Mitra Aditya covers the degrees of the Zodiac that aligns with Tropical Taurus. For more on how to calculate Adityas, see my post, Calculating Adityas & Their Correspondence to Tropical Signs
Mitra
Mitra means ‘friend’. Mitra’s ruler is Mercury.
The circle of connection is now expanding and becoming all-inclusive, it does not single out different people. Everyone is a friend. Friendship does not require permanence meaning friends can pass in and out of our life and when they pass in, they are always received with friendship. The friendship is balanced and a sustaining circle. If we are friendly to others, friends will show up when we need them.
Mitra produces luck when healthy. “I’m so lucky I met them!” A lot of luck happens through friendship, through someone we know. When afflicted, people who appear in our lives have ulterior motives that do not take into consideration our well-being. We can also behave similarly towards others.
Mitra motivates us to do actions through those we meet as friends. Mitra is a force that is always observing. When we are friendly, we are always observing people. We are not closing our eyes to them. Mitra rules over concord, agreements, handshakes. People can only come to agreement if they have sincere goodwill toward each other.
Mitra is the Air element which creates motion and displaces. We are evolving our social circle to include more and more beings. Mitra has the greatest capacity to include beings in its space as they come and go. It possesses an air element quality of change.
Mitra makes inanimate objects, he is the artisan, craftsman and his talent is astonishing. Mitra wants to do what is possible, not fantasy. If it’s afflicted, then we try to do the impossible. What is possible? When healthy, Mitra does not invest in frivolous, harmful or useless activities. If afflicted, the person exerts themselves on what does not further their lives.
Mitra survives on air, meaning he survives on detachment. Air does not stay anywhere and moves around a lot.
Atri Rishi
Atri is the Law of Human Potential.
Atri is free from envy and spite unless Mitra is afflicted, then these qualities are prominent and need to be worked on and healed.
Atri means the Devourer and to focus on filling the hunger with what can actually fill it. So much of our lives are nibbling that does not truly fulfill. Atri devours inquiry, logic and reasoning. Atri Rishi’s capacity to investigate and decipher is very high. To resolve the right things to do, we must examine cause and effect, observe what is really happening and step out of a traumatized reaction to life. We must figure things out with logic and reason.
Atri creates the law of a friend who can see our potential and bring it out. He possesses the ability to help people and counsel. If blemished, the person is not good at friendship and they do not see what is good about the other person or if they do, they want to use it for their own selfish interests.
With this Rishi/Aditya, there can be times when there are simply no options. He gets into situations he cannot get out of. Periods exist when we are down or stuck and we just have to surrender and suffer through it. There is no way out. There are situations in life that are beyond our strength, beyond our will and that’s why friendship is important.
Oftentimes, when we benefit from a friend, we want to turn that friend into an Aryama relationship, which is a long-term association, but that is not the purpose of Mitra/Atri and not the way forward. For years, we may wish the friend that helped us could be a constant companion but they won’t be. The reality is they are NOT a companion but a friend that can pass in and out of our life.
Atri does not give up on other people. Friends are designed to bring out potentials. That is why it is important to have good associations, then our potential can develop.
Sometimes Atri cannot help someone else. He must observe and reason if the person will benefit from his help. If they do not, then it’s time to send them somewhere else. Not everyone can be helped.
Paurusheya Rakshasa
Paurusheya means coming from humankind. Because Rakshasas are not human, we must assume this Rakshasa is a half-breed human.
Dual Signs are Mulas which are plants that grow and in the Navamsa, Dual Signs are humans (Nri). Essentially, the quality of humans is to grow which is what sets humans apart. Growth happens through learning which is a property of Mercury. Other species get to a point where they can survive, then remain there.
This Rakshasa motivates us to grow out of hurting ourselves and others. This Rakshasa answers the question, “Can the individual be better, can they do more?”
All Rakshasas have to do with childhood wounds. Rakshasas are our protectors. We created a defensive strategy out of our pain and fear, we created a Rakshasa. At the time it was needed.
How our body grows depends on the thyroid which is the throat chakra. At this Rakshasa, when we deal with trauma, we come up with our survival strategy, a long-term one. “I need attention from opposite gender.” “I need to stay hidden so I remain small.” “I need to not question because that is not safe.”
