Shatabhisha
The hundred healers
Identity card
| Position | 6°40’ – 20°00’ Aquarius |
|---|---|
| Stars | a hundred faint stars of Aquarius, to be searched for patiently |
| Symbol | an empty circle |
| Deity | Varuna, the god of the deep waters |
| Planet | Rahu |
| Gana | Rakshasa (instinctive) |
| Yoni | mare |
| Temperament | Chara (movable) |
| Key word | to heal |
From Vol. II
Varuna is also the cosmic physician: no one knows ills like the god who ties them in knots, and no one knows better how to untie them.
Portrait of Shatabhisha
Lights
There is the frontier mind: independent to the point of heresy, allergic to dogma, able to hold together the rigour of the scientist and the openness of the mystic — this is the mansion that sees no contradiction between the microscope and the pendulum, and often uses both.
Shadows
The shadows are written in the geometry of the circle. Isolation: the protective enclosure that becomes an unintended hermitage — Shatabhisha can spend years inside her own circle, surrounded by knowledge and silence, and notice too late that no one has come in for a very long time.
In love
Loving Shatabhisha is a privilege with restricted entry. Her circle has very few places, and whoever gets in, gets in for ever: inside the enclosure there is a person completely different from the one the world knows — warm, devoted, even playful — and the distance between outside and inside is the measure of the trust she has given you.
At work
The professions of technological Aquarius: electricity, computing, astronomy — the hundred faint stars are also a map for those who scan the sky for a living. The waters, literally: the sea, diving, hydrology.
The rest is in Vol. II “I Nakshatra”, chapter 29. The texts on this page are translated from the Italian edition. The book
Living Shatabhisha well
- Honour your melancholy as you honour your remedies.
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.