Revati nakshatra

Revati nakshatra explained.




Revati Nakshatra : Spread from after 16°-40´ up to 30th degree in Mina Rasi. Lord Vrhaspati. Deity Pusa. Pusa is the keeper of Cows of the Gods, causes Cow keeping and animal husbandry, protection and nourishing of dependants, foster-father etc. Pusa means the cherishing of protected people, nourishment, excellence, increase etc., material enjoyment, wealth, prosperity, superfluity, fatness—these are the attributes of Revati. Another attribute is that the native of this star advances by leaps and bounds, that it is to say by fits and starts. Birth Star of Saturn.

REVATHI NAKSHATRA: Revathi is the nakshatra where the moon finishes his journey to embark on the next. It is said to be the opulent nakshtra. Revati bids it goodbye and assures a safe joueney ahead. The same symbolism os also used for people born in this star constellation. They embark from this life to next with ease and comfort. This nakshtra is ruled by Pushan. The Nakshtra grants themprosperity and bids them farewell in the time of their death to reap the karmic rewards in their next life. Revati is governed by Pushan, the nourishing form of the Sun God. It has the power of nourishment symbolized by milk or kshiradyapani shakti. Its basis above is the cows. Its basis below are the calves. These three bring about the nourishment of the entire world.

Revati creates abundance through providing proper nourishment. It helps all people in their efforts. Pushan is the lord of cattle and the lord of the paths. He leads, protects and gathers the herd in their movement, particularly to new pastures. In this way he also protects the soul in its journey to thenext world.

Ideas: Nourishing, feeding, cherishing, rearing, fostering, keeping, supporting.
One who nourishes, one who breeds or rears, keepers of flocks, herdsman, guardian, nourisher, supporter, breeder. To be nourished, fostered, kept, reared, protected, increased, augmented.
Infantile and children’s diseases and death. 
Develop, unfold, display, leap, jump, limping, lame.
Wealthy, opulent, prosperous, interior of anything. 
Time, finality, finish, last.
Portion of the human body – cavity of the abdomen. 
Vedic diety- Pushan
Pushan (Sanskrit: पूषन, Pūṣan) is a Vedic solar deity and one of the Adityas. He is the god of meeting. Pushan was responsible for marriages,journeys, roads, and the feeding of cattle. He was a psychopomp, conducting souls to the other world. He protected travelers from bandits and wild beasts, and protected men from being exploited by other men. He was a supportive guide, a "good" god, leading his adherents towards rich pastures and wealth. He carried a golden lance, a symbol of activity.

His sister, Dawn is the avatar of the Sun, and is often referred to as his lover, so his pulling of the sun can be seen as an ornate courtship ritual, as well. Pushan is depicted as having no teeth, most often explained as the result of a fight with Rudra or Shiva.

TOOTHLESSNESS: Offerings to Pushan are usually gruels of some sort, because he has no teeth. Pushan’s toothlessness is given as two parallel fact accounts. How did he get his tooth knocked out to the extent he feeds on gruels? This gruel is called ‘karambha’. Apparently either one of Vedic Rudraor Puranic Shiva caused this.

An important event in the life of Daksha, and very frequently referred to, is "Daksha's sacrifice," which was violently interrupted and broken up by Siva. The germ of this story is found in the Taittiriya Sanhita, where it is related that the gods, having excluded Rudra from a sacrifice, he pierced the sacrifice with an arrow, and that Pushan, attempting to eat a portion of the oblation, broke his teeth. The story is found both in the Ramayana and Mahabharata.
According to the latter, Daksha was engaged in sacrifice, when Siva in a rage, and shouting loudly, pierced the offering with an arrow. The gods and Asuras were alarmed and the whole universe quaked. The Rishis endeavoured to appease the angry god, but in vain. "He ran up to the gods, and in his rage knocked out the eyes of Bhaga with a blow, and, incensed, assaulted Pushan with his foot and knocked out his teeth as he was eating the offering." The gods and Rishis humbly propitiated him, and where he was appeased "they apportioned to him a distinguished share in the sacrifice, and through fear resorted to him as their refuge."
In another part of the same work the story is again told with considerable variation. Daksha instituted a sacrifice and apportioned no share to Rudra (Siva). Instigated by the sage Dadhichi, the god hurled his blazing trident, which destroyed the sacrifice of Daksha and fell with great violence on the breast of Narayana (Vishnu). It was hurled back with violence to its owner, and a furious battle ensued between the two gods, which was not intermitted till Brahma prevailed upon Rudra to propitiate Narayana. That god was gratified, and said to Rudra, "He who knows thee knows me; he who loves thee loves me."
The story is reproduced in the Puranas with many embellishments. Daksha instituted a sacrifice to Vishnu, and many of the gods repaired to it, but Siva was not invited, because the gods had conspired to deprive him of sacrificial offerings. The wife of Siva, the mountain goddess Uma, perceived what was going on. Uma was a second birth of Sati, daughter of Daksha, who had deprived herself of life in consequence of her father's quarrel with herself and her husband, Siva. Uma urged her husband to display his power and assert his rights. So he created Virabhadra, "a being like the fire of fate," and of most terrific appearance and powers. He also sent with him hundreds and thousands of powerful demigods whom he called into existence. A terrible catastrophe followed; "the mountains tottered the earth shook, the winds roared, and the depths of the sea were disturbed." The sacrifice is broken up, and, in the words of Wilson, "Indra is knocked down and trampled on, Yama has his staff broken, Saraswati and the Matris have their noses cut off, Mitra or Bhaga has his eyes pulled out, Pushan has his teeth knocked down his throat, Chandra (the moon) is pummelled, Vahni's (fire's hands are cut off, Bhrigu loses his beard, the Brahmans are pleted with stones, the Prajapatis are beaten, and the gods and demigods are run through with swords or stuck with arrows." Daksha then, in great terror, propitiated the wrathful deity and acknowledged his supremacy.
According to some versions, Daksha himself was decapitated and his head thrown into the fire. Siva subsequently restored him and the other dead to life, and as Daksha's head could not be found, it was replaced by that of goat or ram.

Venus is exalted in this Nakshatra. As the bringer of divine love, Venus is operating in here highest form in the last degrees of the Zodiac. In many ways Venus is the worldliest of planets and yet it is she to whom the physical world becomes pointless and the last one is Revati. Once we are determined to do that, let’s use the example of the monk or the yogi and the meditation on the Himalayas. That’s very much Uttara Bhadra. Then what happens what comes is Revati, the most gentle of all the nakshatras. It is the shepherd. So it literally means like wealthy, rich. Revati shows the gentle and devoted nature of Pisces as well as their love of animals and all helpless creatures. The deity is Pushan which is like the shepherd of the Vedas.