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He is said to be adept in all the Vedic scriptures, auspicious but sensitive, and if disturbed, he can trigger natural disasters such as droughts, floods, and according to some ... earthquakes.

Tendencies of Mercury and Virgo

'Mercury is endowed with an attractive physique and the capacity to make puns and use words with double meaning. He has a sense of humor and is fond of jokes.'

• Parāśara

Symbol: The virgin

Element: Earth

Ruling Planet: Mercury /Budha

Gender: Feminine

Ayurvedic constitution: Vata

Healing stone: Green Jade

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Virgo represents the eternal virgin, whose symbolism appears in many world religions. Vedic scriptures describes the celestial virgin as representative of the earth, Aditi (earth) and Parvati (the consort of Lord Siva) are some of her symbols. No less significant Sita, the consort of Rama, the hero of the Ramayanaand incarnation of Visnu. She was born fully grown to King Janaka while he was performing his yearly ritual ploughing of a field.

All represent Divine knowledge and the personification of the wisdom hidden in nature; and they incarnate its pristine aspect, untouched by other influences. Here, Mercury manifests itself through its purest form of intelligence, with practicality, discrimination and dignity.

Virgo natives possess good intellect, a good ability to project themselves and a nervous sensitivity. They can elaborate facts easily, and are gifted teachers driving their point home methodically and technically. Natural healers, they may show interests in healthcare or in

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restoring health. They are also gifted for the practice of yoga and Āyurveda.

Helpful, they do serve others altruistically, without seeking much recognition. They are able to work with minute details, and appreciate cleanliness more than any other sign.

Nevertheless, their perfectionism is sometimes difficult to live with and they may become loners and pessimistic, feeling deceived by other's 'mediocrity'.

Virgo Nakşatras: Uttaraphālguni, Hasta and Citra

Tendencies of an Uttaraphalguni born

Uttaraphalguni naksatra can bring great opportunities for inner and outer growth and expansion in the native's existence. Here, one can overcome its limitations, be they physical, material, mental or spiritual. The star may also confer yogic abilities and a deep spiritual quest.

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Courage, endurance and ambition are turned towards fighting for a righteous cause in a chosen field.

As an Uttaraphalguni born, you can display great friendliness, compassion and kindness towards others and specifically the socially or physically unprivileged ones. You deeply feel for the people in need, you are eager to stretch a helping hand towards them. You are a humanitarian at heart.

This naksatra influences leaders in their field. Naturally independent, you take up responsibilities and accomplish the work at hand perfectly well.

You have a religious bent of mind, obedient and strong. Research subjects, literature, engineering, mathematics, astronomy or astrology are the main focuses in your life, and you will succeed in careers such as social work, writer, media industry, healing arts, health sector or business.

You may feel lonely sometimes, especially when you cannot be in a deep and meaningful relationship.

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It creates negativities which do not help you to attract friends.

Remember always to express gratitude towards your loved ones, and never take their presence for granted. This will expand your being on all levels.

Tendencies of a Hasta born

Hasta's symbol is a closed hand or fist. It is therefore connected to activities related to hands, dexterity and gives the ability to achieve goals quickly.

Born under Hasta's auspices, you will be religiously minded, respectful of sages and the learned. You are often tall and thin in physical appearance. Full of resources, you are dynamic, and able to grasp and hold on to all sorts of things.Hasta prefers daily repetitive work such as arts and crafts, rather than leadership.

Your sense of industry is pronounced here, and you can be hard working, innovative and service oriented. You are good at organizing and managing

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things. You can also excel at jobs which involve a lot of travelling.

You are a natural counselor and adviser, and like to share your wisdom and great sense of humor. This brings you a good notoriety and an entertaining attitude in your community. But generally, you don't make yourself dependent, and you discourage others from being attached to you. Be aware of your unnecessarily critical nature, which can be used for the wrong reasons at times; learn to be patient with people.

You could be an author, educator, artisan, teacher, salesman, handcrafter, painter, stage magician, comedian, and palm reader, working in the travel industry or in hospitals.

