“Constellations”(Nakshatra or Constellations)
What is Nakshatra or Constellation!
In the sky, a group of stars is called a constellation, and generally, they are associated with the lunar path. According to some present vedic or believers of Indian astrologers, “During the Vedic era or the earliest forms of human civilization, when the epics were written, our lineage of sages, while gazing at the sky, experienced various shapes in the stars and associated many of these constellations with the names of mythical heroes or goddesses.” here I too have doubts about all mythical things related to usefulness of ancient texts in present context, for example we have witnessed similar mythological story related belief systems in Ancient Greece. By the way, The term ‘Nakshatra’ comes from the Sanskrit word, where ‘na’ means not, ‘ksharati’ means to move, and ‘sarati’ means to go. Therefore, Nakshatra refers to something stable, not moving. In the context of planets and constellations, there is a significant difference: the planets are dynamic, while the constellations appear fixed in one place. In the Vedic era, the explanation of seasons was based on the changing positions of constellations in the sky, such as the distinctive position in the Sharad season and a different celestial position in the Vasant (spring) season. Over time, even the water vessels benefited from the knowledge of constellations. Navigators knew how to read the constellation patterns effortlessly. From this, one can assume that until the Vedic era and even until the Dwapara Yuga, the emergence of twelve zodiac signs in an advanced or concise form of astrology might not have occurred. In those periods, the Nakshatra system was the high-level available mystical or astrological arrangement. In the Vedic and pre-Vedic eras, the main division of the star circles visible in the sky was seen in 27 segments, which were later integrated into 12 zodiac signs in the future! And now, we have preserved the significance of the brief form of Vedic astrology’s rising and ascendant through the Nakshatra’s emergence.
The constellations or “Nakshatras” established by sages in these mythological names are divided from the celestial “ecliptic” into the dark crescent shape, and they undergo a revolution or orbit in the east to west direction approximately every 27 days and 7 hours and 43 minutes. The path followed by the planets, including Earth, of the solar system while advancing towards their destined course from the ecliptic is called the “ecliptic-al path.” Each month, the groups of stars or constellations visible in the sky appear different; in January, they appear differently than in April. These variations in the positions of the star groups or constellations are primarily due to Earth’s ecliptic speed. Because of the daily motion of approximately one part, the star that rises in a particular direction today will rise again in the same direction with an interval of about four minutes the next day. Due to the differences in the positions of the segments along the ecliptic, when viewed over time, the stars always appear to be moving in the sky. To simplify the calculation, all the Nakshatras, along with their 108 segments, have been integrated into the twelve zodiac signs. Therefore, each zodiac sign receives nine segments, meaning each zodiac sign receives 2 1/4 Nakshatras after calculation. The path of the moon, which appears while orbiting around these Nakshatras, also follows the same path as the Sun’s rotation around the Earth. In this way, the Sun is also seen to revolve around the same Nakshatra mandala. In these 27 Nakshatras, the moon completes the revolution of each Nakshatra in its orbit in approximately one day! Each Nakshatra represents a particular constellation or group of stars. Nakshatra Vritta (sidereal zodiac) is also called the Zodiac, an invisible circle (360 degrees) that is divided into twelve equal parts in the present time, and each 30-degree part is now called a zodiac sign.
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