Mula Nakshatra

Unrooting the old

I am Mula.
I am fierce, unearthing, destabilising and deeply transforming.
I unroot all the outdated beliefs from your consciousness.
I inspire you to part with the past and embrace the unknown.
I teach you to embrace and transform your own darkness.
I give you the power to be fiercely independent.

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 inspires us to get to the root of all things and ask ourselves more frequently some of the existential question: “Who am I? Where do I come from? Where do I head? What am I doing here?”

The very same questions were asked by Lord Brahma (Prajapati, sometimes addressed as another deity of Mula nakshatra) at the beginning of creation, when he was born out of the lotus flower, which emerged from the navel of Lord Vishnu – the very same name, Vishnu Nabhi (“Lord Vishnu’s navel”) is sometimes given to the black hole in the centre of our galaxy, from which it emerged. But Brahma didn’t found the answers in the outside – he found them only within, once he turned to meditation. Mula nakshatra, similarly, inspires us to seek the answers for the most important and most fundamental things in life within ourselves, not in the outside. (Read the full story of Brahma here).