Planet: Moon / Chandra Gemstone: Pearl/Moti

Briefing the Nature of the Planet

Moon is associated with the functionality of mind. It is believed that the moon controls the power of mind and versatility. It is also believed to provide power of meditation, concentration and resistance against cold diseases.

Favourite Colour : White
Favourite Day : Monday
Favourite God / Deity : Lord Shiva

The ill effects of Moon can be minimized and the good effects can be increased
according to Indian mythology by doing the following tasks. Any or all of these, one
can select as per one's convenience.

• To propitiate Moon, astrologers recommend donation of white cloth to needy
and poor on any Monday. It is also authoritatively stated that chanting of "Om
Namah Shivaya" for a good length of time continuously leads to please Moon.
• Worshipping Lord Shiva daily keeps Moon immensely pleased to quench even
high ambitions of the person concerned, it is stated emphatically in astrology.
• Fasting on Monday brings favours granted by Moon.
• 'Mounavrat' (Total Silence) practiced on Poornima (Full Moon) provides power
and strengthening of mind.
• Wearing of Pearl ring on the small finger on any Monday and continuing to
wear it thereafter is yet one more piece of advice from our ancestors to please
the Moon.
• It is appropriate to recommend that use of "Rudrakshamala" in
meditation/worship will increase the power of such observances.
• Astro Scriptures further suggest Tilak (Spilus Mark) of Sandal vermilion to be
applied on the forehead.
• Reciting of Moon's Vedic Mantra will enhance good results and achievements.
• Chanting of Moon's Seed Mantra if the Vedic mantra is hard to recite.

Moon / Chandra

Moon is the presiding deity of the element water, and rules over the tides of the sea. The sphere of the Moon is the reservoir of rainwater and thus Moon is the ruler of plants and the vegetable kingdom. The color of Moon is white. Its nature is wise, and learned. It rules peace of mind, comfort, general well-being, and also the fortune of a person. It shows its influence around twenty-four to twenty-five years of age. The Moon gives illumination, intuitive nature, sensuality, taste, youth, love of poetry, fine arts and music, love of jewelry, attractive appearance, wealth and good fortune. It makes us moody, emotional and sensitive. It rules milk, grains, liquids, growth, fertility, impregnation, and conception.
It influences the infant stage of an individual, which guides his behavior in the later in the later part of his life. It is cold and moist. It also influence childbirth and rules the left nostril, eyesight, the breasts, and the brain (memory). Moon influences travelers, human, fisherman, prostitutes, cooks, nurses, and caterers.
Sun, Mars, and Jupiter and the Moon’s natural friends, and Mercury, Venus, and
Saturn are its natural enemies. In Rohini, Hast, Shravan, Punarvasu, Vishakha, and
Purva Bhadrapad nakshatras it gives good and beneficial effect. It also gives
favorable effects if it is in Kritika, Uttra Phalguni, Ashlekha, Jyestha, Uttra Khad, and Revati nakshatras.
For persons whose Moon is not rightly placed in their natal chart or is ill-aspected,
success becomes difficult, sometimes it even becomes difficult to achieve a
comfortable life on earth. It makes such people weak or sick in their early years.
An afflicted, debilitated, exiled, or weak Moon causes cold, cough, fever, eye
ailments, lunacy, paralysis, epilepsy, hysteria, colic pains, beriberi, intestinal
disorders, throat troubles, bronchitis, dysentery, neurosis, typhoid, and cancer.
Moon's cool and pleasant rays are significantly influential on medicinal plants and
herbs on earth. It is worshipped and praised as 'Oshadhi Raja' or 'King of Herbs'- It's worship wards of chronic diseases and leads to health and success, controls
longevity with sound health.

Moon / Chandra Mantra to Chant

Aum Som Somaye Namah Aum

Gemstone for this Planet – Pearl

Pearl ~ Moti

Formation of a pearl inside a pearl oyster occurs because of the presence of foreign material inside the body of the oyster. To save itself from the undesired material the mollusk coats the object with layer after layer of nacre. It takes many years for a mollusk to produce a pearl of substantial size. The process through which the pearls are formed inside the body of the mollusk is very delicate, and a little disturbance at any stage of development of a pearl can influence its shape and lustre. The finest pearl is that which has no foreign matter in its core. Pearls are obtained from eight sources, which are Sky Pearl, Cobra Pearl, Bamboo Pearl, Hog Pearl, Elephantine Pearl, Conch Pearl, Fish Pearl and Oyster Pearl.

General:

Following are the general properties of Gemstone
Planet : Moon
Cosmic Color : Orange
Sign : Cancer
Element : Water
Time : Evening
Day : Monday
Metal : Silver

Signs of well-placed Gemstone

• Emotions under control
• The native will have good affluence, good fortune, recognition and fame
• Good memory
• Balanced emotional life
The gemstone helps to prevent the following diseases :
• Throat troubles, asthma, bronchitis, varicose loins, nervous debility, cancer,
typhoid.
• Colic pains, worms, intestinal disorders, tumors, peritonitis.
• Eye diseases, lunacy, paralysis, hysteria, epilepsy, cold, cough.

Qualities

A genuine pearl is supposed to have the following qualities :
• Moonlike, shining white color
• Perfectly round, globular shape and size
• Spotlessness and freedom from blemishes (dents, scratches, ridges) and impurities.
• Compactness, which gives it a high specific gravity.
• Lustre, soft glamor, attractiveness and brilliance of reflection
• Smoothness, which gives an agreeable sensation to the eyes

One who wears or possesses a pearl with all of the above mentioned qualities enjoys good fortune and is blessed by the goddess Lakshmi (the goddess of prosperity), lives long and becomes sinless, and obtains vitality and intelligence. He achieves high position by his wisdom and becomes famous. A pearl with a yellow lustre brings prosperity. Red-tinted pearls make one intelligent, shining white pearls bring fame, and a pearl with a bluish hue brings good fortune. A pearl devoid of lustre, that is, dirty, broken, having no gleam of circulating water, black or copper colored, partly white and partly colored, irregular, odd in shape having holes, dents, or
sports is defective and should be avoided.