Money comes and goes; you may encounter financially difficult periods, until you turn towards spirituality, which can help you to transform yourself and attract fortune by changing your consciousness. You can understand knowledge and philosophy very well, and minutely work on meditating and following the teachings of the masters, as well as studying ancient spiritual sciences like pūjas, homas, Vāstu, etc.

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This ability can lead you to transform your life completely and for the better.

Characteristics of a Citra born

Citra is 'the star of opportunity'. It is of bright and transparent appearance.

This naksatra reflects the world of maya and delusion, which the native is to overcome. It allows the person to gain the fruit of his good past actions that come through righteousness and sincerity. It has a highly spiritual energy and effect, and is one of the most mystical of the twenty seven nakșatras.

Citra stands for the spiritual initiation that gives direct insight into the truth. It gives a life of challenges that precedes the seeking for enlightenment. Citra confers a great desire to achieve and reach a greater consciousness, as it holds a great idealism and purity. The native feels he must glimpse enlightenment, and work in some way or other to live and radiate it.

You will be an efficient leader when you are born

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under Citra. You have elegance and charisma, you are bright, popular, extremely honest and a soft person, fond of the latest invention on the market. You usually stand out in a crowd and like to shine.

Your desire of knowledge can incite you to study a whole life time, without ever feeling you have mastered your passion thoroughly. This is the reason why you constantly work on improving yourself. You also have artistic talents and the ability to arrange things creatively. You may be good at dance, music or drama; you have the intelligence to be an architect, a lawyer, jeweler, detective, teacher or a person learned in the Vedas, a mystic.

You are also blessed with business skills and can be a genius in your field; you may be involved in medicinal science and particularly the science of herbs and plants in Āyurveda medicine.

Take especially care of your kidneys and bladder and keep your nerves soothed and relaxed always.

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Energy Centers and Virgo

Viśuddhi cakra : Expressing one's Uniqueness

There are 7 major energy centers in our body, called cakras in Sanskrit. They are directly connected to our emotions and impact different aspects of our personality and the way we relate to ourselves, others, and to Existence.

Each planet resonates with a particular energy center in the body. Mercury is connected to viśuddhi cakra located in the throat region. Viśuddhi flowers when you stop comparing yourself to others, and express your own uniqueness.

We are always looking to achieve in the outer world. This is the root cause of comparison and the jealousy we feel as a consequence. People respect us only if we have achieved something tangible in the outer world. Educational degrees, beauty titles, company designations, published papers, bank balances, are all scales that society uses to grade us.

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First of all, you don't need to be graded by anyone. Placing your trust in your own intelligence first and then grading yourself next is much wiser. There is a lot you can achieve in the outer world.

But understand that there is a lot to be achieved in the inner world also. The outer world achievements are all incidental. They will get you instant name and fame and money. The real achievement is in the inner world.

Center yourself well with awareness and simply take part in the outer world activities like a lotus untouched in a pond. Let the work in the periphery go on undisturbed, but center yourself in your Being. Automatically, you will stop swaying in accordance with the outer world achievements and feel stability and joy in the center of your own Being. Finding your center is the only way out of this whole cycle of comparison with others that does not allow you to express your uniqueness as easily as it could.

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Virgo and Āyurveda: Understand your Constitution

Generally, the Ayurved dośa (body constitution) related to Virgo is vata.

Vata influences the movement of thoughts, feelings, prana flow, nerve impulse, and fluids in the body.

Let's use this scale:

If you experience symptoms such as anxiety, worry, shyness, a tendency to insomnia, chronic tiredness, mental and emotional depression, physical tension, stress, a weak immune system, headaches, underweight, constipation, dryness of skin, mental confusion, inability to take decisions, fast speech, too many fantasies, then there is a good possibility you are suffering from vata imbalance.

If you have good mental alertness, abundant creative energy, a good elimination system of waste

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matters, sound sleep, strong immune system, enthusiasm, emotional balance and stability, then the vata principle is balanced in your body.

