I have seen some posts in Facebook that the Star Aridra,called Thiruvaathirai is dead and that how the Astrologers are going to cast and read horoscopes.
Aridra is the Nakshatra assigned to Lord Siva , more precisely to Rudra, an aspect or Amsa of Shiva,as His Birth Star, much as Sravana and Krithika are assigned to Lord Vishnu and Karthikeya respectively.
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The Sanskrit name Ārdrātranslates to “green” or “the moist one”. It is associated with the star Betelgeuse (α Ori).The Ardra nakshatra extends from 06 degrees 40 minutes to 20 degrees 00 minutes of Mithun (Gemini).
The Hinduism myth associated to Ardra is that of Tārakā. Tārakā is an asura who is granted invulnerability by Brahma.
The presiding deity is Rudra, its symbol is a teardrop, the ruling planet is Rahu. In Tamiland Malayalam, Ardra is referred to as Tiruvātirai and Tiruvātira respectively.
:- It lies completely in Gemini and the ruling planet is Rahu, which is the North lunar node hence it is a Mercury+Rahu combination. It can be considered as the combination of intellectual feeling with passionate thinking. The deity is ‘Rudra’, the God of destruction and it renders this quality in the native. ‘Ardra’ means moist or wet. It is symbolized as a teardrop.’ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardra_(nakshatra)
# worth noting that Taraka was killed by Subrahmanya,son of Lord Shiva.
Arudra 🌟 is called Betelgeuse.
It is about seven hundred Light Years away.
I checked up .
The Aridra star ,though dimmed for sometime and expected to go forward to Supernova Stage,has recovered and is shining now.
It may be noted that The supernova explosion big 1054 AD is represented in the form of Dancing Shiva.
‘After weeks of inexplicable dimming, the star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion is perking back up, suggesting that it won’t go supernova anytime soon…….Rumors of Betelgeuse’s impending death have been greatly exaggerated. The red supergiant star appears to be in no danger of imminently exploding, even though a recent, dramatic dip in brightness hinted that it could be on its last legs. The latest observations reveal instead that the star is starting to regain its former light….Betelgeuse has definitely stopped dimming and has started to slowly brighten,” a team reported on February 22 in the Astronomer’s Telegram. “Observations of all kinds continue to be needed to understand the nature of this unprecedented dimming episode and what this surprising star will do next.”..
Normally a bright, conspicuous red point on the constellation Orion’s shoulder, Betelgeuse is one of the most recognizable stars in the night sky. About 700 light-years away, the star is a young red supergiant, bloated and lumpy, that’s so big it would balloon out to Jupiter if it were parked in place of the sun. The giant pulses regularly, and its surface is a mottled mosaic of massive convective cells that move, swell, and shrink—similar to the bubbling pockets of plasma that cover the sun’s face, but much larger.’
The details that have been taken into account to construct a Temple in India of the olden days is amazing.
These details reveal not only the depth of Devotin to the Deity/ies,but also the deep knowledge they had of the universe and its principles.
Lord Nataraja.
The designs of these temples are narrated in the Agama sastra.
Please refer my Posts on this.
The Building of the halls, breaking them up into Praharas(outer Corridor),Mandapas(halls),Artha Mandapas( halls of half the measurement of the Mantapas),Pillared Halls, Sabha Mantapas and the Sanctum, Garbha Gruha…..
all these follow either geological or magnetic , electromagnetic, astronomical principles or all of these put together.
I shall be writing on these aspects of some great temples of India.
I shall start with the Thillai Natarja temple, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India.
More than the well-known Temples, it is the less known temples which have astounding characteristics.
I have written on some of these.
For the present Let me concentrate on Nataraja, Chidambaram.
Nataraja,a form of Shiva, temple in Chidambaram is one of the Pancha Bhutha Sthalas(,Earth, Water, Fire,Air and Ether)
representing the Ether.
There is Empty Space in the enclosure adjacent to Nataraja idol in the temple.
Aarthi is performed to this Space after an Aarthi is offered to Nataraja.
This empty Space reflects the Abstract principle Brahman, the Reality.
Researches have been conducted on this temple on various aspects, its construction, Roof, Pillars, Magnetic Radiation,
Natarja’s Big Toe is presumed to represent the center of the universe.
