Talia🦋

Sharing my insights on sidereal and vedic astrology

[starsandsuch]

Some Notes On Uttarabhadrapada 🫧⚓️🩰

The 26th Nakshatra located entirely in sidereal Pisces spanning from 3.20 to 16.40 degrees.

The planetary ruler is Saturn. The symbol is the back legs of a funeral cot. Another key symbol is a water serpent. This Nakshatra forms a pair with the previous Nakshatra: Purvabhadrapada.

The deity is Ahirbudhnya. The yoni animal is female cow 🐄

You can relate to the following observations if you have Uttarabhadrapada as your: sun, moon, ascendant, lagnesh, or Atmakaraka placement. Honorable mention for Ketu in Uttarabhadrapada as well.

˖ In terms of physical appearance, they have a stillness to their gaze

˖ They have a meditative aura

˖ I notice these natives have the ability to stay still for long periods of time.

˖ They often participate in activities that require some kind of stillness: meditation, yoga, pilates, etc.

˖ Their faces: high rounded forehead, with a pointed chin. They tend to have defined jawbone. Sometimes big chin.

˖ I notice them to have large facial area, like they have a large face.

˖ I’ve seen them to be racially ambiguous looking.

˖ Even if they aren’t mixed, they look “exotic” “foreign” for their ethnic background. They tend to pull lighter skin tones. Sometimes you can’t tell what their ethnicity is from first glance.

˖ They are hardworking, tend to be workaholics.

˖ In their youth they are overlooked and often underestimated.

˖ They tend to gain more social and financial power in older age.

˖ They definitely experience the underdog trope.

˖ Unfortunately they can experience abuse from others, socially or from their family. Bullying from their peers at some point as well.

˖ I’ve noticed that oftentimes the paternity of their parents is in question.

˖ For example they don’t know one of their biological parents, they can be adopted, or one of their biological parents died when they were young. They could be a orphan.

˖ They can have the experience of raising themselves due to lack of parental presence.

˖ They usually become wealthy after age 35.

˖ They are the kind of people to perhaps grown up without certain resources, then be wealthy in old age (rags to riches trope)

˖ In general they are very active in old age like 45 and up, they have wealth, social circles etc, they are active old people.

˖ I think this Nakshatra gifts one with the ability to outlast others. Outlasting their enemies, having the patience to achieve their goals, overcoming challenges and the like.

˖ UBP women usually tend to become powerhouses, they can be seen as role models for other women.

˖ They are women that are feminine yet firm, they enforce boundaries, justice and stand on business, but they do it gracefully.

˖ I’m not sure how to explain it but UBP women know how to wrangle men well. Like they’ll have men crying and throwing up over them lol. Since they have a way of handling them that evokes a sense of respect from the opposite sex. Fu*kbois and Chads fear UBP women 😂

˖ I’ve also seen them attract chaotic partners, but somehow make that person mellow and agreeable. It’s like they know how to tame “beasts” well.

˖ They develop an unshakable sense of inner calmness

-starsandsuch ✌️💕

[taliasgarden]

Rahu: The Observer

In Euphoria, Lexi is played by a Swati. This video explores Lexi’s role in the show, initially in the shadows, shown through her relationships with the other characters such as Cassie’s little sister and Rue’s forgotten bestie. Both her sister and bestie are the centers of attention. Both of these girls are played by PPHs, but I want to focus on the fact that while Rue is the narrator of the show, Lexi is seemingly a passive character but is watching everything. She puts on a play to tell her version of the story as someone who has been forgotten but impacted by all the traumas happening around her. Rue is the central character, centered, narrating and is played by an Ashwini. Ketu is the body, headless, so it’s not doing much observing but more doing. Rahu is the head, so it’s observing and taking it all in. Lexi knows everything about everyone in her world, which is why she is able to deliver the story, but she is treated as secondary, not really prioritized so doesn’t really share much until she meets Fezco. Rahu operates best as an observer, and while their observations can be distorted by their judgements, by simply observing without judging, they can tell the story plain and simple. What was powerful about Lexi’s play was that she finally was able to center herself within the story as well. Rahu can be fixated on what’s happening outside of them while Ketu easily centers itself by going inward being the body. Rahu becomes empowered by going within, understanding how what’s happening on the outside is impacting them within.

