Why I disagree with some parts of Claire Nakti’s takes on Uttara Phalguni (bc I’m sharing my own perspective from my own research over a long period of time because I need yall to be okay with a perspective that’s not hers. I know how some of yall can get when it comes to her, which is taking everything she says as the utmost truth.)
The mentoring aspect of Uttara Phalguni is less like a woman who brings a man into fruition by educating him and spoiling him, but rather a teacher or a guru who comes along in an Uttara Phalguni’s life to help them fully grow into their potential (which is why I call this nakshatra the Late Bloomer). The Uttara Phalguni has usually lost their father or a family member (for Aang, it was the rest of the Airbenders and his original teacher). Their new mentor who finds the lost Uttara Phalguni is usually a distant family member or a friend, and their mentor leads the confused Uttara Phalguni native down a spiritual path where eventually the Uttara Phalguni discovers they are the Chosen One who their ancestors/predecessors determined to be a curse breaker for their bloodline (ultimately saving the world from “bad apples” being born again and again. That’s why this nakshatra deals with saving the world. It’s more so through generational curses. Uttara Ashadha is more so focused on saving humanity or the cosmos at large. Uttara Phalguni is doing it through breaking generational curses to stop those bad apples from recycling and destroying the world). This is usually something like the Path of the Arya or the sevenfold path towards enlightenment, which Aryaman is “godhead” of. Uttara Phalguni is a descendant (its basis above is wealth inherited from family). Magha is the ancestors and it’s also the King. This literally makes Uttara Phalguni a Prince/Princess. So they are usually inheriting a title of some sort (even through marriage, like in Queen Charlotte’s case). They are usually discovered in a poor environment while they usually have poor etiquette (manners are ruled by Aryaman. He is a noble man who represents enlightenment from following a sevenfold journey which represents awakening the 7 chakras and thus experiencing Kundalini awakening. He is basically the path towards enlightenment of the human mind. In Claire Nakti’s video she describes this as “Shakti awakening” which is basically the same thing, and she approaches it more from a male perspective. For me this nakshatra is based in the power of the feminine as the source of all life on Earth, hence its connection to Eve as the first mother of mankind, and why I call it the “Woman herself” or “feminine excellence.” Aryaman is an original ancestor. He represents the source of life that we all come from and the path we take to realize that. For men, they must learn to surrender. There is a guru who has Uttara Phalguni mercury AK and he focuses on honoring the feminine because it has been so overlooked and oppressed. This sevenfold path, and being a descendant who carries forward traditions, leads us to question where we come from so we can understand who we are. That is the baseline message of Uttara Phalguni. That is why for men, they must go down this path of enlightenment and self-discipline and recognize the feminine as the true source of all creation and power. That is what makes a man great because he is able to surrender his ego to that fact and embrace the beauty of it, which THEN allows him to treat his woman accordingly.
We see characters like Aang, who is literally mentored by his guru to align his 7 chakras after losing all of the airbenders and being stuck in an iceberg for 100 years (this literally represents the Late Bloomer - he was 100 years late in terms of growing up). We see Will from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, who doesn’t have a father and is highly immature at 17 so his mom sends him to his Uncle & Auntie. It’s Uncle Phil who becomes his mentor and one of the most iconic father figures on screen.
Luke Skywalker fits this role perfectly. This is what I personally have been calling the “Warrior of Light.” He is lost, without his father (pitru dosha aspect. these natives are destined to clear karma for their paternal bloodline). Then Obi-Wan becomes his mentor. Then Luke realizes he is “the Chosen One” and a Jedi who follows the light. He is trained and passed down knowledge from his mentor (Uttara Phalguni represents traditions being passed down). He is also somewhat raised by Obi-Wan as Luke is still childish or immature in his own ways. For Simba, he lost his father and was misguided. His friends became his mentor. For Mia from the Princess Diaries (who also had karmic dynamic with her father in the movie), it was her paternal grandmother portrayed by Uttara Phalguni Julie Andrews, who taught her how to grow into a poised woman with etiquette before she inherited her role as Queen of Genovia one day. (All of this I’ve been saying so please don’t act like this is new! Thank you).
I’ve been saying all of this about the Warrior of Light. It’s usually a family member or a friend who mentors the Uttara Phalguni who is in the stage of a Late Bloomer that needs to be guided the right direction. The Uttara Phalguni is usually a Late Bloomer because of Pitru Dosha (generational curses inherited from paternal side of family).
