I’ll explain how to identify your “best nakshatra” using Tārābala.

Tārābala is a relatively unknown, amazing astrological technique, entirely native to nakshatras and thus completely independent of zodiac signs and houses.

Tārābala is a measure of synergy and coordination. So, your “best nakshatra” by tārābala, is the one that best synergizes and coordinates all the others that are active in your chart.

This builds on what I’ve shown you already in episodes one, two, and three.

In Episode One – The 9 Tarabala, I introduced the nine Tārābala conditions that describe how planets cooperate or resist cooperating with each other.  

In Episode Two – Casting Tarabala Charts, I showed you how to draw a tārābala nakṣatra chart, and identify all the tārābala affecting each and every point in your chart.

In Episode Three – What is your Strongest Tarabala Planet?, I showed you how to organize the nine tārābala on a spectrum between strengthening and weakening, and translate that into a talliable point system to identify your strongest and weakest planets. I also introduced you to intuitive and versitile interpretions of those results.

In this episode, Episode Four, I’ll show you how to translate that from planets to nakshatra. In other words, I’ll show you how to identify your strongest and weakest nakshatra.

These are all things that my newest report – “Star Strength” – does for you. You can order your Star Strength report here: https://vicdicara.com/readings.php

To identify your strongest and weakest nakshatra, just follow the same steps you may have already done for your planets, and then let the nakshatra inherit the tarabala score of the planet that occupies it.

Let’s do this together, for my ascendant.

First identify and score the tarabalas affecting it (pls. see video for details). Then add them up, for a sum of 39. Then, optionally, I prefer to convert that number to a “percentage of maximum potential.” The maximum possible score is 63. So 39 is equivalent to “62% of max potential.” (Just divide your score by 63 to get your percentage).

Repeat these steps for each point in the chart, and then put the scores together, sorted into an organized list.

To translate this from an assessment of planets to an assessment of nakshatras, just replace the name of the planets with the name of the nakshatras they occupy! (You can get rid of any duplicates, to clean up the list.)

To translate this from a list of nakshatras to a source of useful interpretations, replace the name of each nakshatra with its primary keyword [please see video for details]. This will give you a list of keywords describing your strengths!

The further towards the top of the list, the stronger an asset it is, but it’s not that the bottom of the list represents weaknesses. A keyword on this list isn’t truly a weakness until its score begins falling below 25%. 

Subjectively, you’ll probably feel like you could use a bit more of what’s towards the bottom of the list, and conversely you’ll probably feel you have surplus or even excess of what’s towards the top, but a keyword isn’t truly a “weakness,” at least in my opinion, until it starts falling below 25% of its maximum potential.

Contemplate the list you make from your chart. It will speak a lot of wisdom to you. 

When you are ready, you can add secondary keywords for each nakshatra. What a tārābala strength specifically shows is how well something synergizes and coordinates your other assests and strengths. You should read this list with that in mind.

For example, Uttarāṣāḍha has the best tārābala in my chart. That nakshatra is all about “mastery, superiority, leadership, and victory.” This tells me that all of my strengths will coordinate and synergize best when I can play the role of a superior, a master, a leader in a field, or when I need to conquer a challenge or defeat an obstacle or opponent. 

The list says Kṛttikā has the second-best tārābala for me. Kṛttikā is all about, “Catalysm, Dissection, Inception, and Digestion.” What does this tell me? That all my different assets and qualities cooperate together very well when my goal is to motivate people and rouse them to action, or to break apart ideas or techniques or machines and learn the essence of how they really work. 

When you sit calmly with this list, each tārābala can almost read itself to you. It’s really a beautiful, phenominal experience.

As I mentioned earlier, this is a small sample of what I provide you in my newest report, Star Strength, which you can order here:  https://vicdicara.com/readings.php