Varuna Aditya covers the degrees of the Zodiac that align with Tropical Gemini. For more on how to calculate Adityas, see my post, Calculating Adityas & Their Correspondence to Tropical Signs
Varuna’s astral element is water and his lord is the Moon.
Varuna is Lord of the Night and means “All-Encompassing Sky”. He is the God of the Ocean and the Ocean of Consciousness. He is the god of Cosmic Waters and is one of the Kings of the Adityas along with Indra. Varuna is one of the oldest deities and most powerful force of manifestation.
He hates liars, pardons sins and is a guardian of immortality. He has a talent for discerning what is true and what is false. He is an instrument of mediation to determine Truth from falsehood.
The Moon represents knowledge that comes from attunement and absorption. Varuna gives us the capacity to escape the dark forces within through spiritual development.
Varuna rules the West and his vehicle is Makara, a ferocious beast at the top of the food chain. The Makara destroys all the small distracting things in search of Truth.
Varuna contains the greatest capacity for love than any other Aditya. Varuna can have afflicted planets but loving and spiritual qualities exist in the person regardless. He is the most powerful Aditya because of the Psychic Force.
Afflicted, Varuna can be dangerous because love and sweetness will flow through the person however, they can have other devious tendencies that are not initially apparent. We can be deceived into believing we are going to a safe, happy place with a Varuna person, when we are really entering into some crazy, psychotic interactions.
When a Varuna person focuses on their desires more than their spiritual life, they will dry up and become empty faster than any other Aditya. Venus does not do well in this Aditya because Venus wants the things of the world and Varuna is very much tied to consciousness and spirituality.
Varuna’s weapon is the bow which represents the spine and can harness the power of the chakras, especially their sounds and seed (bija) mantras.
Varuna possesses love and acceptance for the worst sinners
Vasishta Rishi
Rishis are Seers and Sages, they walk behind the Chariot seeing the Truth and Divine Law. The law of Vashishta is the Law of Consciousness. What is in your consciousness manifests!
Vasishta means the “most wealthy”, he possesses the most. He is the chief of the Seven Rishis. Without Vashishta, creation would not be possible. That is what makes him the most important Rishi. He was cursed to lose his body but then was reborn.
Vashishta is connected to DAWN and DUSK. The Creative Consciousness (Vasishta) is born from Day and Night. Day is willful intention and Night is unconscious/subconscious.
At Twilight, these forces are strong.
The Law of Consciousness is also the Law of Abundance. What is in our consciousness is what we get. If our consciousness does not believe we will have enough, then we will not have enough. Whatever is in our consciousness is what we are creating and the times the most powerful creativity manifests is dusk and dawn. Whatever is strongest in our mind when we go to sleep is put very deeply in our unconscious.
Varuna Aditya is very malleable. As soon as they change their consciousness, things will begin shifting. The fastest changes are possible. Painful planets here can manifest a lot of trouble very quickly. Start churning what you want in your life and you’ll see results faster than the average person. Churn what you want at dusk and dawn and at your own personal dusk and dawn which is when you go to sleep and when you awaken.
Citrasvana Rakshasa
Rakshasas are demons and represent the shadow self. The Rakshasa is behind the Chariot pushing it forward.
Citra means Excellent and Clear (Clarity) and Svana means Sound. Any thought you have has a sound, a vibration. Sound accompanies a feeling. In martial arts, they learn to channel the Hetih (Iron Force) sound. Martial Artists attempt to channel and focus this sound.
Mars loses its force in Varuna so the Hetih (Iron) force is weak. Mars is happy in Varuna. Mars is a young toddler so he is a happy baby here! The polar opposite Aditya is Bhaga where the Hetih force is capable of great attack and destruction if necessary.
Citrasvana has the opportunity to leave all the ugly noises behind. In our psyche, the ugly noises exist because we have not accepted ourselves, we do not like something about ourselves. Every time the Sun moves through Dhata, the first Aditya, we have the opportunity to become a stronger Self, a Self with less vulnerabilities, less psychological complexes, and healthier psychology. That is the foundation of everything that happens in our life. When the vibration of Hetih is high, we do not feel constantly under attack and having to defend ourselves. We defend ourselves when we truly are under attack which means at risk of physical injury.