It is also stated that Lord Nataraja ‘s big toe is the Centre Point of World ‘s Magnetic Equator.
Chidambaram ,Kanchipuram and Sri Kalahasti lie in a straight line at 79* 41 East Longitude.
Curious as these happen to be among the Panchabhuta Sthalas, Places of Five Elements, Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether.
The Southern Cross and Canopus tally with Trishanku Swarga and Agasthya Star respectively.
Hence I did not want to dismiss the point that Chidambaram being the Centre of earth’s /universe’s Magnetic field.”
Research into the Idol of Lord Nataraja scholars indicate and confirm that the Idll’s design represents the Crab super Nova Explosion of 1054 AD!
‘Although the Nataraja metal icon with right leg extended was regarded as a tenth century Chola innovation, this study suggested that two fine Nataraja bronzes previously classified as Chola better fitted the metallurgical profile of Pallava bronzes of about 800 AD (Srinivasan 2001, 2004). The likely worship of Nataraja by the Pallava period at Chidambaram with ideas of cosmic creation and destruction is suggested in Manikkavachakar’s Tiruvachakam, which says, ‘Let us praise the Dancer (kuttan) who in good Tillai’s hall dances with fire, who sports (vilaiyatu), creating, destroying, this heaven and earth and all else’ [Dehejia (2002: 103)]. For me, it has been rather lovely and apt, that what had not really been discerned by conventional art history had been revealed through the dance of science and its patterns of elemental and isotopic particles. …
There seem to be astronomical connotations to the rituals associated with Nataraja worship at the Chidambaram temple. Arudra/Ardra darisanam is a ten-day annual festival in December related to the moon being full in the lunar asterism of the naksatra ardra (the reddish star Betelguese or Alpha Orionis), associated with the wrathful aspect of Siva. The constellation of Orion and surrounding stars is bathed in the soft glow of the full moon when it is high in the sky at Chidambaram. A thousand years ago, devoid of the present smog and light flares, the stars must have been even brighter in the tropical night sky.
Another annual festival at Chidambaram, the Brahmotsavam of Ani Thirumanjanam, which is related to the lunar asterism of Uttara Nakshatra around June-July, seems to have begun in the mid-eleventh century from inscription. The Indian zodiac of 360 degrees is divided into 27 parts based on the moon’s sidereal period such that a nakshatra denotes the longitudinal position of the moon within 13 degrees 20 minutes. Thus, by using astronomical software, Dr. Raghavan could ascertain that in 1054 AD the moon would have been full in Uttara Nakshatra on 11 July. This is uncannily close to the date that Chinese astronomers recorded the crab supernova explosion of 4 July! Although this is a preliminary finding, it could suggest a perceived metaphoric link between an observed cosmic phenomenon and notions of cosmic dance.
Indeed, a drawing from a Tamil manuscript sourced by Raja Deekshitar of Chidambaram shows how the Nataraja icon itself was probably traditionally visualized within the stars around Orion. In an exciting collaborative study with Dr. Raghavan, we took some photographs of Nataraja images dated from archaeometallurgical fingerprinting and plotted star charts for the constellation Orion of that corresponding era onto them. As reported in Orientations (Srinivasan, 2006), the star positions were found to a fair extent to correlate with iconometric design as noted in an image in the British Museum attributed from archaeometallurgical fingerprinting to the Pallava period (c. 800 AD). Moreover, the star chart for 1054 AD fitted well the iconometric design of a Nataraja image from Kankoduvanitham archaeometallurgically fingerprinted to the mid-eleventh century AD. Here, the hypothetical position of the crab supernova which exploded in 1054 AD lies near the top left of the head, close to the crescent moon. Chinese records suggest that the crab supernova came into view with a morning crescent moon near it and was visible for 23 days, being four times as bright as Venus. Even American Indians are believed to have made cave paintings of a supernova with a crescent moon. Could it be that the iconometric design of this icon had indeed taken into account the observation of
the supernova explosion?
Crab Nebula Explosin 1054 AD
At any rate, the above studies suggest scope for further investigation into the history of astronomy. No less than celebrated astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that the Nataraja imagery conveyed ‘a premonition of modern astronomical ideas’
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