Mercury Transit in Revati

Revati is Mercury's own nakshatra and the last of the twenty-seven. Its deity is Pushan, the Aditya who guards travellers and finds what is lost, and its symbol is a fish or a drum. It fills the end of Pisces, Jupiter's sign, where Mercury is debilitated, past the degree of deepest fall and rising toward Aries. Mercury owns the nakshatra and is a weak guest in the sign.

The usual stay is about eight days, and a retrograde loop can hold Mercury here for a month. Revati is the homecoming: the end of a trade, a course, a stay abroad, a book. Mercury's travel signification is strong, and Pushan looks after the traveller, the lost item and the animal that strayed. Accounts are closed. The surplus is shared.

Muhurta Chintamani counts Revati mridu, soft, and the days suit marriage, art, learning, new clothes and the start of a road trip. Nothing sharp belongs here. In debility Mercury's arithmetic is unreliable, so the closing of accounts wants a second pair of eyes.

From the Moon and the lagna, Aquarius, Sagittarius, Libra, Leo, Gemini and Taurus hold Mercury in the favourable houses Phaladeepika names. Pisces, Capricorn, Scorpio, Virgo, Cancer and Aries have the harder count, and for them the week is for finishing.

The transit shows how a person ends things, and whether a finished account can be left closed.

For remedy, feed a traveller or an animal, since both belong to Pushan. Recite Om Budhaya Namah, worship Vishnu, and give green cloth or moong on Wednesday. Finish one thing left open before Mercury enters Aries.