*On another note I find people with Rahu ruled naks are drawn to music. Music is a cathartic way to process and express complex emotions. Rahu is skilled at displaying collective emotion and consciousness, acting as a mirror for reality. They can be muses, inspiring creation of art imitating life. They can largely be inspired by life to create art that mimics it.

[julesknowsnorules]

A while ago I said that I feel just like Lexi that exposed everyone with my tumblr observation posts. And I’m a dominant ardra nak; my saturn is in 2nd house in ardra and my sun, moon and mercury are in saturn ruled sings — so ardra is significant to me.

I’m indeed obsessed with decoding people’s intentions, with what their words actually mean and etc. I treat it all as a fun game.

What comes to this video in particular: I always do feel like a bystander and that all I do is support someone else’s narrative

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Rahu naks portraying characters with tumultuous relationships with their dads.

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Rahu: The Observer

In Euphoria, Lexi is played by a Swati. This video explores Lexi’s role in the show, initially in the shadows, shown through her relationships with the other characters such as Cassie’s little sister and Rue’s forgotten bestie. Both her sister and bestie are the centers of attention. Both of these girls are played by PPHs, but I want to focus on the fact that while Rue is the narrator of the show, Lexi is seemingly a passive character but is watching everything. She puts on a play to tell her version of the story as someone who has been forgotten but impacted by all the traumas happening around her. Rue is the central character, centered, narrating and is played by an Ashwini. Ketu is the body, headless, so it’s not doing much observing but more doing. Rahu is the head, so it’s observing and taking it all in. Lexi knows everything about everyone in her world, which is why she is able to deliver the story, but she is treated as secondary, not really prioritized so doesn’t really share much until she meets Fezco. Rahu operates best as an observer, and while their observations can be distorted by their judgements, by simply observing without judging, they can tell the story plain and simple. What was powerful about Lexi’s play was that she finally was able to center herself within the story as well. Rahu can be fixated on what’s happening outside of them while Ketu easily centers itself by going inward being the body. Rahu becomes empowered by going within, understanding how what’s happening on the outside is impacting them within.

*On another note I find people with Rahu ruled naks are drawn to music. Music is a cathartic way to process and express complex emotions. Rahu is skilled at displaying collective emotion and consciousness, acting as a mirror for reality. They can be muses, inspiring creation of art imitating life. They can largely be inspired by life to create art that mimics it.

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Back to the Future and Ketu:

*kinda long

In BTTF, prominent characters Marty, George, Lorraine and Biff are each played by actors with a Ketu ruled nak in their big 3s. One key theme of this film highlights how our past informs our present and future. Ketu is all about the past and traditions carried over into the present due to their effectiveness. Ketu naks are about individuality and can have a hard time cultivating a fresh identity due to the influence the past holds over them, being prompted to carry out traditions that may feel instinctual but prevent them from truly individuating, which is the goal of spiritual practice. It is necessary to channel and integrate Ketu to allow our knowledge of the past fuel the cultivating of our individuality but not to let Ketu control and drain you, keeping you repeating problematic history that is no longer effective. I’m gonna break down these Ashwini characters in the film to expand on this further:

