ALL ABOUT PURVA BHADRAPADA NAKSHATRA

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Sanskrit Name:  पूर्वभाद्रपदा (Purva-Bhadrapada) comes from the Sanskrit words पूर्व (early) and भद्र (blessed). One meaning of Purva-bhadrapada is “the early blessed one,” indicating enthusiasm, good fortune, and happiness.

Planetary Ruler:  Jupiter. In Vedic theology, Jupiter is considered to be the advisor and guru of the gods and is known as Brhaspati. Jupiter is associated with wisdom, virtue, and spirituality.

Nakshatra Group:  Humanlike. Nakshatras are divided into three classes — monsters, humans, and gods. Purva-bhadrapada is a humanlike nakshatra. People in this group are generally hardworking and motivated to achieve material success. Although they are generally kind, they can also be vindictive and self-serving.

Zodiac Sign:  Aquarius (1st through 3rd quarter) and Pisces (4th quarter). Aquarius natives are intelligent, idealistic, determined, and philosophically-inclined. Pisces natives are intuitive, empathic, creative, and sociable.

Deity:  Shiva. In Vedic theology, Shiva is an expansion of the One God, Vishnu. He is known as the best of Vaishnavas, or worshipers of Vishnu, and he presides over the destructive energy that causes annihilation at the end of the universe. His eternal companion, Goddess Durga, is the presiding deity of the material energy.

Symbol:  A funeral bed. This represents death of the self (enlightenment), fire, and transformation.

Power:  To uplift those who perform sacrifice. Persons born under the star of Purva-bhadrapada are naturally self-sacrificing and spiritually inclined. With the proper discipline, they can attain high levels of spiritual realization.

Resonant Syllables:  In India, the birth nakshatra is traditionally used as one means of choosing the name of a child. The corresponding syllables for the four quarters (padas) of Purva-bhadrapada are Say (से), So (सो), Da (दा), and Dee (दी). The syllable of a person’s first name is sometimes used when calculating an astrological chart if the time of birth is unknown.

People born in Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra in Astrology are intelligent, Scholarly, Logical, Of a Sharp Mind, Clever and Opinionated, True Individualists, Strong in Morals, Devoted, Following their Righteous Path Original, Being True to Themselves, Not following Societal Norms, Living Life at One's Own Speed, Traveling the Path Less Taken Optimistic, Sociable, Pleasant, Well Mannered, Sincere, Genuine, Kind Talent of Speaking, Writing, Master Researcher, Writers, Author, Publisher Independent, Aiming for Self Sufficiency, Determined, Discipline, Hard Working, Full of Reason and Practicality, Can Generate Good Income, Work pertaining to Engineering, Sciences, Technologies.

Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra in Vedic Astrology is one of the Adhomukhi Nakshatras (or the Nakshatras which have their mouths downwards). In these nakshatras, things related to tanks, wells, temples, mining, digging, etc. can be auspiciously begun and performed.

