The Sun will enter the sidereal sign of Scorpio on the November 16th and will remain there until December 15th. The Aditya for the solar month is Parjanya from the root word “pṛc” (पृच्) which means to satiate, fill or nourish. From the Samba Purana that Parjanya rides clouds and is responsible for rains and purifies it. With the help of Parjanya one can cause a breakthrough or transformation as Scorpio is the ruler of the natural eighth house. He also plays an important part in the sustenance of the life cycle as enumerated in 3.14 verse in the Bhagavad Gita.
अन्नाद्भवन्ति भूतानि पर्जन्यादन्नसम्भव:| यज्ञाद्भवति पर्जन्यो यज्ञ: कर्मसमुद्भव: ||
From food, comes forth beings; from Parjanya – the Aditya of rain, food is produced. The Rain comes from our offerings and these offerings are made possible by doing our prescribed duties.
Another reference of Parjanya is from the Vishnu Purana where the process of cloud, rain and purification is beautifully explained. “The water that is absorbed from the world by the scorching rays of the Sun nourishes the Moon who holds the water, and the wind breaks them down, then the watery stores descend, bland, and freed from every impurity by the sweetening process of time. That rain which falls whilst the sun is shining and without a cloud in the sky in the even asterisms only, is the heavenly waters of Ganga, shed by the solar rays.” A similar meaning is conveyed in Rig Veda 5.83 (4th verse) to describe the work of Parjanya.
प्रवाता वान्ति पतयन्ति विद्युत उदोषधीर्जिहते पिन्वते स्वः। इरा विश्वस्मै भुवनाय जायते यत्पर्जन्यः पृथिवीं रेतसावति ॥
The winds blow forth; the lightning bolts fly. The plants shoot up; the sun swells.
Refreshment arises for all creation, when Parjanya aids the earth with his semen
The importance of collective responsibility and the power of transformation by changing the collective consciousness is being highlighted in all the above verses. The Sun, Moon, the Wind and the River have their own tasks in the process of creating rain. When we get together and work for a greater common cause, we invoke the yajñā spirit, our efforts are lifted higher like the evaporating water, and we get results like the droplets of water received by the earth. The quality of result is always dependant on the offering made, the one that is made with yajñā spirit is the highest – an offering that has flavour of congruence – material, emotional and spiritual. One example of this yajñā spirit is the work that is being done on climate change.
The Sun is with Ketu in Scorpio for the entire month (aspected by Saturn from Capricorn) and Mercury will join this conjunction from the 21st November to 10th December. It may be time to lay to rest our individual ego (read BJ will have to eat humble pie). The most positive transit this month will that of Jupiter into Aquarius ending decisively the Saturn- Jupiter conjunction of the past years, but not before giving the antidote to the evils caused in the past years. Earlier this month, there was an announcement of a pill for COVID that came from Jupiter last tango with Saturn in Capricorn. The air signs of Libra and Gemini will receive the benevolent grace of Jupiter. Onward and upward from here, but better to wait until April for Jupiter’s transit into Pisces. We have to first deal with eclipses and a kala sarpa yoga in the sky.
Mars gets out combustion from the 29th of November, but we should feel relief right from now as it is technically out of the orb of influence of its conjunction with Sun. Mars moves into Scorpio on the 5th December, releasing Libra Ascendants from a Yama Yoga but now allowing a formation of a Kala Sarpa yoga (all the planets hemmed between the nodes) in the sky until Mercury breaks it in April next year (read normalcy of business). Venus remains in Sagittarius till December 9th when it moves to Capricorn to join Saturn.
We have a lunar eclipse preceding the solar eclipse on Friday 19th November 6.02BST in Kritikka (2st pada) in Taurus which is the natural exaltation point of the Moon, the mind. I have been taught that Lunar eclipses are not scary and one can pray to Lord Narsimha an avatara of Vishnu for fulfilment of our hopes and desires on that day.
The total solar eclipse on December 4th is very short and falls in Jyeshta Nakshatra (1st pada) in Scorpio for the second time within a year and therefore it will be a time to revisit issues and events around December 2020. For more details and analysis on eclipse read https://vijayajyoti.com/eye-on-the-sky-solar-eclipses-of…/. It is advised to propitiate Sri Dakshinamurthy, the teaching form of Shiva on Solar eclipses who clears all shadows.
On a positive note, we celebrate the Kartikai Deepam festival in the south of India on Kartik Pournima (Full Moon) on November 19th to honour of Lord Shiva who appeared as a column of fire and some honour his son Kartikeya on that day.
Lastly, don’t miss the SJC online Conference on “Sarira – The Astrological Body” to be held 9-17 December 2021 by an excellent coterie of speakers. For registration and schedule, please access the link http://conf.srijagannath.org.
The conference is very affordable – the entire online conference including recordings is Rs.2,500 or USD 34.
Let us seek the blessings of Parjanya Aditya to enable us to improve our collective consciousness to make a better world.
ॐ घॄणिः पर्जन्यादित्याय
om ghṝṇiḥ parjanyādityāya