Jupiter Transit in Purva Bhadrapada

Purva Bhadrapada is the last of Jupiter's three own nakshatras. Its first three padas lie in Aquarius, Saturn's sign, and its fourth in Pisces, Jupiter's own. The deity is Aja Ekapada, the one-footed goat, counted among the Rudras in some lists, and the symbols are the front legs of a funeral cot and a sword.

Jupiter transits its own nakshatra with authority. In the Aquarius padas that authority goes into causes, reform and the discipline of a group, and in the Pisces pada it turns inward as Jupiter becomes strong in its own sign. The stay of about four to five months is often broken by a retrograde into two visits.

Tapas is the theme. Wealth is given away or spent on a purpose. Children may be intense, and a child's spiritual leaning shows now. The sword cuts the person's own attachments first.

Capricorn, Libra, Leo, Gemini and Aries Moons and lagnas gain in the Aquarius padas, with Jupiter in Phaladeepika's favourable houses. In the last pada the gain moves to Aquarius, Scorpio, Virgo, Cancer and Taurus. Pisces, Scorpio, Virgo and Cancer Moons should go slowly in the first three padas, with Jupiter in the twelfth, fourth, sixth and eighth. Aries, Sagittarius, Libra and Leo Moons take the same care in the fourth.

The transit shows how much austerity a person's faith can bear. Purva Bhadrapada strips away borrowed opinions and leaves a person's own wisdom.

Honour Aja Ekapada with a fast on Thursday or a vow held for the whole stay. Japa of Om Brihaspataye Namah and Parashara's dana of yellow cloth, turmeric or gram are the graha's remedies. Serve a teacher who asks for nothing, and keep the austerity private, since Aja Ekapada is not served by display.