Chitra
The celestial gem
Identity card
| Position | 23°20’ Virgo – 6°40’ Libra |
|---|---|
| Stars | Spica, the Virgin’s shining ear of wheat |
| Symbol | a shining gem |
| Deity | Tvashtar, the architect of the gods |
| Planet | Mars |
| Gana | Rakshasa (instinctive) |
| Yoni | tiger |
| Temperament | Mridu (gentle) |
| Key word | to shine |
From Vol. II
A gem does only one thing, but it does it like nothing else in the world: it takes the light it receives and gives it back multiplied.
Portrait of Chitra
Lights
Whoever is born with the Moon in Chitra enters a room a moment before actually walking in: something about her gets noticed — her bearing, the way she pairs colours, a taste that cannot be learned because it is in her very make-up.
Shadows
There is surface threatening depth: Chitra can build façades so beautiful that she risks living in them, and the ancient texts associate this mansion with maya, illusion — the perfect form that conceals instead of revealing.
In love
In love Chitra is the partner who never stops being looked at — and who never stops looking: the aesthetics of the relationship matter, from the first message to the way breakfast is laid. She is passionate with a Martian passion — direct, physical, ardent — and generous with beautiful gestures: with her, anniversaries are never forgotten and presents are never wrong.
At work
Chitra’s vocations live wherever form is substance. Architecture reigns over them all — it is literally the craft of her deity — along with design, elegant engineering, stage design.
The rest is in Vol. II “I Nakshatra”, chapter 19. The texts on this page are translated from the Italian edition. The book
Living Chitra well
- Practise imperfection now and then, as an exercise.
The cards and the stars are a prompt for reflection. They do not predict the future with certainty and are no substitute for doctors, psychologists, lawyers or financial advisers.