Vishaka - Radha

Vaishakha - Vishakya - Visaakham - Raaraa - Aindraagna - zkrAgni - Zkraagni - Satragni - Sadvhava - Sa-Ka (Tibetan)

Guru-ruled nakshatra trine = Punarvasu , Vishakha, Purvabhadrapada

Indra

The Sixteenth Nakshatra

20:00 Thula - 03:20 Vrischika (Libra-Scorpio)

first half of the nakshatra pair, Radha-Anuradha

Location = Zuben el Genubi, Zuben el Chamali, Zuben el Hakhrabi: alpha, beta, gamma, and iota Librae -- The Circle of Stars

Vishakhya = "The Forked" - "Two-Branched"; Radha = "The Delightful"

"Indra and Agni desired, "May I gain the greatest splendor among the Gods."

He makes the appropriate offering to Indra and Agni, to Vishakha, gains the greatest splendor among his peers.

Vishakha is a competitive Nakshatra and has a fiery and lightning-like energy and effects.

Its natives seek power and recognition."

~~ David Frawley, Fruits of Worshipping Each Nakshatra

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Vishaka, for females, from ~~ Shil-Ponde. (1939). Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra. p 97. "... delicate features and a soft pleasing voice. But do not let these deceive you. Underneath she has a strong character, even hard at times. She will always follow her own inclinations and is not amenable to advice from others. She will be distinctly appealing to the opposite sex and will make a very fortunate marriage. Her husband will be well-to-do if not wealthy and she will have few if any children, not more than two. She will be fond of travel and change and will travel much with her husband. Her favorite color is red or crimson. She has beautifully shaped legs."

Females

Radix Lagna in Vishakha:

• Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy O., actress Diane Keaton, Margaret Thatcher, B. P. Lama, Ivana Trump

Chandra in Vishakha:

• Elizabeth Taylor, actress Diane Keaton

Males

Radix Lagna in Vishakha:

• Sigmund Freud (psychoanalyst); Benito Mussolini,  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (shah of Iran)

Chandra in Vishakha:

Vaishakhya:

• Indra-Agni = psychic orientation to storms. Shakti through touch.

• Delivers piercing, brilliant observations in the context of excess pressure and torment.

• Vishakha's powerful insights can be dangerous and frightening, but are usually more spectacular and stunning.

• The life of the Vishakha natives is punctuated by numerous psycho-emotional shocks. Terrible truths long hidden may be suddenly exposed. Catastrophic shock occurs several times during the lifetime.

• Vishakha's pattern often involves sudden changes in public social role, as well as sudden changes in behavior and expectations driving the roles within close relationships.

Thula Vaishakhya vs. Vrischika Vaishakhya

• L-6 Guru rules loss of security and loss of agreement

• Thula lagna is blessed in many ways, but Thula does not receive protection from normally auspicious Guru. L-3/L-6 Brihaspati is a papa-graha for Thula.

• Because Vishaka nakshatra is ruled by Guru, the trials and tribulations which induce Vishaka's greatest flashes of brilliant insight, are also exhausting patterns of mental and physical distress (L-3 and L-6).

• The Thula-ruled quarters of Vishaka struggle with mental balance and physical well-being throughout their life.

• Guru rules family of origin and kids

• The Vrischika-ruled quarter of Vishakha may not have Thula's yogakaraka-Shani assets (solid education and disciplined intelligence) but the final padaa of Vishaka benefits from Guru's favorable role as L-2/L-5 from Scorpio lagna.

• Flashes of insight are obtained at a lesser price, without draining the mental and physical health. The source of brilliance is psychic jolts that come from family of origin, works of art, children, games. Much easier!

Career for Vaishakhya

• Vishaka's shakti pulses a momentarily shocking, sudden bright light onto the world's darkness. Native should pursue a career which supports their tendency toward sudden revelations.

  • The three quarters of Vishakha that fall within Thula rashi exhibit strong diplomatic skills, and these natives are typically gifted social entertainers.

  • However Vishakha are very complex, psychically charged people who pretty much live in a state of circuit-breaking overload. Mere diplomacy, counseling, or entertainment activities will not be satisfying. The native will seek environments where the most intense level of psychic charge is available.

• Psychological work with trauma and healing, medical diagnosis, counseling professions, investigative journalism, divination, intuitive and clairvoyant work, and scientific research are all suitable, but do not expect consistency or routine, at least until the end of life..

Psychic effects for Vaishakhya in radix lagna:

• Vishakha indicates the tremendous build-up of atmospheric energy right before a thunderstorm.

• Psychically, the events of the Vishakha native's life will be highly charged. There is shock, after shock; the native loses their social grounding again and again.

• There may also be magnificent insights, and a spectacular capacity for healing others through extraordinary compassion. Yet, the body of the native must find some way to process these continuous shocks.

• Vishakhya tends to build up a huge accumulation of astral current (a variety of electricity), which is contained in a state of compressed, highly charged excitement -- awaiting the signal to release.

• However the "release" moment does not occur until the subsequent nakshatra = Anu-radha. Anuradha brings the tremendous release of healing rains.

Physical effects for Vaishakha in radix lagna:

• Vishakhya are often very attractive, with bright-dark eyes and a lightning-flash smile. They generate electrically charged human contact via quality of voice, brilliant eyes, and gentle touch. Their shakti is tangible.

• Naturally, Vishakha's tendency to accumulate high-voltage psychic impressions and reactions on the astral plane, while not being able to release these, will result in weight gain on the physical plane.

• Vishakha is traditionally associated with a sedentary, observer's lifestyle and obesity. (This prediction dates to several millennia before the current international obesity epidemic).

• Vishakha in radix lagna produces a strong tendency to gain flesh-body weight. (See Shil Ponde.)

• The native born under Vishakha star is predisposed to dislike physical exercise. Therefore one must watch the food diet vigilantly, in order to avoid Vishakha's expansive tendencies.

• Regular bodily exercise, although naturally anathema to the Vaishakha native, is indeed required if the native is to avoid the unconscious default condition.

The default for those born under Vishakha is to use their physical body for stabilization of the psychic overflow. Corrective work of physical-body discipline then must be accomplished at the physical level.

If the native is blessed to learn to process this highly compressed psychic accumulation with direct psychic intervention, then the default "downstream" into the physical body need not occur (or, can be reduced).

file update: 10-Jul-2010

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