen at most, I wish it was the opposite lol.
Also if you have good blogs to share, please do ! 💖
Me (and probably Vedic itself lol) whenever I see one of those posts and worse when they gather hundreds of hearts like omg.
Okay I’m ready to start with what I find annoying on Vedic tumblr.
“Jupiter is destructive and restrictive planet and Saturn is abundant and generous”
I’ve seen it a few times and whoever invented this doesn’t know how to read a chart or used placidus/tropical with Vedic interpretation while there’s actually a shift between the two systems of at least one house 💀
And that’s for any shifted misinterpretation. I think the person who came to this about Jupiter and Saturn did it with charts where they are close to each other but I’ve seen it with other planet like Sun and Venus or Venus and Mercury or even Jupiter and Mars which significations got reversed while the author probably had the wrong setting to read a chart with Vedic knowledge. And even in topical I believe that the planets qualities are quite similar so I really don’t get it.
“Vishakha is regal or king nakshatra because lion yoni”
Can you people please stop changing the stories behind each nakshatra ? Or take it fully and not just what fits your narrative ? The person posting that only took Indra as kings of the gods but not the fact that Vishakha is actually associated to two gods which changed the whole thing about this nakshatra. And now I’m seeing it about most Vishakha post a bit like the post about Ashleshas.
So nope, Vishakha isn’t royalty. Magha is royalty, ruled by Ketu but happening in Leo and symbolised by a royal throne. Not Vishakha and being ruled by Jupiter doesn’t make it royalty (Jupiter is king in Western not Vedic) especially as Vishakha is actually ruled by two gods : Indra and Agni, king of gods and god of fire. The dual nature of this nakshatra forbids it from being a king as a king needs to be consistent which Vishakha isn’t because of its dual nature. Vishakha is powerful yes, but not regal. Yes the yoni is a lion but here it symbolises ambition and not royal authority. Royalty is their ambition, what they fancy themselves as, like their want to be number one in their field or the main person which can lead some to be really shrewd and cunning. It is part of their ambition and what they gravitate around but they never held the royal authority which we can see in many Vishakha people or even Cleopatra who was interpreted by a few Vishakha people : she herself never truly ruled but had the ambition to be a powerful queen and used any stratagems to achieve her goal without ever being able to be the regal authority. And in the end she was symbolically burned by the own fire of her ambition which happens to many Vishakha when they want more than what was destinée for them. Or for those fancying western association, it’s like Icarus being burner but the Sun in its ambition.
Planets have more influence/strength than nakshatras alone. The true and only regal one is Magha because of the Sun which is stronger than Jupiter.
In Vedic the Sun is the King as all the other planets gravitate around it, it’s the regal authority and symbolised by a lion, no association to cat that can fancy themselves as Lion (which is part of Vishakha). And Ketu brings the detachment that befits royalty as they are distant from the rest of the population.
I could literally make a whole post about these two with example for each and also how they relate and differ from each other with examples.
Anyway that’s basic Vedic knowledge for god’s sake, people don’t even bother to learn about nakshatra they just take a thing about it and embroider a story/strereotype around as if there wasn’t enough cliches in the Vedic community 💀
And I can do that with so many nakshatra, I think I’ve seen almost everything and anything but not the real meaning or story behind them or at least barely acknowledged for the recent posts of the last few months.
“Associating Krittika to any Sun nakshatra representation because of Claire Nakti’s videos”
If Claire didn’t associate Krittika to Uttara Phalguni or Uttara Ashada, it’s because they are different despite sharing the same rulers and that she didn’t focus on their common traits.
And no Krittika isn’t going to be your MPDG because Uttara Phalguni was described as one by Claire, Krittika is litteraly one of the most fiery and harshest nakshatra and one that is away from the popular stuff like MPDG or any TikTok core you people fancy. And no it’s not gonna be a cheerleader especially not in a Megan Fox/Ashlesha way where the focus isn’t cheerleading either for those referencing “Jennifer’s body”.
And if you ever find a Krittika cheerleader, it will mostly only be in the US and because their school didn’t have a gymnastics team. And please, the exemple of famous athletes like gymnasts ;on’t prove that Krittika can be a cheerleader but that their fire makes them competitive which they can channel in sports successfully.
“Etymology and symbolic of X nakshatra”
I’ve seen several blogs posting about having a REVELATION about a nakshatra and their symbolic and etymology.
What I read: 0 symbolic, 0 research and 0 etymology.
I think some don’t even know what etymology means as they just take the meaning of a nakshatra and translate it in several languages. Like of course, you’re gonna find the same meaning in different languages because that’s TRANSLATION !!!!
Can’t you see that translation in languages that are from far away places with little or no common history don’t even share the same root ? How can it be etymology ?
And where is that NEW symbolism ? Sometimes those people even get the signification of the nakshatras wrong and lose the main core of it, why ?