Here are some of the common characteristics of people who have a predominantly vata body constitution:

Quick to learn and grasp new knowledge

Slim body

Talk and walk quickly

Cold hands and feet,

Excitable, lively,

Changeable moods

Respond to stress with fear and worry and anxiety

O Variable appetite and digestion

O Tendency to be tired easily

O Full of enthusiasm and joy

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Impulsive

O Generally good management and leadership ability

Dry skin, dry hair, don't perspire much

O Headache, hypertension, sore throat, anxiety, muscle spasm, irregular heartbeat, constipation, winds, diarrhea, arthritis, neurological disorder.

How to manage vata?

Factors that can balance vata are warm and soothing food with added oil and fat, as well as sweet tastes. Cold items should be avoided and caffeine should be stopped, as it strains vata's nervous system. Mental and emotional peace and lifestyle routines are important to restore and maintain balance. Vata can be corrected by using warm sesame oil for self-massage. If you can't massage the whole body, at least apply warm oil on the feet and scalp. Maintaining a regular routine in terms of eating, sleeping and other activities will also help you to unclutch the mind.

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Food items to balance vata:

Warm and cooked food with added oil and fat is good for pacifying vata.

Warm milk, cream, butter, vegetable soups, hot cereals, freshly baked bread, potatoes, cheese and nourishing food are good for stabilizing vata.

On the other hand, food such as salads, iced drinks and ice creams, raw vegetables and greens are not very good for persons with vata imbalance. One should avoid drinks with high caffeine as vata finds it disturbing. As a snack, it is better to prefer nuts that are heavy and oily, as opposed to dry and salty.

All sweet fruits are good for vata. One should avoid unripe fruit that are too astringent. Cinnamon, cardamom, cumin, ginger and cloves should be favored.

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Meditation for Virgo: Balance your Vata!

Mercury natives can be benefitted through techniques which enhance their natural devotion and ability to perceive higher principles of life. For them, meditations that foster the unclutched state (the state of deep inner peace) are a must!

Here is a meditation for you:

Step 1-Duration: 10 minutes - Sit in vajrasana (kneel down and sit with your bottom resting on your heels). Place your hands on your hips. By doing this, you are establishing a connection between the upper and lower parts of your body. Chant 'hoo' for as long as possible with each exhale. Begin again with each inhale, holding the chant as long as possible as you exhale.

Step 2-Duration: 21 minutes - Continue sitting in vajrasana. With the hands on the hips, bend down at the hip to touch the forehead to the ground. Continue to chant the 'hoo' sound in this position.

This meditation will make your whole body to vibrate, contributing to lowering your inner chatter.

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Nithya Yoga for You

Yoga is one of the most suitable practices to stabilize Virgo's mind. Yoga postures should be done slowly and consciously. Virgos should be physical in their practice. Also, developing devotion towards the divine will help the native to pacify and bring serenity to his life. Sūrya Namaskar (the ancient Sun salutation), can be practiced by all natives!

Sarvāngāsana and Halāsana

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Instructions:

To blissfully enjoy the benefits of any asanas, make sure your body is warmed up, the spine loosened up and stretched out before entering the postures.

. Start the posture by lying on your back.

· Bend you knees with feet on the floor.

· Place your hands at your lower back.

· On an inhale, use momentum to swing your legs upward above your head with your knees bent.

· With the knees still bent, your shoulder blades closer together, bring the elbows closer.

· Straighten your legs up into the air. Have the feet flexed or toes slightly pointed.

· Continue to support your back with your hands.

· Look up toward your feet and breathe here for 6 to 12 breaths.

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Halāsana

· On the final exhale in shoulder stand, keeping your legs straight, lower your feet to the floor behind the back of your head.

· Continue to support your lower back with your hands.

· Breathe here for 6 to 12 times.

. After the last inhale, exhale and slowly roll your back onto the floor, bending the knees halfway and allow the legs to be on the mat.

Benefits:

These two postures work on stretching your shoulders and spine, and relax the region of the thyroid gland. Headaches are very much related to tightness in the shoulder region. This tightness does not allow the blood to flow freely in the head, causing fatigue and lack of mental clarity. By relaxing the whole spine and neck, one gains instant relaxation and well-being, and therefore an ease to express oneself.

