Taurus Nakṣatras: Kṛttika, Rohiṇi, Mṛgaśira🔗

When the moon occupies Kṛttika, you may be a good advisor, strong in purpose, determined and intelligent. You are very fond of relationships, of bright appearance and possess widespread fame.

Kṛttika's deity is Agni, the sacred fire. Just like fire, you are sharp, cutting and penetrating by nature. Your personality often expresses ambition and self-motivation, you are a fighter for a cause; you are a spiritual warrior.

Kṛttika is also known as the ‘Star of fire’ and is related to physical and creative force. It stands for the determined and tenacious will to achieve greatness. This nakṣatra indicates a life where negativities are burnt up and purified; you ripen the fruit of your efforts and spirituality. It can bring out the divine qualities in human nature through the fires of purification.

Your nature is witty, though stubborn and aggressive at times. Your creative drive does well in careers such as music, dance, design, military work, or any work that requires an engineering brain and brave qualities.

Be careful and balanced in the way you eat! You experience strong desires of all kinds. Some of your life lessons are to discipline your nature and to find activities that calm your mind, and fulfill, heal and revitalize your being. Those should be your primary goals.

If your nakṣatra is Rohiṇi, you will be expert, authoritative, artistic, an agriculturist, an agent in real estate, well-behaved, a good speaker and a poet. The primary motivation of Rohiṇi’s energy is liberation, or the seeking for enlightenment. It is said that Lord Krishna had both moon and ascendant located in this nakṣatra, blessing him with an alluring mastery of the flute and the ability to win all hearts through its beauty and charm.

Tremendous creativity and wisdom can be seen under Rohiṇi’s influence. You may actually be gifted for the fine arts. You have an ability to ‘foster growth and creation’.

Under Taurus’ influence, your energy signifies that the fruits of your actions can be fully realized in your life. Deep devotion and faith can be experienced here, and all religious activities bring fruits.

But Rohiṇī nakṣatra can evoke some degree of jealousy and materialism. It can increase desire and an obstinate approach to one’s aims. One of your life’s lessons is to control your stubborn nature if you want to work in groups or be in professions that require dealing with people. You can be very critical of others and fault finding, looking down at their achievements, making it hard for people to relax with you. Be aware of it.

Mṛgaśira is also called ‘the searching star’. Its symbol is an antelope’s head. People born under this nakṣatra’s auspices have the face of a deer and a strong body.

Mṛgaśira has a pure temperament and the seeking for spiritual liberation is one of its primary goals. It is an excellent influence for research of religious and philosophical truths, and it has the power 'to confer fulfillment'.

If you are Mṛgaśira born, you will often feel you are looking for something without really knowing what. You have the quality of a seeker. You are sincere and expect others to be sincere as well. You have good perceptive powers and are endowed with a creative, gentle, peaceful and perceptive nature.

But you may lack firm or fixed views and have to learn to confront others in order to stay independent in your life. You are capable, but too shy sometimes to bring your skills forward. You may also be overly attached to strong earthly needs and laziness, which will stick you in inertia and stagnation.

You will do well in careers requiring a research oriented mind, teaching, writing and acting. You could be an astrologer, poet, or gemologist.

Anāhata Cakra- Becoming Love

There are 7 major energy centers in our body, called cakras in Sanskrit. They are directly connected to our emotions and impact different aspects of our personality and the way we relate to ourselves, others, and to Existence.

Each planet resonates with a particular energy center in the body. The loving energy of Venus is connected to the anāhata cakra located in the heart region. This energy works on this cakra, and tends to imbalance it when it is too oriented towards getting others' love, attention, and recognition. Anāhata flowers when you start giving love unconditionally, without trying to possess the other.

It is a proven fact that cakras correspond to and affect the functioning of the specific glands that constitute the body's endocrine system. The deep need for love, the urge to possess somebody as a means for security can create dependency and emotional restlessness which can drain your system, creating chronic diseases or depression in the long run.

You should keep an eye on your diet, which can be extreme when depression or low moods assail you. Taurus can be prone to bulimia and seeking sweet items to counterbalance a lack of affection. Guilt is very often an outcome of this behavior, which roots should be addressed.

To keep anāhata balanced, developing awareness, understanding and experiencing how you can flower by sharing your love will benefit you. You can start today to practice this sutra: 'suffocate others with your love'.

This attitude will give contentment; fulfill your longings and teach you to put others before yourself.

A balanced anāhata cakra will confer a broad and generous personality, radiating bliss.

In a birth chart, many influences have to be considered to find out one’s body type. Consulting an experienced Ayurvedic doctor will help you to understand your body constitution.

Generally, the Ayurvedic dośa (body constitution) related to Taurus is kapha.

Let’s use this scale:

If you experience symptoms such as lethargy, a feeling of heaviness, nausea, chills, looseness of the limbs, coughing, mucus discharges, breathing difficulties and a tendency to sleep too much and high cholesterol, you may be suffering from kapha imbalance. Other symptoms can be inertia, congestion, stagnation and circulation problems. There may be a tendency toward obesity and boredom, depression, apathy, laziness, and mental dullness may be present.

If you are easy going, forgiving, physically strong, stable and reliable, slow to anger, active and positive minded, have a strong immune system, full of mental resolve, rational thinking, endurance, adaptability, long term memory, then your kapha is balanced.

Here are some of the common characteristics of people who have predominantly kapha body constitution:

❍ Relaxed disposition, slow paced

❍ Loving, forgiving, compassionate personality

❍ Stable nature, reliable

❍ Faithful

❍ Physically strong and heavy and large body, enduring constitution

❍ Slow speech, good memory power,

❍ Large watery eyes

❍ Prone to heavy depression ○ Gentle, self sufficient

○ Excellent health, strong resistance to disease,

○ Slow to anger, greedy, envious

○ Tend to hold on to things, possessive of people, money

○ Physical problems generally include colds and congestion, sinus, headaches, respiratory problems including asthma and wheezing, hay fever, allergies, and atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and constipation.

Kapha people are prone to lethargy, sluggishness and overweight. Therefore, they need activity and stimulation more than the other types of constitution. Daily exercise is a must for them. Getting out of the house, walking and actively seeking new and different experiences, breaking their routine is also valuable. They should learn to be receptive to useful change, renounce impediments to progress, implement life solutions and choose foods, mental attitudes, behaviors, exercise, relationships that can help them to balance kapha characteristics.

Food items to balance kapha:

Kapha people should consume little fried or fatty foods; avoid icy drinks, sweets or excessive amounts of bread. Butter, ice cream, cheese and milk should be avoided; they are among the worst foods which aggravates kapha. The consumption of salt should be kept in check, as it creates water retention in kapha body types.

They should enjoy plenty of fresh vegetables, raw fruits and salads. Pungent, bitter, and astringent tastes decrease kapha influences. Black pepper, ginger, cumin, chili, and some other spices provide the pungent taste; bitterness is provided by some green leafy vegetables like lettuce, endive and some green vegetables and beans provide the astringent taste, like cucumber and unripe fruits.