Reply To: Tara Bala Homework – Post Analysis Here

[hamilton.yoga]

Ola! I have been backtracking and re-visiting homeworks this week. I have also been researching Tithis.

I was born on a Wednesday, ruled by Mercury.  Mercury is in my 4th house and has always been dear to my heart. As a mythic figure I have resonated with the god Mercury, and my Sun is in Virgo (Chitra). I have worked in the healing professions my whole adult life. I also have a fair amount of technical skill in the fine arts.

My tithi is the 9th Navami, Tamas, Sarpa, Fierce and Destructive. As a healer I have worked with people who have severe and persistent mental illness.  My strength is to hold strong psychological containers for people when they have none.  When people are psychotic, suicidal, in break downs, I am able to hold the space for them and get them back to some semblance of psychic safety.  This to me is the positive side to the fierce and destructive energy.

The Goddess Kulasundari presides over this tithi. She is a form of Saraswati. These natives love to learn and teach. I taught for many years in mental health about such dark topics as crisis intervention, addiction, sexual abuse, borderline personality disorder, etc. I then shifted to teaching yoga.  Very similar, using these tools to master the aforementioned issues. Again the positive aspect to sharp and dreadful energy.

I have always liked the sword as a symbol and find it appropriate here for being able to slice through B.S. with my students and clients.  As a trainer of adults I was known for always having someone cry in my trainings.  Not necessarily from my hurting them but I would push them on their biases and projections. They were dealing with mentally ill people and I wanted to make sure they were as psychologically “clean” a s possible to do that. All a good example of this Tithi.

The ruler of this tithi is in some references the Sun in others Saturn.  It would be hard for me to intuit from my own experience as Saturn is very prominent in my chart and aspects my Sun.

My nakshatra is Shravana. Ruler the moon, Deva (angelic), moveable, deity Vishnu

Sravana means ‘acquiring knowledge by listening’. We listen. As an astro-counselor I listen a lot.  As the head of HR in my company, I listen a lot.  Then I apply remedies from what I have studied. Being in Capricorn my work is to be of service through studying and teaching the various yoga disciplines.  I am driven to help people out of suffering (Deva). I have the capacity through sravana and Saturn in my 9th house to study very deeply and then pass it on through my work as a yoga teacher, astrologer and HR director.

I have enjoyed following the daily tithi and watching the energy of it.  I have also enjoyed comparing charts with my client file, friends and family and seeing how the tithi is really important.  Namaste!