I’ve seen it with Bharani, Mrigashira, Ashlesha, Uttara Ashada, Shravana, Ardra and more.. the worst I think is when people don’t even do translation but do homophony. For those who don’t know what it is, homophonic words are completely different words with similar sounds and the worst here is that they do it with nakshatra which is Vedic Sanskrit and associate it to western languages and words with unrelated meanings and then call it etymology or the new revelation they had about Vedic 🥲
“X nakshatra is toxic because my ex/friend/boss was toxic”
Most of those people don’t even get the charts of the people they think are a nakshatra right. They don’t even get the signification or impact of the nakshatra right depending on its placement, pada and planet.. I’m not even sure they’re aware of them.
Besides, to explain a behaviour pattern that goes beyond simple traits, you need at least 3 placements or indicators of it if not more if certains placements contradict it.
I’m also pretty sure this is the reason why Ashlesha is being dragged in the mud for any and everything lol alongside a few nakshatras.
Yes nakshatras have bad traits too but if you want to post about it, at least find something true about it, make some research I don’t know but it’s getting tiring. Also pretty sure some are surfing on the Ashlesha hatred to gather hearts, follower and popularity in the community.
I think the only account who makes a good job at complaining and finding flaws and faults about nakshatras is dhumavati as she does research and also makes interesting posts about the problems in our society and the linked nakshatras.
“Mixing western and Vedic astrology”
Okay some things from western are interesting like asteroids.
However western and Vedic work differently and some people are reading charts on Placidus and then ask why what they see on the chart doesn’t match reality. Some are even doing paid reading and asking help because they don’t understand why the client doesn’t relate lol. Of course they won’t relate if the signs and/or houses have a whole sign shift or house shift, it changes everything from placements and interpretations to dashas and predictions. I can’t believe some of them are doing paid readings ..
I’ve also seen a post including Pluto, Neptune and Uranus as Karakas lol though not Rahu which can actually be a karaka for those who use the 8-Karakas jaimini system instead of 7.
But Pluto ? Neptune ? Uranus ? As Karakas ? Seriously ?
Even the interpretations of the other planets were completely off and seemed to have been written by ChatGPT, which leads me to my other point..
We have such a huge invasion of those polluting the Vedic tumblr and probably the overall astroblr.
What do they have in common ?
The same kind of phrasing, lot of emojis everywhere probably because ChatGPT thinks Vedicblr is so whimsy and need tons of those lol ? They litteraly put at least 3-4 per sentence or one at each line.
Also the same kind of bullet point list, empty almost spaced out phrases, the same kind of “it’s not this but this..” or tons of small little sentences that don’t say much but follow the same pattern as LinkedIn posts.
if your soul feels heavy today…
it is because Saturn isn’t testing you.
It’s because Saturn is remembering you. 🪐📿
You can do that with anything lol and say things that doesn’t make any sense.
And I’m sure this also why some post have completely off interpretations or Pluto, Neptune, Uranus as Karakas, soon asteroids will be Karakas too.
“Reducing nakshatra and Vedic to beauty”
The posts with pictures of celebs and nakshatra and then calling them a kind of beauty or TikTok core an animal beauty which most probably comes from Claire Nakti and her aesthetic series or Korean trends or TikTok trends or both. There’s some truth in that, yes it can indicate the apparence but reducing Vedic to only beauty is getting kinda tiring as everyone is only doing that and that comes from someone who love beauty in all its forms and can even see it in the most unconventional thing. But unlike Claire’s content, they bring zero knowledge and do zero research just a collage of faces and a nakshatra stamp and some celebs nakshatra are even false for some. Besides appearance isn’t determined by the big tree or every nakshatra in a chart, it’s mostly the lagna and first house and any planets in it, the lagnesh and its placement (house, sign and nakshatra). And sometimes a planet or a sign if it has a very strong influence in a persons chart or things like stellium that can have an impact. (On the opposite you can determine someone’s rising and or lagnesh placement by their appearance but it takes some practice).
I think the worst are those who seek to determine who are beautiful and who aren’t through their nakshatra when a nakshatra along won’t determine someone’s appearance and beauty. Beauty indicators depends on other placements too as they are tied to the level of attractiveness they can create in one person and this is why some people that aren’t conventionally pretty/handsome can be seen as very charming and attractive and some that can be conventionally beautiful/handsome aren’t very attractive to people.
Sometimes I wonder about making post about this with a bit more research and also a bit more diversity because celebs are a small percentage of the population, and like I said in another post, they have beauty interventions and surgeries or a beauty regimen that the average person won’t necessarily have access to.
I think I’m gonna stop here for now or I’ll never stop.
I’ll just keep posting randomly and for those asking me yes, I will make the post on the 5th Lord in different signs and houses. Signs and houses will be on the same post and will be my next post :)
