[My deepest thanks to Hart de Fouw for enabling me to understand Jyotish and become a Vedic astrologer.]
One of my deepest interests in astrology is to explore the Nakshatras. For those who don't know what I mean, in Vedic astrology the sky is divided into 27 equal slices, starting with Sidereal Aries, and each of these slices is called a Lunar Mansion or Asterism or Nakshatra.
The Nakshatras have incredibly extensive meanings and enrich my practice of astrology beyond measure.
They enable me to see deeper themes in people's lives that I would have missed completely.
And their themes are incredibly accurate and always show up in a chart, especially if several of the major Nakshatras in a person's chart share themes. (The most important Nakshatras are those of the Ascendant, Lord of the Ascendant, the Sun and the Moon.)
For example, my Ascendant in Magha indicates a hearty appetite, and my Moon in Anuradha is quoted as being "unable to bear hunger or thirst". Add my fiery Venus in Krittika, which again indicates great hunger, and it's easy to see why I'm both hypoglycemic and am often hungry.
I have been yearning to write a second article on shared Nakshatra themes, the first one that I wrote is here, but just haven't had the time and energy to do so yet.
So I decided to query each of the major online AI websites for the specific Nakshatras that share themes, and was surprised by the results:
For example, when I asked the best AI engine which Nakshatras were deeply emotional, I got an extensive answer plus this excellent summary table:
The AI website that was the best of all, in terms of accurately ascertaining shared themes, notably better than all of the others, was Canva AI.
For the others, Gemini was better than ChatGPT, and ChatGPT was better than Perplexity AI.
So I invite you to explore Canva AI for your astrological queries, with the understanding that even the best AI cannot compare with the deeper and more wide-ranging knowledge of a long practicing astrologer.
p.s. You can see what each of the AI shared about this topic here.
The former president, Barack Obama, and his wife Michelle, have recently admitted to ongoing marital problems. In an ndtv.com article, Michelle said, "There were 10 years where I couldn't stand my husband."
The major Nakshatras in Barack's chart foretell of marital issues. His Ascendant and Ketu are in Dhanishtha, the Nakshatra most associated with problems in a marriage, and his Seventh House Mercury is in Pushya, which is -- according to my Vedic Guru Hart de Fouw -- also associated with marriage trauma.
And the Sun in the Seventh House is often a theme of being dominated by ones spouse, and in the Nakshatra Ashlesha -- which can bring conflicts into a person's life -- further emphasizes his problems in marriage.
p.s. Michelle Obama is represented by both the planets in the Seventh House -- the Sun and Mercury -- indicative of her intelligence, and the ruler of the Seventh House, the exalted Moon in Rohini Nakshatra.
It's not usually positive to have ones spouse represented by an exalted planet because exaltation is an exaggerated strength. That means that the person indicated by an exalted planet may overestimate their own value, for example, or be overblown in some way.
In this case, being that Rohini can be a very hypnotic and seductive and influencing Nakshatra, Michelle has a massive influence on her partner, reinforcing the themes mentioned above.