The Uttara Phalguni is especially the state of a girl growing into a woman and owning her sexuality and spiritual power as the yoni is source of all creation. This is what makes these women obsessed with their power as a woman (again, I’ve gone over this so many times. It’s why we see these women talking about what it means to be a woman and how she knows how to deal with the animalistic nature of men). There’s usually a lot of coming-of-age energy around Uttara Phalguni as it represents a child growing into an adult and being given the correct tools to become a strong person because this can be seen especially from a girls pov. It’s a significant turning point in a girls life when she starts to become a woman because it brings in so many issues like power & control and how that reflects a nation. One of my favorite coming-of-age scenes in this nakshatra is Hermione’s scene at the ball where she’s coming down the stairs and her friends realize she’s no longer a girl with a squeaky voice but a girl that’s growing up into a woman (it’s a sweet scene that depicts the true beauty of the coming into fruition aspect of this nakshatra as it’s the fully grown fruit tree). Emma Watson has Uttara Phalguni ASC.
I gave this nakshatra 3 tropes. The Fruit of Temptation, the Late Bloomer, and the Warrior of Light. I know some people can be very weird online when it comes to the things I post so I just want to iterate my perspective which I’ve been generous with for a long time (which led to people taking a lot of my research as their own and not giving credit. People are just weird about what I say and I’m here to establish what I see so people don’t think I took this from anybody else.)
And I’m not tryna sound rude but this nakshatra is more so about a woman stepping into her power rather than a man being brought into fruition and spoiled. If the man is being brought into fruition it’s usually because he’s being mentored to follow some sort of spiritual path, sometimes to cleanse his bloodline and sometimes to bring a woman into fruition (because at the end of the day this nakshatra is “happy wife, happy life” as Vic DiCara originally put it. We can go through so many tropes and realize that it boils down to that as well as taking care of children in order to regenerate the bloodline. So basically what I’m saying is that this nakshatra is really focused on how to treat women and children and that’s why it represents the sevenfold path of enlightenment for men to become a “gentle man” like Aryaman. This nakshatra is literally showing men how to be “real men” which is by caring for his wife and his children. It’s less about anything else. It’s more so about men mastering the process of the Circle of Life (which at its core, is the process of reproduction.) This means mastering his sexual desires and learning to see beyond them so he can treat his wife properly. It also means to consciously have children rather than be dictated by his reproductive impulses. That’s just my pov tho (but yes the men of this nakshatra have their own expressions which she covered but it’s so much more and again I don’t want people thinking I took this from anybody. I did research and I want to stand on my own pov)
Click method (100% method to change mindset for anything)
I need to get something off.
Guys, do one thing, please, oh my god If you're reading this? Do this NOW.
Sit somewhere, like sit, just sit, and simply let your mind wander PLEASE TRUST ME AND DO IT, don't push it aside saying it's just a silly little other shit hell no I'm serious.
Let your thoughts take over, look at your past, reflect it, and let that one small realization snap in your mind hardcore.
You.
Literally.
Know.
The.
Secret.
To.
Your.
Life.
Oh my god isn't this what people think of? CAN'T YOU SEE? you got it, it's in Your hands so much, you're one minute away from it, one second, REALIZE you're actually getting whatever you want.
Just. Be. Goddamn. Persistent.
I swear this random ass method came up to me back in March where everything changed me for the best, I wanna call it the Click method, I don't know if there's anything similar, but god knows how it can help you.
Summary:
Sit somewhere
Let your mind wander
Look at yourself, your life, reflect your past your present, your future, every small detail on yourself, just everything
Now just sit there and wait for that realization to click and sit in being FULLY emerged deep and engraved in your mind, that after everything, "you are chosen."
Feel that? That bliss, that shock? That feeling that "what the fuck have I been doing so far? What the hell did I waste so much time for?"
This guys? This helped me snap my mindset, you don't need days to change the mindset, it's just the click of the realization, try it, seriously try it, and to actually trick your mind you've done it, I suggest tricking yourself (not necessary, but some people like to be logical and back it up with actions), simply tap a part of your body when you realize it, when that thought flows in your mind just as moments ago the thought of "I like the color xyz" had gone by.
It clicks.
Use it as any method, void, manifesting, revising, whatever the fuck you want, this just conjured up in my dream and I already feel how it can help people.
If you aren’t doing it authentically + from your heart, why do it at all?
i need women to understand that attraction does not equal respect, love, or care. men’s attraction = lust, objectification, possessiveness. just because men are attracted to women does not mean that they love women or respect women or care about women past having sex with us or having us as a trophy to show off. attraction is not the same thing as respect. men do not respect you, even if they want to be in a relationship with you.
loa still exists if you stop affirming and decide to give up. just because you quit doesn’t mean loa just disappears. you are either using it in your favor or you are letting your limiting beliefs win and stay in the same cycle. it is your choice and an easy one to make.
