Jupiter Transit in Pushya

Brihaspati himself is the deity of Pushya, and Jupiter transiting it is the guru returning to his own seat. The nakshatra lies in Cancer, the sign of Jupiter's exaltation, and its lord is Saturn, neutral toward Jupiter. The symbols are a cow's udder and a lotus. Brihat Jataka places the deepest exaltation at the fifth degree of Cancer, inside Pushya.

The stay is short, about two months, and many count it the finest Jupiter transit of the twelve-year cycle. Wealth, children, teachers and dharma all prosper together, so agreements made now hold, a child conceived now is well protected, and a sadhana begun now takes root. Saturn's rule keeps the gains sober and lasting.

Gemini, Pisces, Capricorn, Scorpio and Virgo Moons and lagnas have Jupiter in the second, fifth, seventh, ninth and eleventh, Phaladeepika's favourable houses. Cancer Moons carry an exalted Jupiter in the first, a grace for health and standing. Leo Moons have it in the twelfth and Sagittarius Moons in the eighth, where even this Jupiter spends before it earns.

Pushya reads a person's readiness to be taught. Anyone who has kept faith through harder transits finds the reward arriving now, quietly and without effort.

Make gratitude visible. Feed a teacher, or feed students in a teacher's name, and recite Om Brihaspataye Namah on Thursday with yellow cloth, turmeric or gram given as Parashara prescribes. A lotus offered to the guru's picture fits the nakshatra, and so does a promise kept to the mother.