Ardra Nakshatra
Ardra falls entirely in the sign of Gemini and it's ruled by Lord Rudra, who we popularly know as Lord Shiva. Lord Rudra is the lord of destruction, Rudra translates to the one who roars. We know life to be full of cycles, the world also moves in cycles. He's responsible for destroying the creation so a new cycle can begin.
Naturally, such responsibility demands destruction, pain, suffering, devastation, death, bloodshed, all such things are naturally linked to the Nakshatra of Ardra. Lord Rudra is known to be the mightiest of the mighty, he's even feared by the gods. He's known to put an end to all things evil in the society. Perhaps we cannot imagine in our state as human beings how can destruction be important or why is it important or what is the meaning of destruction. Everything has a silver lining, every cloud has a silver lining, even Covid led to some good initiatives. I think a lot of us started thinking of life differently so destruction is important for evolution, we must understand that. All natural disasters that we experience, we hear about are directly linked to Ardra such as cyclones, earthquakes, wildfires, very common.
I was watching news of wildfires in Canada changing living conditions in major cities on that coast in the United States. Pandemics are also, in my view, linked to Ardra, and so are wars. There are no winners in a war; there is only death, destruction, devastation and disruption to people's lives. Perhaps there is something good in that too, and I would link all such natural or man-made disasters to Ardra. After a disaster, a devastated place creates new ground for growth and a new civilisation. We hear stories of civilisations that flourished thousands of years ago in places where they no longer exist.
Saturn in Ardra
Hard work and service
When Saturn is in Ardra, the person is going to be a relentless researcher. Ardra has the power of perseverance, and Saturn is known to be the most persistent planet. We hear stories of research taking a group of scientists seven years. That is Saturn in Ardra.
Earlier I had given you two examples of individuals who have Saturn in Ardra, Jonas Salk and Nikola Tesla. The native would be an expert, a master in one's field of work. If you have Saturn in Ardra and you've chosen a path, if you stay with that path for a long time, you'll end up doing things never done before, given the mastery you'll achieve over your topic of research. Research would be very futuristic.
Saturn is known to create delays, hardships in our life, and this Nakshatra is known for life-altering circumstances. It might translate to you were going through Saturn's antardasha and you were expecting a certain thing to happen, like you applied for a visa and you were expecting that I'll be joining that company once my visa is approved. However, suddenly that was rejected and there is now a delay in your travel plans, in your work plans, and that changes your life significantly. That you had made your plans, you can no longer join the company, now your career has to suffer. Here the suffering linked to Ardra can be linked to delays in particular.
Saturn is the slowest moving planet. If you have Saturn in Ardra, you must look into the antardasha of Saturn. When is it coming? At that time you might experience a life-altering event which might be due to some delay that has happened in what you were expecting to happen.
A Saturn-Ardra-like person can be an expert in conducting one's research with minimum resources like having no funds but the scientist discovered something which hasn't been done before. Saturn Ardra-like native is the one to look out for. That person has the capability to achieve something extraordinary. Saturn and Rahu incidentally also share a very friendly relationship and that makes Saturn Ardra a very strong position.
See this Nakshatra is a lot about exploration and being in the wild. However Saturn is about following tradition. It might be whilst the person is living a life full of freedom, the person is still following a certain tradition, a certain discipline. The life is unique and eccentric but still very traditional.
The person has kept one's traditions alive. Saturn has a Tamasic side and so does this Nakshatra. The person could have the tendency to be very anti-social. The person has a pinpointed approach that is the goal.
I have to keep making progress every day and to achieve that I cannot have contact with the outside world. The person therefore can also fall prey to addictions and that is the side of Saturn Ardra the native would need to overcome.
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