ASHWINI
Light and happiness
Healing and miracles
Quick brothers Ashwini
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Tamas quality
Puts back together
What was broken
BHARANI
Life and death
Always together
Power of creation
KRITTIKA
Get to the essence
And deepest truth
By cutting resistance away
ROHINI
Abundance and growth
Beauty and love
Brings charming Rohini
MRIGASHIRA
Follow your desire
The restless mind
Persistence welcomed
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Search is a twin of knowledge
With the patience
Fulfillment comes as reward
ARDRA
Efforts bring gain
After greater efforts
Nakshatra Ardra
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Tears bring relief
After storm
Bird is singing
PUNARVASU
To restore, rebuild, renew
Anything it touches
Energy of Punarvasu
UTTARA PHALGUNI
Favors marriage and wealth
Helps others in need
Uttara phalguni
CHITRA
Formless to form
True creativity
Comes from nothingness
SWATI
Scatter like a wind
To find directions
become a wind’s friend
VISHAKHA
Patience and devotion
one can enjoy
from the tree planted early
ANURADHA
JYESHTHA
With some ingenuity
Everything possible
Under Nakshatra Jyeshtha
MULA
Get to the core
With desire to procreate
Nakshatra Mula
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Nothing can grow
Until something destroyed
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At the beginning destruction
At the end creation
From the mud – lotus
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Abundance and wisdom
No marital happiness
SHRAVANA
Soundless sound
One hand clapping
Hear the Shravana people
SHATABHISHA
No beginning, no end
Power to kill
Power to heal
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Tamas quality
Brings stability
To the chaos
PURVA BHADRAPADA
From the very bottom
Rises up burning
Sacrificial fire within
UTTARA BHADRAPADA
Glowing fire
Looses up
Creativity hidden from eyes
HAIKU FOR AMAVASYA MOON AND ITS DEITY PITRIS
Absence of light
Nobody home,
Bereavement |