How do we get past the shame and hurt of feeling bad about ourselves? With the all -encompassing love of Varuna which means total self-acceptance. We only feel bad about ourselves when we are measuring certain aspects of ourselves against something else or an ideal of what is “right”. Through ego-nullification we can love without pity and display compassion for oneself first.
Remove the identity and self-image and practice Tactical Nothingness. Drop the need to be understood. Refuse validation of our importance. Stop proving oneself. Exit the identity matrix, social pressure and shame. Psychological research confirms people with fluid self-concepts show 79% higher resilience under social attack and 84% lower susceptibility to manipulation.
The Moon, which is the ruler of Varuna, is the Child Mind and the Self-Image. Mars protects the Self-Image and goes out and gets the needs met for the Child Mind.
Varuna is linked to the all-encompassing sounds like Om, the causative sound of Creation. Emotional wounds produce ugly sounds. Prominent Citrasvana can use sound to heal themselves and others. The soothing sound of your voice, music, sound therapy, mantras. Every Sound leaves a sensation in our body, if we listen a little deeper, we will discover every emotion has a sound. Find the part with the ugly sound, accept it, love it and raise that vibration. Moveable Adityas are capable of rapid change.
Through a greater capacity for love and acceptance, Varuna/Citrasvana can heal. Those with Varuna/Citrasvana prominent need to take responsibility for their own healing which can be difficult because Varuna is naturally reactive. If they don’t love and accept themselves, people can push their buttons like a computer program.
When there are delighted and afflicted planets in Varuna/Citrasvana, the person can go from loving to coldness extremely quickly. They can change your vibration instantly.
Sukra Naga
Nagas live in the Underworld and are connected to the subconscious. The duty of the Naga is to free the chariot from its fetters so it can move through the Sky to increase the Love in the World. The Chariot moving forward is Love Energy being increased. An important part of that process is the Naga which frees the chariot from the bindings of the unconscious Mind. Until the Naga releases the Chariot, the person will be stuck in need energy.
Humans have a great capacity to pretend. “In order to get what I need, I need to ACT like this.” The biggest players in this type of behavior are disturbed Mitra and Vivisvan.
Sukra means bright, clear and the essence of something. It is a perfectly clear drop and a name of Venus. The subconscious muddles everything. It makes us see through glass that is not clear. The goal is to examine something so we see the essence or Truth of it instead of all the unconscious lies. Not only will we not be able to see events and people clearly but create a picture of ourselves in this world that is not true.
People with pathologies have an image of themselves with trauma or as a good person or both, but neither of those are true and inhibits keeping the energy from releasing the chariot. The person is stuck.
Starved planets here will be need-centered and starving for connection. Shifts in consciousness can happen quickly and when they do, the person gets clarity.
Something hurts us, we expand our awareness and acceptance to embrace it. With that comes a clearer vision.
Clancy McKenzie discusses the difference between Love and Need. When a person is in a state of need, they need to develop love and contribute more. Love and Need fluctuate like the Moon. The Need Path is distorted, confused and the Path of being lost.
The possibilities are endless with Varuna meaning you can take Love Energy anywhere you want.
Rathachitra Yaksha
The Yaksha harnesses the horses to the Chariot. A Yaksha is a Nature Spirit and the horses represent power.
Rathachitra means “a chariot that is lustrous and brilliant”. There is something about it that makes it special. The chariot is the body/mind of the individual.
Rathachitra yaksha is a place of change. Disease in the body means we must change to reacquire our luster.
Do we wake up lustrous or half dead?
At this Yaksha, we naturally possess a radiance and luster but sometimes that is diminished through involving ourselves in situations that we do not really care about, and are not part of who we really are. Our emotions are not involved in what we are doing and we have no emotional investment.
Rathachitra works directly through the body and if our body lacks energy and brilliance, we are on the wrong track. It is important to respect the body.
Huhu Gandharva
Gandharvas are demi-gods that are warriors and musicians. They walk in front of the Sun chariot and sing to inspire the chariot to move forward.
