108 mantras for the Moon-graha with full English translation and commentary. Volume 2 of 9 in The Yoga of the Planets eBook series. Where Sūrya covers Atman/Self, Chandra covers the mind-heart-mother-Soma cluster — the Moon as both the cosmic mother-principle and the personal mind/emotion regulator.
Author: Andrew Foss, PhD. (See Sūrya source stub for full credentials.)
Lineage: Sanjay-Rath-direct (Achyutānanda lineage via Konark tāmra-poti transmission, 2007).
Year: 2016-2017 (Second Edition; copyright date indicates iterative revision between 2016 and 2017) Publisher: Self-published via YogaOfThePlanets.com Length: 108 mantras + commentary; ~800 lines markdown
Classification: practitioner (Tier-2).
Foundational claim: The Moon shows the mind, the heart, and the mother. In India, chart interpretation begins from the Moon rather than the Sun for issues of personal experience and fortune — "the Sun is like the soul because it moves steadily on in its course without variation; the Moon is like the mind as it rises and falls with its reflection of the sunlight." The 108 mantras of Chandra are the mantras of the mind, ranging from mantras for fear-and-distraction (Chandra 6 cluster covering the 4 obstacles on the spiritual path: fear, distractions, confusion, "I am God" inflation) through Soma-nectar mantras for the awakening Kuṇḍalinī to ultimately the mantras of Mother-as-Gurumūrti (the Divine Mother as the One taking embodiment as the Guru).
Distinctive Chandra-volume content: 4-fears-4-distractions taxonomy (Chandra 6); Foss's gendered-Moon convention (uses both he and she — the Vedic-male tradition + Western-female tradition both honoured); Sapta-Rishi-wives-in-Pleiades + Arundhati-chastity narrative; Daksha-curse-Moon-disease + Rohini-favorite-wife mythology; the 64th-Navāmsha (4×4×4) mortality-zone protection mantra; Sanaka-and-three-brothers as D4 chart Devatas; ten-Indriyas-as-Moon's-chariot (5 senses + 5 organs of action); the Sāma Veda "Ashta rodati" eightfold-crying letting-go formula.
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