Libra Nakṣatras: Citra, Svāti and Viśākha🔗

Citra is ‘the star of opportunity’. It is of bright and transparent appearance.

This nakṣatra reflects the world of māya (illusion), which the native is to overcome. It allows the person to realize the fruit of his good past actions that come through righteousness and sincerity. It has a highly spiritual energy and effect, and is one of the most mystical of the twenty seven nakṣatras.

Citra stands for the spiritual initiation which gives direct insight into the truth. It gives a life of challenges which precede the search for enlightenment. Citra confers a great desire to achieve and reach spiritual heights as it holds a great idealism and purity. The native feels he must live enlightenment and work in some way to live and radiate it.

You will be an efficient leader when you are born under Citra. You have elegance and charisma, you are bright, popular, extremely honest and a soft person, found of the latest innovation on the market. You usually stand out of the crowd and like to shine.

Your desire of knowledge can incite you to study a whole lifetime, without ever feeling you have thoroughly mastered your passion. This is the reason why you constantly work on improving yourself. You also have artistic talents and the ability to arrange things creatively. You may be good at dance, music or drama. You have the intelligence to be an architect, a lawyer, jeweler, detective, teacher or a person learned in the Vedas, a mystic.

You are also blessed with business skills and can be a genius in your field; you may be involved in medicinal science and particularly the science of herbs and plants in Āyurveda medicine.

Take especially care of your kidneys and bladder and keep your nerves soothed and relaxed always.

Svāti means 'the sword', and denotes a desire for independence as well as a deep love for life. A person born under Svāti is quiet and compassionate in nature, skilled in trade, merciful and charitable. Nevertheless, restlessness and a tendency to vacillate or experience instability can be seen here. These natives may experience difficult periods in life, in the form of illnesses or trials that lead them to be in solitude at times. Svāti people have an ability to 'bend with the wind’ in order to survive the changes that they may encounter.

If you are Svāti born, you are disciplined and you have authority over others. You are very independent of mind and therefore adapt to the many life circumstances you encounter. You are broad-minded and attract people from diverse backgrounds.

You can be philosophical, spiritual with a need to contemplate on your understandings of things. Many will be involved in religious work. Your star is linked to Goddess Sarasvatī, the Goddess of learning, which shows an inclination towards studies and particularly world philosophies, literature and spirituality.

Svāti is the star of merchants, ascetics and those engaged in devotional practices. It gives success in careers such as yoga teaching, business, the legal profession, transportation or travel industry.

There may be disturbance in vata constitution, which can cause illnesses such as gastric disorders. Your intense restlessness can become destructive at times; life will teach how to project constructive visualization and to develop self-healing thoughts.

Viśākha is also called the ‘star of purpose’. This nakṣatra does not give immediate results in life, and suggests an individual who slowly grows in influence and achieves great things as age ripens. Rādhā, the ‘delightful’, is also one of this nakṣatra’s names.

It is ruled by Indra and Agni, who represent the powers of heat and lightning in the atmosphere, and attest to the energy and potential held in Viśākha.

You may entertain secret ambitions, and you can achieve great success with them, but may use any questionable means to achieve this success. The patience and endurance you show are enormous, and you sustain them even through the struggles you face. But this drive can sometimes turn into frustration and anger when obstructions occur. They can lead you to pursue selfish goals using people as means to your ends.

Viśākha denotes a strong power to recover from depression and difficulties. You are an excellent communicator, able to write and speak well. You are also good at administrating people, brave, strong, of charitable nature, and religious minded.

Sometimes, the native can be instable and show aggressiveness. Much of the problem comes from some jealousy and envy of others' success that breeds problems in relationships.

You also feel sometimes you lack a strong network of friends and feel isolated, alone in this big world. Bitterness and resentment may result out of this lack of attention. When this happens, the native may feel like eating uncontrollably, which can result in weight problems or indigestion.

Those born under this nakṣatra are likely to be scientists, military leaders, writers, public speakers, politicians or lawyers.