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If Jupiter is your Planet

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'I worship Jupiter, the teacher of the Gods and the seers, who has the luster of gold, endowed with wisdom, the ruler of the three worlds.'

• Veda Vyāsa

Dynamic: How we expand ourselves on all levels without expectations

Keywords: Wisdom, knowledge, justice, learning, goodness, optimism, good fortune expansion, righteousness, prosperity

Signs: Sagittarius, Pisces

Color: Yellow

Gender: Masculine

Cakra: Viśuddhi, Anāhata

Temperament: Sattva (pure)

Governing deity: Guru, Brhaspati

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Jupiter in Vedic Scriptures

A king had seven sons. One day, sadhūs (holy mendicants) came begging --------

for alms, but the wives of 5 नम. यी हवडाय महाना

these sons turned them away empty handed. Jupiter became angry with them, and as a result the prosperity of the kingdom diminished.

The youngest wife visited a sage to ask for a solution to this problem. The sage advised her to fast on Thursdays and to give alms to spiritual people. The master also suggested that if the husband of any one of the wives were to go to a foreign country, the wife should create two human figures and place them behind her door, which would ensure the safe return of her husband.

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The youngest wife did so, as her husband was gone on a tour to a foreign country.

The other six sons were also gone on a tour to a neighboring country. The youngest wife did the ritual, as instructed by the sage. Her husband was in a country where the king had died. The king had no son. In order to find a suitable successor, a garland was put on the tusk of a female elephant and whosoever was garlanded by the elephant would be king. The elephant put the garland on the youngest son's neck. He became king.

The youngest wife's spiritual discipline brought prosperity to the kingdom.

The other six wives also had a change of heart and began to do Vara Puja (ritual worship of Jupiter) on Thursdays for Jupiter to bless their families and kingdom as well.

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Tendencies of Jupiter and Pisces

Jupiter has a big body, tawny hair and eyes, is kapha, intelligent, and learned in Śāstras.'

• Brhat Parāśara Hora Śāstra

Symbol: The fish

Element: Water

Ruling Planet: Jupiter / Guru

Ayurvedic constitution: Kapha (water)

Healing stone: Citrine

Pisces is one of the most auspicious signs. It brings great satisfaction to the individual born under its influence, especially during the last portion of his life. The fish symbolizes fertility, prosperity and regeneration. When creation first began, Visnu, who sustains life, appeared in the form of a fish. This manifestation of Him is known as Matsya-avatar, the fish avatar. The primary objective of Visnu's fish incarnation is to save life and to regenerate the seed preserved

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therein. Likewise, Pisces in the last sign of the Vedic zodiac; it is the sign where forces dissolve and take birth anew.

Pisces natives are emotional and empathic; they can sometimes lose consciousness of their boundaries. They often look as if they do not belong to this life. Expansive and intelligent, they are enthusiastic, but not always wisely. Their enthusiasm may be a little blind. They can be very easily influenced and impressed.

Their weakness lies in their dependency on others and their reliance on addictions and day-dreaming. Because they tend to have unrealizable and dream-like aspirations, they need to be more discriminative.

They may lack boundaries and lose their clarity and practicality. They don't really have a personality as such and take the form of the people around them. They may strive to attach others to themselves, too, and can indulge in self-pity when they do not receive affection.

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When open, they can imbibe and radiate fully the environment in which they live. They are natural devotional people with an attraction towards music.

These natives have to be especially careful with their nervous and digestive systems.

Pisces Nakşatras: Pūrvabhadrapada, Uttarabhadrapada, Revati

Tendencies of a person born under Pūrvabhadrapada

The Purvabhadrapada symbol is a double-faced man. This naksatra helps to raise our spiritual aspiration in life. It is also a transformational energy that teaches us to give up the ego and Live Enlightenment.

Born under Purvabhadrapada, you will be intelligent, sensitive, expert in art, and prone to taking risks. Your personality is so charming and plastic that you can get out of any troublesome situation.

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You are adaptable and extend your hand only when you are certain your kindness will be appreciated and used for the purpose you intend.