Flaws

• Dullness or absence of lustre - brings poverty or financial crisis: shortens one's life
• A mole-like formation on the surface layer - brings sadness and disease
• Having three corners (triangular in shape) - causes impotence, brings bad luck
• Hole or pouch-like formation - cause leprosy
• Cracks or ridges - wearing of such a pearl is injurious to one's health
• Dusty, having clay or sand particles inside - is devoid of any good or bad effect
• Broken - loss of job, wealth, and earnings
• Protrusion like the beak of a bird - harmful to progeny, brings humiliation
• Dents - bring loss of wealth
• Oval and long in shape - makes one foolish
• A stain on the surface - brings humiliation and is harmful to progeny
• A blister or swelling - injurious to wealth, brings bad luck
• Sheathy, having a thin epithelium and wood-like material inside - is inauspicious
• Copper tint - harmful to brothers and sisters
• Dome-shaped, in which the lower half is composed of foreign material - brings bad luck
• Tiny spots like the marks of smallpox - harmful to progeny
• Flash-eye spot, spot looking like the eye of a fish - loss of progeny
• Square shape and flat - harmful to one's spouse
• Wavy thin line on the surface - brings misfortune
• A juncture line or a girdle - induces fear and is injurious to physical well-being
• Coral-like appearance - brings misfortune and poverty

Cultured Pearls

Cultured pearls are also a natural growth inside the pearl oyster, but they are created by
human surgical skill.
A good pearl produced by this process has the same qualities as a genuine pearl - and it is
difficult to distinguish between the two. They have a similar effect on the human organism as
genuine pearls.
It is firmly believed that wearing of pearl ensure happy conjugal life and protection from widowhood.
Anybody wearing an unblemished Pearl earns riches and is blessed by goddess of
wealth Lakshmi. He or she lives long and all his sins are said be washed away. He gets vitality,
becomes intelligent and achieves a high position in life. Pearl with a yellow luster brings
wealth. A reddish pearl makes one intelligent. White Pearl bestows fame and the Pearl with
blue hue is the giver of good fortune.
The wearing of a defective pearl brings troubles. The Pearl, in which there is spot without
luster like the hole, that pearl, is likely to cause leprosy to the wearer. If in any pearl there is a
spot or sign looking like the eye of a fish, the wearer suffers loss of children. The Pearl, devoid
of luster is said to shorten life. The Pearl that is flat brings a bad name to the wearer. The Pearl
that is long instead of being round makes the wearer foolish and an idiot. If a side of the Pearl
is broken, the wearer of such stones suffers the loss of his livelihood.
The following are the flaws found in Pearls:
1. Cracks on surface
2. Lines on the body of the Pearl.
3. Joint like appearance.
4. Mole of black colour, the wearing of such Pearl gives very inauspicious results
5. Without any luster
6. With spots
7. One with dirt inside it.

Identity

• Difference in structure : In genuine pearls the structure is concentric, whereas in the cultured pearl it is parallel, as it is in the mother-of-pearl bead introduced into the mollusk to produce a cultured pearl.
• Difference in the Bore : There is uniformity in the bore of genuine pearls, whereas in cultured pearls it is thin at the starting point and wide in the middle.
• Difference in luster : When culture, imitation, or artificial pearls are treated with a mixture of cow's urine and saltpeter for twenty-four hours, their lustre decreases. Genuine pearls retain their lustre after such treatment.
• Difference in epithelium : It is hard in cultured pearls and soft in genuine pearls.
• Difference can also be detected with the help of a pearl illuminator, but this detection is only possible in the case of drilled pearls. Another method used for undrilled pearls is to x-ray them.

Ritual

It would be ideal to buy a pearl on a Monday of an ascending cycle when the Moon is in Pushya, Rohini, Hast, or Sharavan nakshatra. Sunday and Thursday are also prescribed as good days for buying a pearl, but Saturday is not a good day in any way for it. The pearl should be given to the jeweler on the same day, and the ring should be constructed and polished on the same days as mentioned above under the influence of the same nakshatras. The pearl should be mounted in silver. The setting should be open-backed so that the pearl touches the skin of the of the finger. The best time to wear a pearl ring is evening, or when the Moon is rising. Before wearing, the ring for the first time, it should be immersed in raw cow's milk for some time and then should be washed with Ganga water, rain water or water kept in a copper pot. After it has been washed, the ring should be placed on a white cloth on which a Moon yantra
has been drawn with white sandalwood paste. The person who would wear the ring can do the worship himself. The ring should be placed in front of the silver engraved yantra on the white cloth on which the yantra is written with white sandalwood paste. Flowers and incense should be offered to the engraved silver Yantra and the pearl mounted in the ring should be worshiped by reciting the mantra of Moon god.

Mantra
Aum Som Somaye Namah Aum

The mantra should be recited 108 or 11,000 times and one should meditate on the gemstone as a symbol of the Moon god. After meditating, one should place the ring on the left hand, either on the ring finger or the little finger.
The yantra used for drawing on the cloth with white sandalwood paste is as follows :



The yantra to be engraved on silver is as follows :



The ring worn in this manner brings good luck, neutralizes problems caused by the Moon, gives mental peace, progeny, and financial gains, fulfills the desires of the one who wears it, and cures ailments caused by a weak and afflicted Moon.