Marty: Ashwini

Marty is the main protagonist of the trilogy. Initially he is miserable in his current reality. He has an alcoholic mother and a wimpy father whose inability to stand up for himself and his family creates problems for Marty. Once he accidentally goes back in time 30 years, he learns that his father has always been a wimp, being bullied by the same guy who still bullies him in Marty’s reality. So we see how the past informs the present as George never learned to stand up for himself, Lorraine (Marty’s mother) only married him out of sorrow and both are miserable. Marty accidentally alters the event that led to Lorraine falling for George and ends up having to get his parents together. He does this by helping George “man up” essentially, causing George to end up in a situation where he must truly take a stand to protect Lorraine and himself. Marty is successful, returns to his present and finds that he has altered his current reality in a positive way. His parents are successful and George is now a confident man who protects his family and takes risks. We can see this has altered some traits in Marty as well as we later find he becomes someone who cannot back down from a fight, not letting anyone perceive his as “chicken” which is his trigger word that later creates problems for his future down the line. Traveling 100 years into the past, he learns he has a great uncle who also couldn’t back down from a fight, and that ended horribly for him just as Marty finds himself in the position of almost getting killed standing up to the town’s bully. Knowledge of his uncles downfall and Doc mentioning how this trait negatively impacts Marty’s own future helps him make a choice to stand down as he realizes he doesn’t always have to prove he’s not a wimp. So again the opportunity to attain knowledge of the past helps Marty cultivate an identity that can balance his aggression and know when to walk away instead of having to be perceived as basically about that life. Individuating is difficult for Ashwini due to the inhaling force of the past, but Marty is able to accomplish individuating from his past. I want to point out that as a time traveler, he is also existing outside of time and consciousness. He gets this special opportunity to access his past to decide to make these key changes and choose the timeline he prefers, which I’d say relates to Ashwini too, but also mrigashira which I’ll explain more when I connect mars to this trilogy. Michael J. Fox is also mrigashira and dhanishta.

George: Ashwini

George is the father of Marty and in the initial reality, he has never stood up for himself. Lorraine fell for him and married him out of pity, and he is still being pushed around by the same guy who bullied him in high school. In the BTTF game, we find that his father Arthur was also pushed around by the father of Biff, so history tends to repeat itself a lot in this film. This is the Ketu way. George learned to stay out of the way from his father. When Marty travels to 1885, his great great grandfather Seamus is also a similar way. However with Marty’s help in 1955, George learns how to stand up for himself which alters the present, making way for a better reality for George, Lorraine and their family. So Ketu can give us access to the past to give us necessary knowledge and patterns that work, but when those patterns become ineffective such as the case with George being a wimp, it becomes a problem. Seamus, George’s great grandfather, learned to back down because the town bully was a killer and would off a person in a flash for any little thing. Arthur, George’s father, was involved in a gang being pushed around by Kid Tannen, Biff’s father, so the dangers of that were far more significant than Biff who just pushed around anyone who was easy to push around. Standing down was no longer effective for George, and simply standing up to him was enough to alter George’s present. He was able to individuate from the patterns passed down to him.

Biff: Ashwini

In the current reality, Biff is George’s boss, pushing him around as he always has. In 1955, we see Biff was George’s bully, and as Marty travels back in time more, we see that ancestrally the Tannen family has a history of bullying, asserting their dominance, especially pushing around the McFly family. In the game, Biff’s father Kid Tannen runs a gang so incites a lot of fear into the townspeople. In 1885, Buford Tannen is the town’s bully. He’s known as Mad Dog Tannen because he’s so quick with his gun, killing anyone with a flash for any reason. It’s funny enough that while the Tannens have historically bullied a McFly, Marty, a McFly, travels in time and unintentionally takes down each one. Anyway this is the Ketu influence of the past repeating itself. Throughout history the McFly’s have not stood up to the Tannen’s, allowing their bullying to go unchecked and to continue. Ketu is linked to past lives so it’s interesting that the Tannen’s and McFly’s keep interacting throughout history playing the same role. One could say the Tannen’s become a key player in the lessons the McFly’s must learn in standing up for themselves and protecting the ones they love. As Biff is taken down by George eventually, this alters Biff’s current reality. Initially, Biff was the boss of George. In the altered reality, George is the boss of Biff, having stood up for himself, he was able to subdue Biff. However, this doesn’t change Biff’s tendency to seek power, as once he learned about the Time Machine, he steals it to alter his present making himself a kind of Donald Trump (who is magha, another Ketu nak). Biff comes from a line of men who were powerful in some, using their brute force to disarm others and dominate, so it is in his DNA to seek power. It represents how we unconsciously channel the instincts and knowledge of our ketus that store our DNA, past lives/ancestral history and abilities, that helps inform our current identities. Ultimately, it shows that Biff has been unable to truly individuate from his past as Ashwini can have a difficult time with as well.

