New Moon | Chandra | Hindu deity of the moon

New Moon

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Today itsa new moon in Sagittarius. I trimmed my hair, as planned by the lunar calendar.

I happened to have open on my desktop a wikipedia description about Chandra. I had looked up Indian names, of the East, and picked this one ‘randomly’. Then I had then googled the name and subsequently had this file open on my desktop.

It was today, December 3rd, 2013, ironically on the New Moon, that I decided to read it. Chandra is a Hindu moon deity; Chandra is the father of Buddha. A young, beautiful and fair, two-armed deity with his four arms stretched out, in one of his hands a club, in another, a lotus flower.

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In Vedic astrology, Chandra represents the brain and mind, emotions, sensitivity, softness, imagination, queen and mother.

He, yes he, rides in a chariot across the night sky every night, pulled by ten white horses. He is also called Rajanipati (lord of the night) and Kshuparaka (one who illuminates the night).

Hindu lunar deity Chandra