You have a strong need to channel your effort on a vision, an ideal, or your dream about the future. Make sure your goal is reachable. This naksatra grants a universal bent of mind to the person. Your enthusiastic outlook to life makes you original in many ways: your thoughts, desires, inventions and skills are not usual. You are pretty unconventional and do not need many things in life.

You may show interest in astrology, research, statistics, administration work, and business planning. You may also be attracted to an ascetic and yogic type of life style.

On the other hand, you may have unnecessary anger and anxiety. You can make too much use of harsh words and cynicism where it is not needed. You should think about doing yoga, as you need to learn to handle your responses to stress. You need to infuse

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clarity and imbibe teachings that lead you to discriminate, along with other constructive activities.

Tendencies of a person born under Uttarabhadrapada

Uttarabhadrapada grants growth and prosperity in a broad way, benefiting the entire world.

A person born in this naksatra is rich and famous and follows the virtuous path. You believe in the power of spiritual knowledge and apply it in your life. You are a sincere and educated seeker.

You can endure pain for long periods, but should find ways to relieve it as it usually drains your nervous system.

You are wealthy, cheerful, generous and charitable. This naksatra brings you marital happiness, children, and good health. But as you evolve spiritually, you can detach yourself completely from all familial

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responsibilities and then become supremely indifferent to any other reality than spiritual life.

You have issues with anger. You can display aggression; you are very secretive and enjoy talking about others sometimes. You frequently need to be alone to find your balance and to deal with your mundane as well as spiritual goals. Sometimes you may show irresponsibility and laziness in your day-to- day life and an attraction to partying, addictions, or a need to sleep too much.

Your anger can conquer and scare others. Life will teach you to be patient, as you will often attain your aim only late in life. With your aims achieved, you will reach a powerful contentment, a very deep fulfillment that was worth your endurance. Ultimately, Uttarabhadrapada may influence you towards renunciation.

You will enjoy careers such as charitable and humanitarian work, import and export, travel industry, astrology, literature, philosophy, teaching, the arts, and poetry.

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Tendencies of a person born under Revati

Revati nakşatra is governed by Pūșan, the nourishing form of the Sun god. This naksatra represents a journey, the final journey to liberation, to moksa. This influence confers a deep faith and devotion to the divine.

As a Revati native, you may have great wealth and prosperity, even though you have neither the desire nor a strong drive to be successful in life. You simply attract prosperity out of your nature and skills. And you are very fortunate: Jupiter protects your life.

You are very empathic and a real humanitarian.

But you may suffer from low self-esteem, sensitivity, and be absorbed in others' problems. You may imbibe their wrong qualities, and be influenced to follow a path which is not yours.

Nevertheless, even though you are softhearted, you can be very stubborn and fierce when provoked.

You love to be on the seashore; for you, the water

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element can be very healing. You have a visionary temperament, which you strive to materialize in life. Life will teach you to be driven by your inspiration; it will teach you to work to materialize your ideals in the physical world.

You will do well in acting, in humanitarian work, urban planning, government, religious endeavors. You will succeed as a travel agent, editor, or publisher.

Revati protects the soul of the native; it is the last naksatra that stands for the dissolution of time, the end of a cycle, the merging into the Cosmic Ocean where the possibility for re-creation exists endlessly.

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Energy Centers and Pisces

The Anahata cakra - Becoming Love

There are seven 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. The loving energy of Jupiter in Pisces is connected to the anahata cakra, located in the heart region. This energy works on the cakra and tends to imbalance it when it is too oriented towards getting love, attention and recognition from others. Anāhata flowers when you start giving love unconditionally.

It is a proven fact that cakras correspond to and affect the functioning of the specific glands that constitute the body's endocrine system. The deep need for love can create dependency and emotional

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restlessness which can drain your system, creating chronic diseases or depression in the long run.

You should keep an eye on your diet, which can be extreme when depression or low moods assail you. Pisces can be prone to bulimia and seeking sweets to counterbalance a lack of affection. Native borns are generally prone to addiction and suffer from guilt as a result. Pisces should understand and address the roots of this addiction.

