Full Moon in Puṣya
The Star of nurturance and codes of natural order
January 25th at 12:54 pm ET
At 11° of Cancer
In the Nakṣatra of Puṣya
Symbol- Milk yeilding cow udder, or Lotus
Shakti- Brahmavarchasa shakti, the power to harness creative spiritual energy.
Deity- Brhaspati, the Guru to the gods, Priestly caste
“Brihaspati, being born first, has thus become the Tishya constellation;
The best of godheads, conqueror in battles,
May fearlessness grow in all directions,
Tishya‐constellation ‐ in front of us and in the middle,
Brihaspati should thus protect us from behind,
And thus destroy hostility and create fearlessness!
May we become the lords of perfect courage!”
-Nakṣatra Sukta translation by VladimirYatsenko
Todays Full Moon falls under the lunar stars of Puṣya Nakṣatra. Symbolized by a milk udder which provides sustenance indiscriminately. Our Moon, at full, a pearlescent night light washes away all the stars except for the brightest of asterisms, our starry powerhouses (Rohiṇī, Jyeṣṭhā, Maghā etc), the Moon beckons, look at me, bask in my glorious light!
The Full Moon occurs at the same moment everywhere on earth, the only thing that changes in that moment is the local time (day or night). The effects of the luminaries are far beyond what our bodies can touch, and our minds can name. The Full Moon creates heightened activity in the mind, which is why today is considered a good rest day. The Moon also emits a cooling and rejuvenating nectar, you can receive this nectar by basking/ bathing in this Full Moon light.
Puṣya means nurturing, to flower or bloom. This is a devotional, and community orientated star. The stories of the Moon are enumerated on every corner of the earth. The Moon (our memory house) holds the stories of the stars because only the Moon can be seen prancing through these lunar mansions (we can not watch the Sun move through stars). Our cosmology, and our ancient history exists in these stars and stories. Our family, our past is all a part of a story that continues to be told. These stories are more than myths, or fantastical tales. Ancient cultures were very intentional about the stories they were transmitting orally from generation to generation. The way the star shined, its shape, color, the essence it evoked, the way that story nourished the child to sleep, and the mother into deep sleep, invoking sweetness, dreams and never nightmares. Oral storytelling traditions is an intelligent way of preserving culture, moral codes, cosmology and observational truths (what we call science today). The mind will remember a story, but not a name or date (that is the job of the intellect, which is not the seat of memory).
The yogatārā for Puṣya is Al Turf at 10° of Cancer, or Delta Cancer at 14° (the beehive cluster in the center of the constellation). Puṣya spans 3°40- 20° of zodiacal arc in Cancer. This asterism inhabits the center space of Cancer, and is symbolic of home, mother, happiness, joy, community, and morals and ethics (often directly linked to condition of mother and nurturance as a child).
The Shakti for Puṣya is brahmavarchasa shakti, the power to harness creative spiritual energy. Referring to the brilliantly shining light that permeates everywhere. Brhaspati, is the spiritual preceptor to the gods and the priestly caste. He represents maintaining moral codes of conduct. Through ritual the priests role is to protect mankind as a mediary between man and heaven (stars, the natural order of the cosmos). The mother needs no mediary, the mother is already divine (the mother, or feminine is shakti, the cause of light, stars, and therefore the light of creation).
Brhaspati is also connected to Swans, singing, and sound that permeates the element of Akash (space). Swans loud voices drive away the darkness, reuniting heaven and earth…
The word Nakṣatra is referring to the Lunar Asterisms (a single or small grouping of stars) based on the Moon's daily movement. Nakṣatra means that which will not break, that which doesn’t decay, the unknowable and unbreakable forces of causation.
Today is Thursday, the day for the planet Juipiter (named Guru in Vedic Astrology) and called Brhaspati, this Full Moon in the stars of Brhaspati falls on the day of Guru, this is an auspicious day and lunar cycle until the next Full Moon to cultivate knowledge, or seek the advice of a guru, teacher, or jyotishi.
May the light of truth find its way home to us all, may we never stop shining.
Wild Geese
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
- Mary Oliver
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