ALL ABOUT PUSHYA NAKSHATRA

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Sanskrit Name:  पुष्य (Pushya) comes from the Sanskrit word पोष (nourishing). One meaning of Pushya is “one who nourishes,” indicating vitality, strength, and a warm, caring nature.

Planetary Ruler:  Saturn. Saturn is the bestower of karmic reaction, the good or bad results of one’s past activities. It is associated with discipline, obstacles, hard work, and philosophy and law.

Nakshatra Group:  Godly. Nakshatras are divided into three classes — monsters, humans, and gods. Pushya is a godly nakshatra. People in this group are generally good-natured and fortunate in life. However, they may struggle with pride and a sense of entitlement.

Zodiac Sign: Cancer.  Cancerians are wise and perceptive, gifted in their ability to read other people. They are nurturing, creative, and empathetic.

Deity:  Brihaspati. Brihaspati is the guru of the gods in Vedic theology. As their spiritual leader, he gives them advice and guidance.

Symbol:  The udder of a cow, a lotus, or a circle. Respectively, this represents nourishment, auspiciousness, and wholeness.

Power:  To give spiritual illumination. Spiritual energy is prominent in Pushya, and this energy helps individuals find the Absolute Truth and also creates unity.

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 Pushya are Hu (हु), He (हे), Ho (हो), and Da (ड). The syllable of a person’s first name is sometimes used when calculating an astrological chart if the time of birth is unknown.

Natives born in Pushya Nakshatra in Astrology are of independent nature, moral, ethical, selfless, caring and having common courtesy carrying etiquette, possess calmness, patient demeanour and very respectful, social, enjoying engagements with others, making others feel comfortable, heard and liked by others.

Pushya Nakshatra in Vedic Astrology is one of the Urdhvamukhi Nakshatras (or the Nakshatras which have their mouths upwards). In these nakshatras, things related to palaces, coronations, boundary walls, construction of tall structures can be auspiciously begun and performed.

Vedic Story -

Tara, the wife of BrIhaspathi was very attractive and when Soma saw her, he was attracted towards Tara. Later, he seduced her because Tara couldn’t resist Soma’s attractive personality. Finally, Soma took her away and this made BrIhaspathi angry. He asked Soma to return his wife, but Soma refused to do so. Shukracharya, the Guru of demons stood by the side of Soma and all the gods supported BrIhaspathi. War started between Soma and BrIhaspathi. Lord Brahma stepped in and insisted Soma returns Tara. Tara was impregnated by Soma. When Tara delivered. 

• The animal of Pushya is a Goat.
• Everyone mistake the animal as a cow, but it’s the cow udder that is the symbolism of Pushya, not the animal.
• Studying a goat will show a lot about a Pushya native. Goats have amazing eyes; they see everything around them almost to 280º.
• They see a wider perspective of the world vs. what we see which is only around 90º, that too only 30º in focus.
• Pushya natives see life in a very broad way, they don’t feel they need to attach or focus on one specific thing; they want to know the world.
• Goats have the ability to swallow food and later bring it back to chew it, this shows Pushya people swallow their food more than chewing because their digestive system is much stronger and cable of breaking down food without too much of chewing.
• Another way to look at this is Pushya person will always bring things from their past to show what they had to endure during that time.
• If a friend hurts and make up with them later, the Pushya native will remind how they hurt them, it’s like bringing past food out onto their tongue.
• There are funny Youtube videos of Goats fainting, which is simply a genetic disorder that doesn’t help them control their muscles.
• Pushya people are known to have vibrating muscles, twinkling in their fingers and sometimes they cannot control the movement of their hands as if they are getting cerebral palsy, usually this occurs with getting into a panic situation.
• Goats are extremely protective of themselves and their young ones, which make sense with Pushya as it’s a nakshatra of nourishing and lies in the sign of Cancer.
• If you noticed that Pushya lies in the heart of Cancer which means Saturn lies in the heart of all water signs.
• It shows a lot about Saturn’s character, which is of a nourisher, emotional warrior or the one who shows us true nourishment, wealth and comfort.
• It gives us comfort of home, death, and higher realm.
• The story of Pushya is quite interesting.
• Brihaspati (Jupiter), the deity of Pushya nakshatra, is the Guru to Gods and was always busy doing yagnas, rituals and teaching Vedas.
• He also taught law, politics and economics.
• Brihaspati was the most brilliant student except for Shukracharya (planet Venus).
• As they grew up Brihaspati became too engrossed in his teachings and works at the palace while Venus became the teacher of the asuras (demons), the new age workers.
• Brihaspati ignored his family and wife, Tara. As a result she eloped with Chandra (Moon) and became pregnant having Budha (Mercury) as their son.
• Jupiter waged war on Chandra and began to attack him with the army of devas, while Venus sided with Chandra because Jupiter ignored the most important dharma and karma towards his wife.
• Venus helped Chandra in the war, and after the bloody battle Jupiter realized his mistake and accepted Mercury as his step son, and took back Tara.

• Spread from 3'20" to 16'40" Cancer (Karka). Pushya etymologically means to nourish, and that again means to preserve, protect, replenish, multiply, and strengthen. Everything of the very best comes within the scope of this Star.
• Enjoyment of wealth and prosperity follows from it. Guru is described as the great teacher of all creation, from amoebae to the Gods, and is the source of all knowledge and wisdom.
• The mystery of creation is no mystery to him. He is the eloquent preceptor, the wise minister, pontifex, head of all religious ceremonies. He takes pleasure in all worshipful rituals. And that is why the Pusya is composed of these virtues. It has been described as blossoming and flourishing. It is the mouth of Orien.