I know it’s not always easy to keep persistent with manifesting and loa but finding even a couple minutes to affirm throughout the day or before you go to bed or right when you wake up helps more than you think.
you don’t need to repeat affirmations 24/7. if you already have something and believe you have it why would you constantly keep telling yourself you have it? the main idea is to counter undesired thoughts. let’s say you’re manifesting money. in my opinion personally you don’t have to affirm for an hour saying your rich, for me that only produces more doubt because like i said before why would i be saying this to myself for an hour straight if i was already rich? what i do instead is try catch myself when i have doubts in that, or remind myself a couple times throughout the day like “im so glad im so successful. i am so rich. i have enough money to buy anything and everything i could ever want. it’s so nice being able to buy anything.” etc etc i also like making excuse for my doubts on the 3d.
like if i tell myself “well if i was so rich why am i working customer service?”
“oh just to keep busy throughout the day, i got too bored and have nothing better to do!”
or i just flat out ignore anything that makes me doubt my assumptions because why would i care about it if it doesn’t align with me? why would i put energy into something that isn’t meant for me?
i think it’s useful to view aspects you don’t like of your 3d as such. unimportant, distant, and not meant for you because you are meant so much more!!!!
maybe I’d be more open to religion if there was a religion that didn’t present women as an extension of men and males as the default
Having to clean the shower is so fucking annoying. It’s clean in there. That’s where I go to get clean. It’s clean dude trust me. Stop fucking growing bacteria and stuff man this is the clean locale. You’re embarrassing me in front of the sink
hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset
the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years
taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult
at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65
it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big
“X celebrity is the most beautiful woman in the world etc etc.” Uh no it’s my mom and also a random girl i saw while i was at work once
Let's talk about 3D/4D
There’s no 3d or 4d, just now. You have it now or you don’t. I believe all the 3D/4D stuff is confusing and complicated. If I want something, I'm going to decide I have it, in my 3d and 4d, bc it is the truth for me now.
I used to be a believer in just fulfill my imagination only, but honey… the “3d” is also imagination.
I think people who use terms (3d and 4d) in order to manifest, don’t truly realize that the “3d” can be changed instantly.
The primordial horror of Ashlesha🐍
And a timeless tale
You might have heard that in vedic posts on the internet Bharani and Ashlesha are almost always talked about when topics of femininity, mother nature, primordial feminine, female passivity, raw sexuality and feminine harshness (in any sense) are being discussed. And for good reason too. Bharani and Ashlesha_ two mleccha nakshatras associated with feminine planets (Bharani's nakshatra lord Venus and Ashlesha's rashi lord Moon) and saturated with feminine symbolism, are both connected to primordial, raw, pure power of passive femininity.
I'm going to explore Ashlesha's role in this in a less sexual and more internal context.
Do recommend this for Jyeshtas, Revatis, Bharanis and Punarvasus too, as the themes are going to be familiar to all of these, in different ways.
The medicine and the poison, the monster and the pure angel
To start with, Ashlesha's main symbol_ the coiled serpent, already spells danger. Something is reaching its critical point and cannot be contained, for better or for worse.
Ashlesha's power is vishashleshana shakti ("Vish" means poison, "ashlesha" means control). Ashlesha, having the power to control its energy, power and reactions, learns how to be immune to things, out of necessity.
In a way, Ashlesha's power is to simply have power over things, but that exchange of energy between you and the thing/person you're controlling can be dangerous.
4th house and the sign of Cancer deal with the spiritual/mental/emotional safety of the person, 4th house sitting at the bottom of the zodiac wheel. Being a water sign and ruled by the Moon, it is related to extreme vulnerability and energy flow. Moon is dependancy. Ashlesha's nakshatra lord_ Mercury, is the nervous system. Ashlesha is the very force that binds and connects your emotions to your nerves and their sensations.
Sidenote: Ashlesha is about nourishing(Moon's sign) the nerves(Mercury ruled), Hasta is about controlling(Mercury's sign) the nourishment(Moon ruled).
Those reptilian instincts, that primal awareness and animalistic conciousness that Ashlesha leaves you with are as vulnerable as they are scary. To the person themselves, they have been stripped bare of their defences, and no matter how hard they try to find a way to be safe, it feels like the only safety is in no defence. Building or cultivating defence is not natural to the pure, passive Ashlesha. It requires some kind of action, and any action, in its essence, requires the disregard of absolute receptivity_ the state in which Ashlesha is naturally in (Bharani too, by the way).