To keep anāhata balanced, developing awareness and experiencing how you can flower by sharing your love will benefit you. You can give this teaching a try today: 'suffocate others with your love'. This attitude will give contentment and the expansion you are seeking.

A balanced anahata cakra will manifest a broad and generous personality, one that radiates bliss.

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Pisces and Āyurveda: Understand your Constitution

In a birth chart, many influences have to be considered to find out one's body type. Consulting an experienced Ayurvedic doctor will help you to understand your body constitution.

Generally, the Ayurvedic dośa (body constitution) related to Pisces is kapha.

Let's use this scale:

If you experience symptoms such as lethargy, a feeling of heaviness, nausea, chills, looseness of the limbs, coughing, mucus discharges, breathing difficulties, a tendency to sleep too much and high cholesterol, you may be suffering from kapha imbalance. Other symptoms can be inertia, congestion, stagnation and poor circulation. There may be a tendency toward obesity and boredom, depression, apathy, laziness, and mental dullness.

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If you are easy going, forgiving, physically strong, stable and reliable, slow to anger, active and positive minded, have a strong immune system, full of mental resolve, rational thinking, endurance, adaptability, and good long term memory, then your kapha is balanced.

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

O A relaxed, slow-paced disposition

O A loving, forgiving, compassionate personality

A stable and reliable nature

O Faithfulness

O Physical strength, with a heavy and large body and enduring constitution

O Slowness of speech, good memory power,

O Large watery eyes

O Tendency to heavy depression

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O Gentleness, self sufficiency

O Vibrant health, with strong resistance to disease,

Slowness to anger, greedy, envious

Tendency to hold on to things, possessive of people, money

O Physical problems generally include colds and congestion, sinusitis, headaches, respiratory problems including asthma and wheezing, hay fever, allergies, and atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and constipation.

How to manage kapha?

Kapha people are prone to lethargy, sluggishness and overweight. Therefore, they need activity and stimulation more than the other types of constitution. Daily exercise is a must for them. Getting out of the house, walking and actively seeking new and different experiences, breaking their routine is also valuable. They should learn to be receptive to useful change, renounce impediments to progress, implement life

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solutions and choose foods, mental attitudes, behaviors, exercise, relationships that can help them to balance kapha characteristics.

Food items to balance kapha:

Kapha people should consume little fried or fatty foods; avoid icy drinks, sweets or excessive amounts of bread. Butter, ice cream, cheese and milk should be avoided; they are among the worst foods which aggravates kapha. The consumption of salt should be kept in check, as it creates water retention in kapha body types.

They should enjoy plenty of fresh vegetables, raw fruits and salads. Pungent, bitter, and astringent tastes decrease kapha influences. Black pepper, ginger, cumin, chili, and some other spices provide the pungent taste; bitterness is provided by some green leafy vegetables like lettuce, endive and some green vegetables and beans provide the astringent taste, like cucumber and unripe fruits.

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Meditation for Pisces: Balance your Kapha!

Pisces natives are benefitted through techniques that work on their body and develop their concentration and centeredness. Pisces tends to live in their dream. Bringing their awareness into their body boundaries and senses through physical practices (Nithya yoga) and fostering their concentration will be very beneficial.

Here is a meditation for you:

Step 1-Duration: 10 minutes - Sit in vajrāsana (kneel and sit 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 exhalation. Begin again with each inhalation, holding the chant as long as possible as you exhale. Visualize clearly a white light rising within you, going out from the top of the head and circling back into you.

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Step 2-Duration: 21 minutes - Continue sitting in vajrasana. With the hands on the hips, bend down from the hips to touch the forehead to the ground. Continue to chant the 'hoo' sound in this position. Continue to visualize clearly a white light rising within you, going out from the top of the head and circling back into you.

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

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Nithya Yoga is for You

When the level of energy is low in a native, swimming can energize his or her whole body. Otherwise, gentle yoga postures that work on the anāhata cakra, as well as Sūrya Namaskār (the ancient sun salutation), can be practiced by all natives!

Ușțrāsana :

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Instructions:

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

· Kneel in an upright position with your knees separated about hip width apart.

. Place your hands on your lower back with the fingers pointing downward.

