This essay is an excerpt from my book on fixed stars and nakshatras, Of Soils and Stars, Volume II, which you may order and learn about here.
This evening, as the moon enters the celestial bedchambers of Anuradha, where lotus flowers beautifully always bloom, I wanted to share with you something I find beautiful about this part of the sky. In my book I have a deep exploration and essay on her, with esoteric and spiritual insights diving deeply into her mystical landscapes.
As you may know, in the heart of Anuradha are devotion and loyalty; a love that holds through many waves and storms and changing seasons. The path of devotion is revealed through her, as well as the holding of secrets from elders and mystics. Anuradha is where we must handle things with great care. There is a veil of mysticism around her, as she does indeed deal with sensitive things, as well as esoteric knowledge, or things that are just a bit hidden from most people’s eyes.
Anuradha holds secrets – she honours them, she guard them, she guards the secrets and inner worlds people share with her. She preserves the intimacy of people’s secrets and their vulnerable sharings with her; she honours those bonds, and holds them in compassion. Anuradha is a keeper of secrets.
Mitra and Varuna are Anuradha’s Vedic deities, and together they are keepers of cosmic order, law and truth. Mitra is the solar movement, the importance of our vows and covenants and friendships; and Varuna is the lunar movement, ruling over seas and stars now seen by us. Their “eye” is the sun, and they nourish us through rain, morning dew and water.
During daytime, stars cannot be seen, yet you see a path in front, a thread – like the way dawn sun illuminates the lotus pond. At night, the path gets cloaked; the concealment of night now illuminates the stars.
Mitra is that which shows the path, yet hides the infinite; and Varuna is that which veils the path, yet reveals the eternal.
This is where Anuradha lives – not in the path itself, but in the faith of the path; not the light itself, but the rhythm of revelation and concealment; not in the knowledge, but in the loyalty to the unseen cosmic order.
Mitra and Varuna together illumine the way through quietness and secrets, a guardianship of cosmic truth. Anuradha is the keeper of these secrets, she guards the truth.
Anuradha sees that which is transparent or not seen by all. She is a devotion to the continuity between both Mitra and Varuna; she is devoted not to “find the path”, but to remain aligned even when the path disappears. Anuradha knows that what is most real isn’t always what is most visible. Just like the lotus flower.
Anuradha never closes her eyes – she sees beyond what one may even imagine. But she doesn’t share all, because all has its proper order and timing of reveal. Secrets are kept gently by her, and this is why the dharmic path of Anuradha natives is deeply connected to their loyalty to other people and whether they can guard, preserve and protect the intimacy and vulnerability when someone shares something to them. For those natives who act without integrity and virtue, Anuradha sees this, and will always shine it at some point.
Mitra walks ahead, scattering light across ponds and streets; Varuna follows and conceals the night with his cloak, gathering the world into silence and stillness, and there, in the unseen vastness, the hidden order breathes. In this continuous revealing and concealing, Anuradha blooms as gentle as silk, and as unmistakable as a lotus flower despite what surrounds her. She holds the quiet vows to trust what isn’t always seen, yet never ceases to exist.
When we enter Anuradha’s chambers of seeking knowledge and guidance from her spiritual and esoteric wells, she will reveal only in layers, and only if we approach her with sincerity and pure heart’s intention. Anuradha responds to honesty, virtue and integrity only, and only if you are ready to see what you seek.
I often also think of Anuradha as that which isn’t meant to be fully understood or known, but circled around and stayed with like a mantra or prayer; and with each time spoken or whisper, or circling around, she deepens and we, within her, as she reveals another layer of wisdom and insight. It’s kind of like circling around the same staircases, which even though may look the same, the light shines differently each time and another corner or nuance is seen, and we, within our own inner experience of it, deepen also and see something else.
On this beautiful evening of Anuradha offer yourself to love, to wisdom, to support, to sincerity and to virtue. She is known as the divine friend, and what this has always meant to me is someone who knows how to hold you and see you despite days and nights, despite rains or storms or droughts. May we have such a person in our life and treasure them wholeheartedly, and may we too be that for others also.
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