CHITRA

Zodiac Range 23° 20’ Virgo--6° 40’ Libra

Ruling Planet Mars
Deity Lord Vishwakarma
Symbol Pearl or Bright Jewel
Gana Rakshasa (Demon)
Quality Mridu (Soft)
Caste Farmer/Servant
Animal Female Tiger
Bird Heron
Tree Bilva, Golden Apple
Sounds Pay, Poe, Raa, Ree
Yoga Tara 30° Virgo
Padas Leo- pada 1, Virgo- pada 2, Libra- pada 3,
Scorpio- pada 4
Vargottama Pada 2 and 3

The yoni animal of Chitra is the female tiger. If you study

female tiger you would know lot of attributes about Chitra
nakshatra. The first thing we learn about this beautiful
female tiger is that she hunts around 3:30—4:00 am in the
morning, when it is completely quiet yet certain animals
are starting to wake up. A Chitra native will always wake
up during this time or at least become aware that they were
asleep and now they are up, not necessary do something
specific but some people may love having midnight snack
due to this quality. Tiger also hunt at night due to their
retinal adaptation to darkness, they can see extremely
clearly in the dark, so a tiger, whether male or female can
see quite well in the dark. Chitra natives can easily adapt
to darkness much quicker and faster than others especially
when Sun or Moon are in this nakshatra because these are
the luminaries. A tiger is an extremely careful animal and
is so quiet when hunting that you wouldn’t know what hit
you. She would suddenly launch at you with an attack.
Chitra natives are also very quiet but when they are pushed
constantly they will suddenly lunge and attack you, and
they don’t just attack to show, they will attack to cause
some harm so you know next time not to provoke them. A
tiger has bangle patches all around their body, which is to
discourage predators, and to show that they are present,
and not to be messed with.

A female tiger has to eat 50% more than her normal

appetite to sustain the life inside her. I have asked many
Chitra female about this and they all agreed that during
their pregnancy they ate far more than other women. No
matter how much they ate they weren’t full. Just like
mama bear, a mother tigress will put all her attention into
attending their cubs because they can fall prey to other
animals. You should observe a Chitra female with a
newborn, they will be far more protective and aggressive
with people wanting to hold and play with their babies.
They become extra paranoid with things in the house that
can hurt their child.

Tvastar/Vishwakarma is the celestial architect, who

designed the entire universe. He is invoked for desiring
offspring. Tvastar created the illusion, Maya, which
sustains this world. He also created divine weapons for
devas, such as Vajra for Indra, chalice for Soma,
Sudarshan chakra for Vishnu, trishul for Shiva, and
different lokas as well. He is the father of Viswarupa or
Trishira (the 3 headed Asura), who was killed by Indra,
and in vengeance Tvastar created Vritra the great dragon.
Tvastr was also the father of Sanjana, who is the wife of
Surya, and mother of Yama and Yami (the first mortals).

The animal of this nakshatra is tiger. The Tiger riding

goddess Durga is the one who is supposed to have defeated
the demon Mahishasur. Swami Ayyappa, who was born
from Mohini avatar of Vishnu & Lord Shiva, was found in
Pamba forest, and adopted by the king Raja Rajashekhara
but his wife didn’t want Manikandan (Ayyappa) to inherit
the throne, and asked him to get tigress milk. Lord
Manikandan went into the forest and returned riding a
tigress followed by a pack of her cubs. He eventually
became the main deity of the Sabarimala temple.

The word Chitra means a picture, whether it’s a drawn

picture or taken from a camera. One of the first thing we
learn from the mythology is that Chitra natives are
excellent architects, not just who build buildings, but are
excellent at constructing a blueprint of any plan or project.
They are very good at synthesizing a complicated problem
into a simple yet beautiful solution. Tavstar created Maya,
the illusion hence; Chitra natives can be excellent
illusionists or magicians.

Being an architect means you are great at observing

monuments and what’s needed for construction. Chitra
natives always have to deal with some kind of a weapon
in their life like gun, knife or some kind of a tool that helps
them winning some war. They will construct some weapon
for a higher authority as well; for example, I know a Chitra
native who built a unique security system for his company
because they were constantly being attacked by hackers
and spams. After lot of searching the boss found this
individual to help their IT department to deal with the
hacking issue. In a way this individual built this security
system as a defense weapon.

