#adity

[rainbowxocs]

"I say only the truth." - "Ozymandias"

Yeah- but you sound like him.

So maybe tone it down just a little?

[fat-models]

Nicolas Aditi at Louis Gabriel Nouch Fall 25

[dasiesanddarkness]

i NEED to talk about the fact that Aditi canonically taught Jesper how to shoot (Crooked Kingdom page 257: “And she taught him how to shoot. First with a child’s pellet gun that was little more than a toy, then with pistols and rifle.”)

but Aditi died when Jesper was SEVEN. and he was presumably already pretty damn good if he was advancing from toys to real guns and learning how to use different types. which means that Aditi Hili looked her FIVE YEAR OLD SON dead in the eye and thought ��yeah i should hand this hyperactive child a gun and teach him how to shoot it” that is fucking insane

[ohmybollywood]

Aditi Rao Hydari in Heeramandi (Netflix, 2024)

[sarahth2]

Damn

Aaravos really does not like sunfire elf royalty throughout his lifetime.

[tategaminu]

How beautiful is the way he hugs her closer after kissing, deepening the hug with every inch of his existence, not letting her go as if there's not enough of her to hold 🥺

[sarasade]

Aditi probably knew from the start there was something up with the shadiest guy ever

[sidrashakti]

Gemini Punarvasu: Mother Business or The Personal Brand 

My slogan for Punarvasu nakshatra is Big Business, Big Families because this is a nakshatra of (often extreme) abundance and expansiveness because of its ruling deity Aditi. She is the personification of the sprawling infinite and vast cosmos. She is the goddess of motherhood, consciousness, unconsciousness, the past, the future, and fertility. 

I have found that Gemini Punarvasu natives tend to dominate in their respective fields often not through the strict achievements or metrics (Capricorn) but through more personal (Cancer) means. They embody the concept of the Personal Brand. 

Identifiers: 

1) Tend to connect with their audiences personally rather than through extreme skill 

2) Tend to have mostly female fanbases

3) Can take on the role of Mother by nurturing or comforting or becoming omnipresent in the cultural landscape

4) Use setbacks to their advantage (ie: Reputation by Taylor Swift) 

5) Hypercreative, constantly churning out content, usually praised for their work ethic

6) Innovate through intuition, they’ve almost always innovated in some way 

7) Big family or strong connection to family in some way 

The success of these natives may bother people who believe in systems of strict qualifications: 

Amy Coney Barrett is a Gem Punarvasu Moon and caused widespread outcry when she was nominated to the Supreme Court by Donald Trump based on her beliefs, making her the only current Justice who had not attended Harvard or Yale. She has seven children and known for pushing right-wing “family values.”

Kris Jenner, a Punarvasu Moon AK in 10th House (which means she embodies this placement and does so extremely publicly for work), has launched her big family into limelight despite the frequent criticism that they don’t have any actual talents. Kris literally coined the term “momager” and created a billion dollar empire by creating a new mode of celebrity that was the opposite of the previous impersonal, distanced celeb. Like a mother, the Kardashians are omnipresent, transparent or emotionally available to their audiences, and intuit the desires of their fanbases. Kris specifically is known for her deep connections with everyone in Hollywood that are not always public and being a “secret-keeper” or always in the know, a deeply maternal role. 

Kim Kardashian has Gem Punarvasu Mercury and Jupiter tightly conjunct at the same degree in her D10 house of the career and public and is the first person to become famous for being famous. Mercury here rules technology such as social media, which is Kim’s platform. 

Ironically, perhaps the biggest personal brand ever is Taylor Swift, who has Punarvasu Moon in her D3 at the same degree as Kris Jenner’s, which is so interesting given her decade long feud with the family. Taylor has faced the same criticism as the Kardashians: reaching extreme fame not based on her vocal or performance talent but based on her connections and relatability in her music (in comparison to celebrities like Beyonce). Her music “raised” generations and is omnipresent well into her career. Punarvasu is the star of renewal and these figures often come back stronger from trials and tribulations. Taylor became the biggest popstar in the world after a period where she thought her career was over and the public hated her. Her family also extremely involved in her career.

These natives rely on their intuitions to innovate rather than hard science or rules. Steve Jobs had Jupiter in Gem Punarvasu (and Uranus in the Cancer portion) and was known for frequently stating that he valued intuition over logic and data, believing it to be a powerful tool for innovation. He often said that his intuition was a "whisper of the soul" that guided him, despite the reputation given to him by media of being a technician. Jobs's approach to product development often involved trusting his gut feeling about what customers would want, rather than relying on focus groups or market research. The Iphone became omnipresent in the West, owned by most people. He was a father of four children.

These natives are often hypercreative and workaholics, constantly producing and creating due to to abundant nature of Aditi. As a result they often have long and unique careers, becoming known for multiple things depending on other placements in their charts.

