This is the nakshatra of Divine twins, Ashwins, who, born from the union of Sun-god (Light) and through the nostrils of Samjna (Consciousness) represent prana, cosmic life force, and its creative and healing potential. Airy, swift and dynamic in nature, its energy resembles a running horse. It makes everything more dynamic, speedy and energised. It helps us to find solutions fast. With its power of recovery it has the power to bring instant, miraculous healing to the body and mind.

Bharani nakshatra belongs to Yamaraj, god of our conscience, which helps us to navigate through the journey of life on earth. Yama is also a god of death, endings and mortality, who teaches us how to surrender to the flow of life and let go – how to unblock the healthy flow of life by embracing the change and relaxing a little bit into the present moment, instead of fearing the uknown. But he also inspires us to conserve our life force wisely through healthy self-restraint.

This star belongs to Agni, the Divine fire that connects the world of humans with the world of gods. This Divine mediator is the bringer of inspiration, clarity, self-knowledge, light and truth. Dwelling partially in the sign of Aries (head of Kalapurusha, Spirit of Time), and partially Taurus (face of Kalapurusha), Krittika nakshatra inspires us to bring more light of truth and integrity into our lives – and to make the light of our inspiration shine through us and manifest into the world.

Rohini is the star of growth and expansion, as its presiding deity is Prajapati or Divine Creator himself. He is responsible for our urge to create, procreate, grow and expand, so we can progress in material and spiritual life. Rohini inspires us to grow, arise, expand, create, progress and materialise all our ideas. It nourishes all that it touches. This is why we need to be very careful, which desires are we allowing into our inner space on the day when Moon is in Rohini nakshatra.

Mrigashira is a star governed by blissful Soma, who presides over our mind itself. Its shakti or power is prinana shakti, which is the power to give us bliss and fulfillment – a powerful indication that true fulfillment and bliss are hidden in… our own state of mind itself. When mind is peaceful or saumya, bliss awakens naturally. Mrigashira nakshatra is the star of searching – but very often what it is really searching for, the deeper sense of fulfillment, is hidden deep inside.

Ardra literally means “the moist one”. Similarly like reviving rain, which usually comes along with storm, softens the soil, so our heart gets transformed and softened through intense life experiences. This is the star of Rudra, who is the god of all the inner and outer storms, turbulence, transformations and powerful, unrestrained forces of nature. He challenges us to make our effort when meeting turbulent situations in life and see how we can progress through them.

This lunar mansion belongs to Aditi, the Mother of gods, who birthed the entire creation into being. She represents our ability to manifest our ideas and give birth to them in material world. Being a presiding deity of akash of all-embracing ether element, she connects us with the boundless source of inspiration, which we can access only when we maintain open and non-judgemental state of mind. That is why she is called Aditi: “the undivided one”.

Pushya nakshatra helps us to nourish all that is good, within us and to grow above our limitations, like lotus flower, which grows in the mud, pierces through the surface to become the most beautiful of all flowers. It inspires us to seek beauty and opportunity to grow in every life experience. It also teaches us not to be afraid to open our hearts – because our soul, more vast than the sky, is so much bigger than any of our little problems. Such are the spiritual lessons from Pushya nakshatra.

Ashlesha nakshatra, star ruled by Nagas, Divine serpents, is one of the most challenging and most misunderstood lunar mansions. It is also the most vulnerable and the most sensitive of all the stars, which can often make its energy overly introverted and overly protective. Before we experience final freedom, release and detachment of Magha nakshatra, it is here, in Ashlesha, that all our inner attachments, poisons and layers of our ego, are getting intensely purified and finally need to be left behind.

Magha nakshatra, bringing release after intense energies in Ashlesha, inspires us to seek spiritual freedom from material bondages – but at the same to honour our roots and stay responsible towards the world that we come from. Because detachment, without respect to our eternal connection to continuum of life, can be destructive, too.

Purva Phalguni nakshatra, the original 11th star from the beginning of the zodiac, is all about bringing 1 + 1 together – bringing two individual or opposing forces together in order to create something new. Hence its power is prajanana shakti or the power to create. Its presiding deity is Aryaman, the Divine Mediator.

Bhaga, a presiding deity of Uttara Phalguni nakshatra, is a god of Divine bliss, who leads us towards earthly and heavenly prosperity. Igniting within us the light of Divine intelligence, he helps us to discern and choose wisely, which paths will lead us to joy and both material and spiritual abundance.

Savitar, Vedic Sun-god, represents the light of our intelligence that dispels the darkness of ignorance. It is because of the light of the Sun that we can recognise the true form and shape of all things. Similarly Savitar, the presiding deity of Hasta nakshatra, blesses us with the power of recognition and understanding of things.