*I do want to clarify that I do not think Ketu energy is the sole energetic force in this film. I see a lot of strong martian energy as well as Marty and Doc are both played by actors with mars ruled naks and the creator also has a mars ruled nak in his big 3. The sci-fi genre ties to mars strongly, but since this film deals with time travel and the characters spend a significant amount of the time in the past affecting their current realities and their futures, Ketu plays a prominent role here as well. I will cover its mars influence in a different post as well as Lorraine, Marty’s mother in a different post.

[venussaidso]

The parallels between Uttara Phalguni and Uttara Bhadrapada are interesting and it might also be due to them being yoni consorts and how they fall in the Virgo-Pisces axis (though partially). They lie in the warrior caste. Uttara Phalguni and Uttara Bhadrapada are Sthira Nakshatras.

Now that we've got an overload of information on Mula nakshatra, how would you say Ardra nakshatra's cycle parallels the journey unfolded in Mula?

Because Ardra-Mula overlap exactly the same way Uttara Phalguni-Uttara Bhadrapada do!

Both nodal nakshatras fall in the Sagittarius-Ardra axis (so they're sister signs), they are yoni consorts as well. They also lie in the butcher caste. Ardra and Mula are Tikshna Nakshatras. Their deities are very similar as well (both related to pure destruction and being forces of immense growth).

Mula is commonly found in the horror genre, especially slasher thriller movies. Ardra nakshatra can be considered unsettling as well, being a dreadful nakshatra right next to Mula.

The movie Companion stars Ardra Moon Sophie Thatcher — almost paralleling the movie Ex Machina starring Ardra Moon Alicia Vikander. Rahu is so very clearly correlating with Artificial Intelligence. Even the movie Robocop stars Ardra Sun Peter Weller who plays a robotic officer who goes against his maker/the organization that made him. There's a theme of the Ardra native going rogue here... Similar to the Mula archetype who inflicts brutality onto their predator, but also very different, the Ardra native in Companion is a love robot who violently goes rogue against her owner.

[taliasgarden]

One thing I find interesting is that the scream franchise began with a mula woman but was continued with an ardra woman. I’ve been meaning to explore the connection there but just something to note.

[venussaidso]

It's so interesting how they're all Saturn nakshatra natives and they're all white — whether you agree with OP's statement or not.

They made a typo, twenty > tweet. Hailey Bieber is also Anuradha Sun.

Scarlett Johansson, Timothee Chalamet and Jennifer Lawrence are often lumped together as bad actors — I've seen this same recycled take for a while, constantly with Saturnian, usually white, actors. It's a pattern, nonetheless.

Saturn is perceived as very limiting, restrictive, and especially stiff, through the natives. Things such as creative freedom, fluidity, pure expansion etc. are often needed in acting. Not to say these actors do not have acting chops at all. But it reminds me in Claire Nakti's art study, statistically, Saturn nakshatras, especially Uttarabhadrapada, were ranked one of the lowest in arts & performance.

natives in the tweet:

anya taylor joy; uttarabhadrapada moon

selena gomez; pushya sun & asc

scarlett johansson; anuradha sun & asc

timothee chalamet; uttarabhadrapada moon

tom holland; anuradha moon

jennifer lawrence; anuradha asc

Speculation, but maybe Gal Gadot has a Saturn nakshatra on her Ascendant as well. She's accused of having limited range, as if she's unable to be fluid in a way which the performance can take her away.

