Saturn Transit in Pushya

Pushya is Saturn's own nakshatra, and the graha is at home here even in Cancer, the sign of its enemy the Moon. Its deity is Brihaspati, priest of the gods, and its symbols are a cow's udder and a lotus. Muhurta Chintamani allows nearly every undertaking in Pushya, marriage excepted.

Pushya nourishes. Sustenance, care, the duties of a householder, the priest's steadiness and the milk that feeds the young are its themes, and Saturn gives nourishment structure: the family is provided for by patient work, elders are looked after, and a vow taken now holds for years.

The crossing takes about a year, usually in two or three visits split by the retrograde. Within the two and a half years in Cancer, this middle third is the part that goes well. The chest and digestion trouble that Cancer brings is quieter here.

From the Moon, Leo, Cancer and Gemini Moon signs are in Sade Sati, with Cancer in the middle phase. Pushya is the gentlest stretch of it. Aries Moons have Saturn in the fourth and Sagittarius Moons in the eighth. Taurus, Aquarius and Virgo Moons and lagnas receive Saturn in the third, sixth and eleventh, the houses Phaladeepika names as favourable.

The transit shows a person's capacity to provide without resentment. In its own nakshatra Saturn brings out the householder in a person, and whether duty is carried as weight or as offering.

Feeding others is the remedy. Cook for the old and the poor, give milk on Monday and sesame on Saturday, and keep a sesame oil lamp on Saturday evening. Recite Om Sham Shanaishcharaya Namah, honour Brihaspati by studying a text, and let Hanuman on Saturday keep the practice regular.