Huhu is a close brother of Haha, the Gandharva of the previous Aditya. Huhu has no meaning. What matters is the ooo-ooo, the H is just an aspirate. Aspirates do not have a lot of meaning, they do not determine the essence of something. The force is in the consonant and the vowel modifies the consonant. Semi-vowels don’t have a lot of force. The force is in the ooo-ooo. “Ah” is a mouth as open as it is going to be like when we put food in it. “Ooo” means that food is gross, I’m spitting it out, my mouth rejects it.
“No, don’t feed me this, it is not the energy I need”. At Varuna, a lot of the power is in saying no.
Mercury and Mitra get the “Haha moment” because Mitra’s job is investigation, to keep searching until you get to that “aha!” moment. At that point we know nothing will stop us. It is not an excited conviction because excitement is a pathology that has emotional wounds attached. It is a stable, silent realization and conviction.
HuHu means the opposite. It means, “no, not that!”, I will not put my energy towards that. This may seem counter-intuitive because Varuna is the all-encompassing love. We need to develop all-encompassing love because of all the differences. In this world of differentiation, we need a dose of all-encompassing love to get us through the day.
Most of the world is not right for us but it is still beneficial to encompass all the differences with love and acceptance. If afflicted, we may come to hate things that are not right for us which is not healthy. We can still possess an attitude of acceptance toward things that are not right for us.
In Jaimini astrology, this Aditya signifies “going to another place”. Therefore it has the connotation of negating, of “this is not right, time to go somewhere else”.
The Moon is a critical guiding force for helping us say “No”. If the Moon is afflicted, we say yes to things that hurt us. The Moon’s job is to help us say No to the wrong things. When the Moon is starving planets, it is saying yes to things that are wrong for us. The Moon will believe that which is toxic is what we need.
In general, the Moon s a negative force that says, “no”. When the Moon doesn’t feel good, we withdraw. HuHu is the force that protects Varuna from the wrong things. If afflicted, we can say “No” one day and then let it back in the next day. Huhu helps Varuna escape problems.
When the previous Aditya, Mitra, is afflicted, a force existed that shut down our welcome to new experiences that felt good. In childhood, if there was a choice to say ‘yes’ to something that made us feel good and the alternative was the loss of love from a parent, of course we would stop listening to that Haha voice.
If we have a parent that respects when we said “no” as children, then great, the child can still say no and get the love of the parent. What if the parent disrespects the child’s “no”? Then the child must choose between what is right for them and the love of the parent. We will always choose our parents. It is always important to respect when a child says “no” to something.
The repercussion of not saying “no” when we don’t want something is suffering. The Huhu and Haha is all we need as our guidance system. As adults, we cannot be sure of what is the correct thing to do, if our ‘no’ was not respected in childhood.
Sahajanya Apsara
Apsaras are dancers and Celestial Nymphs that dance in front of the chariot to illicit a mood and feeling.
Saha means ‘mighty or powerful’. Sahajan means ‘born with’. It means inherent qualities of power and might. What we are born with is natural. Sahajanya is what is natural. What is natural to us is where our power comes from. The power is the power of our true nature. The moment we are not expressing what is natural to us, the moment we do not allow ourselves to be natural, we are twisting and losing our power.
This Apsara has the power to make you feel something strongly and that can be a dangerous force. People can sway us, they can be highly charismatic, have a strong emotional force that can change how we feel about things.
All Apsaras have the same purpose, they cause us to do something that we would not do otherwise. Sahajanya can develop our true nature through putting us in a mood or giving us a feeling. This feeling or mood can push us into something that is helpful. If afflicted, a magnetism, a charismatic force can push people to do things they would not normally do.
Varuna is the all-encompassing love that includes ourselves and everyone else. When healthy, the person is happy with their natural state of being. They are OK with what they were born with. Afflicted, there is a struggle to accept what they were born with.
Examine Varuna/Sahajanya whenever someone is struggling with their appearance, accepting their abilities, etc. Counsel them to be OK with what they are. Our natural state brought us to a certain place, and so many of our problems revolve around not being OK with our natural state.
When we do what is truly natural, we have a lot more joy than when we do something that is fake and false. Unfortunately, we spend a lot of time pretending because we have the “should and should nots” whispering in our ear.
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