Ashlesha is about not lying to yourself about your weaknesses, it's about knowing how vulnerable you really are. In a way, it's also about testing the limits of pain to know how much you can hurt, how much of that pain you really feel and have been repressing, how much of it you can handle. It's about settling in your nature and slowly gaining strength, so that your weaknesses are not really weaknesses, but just parts of you that have not yet reached their full potential. It's not a place of excess, but a place of economy and necessities.
From the viewpoint of the feminine, it's their natural place_ the watery, sensitive, impressionable, pure force. But it does not want to stay in that one place. It's known that still water is dangerous, it's been associated with all kinds of unpleasant things. Being in the state of Ashlesha is like that_ it's like the water that has nowhere else to go and wants to flow (release) with any opportunity to do so, but there's danger there too.
For the feminine in that state, there is danger in staying and there is danger in going.
There is a lot of concern for purity because it recognizes that it needs to move on but it absolutely cannot do so without doing it correctly, or the purpose will be defeated and all the work will be wasted.
Some hate medicine, some favor all kinds of vaccinations. Ashlesha needs to build immunity but it's also paramount for it to feel everything with as little interference as possible, preferably none at all. Purity has to be radical.
So, there is struggle and patience built into them. But whatever they do, in the end, their strength, their energy, their power is growing towards a critical point. It's like if you take a sensation from one part of the body to the other or if water goes from one end of the vessel toward the other_ it's still there, the only temporary relief might be moving that energy inside you, waiting more and more impatiently towards that perfect opportunity to release.
So we go back to the start_ the coiled serpent, the dangerous force, the deep need.
In terms of sexual energy, the feminine is both intensely desirous and incredibly cautious. The need/desire of Ashlesha to move on to the next stage while waiting indefinitely to do so because of safety concerns can be interpreted as the desire/need for sexual experience, and the fear of abuse/not being pure anymore. The theme of the complete passivity is intertwined with this nakshatra, as if the origin and rules that were set in Bharani demand to be fulfilled.
The law of nature and the passive feminine are restrictive and suffocating to masculine, active forces. If the feminine does not settle and gain power through her natural passivity (flow, receptivity, being as opposed to doing), then she's at the risk of being annihilated.
The result of Ashlesha nakshatra: "destruction of the victim"
No mention of who the victim is. The point is, that in Ashlesha, a place of dependancy, attachment and control, where everyone is either the abuser or the abused, there is no place for mercy. The stronger one wins.
This is the game of subtelty and ruthlessness_ trying to gain some sense of humanity after feeling like a dangerous, vulnerable animal_ a monster that wants to take, because it's an innocent creature that has little.
But no matter how much you wait, how much you gain, it's all going to turn to poison, unless you can dare to oppose.
To break the chain_ it's a risk, but what else is there to do when safety becomes a cage?
But the smart, calculative Ashlesha knows the dangers, it just waits for when it's strong enough to attack, it waits until it knows every medicine and poison, until it hurts so much that it does not hurt anymore, so that when it faces the enemy, the victim will no longer be a victim, but an opponent, who has been hiding its strength under the covers of fragility, who uses what others called a weakness to strike. Until the poison is medicine and the tears are poison, it waits. But when the milk turns sour and the gentle touch suffocates, it's ready to go.
The tale of Snow White
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Crediting Claire Nakti for mentioning this association in her Ashlesha video
Snow White's story is a great example of how Ashlesha's energies play out.
I'm not going to go into too much detail of why it's related to Ashlesha, as I think it's going to be obvious as I go on, but the key associations are: the pure young woman (reinforced by the symbolism and imagery that her name evokes), the controlling feminine authority, danger, poison, power struggles.
I love the 2012 film "Mirror Mirror", because it does not hesitate to show the power struggle between Snow White and the evil queen. The struggle is depicted mostly through metaphors and/or symbolism in the original tale.
It'd be great to mention that Snow White's tale is said to be based on actual real life women. The first_ Margaretha von Waldeck who lived in the 16th century Germany, died young and as evidence by her last letter suggests (her handwiting indicated that her hand was shaking), she died by being poisoned, and it was also known that her stepmother was jealous of her. She also lived in a town where children had to work in the mines (inspiring the seven dwarves).
In "Mirror Mirror" Snow White is played by Ashlesha moon 🐈⬛ Lily Collins, and Evil Queen is played by Magha moon 🐀 Julia Roberts.