Tvashtar, the Divine Architect and creator of all forms, inspires us to take shape our own destiny with our hands and efforts. Being a presiding deity of Citra nakshatra, the most tamasic of all lunar mansions, he teaches us how to taken even darkest or most difficult experience and turn it into something beautiful – in the same way how oyster turns an irritating grain of sand into a precious pearl.

Swati nakshatra and Vayu himself represent unrestrained, impulsive creativity and spark of inspiration. It inspires our mind to move forward and discover new horizons. Dwelling at the heart of airy Libra, original seventh house, Swati nakshatra also supports us in all types of energy exchange, like trade, negotiations and mediations.

Vishakha nakshatra is governed by Vedic god known as Indragni, the unified power of our prana, the life force (Indra) and focused will power (Agni), which ignites within us a spark of inspiration, motivation and ambition. The very same divinity is sometimes also addressed and known as Indrani or Shakti, consort of Indra.

Mitra Aditya is the god of sacred relationships and reminds us that every relation in our life is sacred and can be healed only with the power of unconditional love. He inspires us to introspect and notice all the things that prevent the true love (and, very often, love for ourselves) from being manifested in our life, like jealousy, resentment, grief, pain or any trauma from the past.

Indra inspires us to fight for what we truly want in life and to never give up when obstacles come our way. He sharpens our inner vision, so we can see all the difficulties and our inner enemies more clearly. But this type of clarity may often come with a price of becoming overly critical towards ourselves or others and becoming too suspicious, as well as very restless in our relations.

Mula nakshatra is, perhaps, the most mysterious lunar mansion. Unlike other nakshatras, it doesn’t consist of stars, but its main portion on the sky contains Galactic Center, a supermassive black hole, around which our solar system is revolving in the cycle of cosmic evolution. Mula nakshatra unroots all that is unreal and superficial to give space to the truth. Even if truth initially feels unpleasant, eventually it liberates us from our own illusions.

Apas, Goddess of Cosmic Waters, invokes from within us the mighty stream of Divine wisdom and inspiration and makes us think about profound topics of life. She encourages us think about things in a larger scale, as well as makes us more aware about ourselves as the parts of the society or collective consciousness.

Vishwadevas, universal gods, who are presiding deities of Uttarashadha nakshatra, represent collective powers of heavens, all the gods united together working for a common goal. In the microcosm of our energy body they represent all our inner forces and energies getting mobilised and united together for a common goal.

Vishnu, the all-pervasive force sustaining the existence of the universe, is the presiding deity of Shravana nakshatra. “Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread”, he says in Bhagavad Gita. You cannot see the thread, but you are well aware that without it the pearl necklace would be destroyed. Lord Vishnu represents that underlying force, which connects everything into a collective consciousness.

Dhanishta nakshatra is presided by Vasus, the 8 elemental forces (sometimes also imagined as 8 primordial serpents), which create, sustain and transform this material universe – as well as our inner universe. Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether, Sun, Moon and the Star (which are the 8 Vasus) do not only exist in the external universe, but also represent different levels of our consciousness, starting from muladhara chakra (root) and ending with sahasrara (crown).

Varuna is the guardian of truth and righteousness. He is the Cosmic Judge and the lord of karma, who always tries to bring us back to the right path. Sometimes, in order for our earthly learning process to be successful, he also needs to give us back some of our less pleasant karma and make it manifest itself in our lives as disease, poverty or loss.

Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra connects the sidereal sign of Aquarius (collective consciousness) with the sign of Pisces (super consciousness) – it elevates us from worldly consciousness to Divine consciousness. Therefore its name means “first auspicious step” reaching beyond the material world. Its very shakti is called yajamana udyamana shakti – “the power to spiritually elevate the aspirant”.

Ahirbudhnya, “the one, who carries the burden of the world”, is none else than Ananta Shesha himself, the cosmic serpent, on whom Lord Vishnu is reclyining in his yogic sleep, yoganidra. He is none different than Sankarshana, vyuha of Lord Vishnu presiding over deep sleep (sushupti) state of consciousness and guna of tamas (inertia). He carries all the worlds on his countless hoods.

Sideral zodiac ends and completes with Revati nakshatra, the star of Pushan, the Cosmic Shepherd (and one of the Adityas, too) – which is the star of journey of the soul to its final destination, in this life and after death. Pushan himself is the Aditya responsible for taking the soul to other realms after its departure from this earthly plane, and delivering it to its final goal. And no wonder – this is the last star of the zodiac.