The Tales of Little Red Riding Hood & Rohini Nakshatra's Connection🌙🍒

Little Red Riding Hood is known as a very charmingly classic children’s story from long ago, something reminiscent from some of our own childhoods due to the way it flowed powerfully and naturally through many passages of time.

*This is rooted in Ketu energy- relating to the ‘Pitrs’ or ‘Ancestors’ and the way their blood and energy passes through on and on. It also rules this natural phenomenon of ancient knowledge and stories being naturally passed down when they come from an authentic place. Therefore many Ketu natives like myself with Ketu in the 1st house, will often be carrying this natural process out more than any other, sharing those very stories*

It is a tale I personally have always somehow connected to and seen myself in, I even had my own red hooded raincoat which I loved. I’ve always been the bubbly, excitedly passionate girl I still am today… one who luckily is smart, because I’m sure if I wasn’t I would’ve met many more of my own big bad wolves in my time than I already have. Contemplating this connection I’ve always felt with the tale, I came to a realisation about the blatant correlation between the story of Little Red Riding Hood & Rohini Nakshatra as a native of Rohini myself that I am going to share.

The tale can loosely be traced back to the early 10th century, you know, when dragons were everywhere and cool stuff like that (shh- that’s what I keep telling myself anyway)... The deeper, darker, more sinister connotation behind Little Red Riding Hood is mostly unknown though understood by few, and the connection to the Vedic Lunar Mansion of Rohini by even fewer- possibly none! It is my pleasure to share this with you and illuminate this fascinating connection. You will find many connections between different forms of literature and any of the Nakshatras if you keep an eye out, but this is one that particularly stood out to me.

Little Red Riding Hood tells the story of a young girl in a red hood walking through the woods making her way to her grandmother's house as her mother had asked. Her mother always told her not to talk to strangers. Some say she was bringing her grandmother cookies, others say medicine because she was ill, others say she was just going to visit, but either way, she went with innocent intentions and an obedience. Along the way in these woods, she met a wolf. Her mother had said not to talk to strangers, but the wolf was cunning and manipulative and knowledgeable of her obvious naivety. The wolf coaxed her so smoothly and seductively into telling him where it was she was going, melting her defences.

The bad wolf was sneaky and found his way to the girl’s grandmother's house before she did. Some versions say he ate the grandmother, others say he locked her in a cupboard, but we know the wolf had hidden the girl’s grandmother away in some sinister way, and pretended that he himself was the girl’s grandmother, dressing up in her clothes and pretending to be sick in bed. Noticing that her grandmother was looking ‘strange’ (the famous ‘what big eyes you have, what sharp teeth you have! part).

The little girl was taken aback and cautious, but it wasn’t until the wolf pounced to attempt to eat her that she realised she was in danger. The story mostly follows the lines of Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother defeating the wolf, and walking away in shock, lucky to be alive with the triumphant understanding of why she mustn’t talk to strangers.

This was a story told to children around the 10th century that caught on and became mainstream, teaching little girls about the dangers of their vulnerability. It was a story that vividly illuminated the dangers of walking alone or talking to strangers, tailored to suit the imaginative, reactive, Moon-like receptive nature of a child’s mind much like other fairy tales. It got the point across gently to children without having to expose them to the harsh realities of why exactly that is dangerous. Among possible other things, one of the strongest reasons this story was created and shared, was protecting young girls and children in general from rape, which was very very common back then. The red hood being a representation of the vulnerability of Little Red Riding Hood due to the allure she holds to predators, red being the colour of passion. Dark, I know.

Now let’s move onto the connection to Rohini Nakshatra.

Rohini is a Nakshatra (meaning birth star; a specification of Zodiac signs used in Vedic astrology to more deeply understand and explain

the patterns found in astrology.) located in the earthy, sensual Venusian sign of Taurus.

Taurus is ruled by Venus, the planet representing female sexuality and creative energy.

Rohini is ruled by the emotional, imaginative, playful, nurturing, motherly just as much as childlike, milky Moon. Venus and Moon together makes this the most fertile of all the Nakshatras, exuding feminine energy.

Rohini is said to be ‘the favourite wife’ in myth due to her beauty as well as her youthful, passionate nature, always having a vividly lush lust for life & creative fertility. She is ripe with natural abundance and knows the secrets of how to cultivate it. She is also known to be the youngest wife.