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It’s just interesting to me how the public will dump on saturn ruled naks and they just keep going. Not saying OP is btw, but just the way saturn naks are perceived despite many of them being supported by their peers within the industry. There is something mesmerizing about them to the point that they can still attain so much success while people can claim they lack talent. Sidereal water signs tend to withstand a lot in general.

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Previously I was convinced that Revati would be the fairy godmother nakshatra. After digging deeper, I realized it actually is Uttara Bhadrapada and can extend to the other saturn nakshatras.

In her UBP exploration, Claire Nakti explains that UBP transitions from the impact of the Evil Stepmother (Crone) to the Fairy Godmother (Juno) archetypes as the Cosmic Cinderella. After all the oppression and unjust treatment Cinderella faces, she is offered an opportunity of rest and relief from the fairy godmother, which symbolizes UBP finally surrendering to the care of the universe that Revati ultimately learns to skillfully channel as the Nepo Baby nakshatra.

So it’s no wonder that UBP was the highest nakshatra overall in Claire’s recent lawyer study, and Pushya also came up high. A lawyer comes to the aid of someone in distress with the law or seeking justice from a perpetrator like the Fairy Godmother came to the aid of Cinderella who faced much turmoil. UBP was offered an opportunity of rest and then becomes that same advocate for others once they’ve ascended as Claire touched on briefly in her recent Uttara Phalguni/Aladdin video.

UBP finds their own strength in the face of turmoil and pressure, never crumbling and then gains access to care and relief, and then they help others find their own strength too. Saturn is the planet of justice and karmic retribution. We can see this extends to the other saturn naks as well. Pushya tends to play in roles where they are law enforcers as both Pushya and UBP are apart of the warrior caste nakshatras. Anuradha is highly prominent in the Marvel films with the other Saturn naks showing up in Marvel along with other superhero/action films serving as protectors and bringing justice. In these films, we often see them fighting the unjust, corrupted system fighting for the good of the people.

Pushya: the power to create spiritual energy. Its deity is Brihaspati, the guru of the gods.

Anuradha: the power of worship, bringing honor and abundance. Its deity is Mitra, said to be a friend of the three worlds.

Uttara Bhadrapada: the power to bring the rains, signifying growth and nourishment. Its deity is Ahirbudhnya, the foundation of the world holding it up and keeping it stable.

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Mercury naks:

I am inspired by Claire’s new video explaining key details about ashlesha’s connection to maximizing magnetism through beauty and glamour.

It seems Mercury naks have an important cosmic task to draw energy into themselves by becoming so self-focused, people can’t help but to be mesmerized by them. It explains the tropical transition of fire signs actually being Mercury nakshatras, so naturally our idea of Mercury naks would actually mirror some of the traits of tropical fire signs. Mercury has to skillfully use their energy after overcoming the hurdles and finding inner strength in the saturn naks.

Ashlesha: draws energy towards them by focusing on their own magnetism and forming a love for themselves, coiling its energy around itself

Jyeshta: achieves the highest things by becoming self-obsessed, channeling their tendency to fixate onto their own desires and self-improvement rather than discharging it outward onto others of envy

Revati: draws sources of nourishment towards them by focusing on their own path and realizing they are protected to follow any path they choose, tapping into unlimited care from the universe

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Jupiter vs Saturn

Traditionally the jupiter naks and saturn naks form a pair of some kind. They are pretty similar overall. They deal with handling pressure, but the difference is that Jupiter naks in their abundance deal with storing the pressure to the tipping point of release. They have themes of repression, which can impact their capacity for self-control. Saturn naks carry the pressure and learn their own strength by handling it, but they learn to balance bn carrying and releasing so that there doesn’t become an overgrowth of storage. This is why jupiter finds its highest exaltation in the degrees of pushya. Jupiter allows things to be stored, but it becomes problematic when too much is stored and clutter begins to form. Pushya naturally has a restrictiveness that prevents this clutter from happening.

