Pushya

Pushya, meaning 'a Flower' or 'Nourishment,' corresponds to delta Cancri (Asellus Australis) and is presided over by Brihaspati, teacher of the gods, ruled by Saturn. Despite Saturn's rulership, Pushya is considered one of the most auspicious nakshatras in the Vedic system.

The flower symbolism speaks to Pushya's nurturing, blooming quality. Brihaspati's presidency brings wisdom, learning, and spiritual teaching. The combination of Saturn's discipline with Jupiter's (Brihaspati's) wisdom creates a nakshatra of structured growth and measured prosperity.

Pushya is widely regarded as the single most favorable nakshatra for beginning ventures, particularly those involving commerce, learning, and spiritual practice. The apparent paradox of a Saturn-ruled nakshatra being so auspicious resolves when we understand that Saturn provides the structure within which Brihaspati's wisdom can flourish.

When the Moon passes through Pushya, it is an excellent time for sales, art, sculpture, learning, marital love, wearing ornaments, medicine, and purchasing carriages. The breadth of favorable activities rivals any mansion in any tradition.

A light asterism favourable for sales, art, sculpture, learning, marital love, wearing of ornaments, medicine and purchase of carriages when containing the Moon.

Those born on the lunar day will deal in barley, cereals, crops, will be ministers or rulers and will live by water.

With Moon here at birth, native will be popular, self-controlled, learned, wealthy, and charitable.