Mula - Vichruta

Moola - Mulam - Mulabarhana - Prabhava -  Noop (Tibetan)

 Ketu's navamsha trine = Ashwini, Magha, Mula

The Nineteenth Nakshatra

00:00 - 13:20 Dhanusha (Sagittarius)

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

Return from the Brink of Disaster

"The Galactic Root"

(Direct route to the Galactic Sun)

"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.

This gives Mula a more creative energy.

Mula means root.

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

In the negative sense in the Vedas, Mula ruled by Nirriti takes away the root of one’s progeny or causes the loss of one’s first child."

~~ David Frawley, Fruits of Worshipping Each Nakshatra

• "Opposite" or "reverse" of movement; forbidding movement or forbidding repayment; finite, limited, sticks to its base; does not exceed a narrow, pre-set range.

• The native is charismatic yet insincere. Externally capable; internally unhappy.

• Binding or restraint, root-bound; chained, bound or arrested.

• Esoterically, Mula is considered the center of Earth's galaxy, the celestial "root" of our greater galactic civilization ( of which Earthly civilization is only one component)

• Traditionally it is forbidden to make loans during the Moon's transit through Mula nakshatra.  The repayment of such loans would be difficult-to-impossible, as they are cursed by Mula's energy of bound-ness or movement without progress.

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.

• The 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 negligent and 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 recovers from each and every crisis, no matter how apparently deadly. 

• After each recovery, the native begins a new cycle self-destructive choices which 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 victim of a series of "amazing accidents". 

Emotional distancing

• Chandra in Ketu-ruled Nakshatra (Ashwini, 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's fundamental disengagement from the world of "natural consequences" leads to a host of physical, social, emotional, and mental problems. 

However, Mula influence is surprisingly 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.

FEMALE

Mula lagna:

• Sophia Loren (actress, author, entrepreneur)

, Marla Maples Trump

 

Chandra in Mula:

• Martha Stewart

Chandra in Mula:

• Donald Trump, Shri Aurobindo, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Al Gore Jr., Rupert Murdoch, Arnold Schwarzenegger (gov California)]

Barbara Pijan Lama viewpoint on Mula Nakshatra:

"Mula" ("the root") causes unusually self-destructive psychic 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

Mula influence suggests that a part of one's divine consciousness still harkens back to a previous incarnation, not in Earth, but in the territory 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. 

Mula is associated with catastrophic events and failures after taking too-big risks. 

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 is all about Keeping One's Own Counsel, and Intuitive Faith - gone awry!

file update: 04-Jul-2010

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