She is an emblem of enjoyment and profound appreciation and wonder for all things, since her nature is much like that of Eve in the Garden of Eden tale- wandering through the Garden of Eden enjoying all of it’s fruits and wonders without a care. Frolicking through the garden in pleasure and complete and innocent trust and faith in her creator (in Vedic astrology, this is Lord Brahma the God of Creation, Rohini’s deity) and of course the snake (Rohini is also along with Mrigasira, the ‘Snake Yoni type’ which means ‘sexual animal’).

Rohini is roughly translated to ‘the Reddish one’, some say this is a correlation to when a girl becomes fertile and flows with red. Another translation is ‘the arouser’ representing Rohini’s sexual nature and the arousing quality the Snake Yoni gives her, as well as Rohini’s talent for growth, arousing something or someone to rise and grow. It is commonly represented by an Ox Cart full of fresh produce representing Rohini’s abundance, nurturing, and ability to hold a lot of things within her inner world and then courageously carry it.

Already before knowing the Myth of Rohini in its entirety, we can see clear correlations to the later adapted tale of Little Red Riding Hood:

🔮Red- Rohini translating to ‘The Reddish One’ and the concept of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’

🔮Both allude to a young or ‘younger’ and innocent girl wandering through a place in naivety, believing it is nothing but good and safe and enjoying everything regardless of the dangers.

🔮Rohini relating to young children’s passionate explorative nature and the way Little Red Riding Hood is written about a child, for a child.

🔮Little Red Riding Hood carries a basket full of goodies and or medicine and was travelling with them, similarly how Rohini is represented by an Ox Cart (travelling) with fresh produce in it.

🔮the sexual or lustful similarities

🔮Rohini/Eve’s temptation, desire and curiosity with the snake, Little Red Riding Hood’s curiosity and temptation to ‘stray from the path’ or divert from what her mother told her and listen to the wolf.

🔮Rohini being in the Garden of Eden, and Little Red Riding Hood in the woods- both wandering through nature.

Hmm...

Here is the story of Rohini Nakshatra:

Rohini was created by Lord Brahma, the God of Creation. It is said that Brahma had 27 ‘daughters’ (the 27 Nakshatras). Brahma grew to lust after Rohini, enamoured by her beauty and grace. It has been explained by many that it is not an issue that she is his daughter because Brahma being the creator of this Universe, every woman is essentially his daughter, so that’s not the problem here. The problem is that Brahma kept chasing after her, trying to pursue her sexually when Rohini did not want that. Rohini was running and crying for help, not at all comfortable and in deep distress because she had always viewed Lord Brahma as a father and someone she trusts. Some say the story ends with Lord Shiva, the ‘destroyer’ hearing her voice and saving her by firing an arrow at Lord Brahma. Others say that Rohini was desperate to escape her father and the metaphorical ‘Garden of Eden’ where all things were supposed to be safe and good, in the form of a Deer in order to run faster hence the birth of the Nakshatra afterwards; Mrigasira. There are some interpretations however, which imply both happened.

Brahma felt so distraught and heartbroken that this had happened and ashamed that he had succumb to his urges, and even thought about suicide, but decided against it because if he died so would everything else around him.

This is overtly similar and parallel to the well known story of Little Red Riding Hood, just told in that very raw and unfiltered way that we would not deliver to young children. Rohini was trusting, naïve and eventually helpless to Brahma’s pursuit of her, but eventually rose above it. The same happened (between the lines) of course) between the big bad wolf and Little Red Riding Hood.

Rohini and Little Red Riding Hood both tell a story of passion, innocence, even denial and the dangers of passionate creative energy running wild and out of control. We can see Rohini natives both embodying this creative energy, and sometimes being the victim of it from others. It also tells the story of how dangerous (though beautiful) it can be to be overly trusting and immersed in the beauty in everything, the way the act of doing this can make us naïve to dangers.

What better way to wrap this up than to link the song ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Interesting how the Album cover is of a baby, as Rohini is said to relate to babies and the way they just want to enjoy and explore the world (much like Rohini + Little Red Riding Hood).

‘Hey there Little Red Riding Hood

You sure are lookin' good

You're everything a big bad wolf could want

Listen to me, Little Red Ridin' Hood

I don't think little big girls should

Go walkin' in these spooky old woods alone’...

Keep safe fellow Rohini energies, and all who need it 💕