Chitra natives will also have lots of issues with their

bosses and authorities as Tavstar had a rough relation with
Indra. Chitra is also connected with Chitragupta (celestial
accountant), the one who keeps accounts and records of all
the souls. Chitra natives love keeping accounts of books
like an accountant or they tend not to forget what
happened to them or what you did to them, and keep a
strict account of everything so each event can have its
proper payback time. The ability to keep books or
accounts can also translate into having a photographic
memory, where you never forget the right and the wrong.
Individuals with ascendant lord, Mercury, Jupiter, or
Moon in this nakshatra may have a photographic memory.

Chitra natives have a strong theme with stepmother. Recall

the story of the queen of Raja Rajashekhara, who never
wanted someone else’s child to take on the kingdom and
try to secretly kill by giving him a task she knew he would
fail and would die. However, the boy defying all the odds
not only bought the milk but also rode on the tigress,
which provided the milk. This shows never challenge a
Chitra individual as they will always win and win big, but
can be cheated by their mother/stepmother for benefits of
their siblings.

Chitra people also love sculpting their body so they can

become photogenic when this nakshatra is either placed in
the ascendant or with Mars. Sculpting body doesn’t mean
bodybuilding, it can also convert into yoga so body can be
aligned and sculptured to become a chariot for the mind in
proper direction. Mars is the ruler of this nakshatra and is
about competitive spirit, athletic, competition and fighting
a good fight. Mars also rules the 8th house from Virgo,
where Chitra starts, and this has been observed multiple
times that Chitra native in Virgo would love doing magic,
rituals and diving into occult without fear. On the Libra
side Chitra natives would love to sculpt their body to
impress others, extremely stylish in their clothing, hair and
wardrobe. Sometimes you may not find it in people who
are yogis or spiritualist but in normal people you will.
From Virgo ascendant Mars also rules the 3rd house of
sports, games and media and such people have flair for not
only sports but also mental games like board games, chess,
and other brain games.

The symbolism of this nakshatra is shining gems. Many

times, you will find Chitra native having love for gem,
gemology or involved in jewelry business but the
symbolism means more than just the literal gem. It shows
that Chitra native want to shine like a gem in their life and
they usually do. People see them as rarity in their field
because it is so hard to find someone like them; just like a
gem and how it’s formed by enormous pressure for million
years.

Observe this chart, who is this person, what are they all
about?
Is this person a body builder? Do they love sculpting their
body? Are they architect, accountant, movie star or a
photographer?

If you have taken a full course in my online academy

‘Magha Vedic Astrology Acadmey’ you would know how
to understand a person’s life path by using the technique
of dharma and artha. This is a chart of one of the most
prominent Vedic astrologer K.N. Rao. He was an IAAS
(India Aduit and Account Service) officer in India, where
he retired as a senior deputy director of accounting
department.

Everyone including myself try to be as good as him, to

match his ability to predict, but we can only try. He is that
rare gem that just can’t be duplicated and found easily.
However, in books he mentioned his interest in sports and
through his mother he learned hidden secrets of astrology
and occult. Note the graha Moon, which represents
mother, is in Chitra. His Atmkaraka Sun is in Chitra
nakshatra in the 12th house, which means if you make Sun
the ascendant the 8th from it is where Sun is exalted,
meaning Sun finds its power when dealing with hidden
knowledge and especially “Audits” which is the 8th house.

Quality

Chitra is a Mridu nakshatra, which means its good for

activities like search, research, sexual activities, pleasure,
date night, attainment of pleasurable things or anything
that gives you pleasure like gems, new clothing, buying a
camera, lights, and contacting an architect for your dream
home construction.

Caste

The caste of this nakshatra is the farmer and a servant.

Farmer is person who is able to produce food and feed us.
They are the original IT tech, engineers, civil engineers,
and A.I. programmers. They are the ones who are able to
grow, and are investors and inventors. Back in the days a
farmer had to build own tools and gadgets to bring out the
best harvest of the season. They are also servant because
they serve society with their work. It’s not an old mentality
of being a servant and taking orders, this is just a single
word. I am sure the Sanskrit meaning has at least 500
words for this single word. If you look at Tesla, Einstein,
John Nash, Mahatama Gandhi to Steve Jobs, they are not
servants, they are simply the ones who gave society and
world their life to make our lives better.

