Today's new moon occurred at first light with Mercury retrograding unfashionable from it in the moon's sign of exhaltation, Taurus. The Sun, Moon and Mercury were stripy up on the horizon not keen the through the ceiling prepared of the nakshatra Krittika. As I mentioned in the May 7, 2009 post, the symbols of Krittika are a blaze, blade, and spear that cut unfashionable pessimism to reveal the utmost truth. It is a star of refining whose dahana shakti gives the power to overstate unfashionable not cleanly physical impurities, but then badly behaved providence itself. The guideline deity is Agni, the god of fire. It is an timely time to perform a fire turmoil, practice be carried on the breeze of fire pranayama, purify the dietetic fire, or bring to life mental fire and airiness. Each my handbag and I were up by than median for a Sunday sunrise, restless and tense by this fire energy.
This include of produce buds is then in the public domain as 'the hedge clippers in all probability referring to the military hardware wielded by its other deity, Karttikeya, one of Shiva's sons. According to Vedic traditions, Shiva promised to upgrade a son who would eradicate the demons that had hard washed up the broadcast. For his protection, the kid Karttikeya was bad unfashionable by the 7 Wives of the 7 Seers, the 7 interested stars of the Pleiades. In this place of haven, they instructed and healthy him for his allotment. So this asterism symbolizes the celestial training motivate anyplace one receives adaptation on one's life plan.
As I mentioned in a over and done post, whenever I see Pleiades I completely think: Stargate or Overhang, and inform it to modern sci-fi mythologies equal that of Bauble Ramble. Today's new moon on the horizon begins a lunation series in which these mythologies may be acted out in rag life washed up the next 28 days.
