Mercury Transit in Rohini

Rohini lies wholly in Taurus, with Brahma, Prajapati, as its deity and a cart as its symbol. The Moon is its lord, and here the relationship is uneven: the Moon counts Mercury a friend and Mercury counts the Moon an enemy, as Parashara's table of natural friendship gives it. Venus, the lord of Taurus, is Mercury's friend. The sign softens what the nakshatra lord withholds.

The usual stay is about a week, and when a retrograde loop falls on Rohini the stay can approach two months, among the longest Mercury spends in any nakshatra. Trade, accounts, produce, land and everything that grows come under Mercury's attention. Writing about beauty, food, money and family does well.

The unease sits in the mind. The Moon's nakshatra asks for feeling and Mercury answers with reasoning, and the two do not always meet, so a person may explain a feeling away or count what should be felt. Muhurta Chintamani lists Rohini among the dhruva nakshatras, fixed. What is started here tends to last, for good or ill.

Aries, Aquarius, Sagittarius, Libra, Leo and Cancer Moons and lagnas have Mercury in Phaladeepika's favourable houses, the second, fourth, sixth, eighth, tenth and eleventh. Taurus, Pisces, Capricorn, Scorpio, Virgo and Gemini Moons should watch their words with family and their signatures on property.

The transit measures the distance between what a person feels and what they say.

For remedy, let feeling speak first and reasoning follow. Worship Vishnu, recite Om Budhaya Namah, and give green cloth or moong on Wednesday. Milk or white flowers offered for the Moon, and a kind word to one's mother, settle the nakshatra lord.