Sound

Pay- pada 1, Poe- pada 2, Raa- pada 3, Ree- pada 4,

sound has an extremely important role to play with
nakshatra. Everything we do, say, buy, wear, drive has a
name attach to it known as brand. One must look at their
chart with accurate time of birth and see where the
nakshatra of Chitra is in their chart, which means where
is the sign of Virgo/Libra. If someone is a Capricorn
ascendant then 9th house would be Virgo and 10th house
would be Libra; when using such brands or name that
starts with such sounds would be beneficial for travel,
higher education, increasing luck, meeting gurus,
marriage, children, career, status, fame, and favors from
government.

Remedies

Chitra individuals should always keep a gifted gem with

them. Whenever they wear authentic real gems it gives
more innovative ideas and their creativity flourishes. This
has nothing to do with gemstone remedy in Jyotish. This
is only about gems and could be any gem.

Vision Board is one of their best friends in life. They

must create a vision board in their home or office and
will slowly experience and it will start manifesting, but
do keep it in the West direction of the home or office.

Gifting your Chitra wife a pearl necklace would not only

benefit her but will benefit you in return. If Chitra falls in
the 9th house then gifting a diamond bracelet to your
spouse will increase your luck.

Observations

On January 16th, 2020 I opened my Youtube page and

came across a video called “Building a telescope rig to
photograph galaxies.” I have not even been looking for
telescopes but suddenly a video on “photography and
pictures” showed up. Next to the video was also bunch of
“Tiny House”, a video of people who live in a creative
small space, sometimes made of a shipping container.

On January 17th, 2020 during 4th pada of Chitra I finally

sold my property as Chitra being the architect of land. In
Navamsa Moon was in Jyeshtha with Mars, and you will
learn about Jyeshtha later in the book and how it is
connected with land and property.

On January 17th, 2020 I watched one of my favorite

documentaries called Cielo, which is a spiritual and a
scientific look at the Universe because Tvastar is the
ultimate architect of the Unvierse. I watched this during
evening when Moon was transiting the next nakshatra -
Swati, which is also connected with space and aerospace.
On February 13th, 2020 I suddenly got a video suggestion
from Youtube called “My girlfriend’s cheating on me” by
Logan Paul. The video I believe may have been a click
bates or something because I only watched the video for 1
minute and 4 seconds, which was all I need to see how
today’s nakshatra was playing out. In the beginning of the
video they are mining gems, and they found a 100,000$
gem in the ground along with others. Suddenly the movie
shows a picture of two men with a tiger in water at 1
minute and 4 seconds, and I started laughing and quickly
jumped on to my book and started writing this observation.

On March 11th, 2020 Moon was around 1 degree of Chitra

when I watched this documentary on Netflix called
“Abstract”, which is about creative designers and artists
around the world, but what’s interesting is that I didn’t
watch any new episode, I watch the episode with Tinker
Hartfield who designed Jordan shoes. I looked at my
phone that day and noticed Moon was in Chitra but it took
me about 2 minutes to realize that Moon is not just in
Chitra but at the yogatara of Swati too, which is around 0
degrees of Libra (in Chitra) and Swati represents shoes.

On July 26th, 2020, I suddenly got the urge to buy an

antique 35mm cinema camera as a decorative piece for my
studio. I became curious as to why I was suddenly in an
urgency to buy and yes, Moon is in Chitra nakshatra at 28
degrees, very near to the yogatara of this nakshatra.
On October 30th, 2020 when Moon was transiting Ashwini
my friend suddenly had to rush hospital for appendicitis
pain leading to a surgery while our dog, Tipsy, got her
tooth extract as it was bleeding. Further, while having
sushi at dinner, the sushi chef gave a dish to the person
next to me at the sushi bar and said “Here is the tiger,”
because it was a Tiger roll. Moon was at 4 degrees of
Ashwini and directly opposite is Chitra.