Sexuality

Sarah Weddington

This placement is particularly interesting on the Rahu/Ketu axis because it embodies the struggle for the liberation of the feminine on a public stage and these natives are very glamorous. Marilyn Monroe, perhaps the most famous woman ever, had this placement and her life embodied the struggles of the dark feminine publicly. Sarah Weddington was the lawyer who litigated and won the Roe v. Wade case as a fresh law school graduate after struggling to find employment because of a preference for male lawyers. This case gave generations of women the freedom of choice.

Working list of natives: 

ASC 

Sade Adu 

Caroline Herrera

Moon

Kris Jenner (Punarvasu Moon AK in 10th House

Taylor Swift (Moon D3) 

Amy Coney Barrett 

Mercury

Lana Del Rey (Mercury in Punarvasu in her natal chart & Lilith in Punarvasu in D10) 

Jupiter 

Steve Jobs (Jupiter in Gem Punarvasu (and Uranus in the Cancer portion) 

Mars 

Jalen Hurts

Ketu

Dita Von Teese 

Hasan Piker (Ketu in 6H) 

Rahu

Marilyn Monroe 

Sarah Weddington

[deluls]

We shall offer ourselves to the holy fire and perform Jauhar! Those who lust for our body, would not even get their hands on our shadows! Our bodies will be reduced to ashes, but our pride and honour will remain immortal.

Padmaavat (2018) dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali

[raayllum]

You're just like your grandmother.

The Queen's Mercy / the Day of the Great Amnesty (7x03)

[disdadandon]

[fat-models]

Nicolas Aditi at Louis Gabriel Nouch SS 25

[dasiesanddarkness]

i think that Colm gave Wylan and Jesper a cutting from the cherry blossom tree to plant in their garden as a wedding gift

[ohmybollywood]

Aditi Rao Hydari in Heeramandi (Netflix, 2024)

[lunarthecorvus]

[credits to @bucumber for the drawing of Aditi]

[invenusworld]

punarvasu

punarvasu (पुनर्वासु) means 'return to the light.' the shakti or divine power of this nakshatra is "vasutva prapana shakti" meaning the ability to gain wealth or substance. the presiding deity of punarvasu is aditi; the sanskrit word aditi (अदिति) means "boundless," "limitless," "freedom," or "innocence"

punarvasu is of the deva (godly) clan and belongs to the the merchant caste; its primary motivation is artha — the pursuit of wealth, material well-being and prosperity; artha (अर्थ) in sanskrit means meaning or purpose

the vimshottari lord is jupiter, brihaspati - guru of the gods; the realm of ether - the realms beyond space

for further insights into the cosmic function of punarvasu and aditi i will be quoting an excerpt from 'DIVINE HORSEMEN: THE LIVING GODS OF HAITI' — MAYA DEREN

here, I liken the haitian goddess erzulie to the vedic aditi as they represent the same archetype and symbolism

"Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter."

— maya deren, punarvasu ketu (below)

Erzulie: Goddess — The Tragic Mistress

Voudoun has given woman, in the figure of Erzulie, exclusive title to that which distinguishes humans from all other forms: their capacity to conceive beyond reality, to desire beyond adequacy, to create beyond need. In Erzulie, Voudoun salutes woman as Divinity of the dream, the Goddess of Love, the Muse of Beauty.

It has denied her emphasis as mother of life and of men in order to regard her (like Mary, with whom Erzulie is identified) as mother of man's myth of life — its meaning. In a sense, she is that very principle by which man conceives and creates divinity.

Thus, to man himself, she is as mistress.

Erzulie moves in an atmosphere of infinite luxury, a perfume of refinement, which, from the first moment of her arrival, pervades the very air of the peristyle, and becomes a general expansiveness in which all anxieties, all urgencies vanish.

The tempo of movements becomes more leisurely, tensions dissolve and the voices soften, losing whatever aggressive or strident tones they may have had. One has the impression that a fresh, cooling breeze has sprung up somewhere and that the heat has become less intense, less oppressive.

She is provided with a fresh white or rose silk handkerchief which she arranges carefully around her hair.

Perfume is imperative, and there may be powder as well. A white or rose dress of delicate cloth, with lace or embroidery, has been keps in readiness for her. And, finally, she is brought not one necklace, but several, of gold and pearls, along with earrings and bracelets and her three wedding bands.

The careful, unhurried accumulation of costume is an act which, step by step, rejects the primitive, the "natural condition", and, step by careful step, instructs the fortunate attendants in the idea of beauty, the sense of form, and, above all, the cumulative painstaking process by which a work of man — be it art or myth — is created.

The Goddess examines each article minutely; where alternative choice exists, her considered selection, her indecision are very pointed; each effect is critically scrutinized, often rejected and rearranged. The very process of this creative transformation becomes so significant that whether it is a large audience or a small family who await her, or how long they may have to wait, ceases to be of any consequence.

