Swati Nakshatra

Swatika lagna and Swati Chandra = somewhat peculiar in personal behavior. Naturally they carry the intelligence of Arcturus their home star and thus they may rise into wisdom roles.

Yet they may be unwise in personal behavior.

Swati folk are a conundrum. Often enamored of the momentary pleasures of wine, women, and song. Yet passionate about cultivation of relationships and looking assiduously for the balance point that marks the ever-swinging fulcum between inner self and outer self.

One is externally, socially focused upon Thula philosophy of clever, mutually acceptable arrangements and the practice of diplomatic harmony;

yet the interpersonal balance = Arrhythmic due to Rahu

• Like A-rudra and Shata-taraka, the Swa-tika folk = more complexly involved in taboo-breaking activities (Rahu) than their attractive surface appearance might immediately reveal.
• Swati can be stand-off-ish and seem uncertain of their role. Yet can jump into the situation with unpredictable spring-forward motion (Rahu) to claim the object of desire.
• What seems like pride is really uncertainty regarding one's proper social station. Wanting to maintain the highest available level of socially harmonious relationships (Zukra) yet at the same time self-identifying as some variety of pretender or poseur (Rahu), Swati despite pleasant appearance seems to not quite fit in.
• Tendency to marry down.

Swati natives are nearly always attractive with balanced features; but there is also something out of balance in the appearance.

• Both physically and metaphorically, the Rahu-ruled Swati = mode of travel = arrhythmic, with an irregular (Rahu) gait
• may seem restless for higher privilege despite many material advantages in life.

Craving for something or someone that beckons with the promise of higher privilege. The craving for this object of desire disturbs Swati's inner balance.

No matter the amount of personal discipline, numbing drugs, or logical argument, this Rahu-craving persists.

• For an orphaned child, Swati's perpetual dissatisfaction may arise from the endless craving for mother who is deceased.
• For a married woman, perhaps her great love is not her contractual partner. She may remain faithful to the union, yet the craving for her lover fills her dream-space, day and night.
• For a champion fisherman, Swati could indicate a subconscious arrhythmicobsession with the One that Got Away.

It is a challenge for the Swati native to set one's life into a permanently harmonious swing. Rahu interrupts the balance.

The odd gait is subtle and usually physical, typically the swinging too far on one side, or even limping from congenital conditions, injury or accident. But there can be other bodily expressions of the odd cadence, since the origin is some irregularity of the spine which puts pressure on the internal organs particularly the heart.

Swati is weaker than appearances might reveal; the endless stress of irregular desires can erode the vitality. One may suddenly collapse in complete exhaustion. However the pendulum will usually swing back into a period of vitality after some refreshment.