Moon / Chandra
Moon is the presiding deity of the element water, and rules over the tides of the sea.
The sphere of the Moon is the reservoir of rainwater and thus Moon is the ruler of
plants and the vegetable kingdom.
The color of Moon is white. Its nature is wise, and learned. It rules peace of mind,
comfort, general well-being, and also the fortune of a person. It shows its influence
around twenty-four to twenty-five years of age. The Moon gives illumination, intuitive
nature, sensuality, taste, youth, love of poetry, fine arts and music, love of jewelry,
attractive appearance, wealth and good fortune. It makes us moody, emotional, and
sensitive. It rules milk, grains, liquids, growth, fertility, impregnation, and conception.
It influences the infant stage of an individual, which guides his behavior in the later
in the later part of his life. It is cold and moist. It also influence childbirth and rules
the left nostril, eyesight, the breasts, and the brain (memory). Moon influences
travelers, human, fisherman, prostitutes, cooks, nurses, and caterers.
Sun, Mars, and Jupiter and the Moon’s natural friends, and Mercury, Venus, and
Saturn are its natural enemies. In Rohini, Hast, Shravan, Punarvasu, Vishakha, and
Purva Bhadrapad nakshatras it gives good and beneficial effect. It also gives
favorable effects if it is in Kritika, Uttra Phalguni, Ashlekha, Jyestha, Uttra Khad, and
Revati nakshatras.
For persons whose Moon is not rightly placed in their natal chart or is ill-aspected,
success becomes difficult, sometimes it even becomes difficult to achieve a
comfortable life on earth. It makes such people weak or sick in their early years.
An afflicted, debilitated, exiled, or weak Moon causes cold, cough, fever, eye
ailments, lunacy, paralysis, epilepsy, hysteria, colic pains, beriberi, intestinal
disorders, throat troubles, bronchitis, dysentery, neurosis, typhoid, and cancer.
Our Opinion
Moon's cool and pleasant rays are significantly influential on medicinal plants and
herbs on earth. It is worshipped and praised as 'Oshadhi Raja' or 'King of Herbs'- It's
worship wards of chronic diseases and leads to health and success, controls
longevity with sound health.