April New Moon Ashvini

The new moon falls on April 22, 2020, across the Vedic star of Asvini, in the sidereal constellation of Aries. The April new moon marks the point of a return of the Light, shaping the next two weeks. We are inside this mysterious Light, which is painting the world into being.

At a time of darkness and suffering in the world, of great possibility and beauty, the new moon here is sitting with an exalted Sun, in Aries. This is the planet representing the self, at its maximum power reflecting an increase in health and wellbeing, a resurrection of the Light. As the moon passes the exalted Sun, lighting the karaka for leadership and government promises a more dharmic response to the global crisis.

“Everyone deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”

Haruki Murakami 1Q84

In the northern hemisphere spring is flowering. The solar light is returning shining through all things. In the southern hemisphere, we welcome the cool days and withdrawal into the silence of the earth after a season of fire and calamity.

The New Moon is rescued and flanked by the natural benefits of Venus and a weakened Mercury bringing a new focus upon beauty and communication that we have discovered through these weeks of isolation and quarantine. In the lunar mansion of Asvini the deities are the divine twins who are symbolic of prana and breath, known in the Vedas as the Divine Physicians and healers.

The Charaka Samhita, an ancient Vedic text, describes a time long ago of darkness and illness, a time of sickness and epidemics, when humans lived in delusion and ignored spiritual practices. The Rishis, the great saints, approached the God Brahma for help, as it seemed the world of men was doomed. It was a time of darkness, death, and fear. Brahma imparts the knowledge of Ayurveda, the Science of Life, to the Asvins. They then instruct Indra on these sacred ways, who then teach the Rishis, and these natural laws of healing are given as a remedy to the world of men.

Where the coronavirus has turned lungs to glass and broken our hearts, the new moon in Asvini promises us healing, the forceful inhalation and flow of breaths and a return to the dharma, to natural law. While the nodal axis continues to separate the heavens until May 25, and the pandemic rages around the world, the light and love of Asvin are moving planetary prana again. It’s time we turn towards the rising light and learn to breathe again.

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower

Listen

Quiet friend who has come so far,

feel how your breathing makes more space around you.

Let this darkness be a bell tower

and you the bell. As you ring,

what batters you becomes your strength.

Move back and forth into the change.

What is it like, such intensity of pain?

If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.

In this uncontainable night,

be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,

the meaning discovered there.

And if the world has ceased to hear you,

say to the silent earth: I flow.

To the rushing water, speak: I am.

Rainer Maria Rilke. Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29

Pranayama DVD by Dr. Vasant Lad

by Michael

Disclaimer: The power and beauty of Jyotish lie in its individual expression through a natal chart, reflecting the unique influence of the stars and planets upon a personal life. Full moon and global Jyotish posts exploring cosmic influences is a broad look at how the euphoric light is expressing in the world. For a personalized astrology reading, please contact Emily.

Emily Glaser RN, BSN

Clinical Ayurveda Practitioner

www.AgniAyurveda.com

April Full Moon

Indra’s Net of Jewels

April Full Moon

Indra’s Net of Jewels

The full moon falls on the 7th of April 2020 in the US across the Vedic star of Chitra in the sidereal constellation of Virgo.

This full moon, dear astropeeps, is the second super moon of the year, shining more intensely and looming large as it rises over the eastern horizon. April’s moon is brokenhearted, as it is so very isolated in the heavens. A lonely, kemadruma moon reflecting the isolation so many are experiencing, with the influence of the Corona virus upon the world. Emotions are intense as the supermoon amplifies our fears of the pandemic and social isolation. Significantly the shadow planet Rahu, the north node of the moon, the eclipse point, sits with Gemini under the powerful star of Ardra. Ardra’s deity is the storm God, Rudra, who rules over destruction and dissolution.

This is all strengthened by a dignified Mars and Saturn as many are self-isolating or serving the community through social distancing. However, all is not lost, for the beautiful light of Chitra reminds us we are not alone.

The Arthara Veda likens the universe to a golden net woven by the love and light of Indra. Renowned as the most celebrated God of the Lunar Mansions, respected for his courage and street smarts. At each intersecting node of Indra’s net is a bright jewel. Chitra is known as the beautiful jewel that reflects every other jewel in the universe. This matrix of light forms the world. Chitra reveals a magnificent fractal and holographic vision of connectedness, in which her light shines through all things.

At such an extraordinary moment of a global shutdown, we are experiencing the coronation of light, resulting in a paradigm shift of consciousness. As above, so below. From Indra’s net of jewels, to the internet of the online world, to the mycelial mushroom underground – Watch This!

Nature is reconfiguring possibility and expressing Her power to offer us healing. To recreate our world as an expression of light, grounded in love, community, and connection. Through the molten transformation of our world and our hearts, though this season of sorrow, the full moon of Chitra shines upon us.

The 13th-century saint, Jnaneshwar stated that the gold thread connecting all the gold beads the manifest world is none other than the play of Shiva and Shakti. While there are moments we may feel alone in the world, Jnaneshwar reminds us, “gold which is heated again and again in a crucible, doesn’t deteriorate, for its quality increases.” Jnaneswhar’s Gita 10:55.

Chitra’s position in the celestial neighborhood of Virgo offers a productive period of reorganization and enforced structure upon us. The structure and perception of this celestial Vastu is overseen by the Deity Vishvakarma, the divine architect, who is the organizing principle behind the perfection of the cosmos.

Chitra is a star connected with passion, beauty, and sensuality. This moon offers a window to up-level your creative life ruled by an exalted Mars, adding energy and passion. Use your hands, to build, to love, to connect, and the Virgo energy to organize, discriminate, and create beauty.

That Supreme Being is Light itself, active within all creatures. It also radiates in the heart of the sun and the moon. Jnaneshwar’s Gita 15:279-282

All things are seen by this light, which itself is not seen. The world is illumined by its hidden Light. Jnaneshwar Gita 15:227

By Michael 

Emily Glaser RN, BSN

Clinical Ayurveda Practitioner

www.AgniAyurveda.com

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