Rohini Nakshatra

Rohini Nakshatra. The Star of Beauty, Growth and Abundance

Rohini is the fourth Nakshatra and the favourite wife of the Moon. Its deity is Prajapati, the creator, its symbol is the ox cart, and its star is Aldebaran, the red eye of the Bull. The whole of Rohini lies in Taurus, within the Moon's Moolatrikona, and Lord Krishna himself was born under it. No other Nakshatra gives the Moon such a comfortable home.

People born under Rohini are attractive, creative, loving and steady. They make things grow, whether crops, wealth, families or ideas. They love comfort, beauty, music and good food, and they are often the favourite in their family or workplace. Yet their moods and fortunes rise and fall like the waxing and waning Moon, and their greatest lesson is to love without clinging.

This book draws on the Vedas, the Brahmanas, the Puranas and the classical texts of Parashara and Varahamihira, together with more than 30 years of practical experience. Inside you will find

•The stories of Rohini, including the Moon and his twenty-seven wives, Prajapati and the stag, the birth of Krishna, Kamadhenu the mother of cattle, and King Dasharatha's stand against Saturn to protect Rohini's cart
•Rohini in astronomy, with Aldebaran and the Hyades, and the classical omen of Rohini Shakata Bheda
•Its symbol, deity, ruler, Gana, Yoni, Nadi, tree, syllables and other classical attributes
•All four Padas explained, including the Vargottama and Pushkara second Pada
•The Moon, Sun, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu in Rohini, Pada by Pada
•Rohini in each of the twelve houses
•Health, body parts and the Moon's illness, in line with the authors' Medical Astrology
•Transits over Rohini, the record of Saturn and Mars in Rohini over the last century, and what to watch for when Saturn returns to Rohini in 2030 to 2032
•Practical remedies, including Vedic mantras, Moon and Krishna mantras, Pada Beeja mantras, temples and offerings

Twenty-one example people show these themes at work in real lives, with their birth details and the Pada of their planet in Rohini. They include Queen Victoria, Indira Gandhi, Subhas Chandra Bose, Sam Manekshaw, Dhyan Chand, Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Kishore Kumar, Ratan Tata, Lionel Messi and Sigmund Freud.

Written in plain language, this book is useful to students and practising astrologers alike, and to anyone who has Rohini on the Moon, the Ascendant or an important planet. It is the fourth volume in the authors' Nakshatra series, after Ashwini, Bharani and Krittika.