Mula

• ruled by Ketu

• 00Dhanau00 - until -  13Dhanau19

• Larry King (1)

• USA Sen. /V.P. Al Gore, Jr. (6)

• Martha Stewart (3)

• Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Shri Aurobindo Ghosh 

• Rupert Murdoch

• USA Calif. Gov. Arnold Swartzenegger

• Ethel Skakel Kennedy (Mrs. Bobby Kennedy)

• Example narrative: Male Chandra/Guru in domain-4 in Mula

Radix Moon in Mula  = "Galactic Root" = over-extension and

(Ketu-Guru-Alakshmi)

Emotionally, Mula is difficult, due primarily to patterns of non-malicious self-deception. Despite holding broadly humanistic beliefs, the native finds that incompleteness and dissatisfaction characterize one's experience of living in the world.

• Prone toward over-expansion (Guru) and emotionally apathetic (Ketu), the native takes on large humanistic projects (Dhanusha) in philosophy and higher education but generally will fail to complete.

•  However the native often lacks the core convictions which are necessary to manifest positive results. Typically, the native takes on more than one can handle, due to false optimism,

There is a particularly dysfunctional affinity for religion: one feels oneself to be a religious person,

Mula forms the gateway to the galactic Sun, whose wisdom-forces are not gentle. Remembering former incarnations outside Earth which provided a more godly body-vehicle, the Mula  native does not easily accept the small range of behaviors which human bodies find as their "comfort zone". Rather, Mula tends to push the human body-mind far past its natural capacity. 

Ketu's detachment combined with Guru's optimism creates Mula's tendency to violate human-body boundaries for sleep/wake, food/toxins, heat/cold, and pleasure/pain. "Alaxmi" gives "bad luck" or reversals of fortune, labeling Mula as the most volatile & dangerous of the Nakshatra. 

The native is often externally successful, with a cheerful social personality (Guru) and can-do attitude at work. Chandra-Mula is an inspiring and capable manager in the world. Emotionally however one remains a seeker of excess & risk.

Normal life and conventional relationships leave one perpetually unsatisfied. 

Mula is reckless. The psychological assessment "reckless disregard for consequences" often attends the Mula native. 

Mula can also be cruel, due to the reckless behavior under rules of no-boundaries super-detached Ketu. 

Mula-Soma especially reckless with matters of emotional health & well-being. The Mula-Soma native may engage in unsupportable risk which threatens the stability of one's physical health, the basis of social security invested in one's marriage and family, one's dwelling place, or even one's national security.

Emotionally, Mula profiles a betrayer who feels they have been betrayed. 

Subject to self-destructive thoughts, tinged by a longing for something impossibly distant. This Earth life is not easy. 

Mula gives fierce upheavals & catastrophic changes in the physical, emotional, & social environment. Generally there are multiple occurrences of traumatic & apparently unprovoked upheavals such as accidents, revolutions, sudden onset of illness, and sudden changes of social status. 

Frequent "rage at the machine" -- embittered, feeling trapped & betrayed by an unjust, unpredictable world. Females in particular are prone to extramarital affairs, in which they often feel betrayed despite being themselves the betrayer.

Mula endures these tests to prove something essential. 

• One cannot be bound to the powers of the Earth (Ashwini) as those are fleeting. 

• One cannot be bound to the powers of the priesthood of Earth's Sun (Magha) as those also are impermanent. 

• One is bound to the Galactic Sun, a source of great and infinite power of which few humans are even aware. 

• Thus Mula transcends physical medicine (Ashwini) and religious healing (Magha) en route to Supreme Truth (Mula) in its most awesomely destructive form.

The internal self-destructive pressure is so intense that Mula can be associated with self-righteous drug & alcohol abuse, or lashing out in violence against their perceived oppression. Self-knowing Mula natives however simply hold their ground, enduring whatever outside fluctuations occur in the confidence that after every catastrophe, Mula becomes stronger.

Self-destructive impulse extends to the destruction of the primary vehicle of self-continuation, which is one's children. Mula destroys or damages reproductive fertility, often through catastrophic means such as fever of raging infection, accident, or surgery. 

If other graha protect enough to make children possible, the first child at least is damaged in some way, and all the children exhibit self-destructive behaviors.

The best life settings for this native involve vigorous physical activity and working professionally in high-stakes, high-conflict environments.  Excellent politicians who naturally instill faith in their followers, and can get people to do things for them with charismatic charm. 

When the physical scope is too limited, the native's catastrophe-seeking intuition will find social or emotional upheavals to replace the physical emergency.

• Deep emotional need to self-destruct 

Spiritual director of this section of the path:

• Nirriti = Alakshmi

Trauma profile:

Trauma profile = fear of annihilation 

Past-life memories of earthquake, flood, & fire caused by Earth Changes perpetually re-run across the native's subconscious. 

In childhood, the native experienced the mother trying in some secret, manipulative fashion to annihilate the child. 

Frequently the mother contemplated therapeutic abortion. (Mula natives typically abhor abortion and work aggressively to deny abortion rights.) The mother's destructive intent is usually masked behind proper social behavior, and the child is left with a compulsive mental habit of self-attack. 

This behavior is not critical self-blaming but rather a subconscious tendency to place oneself in harms' way, inviting risk, promiscuity, and exposure to catastrophe. 

Navamsha Moon in Mula (intimate relationships).

• Princess Diana

• Frederich Nietzsche

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

Under emotional stress in relationships, Soma in Mula navamsha can evoke the native's inner reactivity provoking compulsive upheaval and sudden, forced, destructive movement, leading to catastrophic change within the core relationship.  

The spouse appears to become provocatively reckless, trying to incite an eruption of sudden reactivity in the partner. 

The native may experience the partner as an agent of dishonesty, violence, reckless disregard for consequences, or betrayal. 

• If Mula Moon is well placed the partner may also be an agent of extraordinary, shocking, life-changing truth.

• If with Rahu or otherwise amplified, the partner becomes an agent of extreme emotional volatility, manifesting unpredictable or reckless behavior. The partner provokes arguments, breaks laws, and catalyzes social disruption. 

Even when things are going well, the partner needs plenty of volatile change in their life, ideally effected by constant international travel, and intense physical activity such as dance or sport.