ASHWINI

Light and happiness
Healing and miracles
Quick brothers Ashwini
*
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
*
Search is a twin of knowledge
With the patience
Fulfillment comes as reward

ARDRA

Efforts bring gain
After greater efforts
Nakshatra Ardra
*
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
*

Nothing can grow
Until something destroyed
*

At the beginning destruction
At the end creation
From the mud – lotus
*

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
*
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