What is of consequence is the act itself, and the demonstration of the fact that such an act can transfigure the female into the feminine.

Her voice is a delicate soprano; her every gesture, movement of eyes, and smile, is a masterpiece of beguiling coquetry; with her, human relationship becomes itself significant rather than merely a means to an end.

She may visit her altar chamber and be pleased that the flowers are fresh, for flowers are her passion.

kalu uchis, punarvasu ☉

She may ask for a favorite song, for she loves to dance and is the most graceful of all loa; or she may simply give audience to her admirers, and by her postures and attitudes transform the crude chair in which she sits into a throne.

Above all, she favors desserts, decorated cakes and confections of all kinds. Or, if she has arrived on an impromptu visit, she may be content with a sip of the crême de menthe or the champagne which, theoretically, should always be ready for her appearance.

As Lady of Luxury, she gives gifts constantly;

her own perfume, the handkerchief she wears, the food and money which she distributes generously.

She particularly rewards those who are handsome, or who dance well, or whose personality pleases her. She never neglects one who is devoted to her.

an altar to maîtresse erzulie, mistress erzulie, metres ezili freda

As Lady of Luxury she is, above all, Goddess of Love, that human luxury of the heart which is not essential to the purely physical generation of the body. She is as lavish with that love as she is generous with her gifts. She treats men with such demonstrative affection that it might seem, at times, embarrassing. She will embrace them, and kiss them, caress them, sit with an arm around those to both sides of her.

Nothing is meted out or budgeted, there is more than enough; this is her way of loving, this is the divine fecundity of the heart. A heart is, indeed, her symbol, most often the pierced heart identified with Mary.

She, who is the wealthiest of the loa, the most frequently gifted with luxurious accoutrement, suffers for not being "served" enough.

She, who is the most complimented, most beloved, most often wedded in the sacred marriage of devotee and divinity — she who is Goddess of Love — protests that she is not loved enough.

Inevitably then – she begins to weep. Tenderly they would comfort her, bringing forward still another cake, another jewel, pledging still another promise. But it would seem that nothing in this world would ever, could ever, answer those tears. It is because of these tears that the women, who might otherwise resent her, are so gentle. In their real, reasonable world there is no grief like this.

this weeping is so inaccessible to reason that one thinks, inevitably, of a child's innocence of reason. It is this sense of innocence which emanates from her that makes her identification with the Virgin Mary somehow seem truer than her promiscuity, than even the fact that the devotion of prostitutes makes of her almost their patron saint.

She is the divinity of the dream, and it is in the very nature of dream to begin where reality ends and to spin it and to send it forward in space, as the spider spins and sends forward its own thread.

The labor of Erzulie is as endless as the capacity of man to dream and, in the very act of accomplishing that dream, to have already dreamed again. It is upon this diminutive feminine figure that man has placed the burden of the most divine paradox — He has conceived her without satisfactions, without balance, to insure an overwhelming balance against his own satisfactions. This is the meaning of the merciless muse, the most unhappy Medusa.

Erzulie is the loa of the impossible perfection which must remain unattainable. Man demands that she demand of him beyond his capacity. The condition of her divinity is his failure; he crowns her with his own betrayals. Hence she must weep; it could not be otherwise.

The wound of Erzulie is perpetual: she is the dream impaled eternally upon the cosmic cross/roads where the world of men and the world of divinity meet, and it is through her pierced heart that "man ascends and the gods descend.

jacob's ladder, william blake, punarvasu ☽

the following are some lyrics from songs by lana del rey (mercury in punarvasu) with many of this nakshatra's themes of wealth, excess, luxury, beautification, devotion, heart break, dreams, fantasy, etc

'video games'

I say, "You the bestest" / Lean in for a big kiss / Put his favourite perfume on

It's you, it's you, it's all for you / Everything I do / I tell you all the time / Heaven is a place on earth with you

They say that the world was built for two / Only worth living if somebody is loving you

'honeymoon'

There are violets in your eyes / There are guns that blaze around you / There are roses in between my thighs / And fire that surrounds you

It's no wonder every man in town / Had neither fought nor found you / Everything you do is elusive / To even your honey dew

our honeymoon / Dreaming away your life

'national anthem'

Winin' and dinin', drinkin' and drivin' / Excessive buyin', overdose and dyin' / On our drugs, and our love, and our dreams, and our rage / Blurrin' the lines between real and the fake / Dark and lonely, I need somebody to hold me / He will do very well, I can tell, I can tell / Keep me safe in his bell tower hotel

Money is the anthem of success / So put on mascara and your party dress

I'm your national anthem, boy, put your hands up / Give me a standin' ovation / Boy, you have landed, babe, in the land of / sweetness and danger, Queen of Saigon