Vrishchika
Vrishchika, the Vedic name for Scorpio: the 8th rashi (sign) of the sidereal zodiac. Its lord is Mars, its element Water (Jala: feeling, intuition, and flow), and its nature sthira, fixed: it holds, sustains, and resists being moved. In the Kalapurusha, the zodiac read as one body, it governs the sexual and eliminatory organs. Because Vedic astrology measures against the fixed stars, Vrishchika sits about 24° behind Western Scorpio, so a planet in the first 24° or so of Western Scorpio is usually in Vedic Tula (Libra).
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