• The yoni animal of this nakshatra is a male lion.
• What does a male lion do most of the day? They sleep, sit around because they know they don’t have to move for anyone.
• P. Bhadrapda people would have this in their consciousness, they have to work, they need to work, but if they didn’t have to they won’t, but also what happens here is that the work they do is always unfulfilling and makes them unhappy.
• They feel directionless in life because the lion yoni wants to feel relaxed and without responsibility.
• Purava Bhadrapada people feel like a vagabond until either they do something creative, political, medical or activism activities.
• They need a purpose in life and most of the time the purpose would be related to children as the sign of LEO falls directly opposite to Aquarius.
• This nakshatra’s main domination is in the Aquarius sign while on the Pisces side they are more introverted, fluent and at peace at the pace of their life.
• The lion is also known for his roar and when these people get frustrated, pushed to the wall or angry they will roar and scream to make their point, which can be very eccentric to others.
• Like the lion who lunges on its prey, they will lunge on the one who becomes the prey in front of them by being a predator.
• Lion’s job is to protect the cubs, which shows these people will be extremely protective of children and family at all cost.
• You will see some people with other nakshatras may not have such brutal protective instincts and are okay with life and what their young cubs are doing.
• Purva Bhadrapada natives may go out there stalking their child’s move and making sure they are safe and sound.
• These people will also have lot of hair on their body and will think more of their headhair especially when this nakshatra have effects on the 2 nd house or 2nd lord of the chart.
• The lion being the animal of this nakshatra shows the connection with Goddess Durga, who is having lion as her mount.
• She killed the buffalo headed demon, Mahishasur.
• Lion is often used as a sign for Sun, as well as for a strong devotee.
• God Narasimha, half man-half lion avatar of Lord Vishnu, had the purpose to save his child devotee Prahlad from his father Hiranyakashipu, who was killed under unique set of conditions, such as at twilight (neither day nor night), on the doorsteps of his palace (neither inside or outside), uses his nails to kill him (neither animate or inanimate), puts him on his lap before killing (neither earth nor in space), which nullified the boon he had obtained from lord Brahma.
• Prahlada was the grandfather of king Mahabali.
• We may ask what is lion for and his purpose.
• They are not aware that humans consider them as the king of jungle, they simply know that they are able to kill most of the animals but lion is there to watch for the pride, sleep and eat.
• Purva Bhadrapada people do excellent when in position to protect children, working with children or large groups of people who protect certain aspects of life.
• When it comes to the symbolism of this nakshatra we have enough to talk about.
• They have several symbols ranging from twins, funeral cot legs and two swords.
• The symbolism of twin or two face shows the polarity in these natives.
• People with Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra may be either twins, or their family member would be a twin, but the strongest attribute is their ability to flipflop their views, answers, personality and mind.
• They can actually come off as Vishakha type individuals with double personality and if you look Vishakha falls in the 9 th house from this nakshatra which means one naturally will get personality traits from the father.
• This can also be interpreted as being in two worlds.
• Such people not only are very much grounded into the affairs of this world but have affinity with the world, aliens, UFO, paranormal, and death.
• When it comes to the funeral cot it shows their interest in death, health and life that is beyond the freshness of living body.
• They have keen interest in pathology and how the body functions but it also shows wanting to serve those who lay on the funeral cot.
• You will see such people are attracted to items that are old and dead in the culture, they love older antique items, which no one wants because they feel dead to an average person.
• They are the people who will be purchasing an old VCR, boob box or old style radios.
• Aja Ekapada, or “the unborn, one footed one”, is the deity of Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra.
• He is one of the Rudras and is the fire dragon. Aja Ekapada is often considered in his goat form, and is considered to be the mount of lord Agni, the God of Fire.
• Aja Ekapada is connected with storms through Rudra, and may BE also connected with the Maruts, the wind gods.
• The archetypical unicorn may also be connected to the Purva Bhadrapada.
• Seeing how Aja is one footed, you will see such natives will always have a leg injury where they will have to be on one foot for a while or on a wheelchair.
• As a Rudra these people are always attracted to natural medicine, herbs and acupressure.
• Lions are animals that can take a lot of pain and survive, these people also love feeling pain in their body like deep massage, acupuncture needles, etc and just like Rudra these folks are not light weights, they will storm upon you when challenged.
• They are extremely animated, wild and will like everything that 90% of the people will not.
• If many people like classical music, pop, rock, Purva Bhadrapada natives will love punk rock and heavy metal.
• If everyone enjoys mainstream hip-hop, they will listen to underground hip-hop.
• If most like mainstream movies they will like cult classics B movies.
• The one legged theory is extremely true.
• These individuals will fold one leg to the other while washing dishes, or doing some kitchen work.
• Talking about the unicorn, which is a horse with wings and a horn on the nose; they will always love having statue of wing angles and horses in their home and as children they would love unicorns or creatures which are mutation of the original animal.
• Aja Ekapada is the fire that is connected with funeral rites, and can be considered to be the spiritual fire, which purifies one’s soul.
• He is also connected with lightning, storms, black magic, and extreme occult groups such as Aghoris & other extreme practitioners of yoga or tapasya.
• The fortnight that follows after the full moon in Bhadrapada nakshatra (full moon in September or the Bhadrapada Hindu month) is connected with offerings to Pitris and is called tarpanam fortnight.
• Aja Ekapad is equipped with trident and is shown with a stag and recall how Rudra pierced the head of Brahma, who was stalking Saraswati in form of a stag.
• As he is one footed and connected with meditation austerities he is connected with rishis and munis practicing meditation standing on one leg.
• The severe form of meditation or the left-handed tantra practice can be connected with this nakshatra.
• Purva Bhadrapada natives are the type of people who want to stop stalkers in their footpath.
• They can’t stand when an innocent being is terrorized, just like Brahma stalking Saraswati.
• Most of the time such people love doing investigation or love watching shows related to murder investigations and serial stalkers.
• If other planets in the chart are making a person’s action negative then such people do such things instead of fighting against it.
• Due to the connection with Rudra they love medical field especially since it deals with life and death (funeral cot) and severe rituals.
• The magic side of this nakshatra gives natural interest in kundalini, magic, aliens, UFO and other mythical activities.
• Purva and Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra have a love for dragons.
• They love stories of dragons as a child or even have one of those Feng-Shu statues in their home due to fire rituals and relation to fire with this nakshatra but it is truly the next nakshatra that has this symbolism.
• Lord Nataraja, the form of Shiva standing on one foot over the demon can be close resemblance to Aja Ekapada, though not same.
• In fact every year in the Tamil month Maasi (Feb-March) from the day of Mahashivratri for the next few days the Indian classical dance festival, Natyanjali, is held in Chidambaram.
• It is at this time of the year the Sun is transiting or in close proximity to the Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra.
• Mushrooms are strongly connected with this nakshatra as it is a vegetables/fungus standing on one foot.
• In ancient times soma was actually considered as mushrooms.
• They used to make a paste of mushrooms and ghee along with other herbs to create the som juice.

