Anuradha, the star of friendship

Mitra is a Vedic name for the bond that holds, the god of agreements between people rather than the god of victories. Anuradha inherits that tone in the jyotisha classroom. A journey taken with others, a society, a weekly puja that depends on who turns up, these are the errands that fit.

It is a gentler mansion than the one before it. Gentler does not mean empty of rules. Bhadra, if the karana is Vishti, still sits on the day like a stone in the shoe. The engine will say so even if the nakshatra is a favourite.

Friendship as a birth promise is the usual overreach. The Moon was in Anuradha. You still have to call people back.