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Venus rules virility, the Venus nakshatras are ugra/ferocious in nature, and 2 out of 3 Venus nakshatras are of the Brahmin/priestly caste. Venus is all about standards and standing up for your standards, ferociously keeping out those who go against them. In the dating world, people tend to date and partner up with a few frogs before finding the one. Venus is inwardly corrosive. The outer harmony, beauty, and pleasure comes with the harsh exclusivity that comes with Venusian measuring.

Bharani = The Punisher

Symbolized by the yoni, Bharani is our intro into Venus, embodying the raw energy of punishing the unworthy. It gives birth to the form and keeps out any negative energy from the yoni, protecting it. CN has talked about Bharani’s relation to consent, seeking revenge on those who violate. Bharani has strong ties to revenge, draining and weakening the non-virile.

Purva Phalguni = The Perceiver

PPH wants to enjoy the best of the best, the second manifestation of Venus and virility, which essentially means strength. Venus rules self-worth and value, so value in material things, the spiritual, and finding value in ourselves. To know our value is to know we are worthy of the highest of things, and that can be whatever you believe it to be, as long as you are experiencing the greatest of pleasures. PPH perceives the quality of anything, art, homes, cars, hobbies, opportunities, and including people, to determine if it’s a worthy pursuit and if they see fit, they stop at nothing to enjoy it. Symbolized by the front of the hammock, PPH puts its enjoyment above anything else.

Purva Ashada = The Purifier

Symbolized by the winnowing basket, Purva Ashada can demonstrate some of the most extreme qualities of the Venus nakshatras. There is a harshness and perfectionism that can develop in PA that originates from a painful source. Realizing that beauty is valuable, and whatever is valuable and rare must be fiercely protected or corrupted hands and minds will only set out to harm and destroy it. The planet Mars is said to have been born in PA, and PA has the fight in them to prove it. The measuring eye of Venus is a harsh, cold, strict one, but in many ways can be highly necessary when they don’t become too extreme.

[taliasgarden]

After learning so much from over the years not only from sources like Claire Nakti, but astro books and my own research and observations from media and studies, this is my summary of the planets based on their placement in the Vimshottari system:

This applies to the nakshatras these planets rule. For example, Uttara Phalguni is a solar nakshatra that is initiated into service by proving they are worthy of responsibility through their nobility. Hasta follows, ruled by the moon which rules devotion. Hasta is devoted to their service, proving themselves and obtaining recognition and accolades for their devotional service, learning from any worthy source to perform at their best. This is why the planet Mercury, which prioritizes leaving a lasting impact, exalts in the sign of Virgo overall as Virgo earns the trust of others to serve in the material world. On the other hand Pisces, while related to service in its own right, is more about retreating or retiring from service after having worked so hard and has reached a resting point of liberation. There is nothing left to accumulate for them, so Mercury debilitates in Pisces bc there is nothing left to learn and one’s service is ending essentially. Pisces does not have the optimal resources for Mercury.

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Uttara Bhadrapada

Deity: Ahirbudhnya/Ananta Shesha who keeps the earth stabilized and Vishnu reclines on Shesha too. So UBP carries themes of strength being the Warrior Star. Various events in their lives help them realize their strength and keep them solid as Saturn burns their weaknesses. They reach a point of internal stillness, supporting UBP’s wish to have a firm foundation.

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Women of Dharma (1, 5, 9)

Women of Artha (2, 6, 10)

Women of Kama (3, 7, 11)

Women of moksha (4, 8, 12)

Through all my years of studying astrology, my favorites lens of exploring astrology is through the houses, so I found some quotes that I believe align with the path of the houses, grouping them by the 4 primary goals that align with those houses in Vedic astrology.