• Spread from 20'00" in Kumbha up to 3'20" in Meen.
• Lords are Shani and Guru. It causes burns, punishes by fire, causes pain, burns things to ashes, uses words that burn, conducts that blisters, use of harsh words, evil disposition, cruelty, greediness, restlessness, feeling of despair and unsatisfied ambition, to burn by slow degrees, sudden excess of anger, etc.
• Anthropomorphically this is the side of the body of Kalapurush.

• According to Hora Sara: One born in Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra will be adulterous, will have no permanent residence, be difficult to be won over, will enjoy, will get money from the sovereign, is base, dutiful and long-lived.

• According to Jataka Parijata: If a person is born in Purva Bhadrapada he will be bold in his speech, mischievous, cowardly, and weak.

• According to Sage Narada: One born in Purva Bhadrapada will be sorrowful (particularly for an absent lover). He will lose to women, be crafty, be quite immersed in blaming others, hypocritical, impatient, and heroic.

• According to Brihat Samhita: Under the star, Purva Bhadrapada one will be unhappy, henpecked, wealthy and clever, but a miser.

• They are born in the first Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are worshipers of gods, enjoy life, cruel and stubborn. They are candid, stIngy, respected, quarrelsome, grab others' property, and court courtesans.
• They are born in the first Pada of  Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are Aggressive, Determined, Action-Oriented, A Born Doer, Looking to Charge, Be Impulsive and Get Things Done Through Mental "Gymnastics" Wanting to Take Action with Their Knowledge, Motivated to get Out in The World.
• They are born in the first Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are Anxious to Get to Work, Using Information and the Mind to Inspire Others, Motivational Speaker, Teacher, Writer Working to Inspire Others to "Pick Up Arms".
• They are born in the first Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra. Students are a Pushed to their Max, Ensuring Practical Applications of Their Teachings to Others, Making Sure Students Practice What is Preached.

• Those born in the Second Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are enjoyers of life, well versed with spells, exorcists and carry on varied kinds of transactions. They are interested in scents and flowers, chief amongst their friends, poets, givers, wise travelers, and relatives' works.
• Those born in the Second Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are Gaining Financial Knowledge, Becoming Financial Expert, Money Managers, Business Acumen, Business helps Promote Independence and Self Sufficiency Collecting Information on How to Make Money Work Best for Them, Using Knowledge to Collect Assets and Material Desires.
• Those born in the Second Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are Using Money to Help Disadvantaged People, Setting Up or Envisioning Social Welfare Programs to Help People on Their Feet, Teaching or Publishing about Financial Responsibility.
• Those born in the Second Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are Indulgent in Nature, Lover of Music and Art, Creative with Music and Art, Feeling Balanced and Joyous Pleasure through Art Attaining Knowledge of Music or the Arts, Interested in the History of Art, Music/ Collecting Pieces of Fine Art or Music Memorabilia.