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Remedial Birthstones for Virgo

Green Jade gemstone bracelet

This book comes with a unique energy bead bracelet which beautifully combines semi-precious stones with Rudraksa beads- enhancing and radiating the properties of the stones. This bracelet attunes you to the Universe and contributes to destroy sufferings related to negative karmas. It is specially blessed by Nithyananda, the enlightened Master of our times for the fortunate ones who wish to receive the blessings of the Universe! Enlightened Masters are said to be the manifestation of the Cosmic Energy, which radiates through the 9 planets. It empowers you to expand your inner intelligence into Living Enlightenment!

Jyotişa uses different gemstones (also called birthstones) to strengthen the planets energies.

Gemstones are the finest and purest consolidation of minerals that exists, formed under extreme heat and pressure inside the earth. Stones are crystals of clear

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and purified minerals that are also found in the human body.

Because of their mineral quality, they are agents of electromagnetic energy, which influences the electromechanical nature of the human body. When a stone is in contact with the skin, it starts working on the physiology and the energy level of the body, as well as the pranic layer of energy.

Green jade represents planet Mercury in the natal chart. It rules over concentration, memory and peace of mind. It influences:

· Concentration

· Calm and balance

. Short and long term memory

· Learning and analytical abilities

Studies

Children

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· New initiatives

. Gains and maintenances of resources

· Marital bliss

· Provide relief from Intestinal problems, constipation

· Skin or respiratory problems

· Hysteria

· Neurological and nerves disorders, impotency, Parkinson disease

· Poisoning of blood

· Retarded mental or physical growth

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Five Techniques for a Virgo Mind

Be complete!

There is in you a natural urge to do something, to flood your energy into some activity, to work on one project or another. You are like a pool. Whenever water flows through, you remain a vibrant source of life for yourself and others, but when it stagnates, you become depressed. Don't do things casually. Anything half done leaves an engraved memory in you. Anything not lived fully leaves an imprint or samskara in your being, which time and again pulls you, attracts you to travel the same path and to fulfill it. Focus on being complete in what you do.

Look beyond ...

Existence is calling you to its bigger meaning. Never think life has nothing else to offer than what you perceive with your eyes, because life cannot be reduced to a simple material manifestation. When you conceive life as just matter, you can never meet God. It will be

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difficult to come to terms with any meaning in your life. Meaning can only be found in the invisible, and it is scary to the mind. It tends to think whatever it cannot see is not under its control. Observe how its tendency is to focus on outward things: money, comforts, relationships and misses the greater purpose of existence that is to be found in the inner world.

Drop your inner chatter!

Very often, our inner chatter does not allow us to be confident about what we achieve. Many times, we realize great things, but are not able to enjoy why we realized it. It is like preparing a delicious meal with much meticulousness and not allowing oneself to partake of it! Low self-esteem will never allow you to assess your work objectively. It can only precipitate you in a depression that won't let you work correctly! Enjoying the fruits of your work is a sure guardian of your confidence and inspiration to grow in your field of activity, in your responsibilities and energy too!

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Let it be!

You often feel: 'Every time I think I want to do something, the complete opposite happens.' It will happen ... it is your doing. Allow things to happen their own way and move with them. Don't bring your will and ego into it. Only once you drop your ego and merge with the whole, will what you want to happen really happen. It will not happen till you stop waiting. This is the whole dilemma: if you go on waiting, your very want will create a situation in which it is not going to happen. Better learn to do things without expecting results, leaving yourself open to the Master's grace in your life. Often, you ignore how much your 'desired results' would have damaged your life if they had happened! Be ever grateful, what life brings you is what you need.

Be in love!

Express your love, sense of humor and wisdom towards your community! You are a joyful communicator whose trust that life is good makes you

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expand the responsibilities you take up. When that expansion happens, just hold on and have patience during the transformation. This patience during the process is what is called tapas or penance. Why don't we allow big breakthroughs in our life? Because we don't trust life to lead us into a new space. Have trust and patience. When you take more responsibility, you just expand and more energy starts expressing through you. When you feel responsible for whatever is happening around you, you suddenly become a leader and transform your life and others' lives. Responsibility is a way to consciously grow.

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