. Inhale, lift your heart and allow your head to gently relax back.

· Exhale, push the hips forward, so the hips are out past your knees.

· If you are a beginning student, remain in this position. If you are more advanced, you can grab your heels, placing your thumbs on the outside of the heels, fingers on the inside. Continue to push the hips forward from there, at the same time lifting the heart toward the ceiling.

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. Hold this position for 6 breaths.

· To come out of the posture, place the hands, on at a time, on the lower back, and then only,

· gently roll back up.

Benefits:

This posture gives a complete rotary movement to the entire vertebral column, and works on the digestive power which planet Mars represents. It can lead one to complete inner transformation by giving an experience of no-mind state.

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Birthstones for Pisces

Citrine 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 helps to destroy suffering 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 nine 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

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clear 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.

Citrine represents planet Jupiter in the natal chart. It rules over expansion, vitality and good fortune. It is beneficial for the following:

· Wisdom

· Contentment

· Longevity

· Happy family life

· Economic prosperity and comfort

· Business negotiations

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· Giving birth to a child, good children

· Delayed marriage

· Healing of the following conditions:

· Liver condition, jaundice, anemia

· Irregular heart beat, palpitation, high blood pressure

· Dysentery

· Gum trouble

· Gastric and intestinal problems

· Nose bleeding

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Five Techniques for a Pisces Mind

Be responsible!

We are aware of the state of affairs around us and we know we can improve many problems. But, either because of laziness, fear of commitment or fear to take up responsibility, we just keep quiet, watch and criticize our surroundings. The underlying guilt we feel is a hangover of our irresponsibility. Taking steps to correct a situation by doing our best to improve it is the first step towards becoming a conscious individual. Whenever you criticize the world, you just add more negativity to it. What can you do to bring more awareness to it? How can you change what you dislike in it? Align your thoughts, words and deeds; then the real revolution will happen.

Don't possess others!

When you come closer to people, you have a wonderful chance to meet old, deep and unpleasant samskaras or behaviors. You can easily ignore them,

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and blame the other for not being as you expect. As you look into them, and let them fall, a different kind of love starts to shine ... A new understanding. You start relating, beyond relationships. You move beyond bondage. You can relate with as many people as possible, but remain free and let them also be free. Don't leave any footprints in others' lives.

Let the Past be Past ...

We constantly live with our past. We bring our past emotions to the present, and it is absolutely not necessary. Bringing the old to the new feels like adding flavor to life ... No! It's just another addiction that diverts you from reality, that's all. Either you reproduce your past in the name of adding flavor to life, or you live with reality, flowing with alertness and clarity. Carrying your emotional luggage around is the most dangerous thing you can do to yourself! It can cripple you at crucial times where you need to break through. Let go of it! You need to be sharp to take decisions that

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will affect your future on work and social issues. Add an extra dose of awareness, and unclutch.

Accept the inevitable ...

Don't waste too much time fixing relationships which bring chaos into your mind. Work on keeping your inner space always pure, free from others' problems. Let their resentment not disturb you in any way. Already, you have your own problems, so why add more to them by taking care of theirs! If this relationship constantly drains you, if it brings you down, then drop it! After all, what more can you lose? What more will the other lose? Both resist the inevitability of life, and that does not allow the relation to move to a higher step. You had a beautiful relationship, now it is over, and you may grieve over it for some time ... This was part of the deal from the beginning, it was there as a possibility from the beginning. And that's what makes relationship so total. Accepting this will raise both to a level of deeper friendship and sharing.

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Live the Master!

You want to achieve something in the internal world but end up saying, 'I know it is right, but I'm struggling. I know but ... ' If you are caught in this bind, you won't achieve anything. Nothing can be done for you or by you. You are stuck in the causal layer of energy. This is the layer where you are trapped when you are in depression. You know you want to do something, you know you have the ability to do it, but you give reasons for not being able to achieve it. To get out of this stalemate, take a strong step ahead and work towards your goal in an integrated manner. In any situation, think: 'How will the Master behave in this situation?' Of course, Master would never let the mind create dilemmas. So live Him, live the Master! Any problem can be solved through this line of thought.

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