Sun Transit in Uttara Bhadrapada

Ahirbudhnya, the serpent of the deep, presides over Uttara Bhadrapada in Pisces, the back legs of the funeral cot, and Saturn rules it. Saturn is the Sun's enemy. Jupiter, lord of the sign, is a friend.

Ahirbudhnya is counted among the Rudras in some lists, and this nakshatra is depth held in stillness. The Sun stays about two weeks, and the spring equinox falls in the stay as the Sun crosses the equator northward.

Uttara Bhadrapada is dhruva, and the Sun's significations settle: a long matter with government closes, a father reaches a decision, the heart rate steadies. In some years Ugadi, the lunar new year, falls during the stay. The last month of the solar year is a month of accounts.

Saturn's nakshatra asks patience of the Sun, and Jupiter's sign gives it faith to be patient with. The fortnight favours sadhana, retreat, charity and the quiet finishing of what was begun last year, and most of its progress is private.

Capricorn, Libra, Gemini and Taurus Moons have the Sun in the third, sixth, tenth and eleventh and gain. Pisces Moons carry it in the first, Aries in the twelfth, Leo in the eighth and Sagittarius in the fourth, and Phaladeepika gives fatigue, expense, fear and unrest for those houses. Read the lagna the same way.

This fortnight looks beneath a person's position. Ahirbudhnya lives at the bottom of the waters, and for these two weeks the Sun's light reaches him.

For Ahirbudhnya, meditate in the hour before dawn and give to those who work at night. Afterwards offer water to the rising Sun and recite the Aditya Hridaya. Give wheat or copper on Sunday, and let the year close without a new beginning.