Budha appears in 2 systems: the same name is used for more than one thing. Both are shown below.
Jyotisha
Budha
Budha is Mercury, the graha of the discriminating intellect, speech, writing and trade. It owns no single field the way the other grahas do, because it is the faculty rather than the subject: the reasoning that organises counting, language, contracts and the dexterity of the hands.
Exalted at 15 degrees of Virgo, debilitated at 15 degrees of Pisces; the first 15 degrees of Virgo are the exaltation portion, the next five degrees (15 to 20) the moolatrikona, and the last ten the own sign, with Gemini as the second own sign (BPHS ch. 3). Friends the Sun and Venus; enemy the Moon; Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are neutral. The navagraha metal is bronze in most lists (some give quicksilver, the corpus's metal id mercury, or tin); the gem is emerald (panna).
Correspondences
- Planet
- Mercury
Sacred timing
- Day
- Wednesday
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- SoumyaRohineyaMercury
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Graha
- Sanskrit
- बुध
- English
- Mercury
- Nature
- ClassSaumya and kruraQualityBeneficConditionBenefic when unassociated with malefics; malefic when conjoined with or aspected by malefics. Its class follows its company and its house.Reading
Budha is the flexible graha: the texts call it benefic by nature but say it turns malefic in the company of malefics, and some add that it is benefic when it rises before the Sun and malefic when it sets after it. This is the clearest case of the classical rule that a graha's benefic or malefic quality is not fixed by its name alone.
- Meaning
Budha is Mercury, the graha of the discriminating intellect, speech, writing and trade. It owns no single field the way the other grahas do, because it is the faculty rather than the subject: the reasoning that organises counting, language, contracts and the dexterity of the hands. A strong Mercury is a mind that can hold and arrange many things at once, and that is why it is the graha of the administrator and the merchant alike.
Details
Deities
Correspondences
Offerings
- Offerings
- Green clothDurvaGheeSesameWater
Sacred timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- BudhThe Mercury Graha
- Gender Expression
- Masculine
- Titles
- The Navagraha of MercuryLord of SpeechSon of Chandra
- Symbols
- ParrotGreenMercury symbol
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- ToneQuick and clearAddressLord BudhaBudhRelationshipGraha of the mindWarningHe rewards cleverness and punishes liesResonanceThose seeking learning speech or trade
- Modern Practice
Invoked for study, eloquence, commerce and clear communication; his gemstone is prescribed in Jyotish for a weak Mercury.
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- MercuryIntellectSpeechCommerceLearningCommunication
- Mythology Summary
Budha is the Navagraha of Mercury in Vedic astrology, the son of Chandra (the Moon) and Tara, and the god of intellect, speech, commerce and learning. Wednesday (Budhavara) is his day, green his colour and emerald his gemstone; he is invoked for intelligence, communication and success in business.
- Related Deities
- ChandraBrihaspatiShukraGaneshSaraswati
Details
- Secondary Planets
- Venus
- Correspondences
- ColorsGreenYellowScentsSandalwoodCamphorMetalsQuicksilverSilverAnimalsParrotMonkey
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