• Those born in the Third Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are wise, always enjoy life, love by their parents, learn, transact many things, and are wealthy and respected by relatives. They are peaceful and undertake all jobs.
• Those born in the Third Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are intellectually Curious, Scientific Minded, Interested in How Things Work Master Researcher, Always Learning, Lifelong Student, Well Educated.
• Those born in the Third Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are True Communicators, Sharing Ideas, Publishing Ideas or Opinions Philosopher by Nature, Teaching Philosophies, Broadening Other's Visions.
• Those born in the Third Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are Communicating Spiritual Ideas, Teaching Spirituality to Others, Being a Guru, Getting Others to Understand Greater Ideas then Themselves Communicating Ideas of Humanitarian Interest, Talking about Ideas of Advancing Society, Helping Bring Humanity to Greater Heights through Ideas.

• Those born in the Fourth Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are wealthy, loved by their wives, respected by the world, worship their mothers, and support many people. They like music, wear ornaments, help at the sight of difficulty, and respected by the king.
• Those born in the Fourth Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are Emotionally connected to Spiritually, Sensitive and Intuitive, Interest in Mysticism and Occult, Astrology Needing to Learn on a Relational Level, Needing to feel Emotionally fulfilled to Absorb Information.
• Those born in the Fourth Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are Learning about Spiritual Ideas, Concepts, How to Use Imagination, Connecting Deeply with Those who Learn from Them, Nurturing people they Teach Writing about Emotional Topics.
• Those born in the Fourth Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are Talking About Love, Compassion, Romance, Life, Death, Places away from Reality, Fantasy Could be Destructive due to the Intense Inner Emotions, May feel Isolated and Turn to Self Affirmative Pains, Breaking the Law, Hurting Others.
•  Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are Aggressive, Determined, Action-Oriented, A Born Doer, Looking to Charge, Be Impulsive and Get Things Done Through Mental "Gymnastics" Wanting to Take Action with Their Knowledge, Motivated to get Out in The World.
• They are born in the first Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra are Anxious to Get to Work, Using Information and the Mind to Inspire Others, Motivational Speaker, Teacher, Writer Working to Inspire Others to "Pick Up Arms".
• They are born in the first Pada of Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra. Students are a Pushed to their Max, Ensuring Practical Applications of Their Teachings to Others, Making Sure Students Practice What is Preached.

• Nadi: Aadhya or first
• Gana (nature): Manushya or human
• Yoni (animal symbol): Sivha or lion
• Result of wearing new clothes on Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra: Fear of water, wear and tear while washing new clothes
• Result of first menses on Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra: Competitive with a sibling, likes to control, good at craft and aggressive
• Result of performing shraddha on Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra: Gains knowledge
• Beneficial activities on Purva Bhadrapada: Diplomacy, attack on the enemy, manufacturing weapons and marketing
• Beneficial samskara or ceremonies on Purva Bhadrapada: Start learning a new subject, threading ceremony, Anugraha or Deeksha.

• Purva Bhadrapada is known to be a Ugra nakshatra which are best for funeral rights, going to war, causing destruction, learning about death, search for paranormal and ghostly things, anything to scare someone, tantric fire rituals and funeral home or where dead rest.

• The caste of this nakshatra is Brahmin.
• This is the outcaste Brahmin because they are the ferocious ones.
• They have no emotions to spare for God realization; either you come and be disciplined, get the knowledge the way they give or get out.
• They are the Durgadari, the one with the energy of Durga.
• The meaning of Durga is “unreachable”, something which is not from this world, dimension or Universe.
• This is why realized masters have said Durga will only listen to her devotee one day a year and then she goes back to her world.

• Praying Shiva, Durga becomes extremely potent for a Purva Bhadrapada individual.
• Make sure one sits on a strong chair because these people will run into issues with wobbly chairs or chairs with broken or cracked legs; when that happens one should immediately change their chair.
• Having a male brass lion in South direction becomes very potent to balance that wild energy within the individual.
• Sitting in front of burning fire like logs would be another remedy to cool down the frustration inside. Yogi’s, especially Naths always light a fire wherever they go.
• Ardra, Ashlesha, Mula, Purva Bhadrapada and Uttara Bhadrapada are strongly connected with Nath Yogis.
• Staring at the fire for at least 15-20 minutes if not longer will eventually turn into a deep meditative state.