There is tiny chance that Lily is Pushya moon but that would only be true if she was born before one in the night, so I'd say she's Ashlesha, especially after observing her.
The beginning of the movie: the queen is sitting on her lavish golden throne (Magha's symbol), dressed in an equally lavish golden dress (Sun's color), positioned above Snow White, who is forced to kneel before her. The Queen is weaving her insults and humiliations into her words that seem genuinely caring at first, even Snow White falls for it in the beginning. That's how the feminine repression and bullying works in Ashlesha_ it's all the more powerful because it's gradual and seems non-threatening, especially to masculine people.
As always, the villain and the hero are determined by which nakshatra is the focus of the story. In this case, from Ashlesha's perspective, the its enemy nakshatra_ Magha, is obviously the villain. This theme of "whose story is this" is another display of the power struggle in this transition. I highly recommend watching this film, because for all of its jokes and slight changes, it still retains the original message.
"The kingdom fell into an icy despair..."
_ narration from the queen
Ashlesha's yoni animal is the male cat, Magha's is the male rat, its enemy yoni. As Magha comes directly after Ashlesha and begins the second stage of nakshatras, marking the start of the sign of Leo, together they also mark the first gandanta point.
The Evil Queen is a blatant example of a Magha character, especially symbolically. It is implied and then obvious that she married the king for power and material advantages. Her ego is almost cartoonishly bloated, and all of these qualities are amazingly contrasted to Snow White_ a quieter character, who is naturally humble and subtler, not as direct as the rat yoni Magha.
In the beginning of the film she's dressed in a more golden dress, symbolizing her merging with and submission to the queen, stuck in the helpless state. After she gets the bravery to sneak out into the town, she wears a hooded cape the color of cooler, brighter yellow (more her coloring). When she comes back to attend the ball, she wears a pure white (symbolizing her purity and cool energy, resonant to Ashlesha) dress as her swan (grace, humility) costume. The Queen is dressed in bright red as a peacock (confidence, vanity, pride). That white dress is the one she stays in as she runs away and finds the home of the seven dwarves, the same white as the snow in the forest. In this adaptation, the whole kingdom is in an eternal winter under the queen's enchantment, just like the Ashlesha stage.
As she finds dwarves, they quickly become each other's allies and supporters, and, in a way, it taught her her own power. As she was gathering strength to attack and become the new ruler of the kingdom, she already was a ruler of her new tiny kingdom (dwarves_ her new family).
In the Ashlesha stage there is a separation from the things you were clinging to. At first it's seen as a tragedy, but with distance and time, the individual realizes that it needed solitude. Snow White is forced to run away (because of danger, to literally not die), but she thrives away from the queen (restrictive, abusuve influences). There's another side to this: an avoidant person, aware of its sensitivity, who does not realize how much they crave real connection. Attachment to the "wrong" people and environments and longing for the "right" ones is the issue here, along with the paradox of needing to escape and move on (critical point, built up tension and energy) but risking the much needed purity by doing so (just what I've discussed above).
Since a lot of the time the vulnerable Ashlesha feels dependant on outside forces, the movement is forced, for better or for worse, but it never recoils completely or gives all of its energy away, as it feels like it has to remain guarded.
Snow White learns to fight on her own, with the support from a genuinely nurturing environment.
She starts to wear a blue dress (cool toned, contrasting Queen's gold and red) while she's literally fighting on the side of the Queen's exiles.
When the prince joins her and the dwarves, they hear the "beast" that has been terrorizing the kingdom. She locks everyone else in the hut so that she alone can face the enemy (even though they don't let her), which is a key point in retaining your power in the state of Ashlesha. Her desire to face it alone shows not only the growth of her bravery, but mainly, her strength, as it was precisely what allows bravery for her.
There's a blatant display of power from snow white, right at the end, after she reclaims the kingdom (and at the end she's wearing a blue dress with a bright golden-orange ribbon_ finding her own power and embracing it, without losing herself). It's the last test and a chilling reminder that Ashlesha's stage is prolonged, almost never over, and can subtly sneak up on you and defeat you if you lower your guard.
At her wedding with the prince, she's given a ripe, red apple.
"And so it was Snow White's story, after all"
_ the magic mirror.
She gives the Queen her apple back, finally cleansing herself completely from that poison and using it to harm her enemy. Now she's the one in power, repeating the queen's own words back to her.
The result of Ashlesha nakshatra: the destruction of the victim.
The individual moves to Magha nakshatra_ ruling, power, lineages, detachment from the body (Ashlesha is the attachment to the body), and takes their own place on their throne.
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Thank you so much for reading 💕