• According to Hora Sara: The native of Pushya Nakshatra will be very angrily disposed of, be intelligent, bold, talkative, learned in many branches, be helpful to his relatives, a thief, wealthy, and independent.

• According to Jataka Parijata: If at a native's birth, the Moon be in (Pushya) he will love Gods and Brahmins, possess wealth and intelligence, enjoys royal favor, and have a large circle of relations.

• According to Sage Narada: One born in Pushya will be fortunate, famous, adventurous, patient in disposition, be happy with the least, and will walk fast.

• According to Brihat Samhita: One born under the star Pusya will possess a tranquil mind, amiable features, learning, affluence, and attachment to meritorious deeds.

• Those born in the first pada of Pushya are cruel, daring, famous, devoted to work, and endowed with children. They go to other countries and become wealthy. Their relatives respect them.
• Those born in the first pada of Pushya are dynamic, dramatic, attention seeking, looking for authority, wanting to be known for what there is to offer.
• Those born in the first pada of Pushya are responsible, dependable, professional, pride in family, lineage, culture, motherly or fatherly.
• Those born in the first pada of Pushya are caregivers, lavish, strong parents, leaders, bosses, authoritative figures.

• Those born in the second pada are sad and interested in grabbing others' property, stingy, knowledgeable, fear of hell, astrologers, and warriors.
• Those born in the second pada of Pushya are intelligent, emotional yet remaining practical, hardworking, purposeful, punctual, dependent, and caretaker, dietitian, nurse, and healthcare worker, doctor.
• Those born in the second pada of Pushya are emotionally attached to helping others, compulsive about taking care of others, and perform the duty to help others.
• Those born in the second pada of Pushya are perfectionist at helping, committed to doing best job, detailed caretaking, timely help, feeling personally unappreciated, prone to emotional worry, wasting time over anxieties, losing out due to worry.

• Those born in the third pada of Pushya are pleasant-faced, sweet-spoken, enjoyers of life, wealthy, interested in scents and flowers, and confined to their own wife. They are sinless.
• Those born in the third pada of Pushya are creative, emotional, needing to express oneself, experiences attached to creations, natural actors, talented at expressing feelings.
• Those born in the third pada of Pushya are business minded, balanced approach, diplomatic, partner oriented, group projects.
• Those born in the third pada of Pushya are believe in group efforts, humanitarian efforts, homeless, like working, cooking, aesthetically pleasing food, cooking to satisfy feelings, make others feel comfortable, and enjoy family meals.

• Those born in the fourth pada of pushy are grabbed others' wealth. They are stubborn and hated by all people. They are fighters, distorted-faced, instructors in the science of documentation. They are candid in their speech and bereft of money.
• Those born in the fourth pada of pushy are passionate, emotional, emotionally instinctual, reactive, easily angered, going to extremes to help, passionately and emotionally Involved in helping, psychological experts.
• Those born in the fourth pada of pushy are working hard to understand others, picking up patterns of others, detectives, therapists, psychologists, researchers, investigators, emotions as weapons, emotional manipulators, killing over emotions, protecting and defending emotional attachment.
• Those born in the fourth pada of pushy have connection to the underworld, wanting to talk to the dead using tarot, occult, hidden. Usng underworld for revenge or protection.

• Nadi:  Madhya or middle
• Gana (nature):  Dev or god
• Yoni (animal symbol):  Mesha or ram
• Result of wearing new clothes on Pushya Nakshatra:  Monitory gains
• Beneficial activities on Pushya:  Selling, learning, wearing new clothes and jewellery enjoys pleasures, an expert in her field, responsive.
• Result of performing shraddha on Pushya Nakshatra: Good health
• Beneficial activities on Pushya: Selling, learning, wearing new clothes and jewellery, stage performance, art and craft, washing precious clothes for the first time, plantation, marketing, digging a well or a borewell, begin learning dance, starting a new job, monetary investment, ploughing, sowing seeds, Vaman, Virechan, Shiramokshan and entering a new property.
• Beneficial samskara or ceremonies on Pushya: Piercing, naming, first solid feeding to baby, haircut, shave, manicure, pedicure, threading, first shave of a baby, start learning a new subject, introducing letters to a baby, threading ceremony, Anugraha or Deeksha.

• Pushya is a Kshipra (fast) nakshatra, which means any activity that requires fast reaction, fast healing and fast results should be done when Moon is transiting this nakshatra.
• Activities like giving medicine, starting a competitive race, business or bet, or requiring quick results from your email or text should be performed on this nakshatra.
• Pushya is the most prosperous nakshatra of all and anything done on this day would give benefits.
• The only thing one should not do is to get married on this day, which will cause major issues in the marriage due to spouse’s focus more on career and teaching vs. the family life.

• It is interesting to know why Pushya, whose deity is Guru/Brihaspati, is a merchant caste. Just like Jupiter, the guru, is the karaka of many houses, the caste itself represents different aspects of a certain planet.
• Jupiter is not only a guru in gurukul who teaches about god realization, yoga, upanishads, but also someone who knows how an economical system should work, strategize during a war, deal with ecology, and environment.
• This merchant caste here shows a guru, who knows how to deal and work in an economy.

• One of the best remedies for Pushya is to donate money towards feeding and savings cows. This one simple act will turn their life around.
• Having a lotus flower or statue of lotus flower in their home towards North enhances their life.
• The other most beneficial remedy is to wear 22K gold chain.
• It needs to be at least 22K or more as most of the western countries only sell 18K at most unless you go to an Asian or an Indian jewelry store.