The protection we had as children becomes the very thing that hurts us later in life. All they do is keep us from being ourselves.
That very thing that worked for our survival in childhood, that got us through difficult times is the very thing that screws up our lives when we are adults.
Rathasvana Yaksa
Yakshas are nature spirits that harness the chariot to the horses.
Rathasvana means the ‘Sound of the Chariot’. The Chariot is the body/mind/emotions.
Imagine a chariot diverting from the cobble road and suddenly rolling through fields with big holes and boulders, then hearing the crashing sounds or the sound of wheels sinking in mud. Imagine these sounds are emotions within us. At this Yaksha, we want to grasp the sound. What are the sounds of our internal thoughts and emotions? If they are horrible sounds, it is to show us we need to redirect our chariot.
We are testing our choices at Rathasvana by listening to the internal sounds of our psyche and emotions. If they are ugly, we make a change.
Everything is energetically interconnected into one web of existence. All of Nature is a part of that. The web is connected to other people and they impact us more than anything else. We can get attacked by a mountain lion or bitten by a snake but that is not as intense an impact as if someone is raped, if they get their heart broken, ostracized from their peer group, etc.
It is all of the things that are happening with people that are the most impactful to us. But all of that is connected to Nature. Swa Dharma = According to our own nature. Dharma doesn’t mean righteousness, it means Nature. The Yakshas are very much trying to get us to align to our True Nature. When we do that, we are in harmony with all of nature. The idea is that we are either in harmony or disharmony with Nature. We have energy to do certain things and no energy to do other things, with certain people and without certain people.
The wind is change and it is blowing here. “How do I need to change things?”
This is where we listen to the noise of the chariot. If the noise sounds pleasing, we are aligned to nature, we are in the right place at the right time with the right people. When we get going on our journey and try something, it should be a rhythmic sound of the chariot moving forward. The little bump-bumps are normal and represent the little things that go wrong but it’s still a smooth road.
We don’t know which direction to go in at first, even though we may have the energy for something but we must listen to the sound to know if we are on the right road.
If this Aditya is afflicted, we may be comfortable with certain sounds. If we grew up with distressed sounds around us, it will seem normal. Our body and consciousness get accustomed to working a certain way. When this happens a lot of healing needs to take place. We can get attached to the experience and hormonal release of negative emotions.
Mitra is the Aditya where we learn. Vivesvan (the other Mercury ruled Aditya) is where we apply with great success what we learn. Nothing cannot be changed once we learn it or how to do it. Simply try something different and see if more progress is made. Things are supposed to move forward and if they don’t that chariot is on a bad road.
Our wounds are attached to certain goals. Our Soul is not attached to any goal. The wounds have a goal and everything they do to support that goal is not going to work. The best thing to do is try something outside of the goal that has a good sound and all the goals will be met along the way and they will have the right sounds.
We have to get on the road that creates the pleasant sound. All of your goals are in one place – the future! As long as we’re moving forward, our hopes can be realized. We have to get off that beaten path of horrible noise. So observe, “Am I moving forward or am I spinning my wheels and making no progress?” Focus on where we can make progress and everything else will work itself out in the future.
We want to be in a place when we are older where everything is working better. Everything will work better when we align ourselves to the right things. But our wounds make us say, “I need this or else! I need to prove myself or else!” No! All you have to do is get on a forward moving road that does not have a crashing, grating sound.
The Yakshas are here to align our energy to the energy of everything. The minute you say “yes” to a job, the minute you buy a house or say “yes” to a date, your body knows the long-term results of that.
Takshaka Naga
Nagas unfetter the Chariot so it can move forward.
Root word Taksh means ‘to cut’. Craftsmanship, carpentry, are related to Takshaka. The idea is we can take something, cut it, change it and build it into something more useful.
When we build or craft something because there is a need, we must take what we are, and to fulfill that need, we must restructure, rebuild, craft ourselves into something better. That literally means cutting off certain parts of ourselves and putting other parts together. We are in a constant state of being crafted. Uranus is the Brahma force who is the sculptor that adds parts to us. Pluto is the destructive sculptor chipping off the stone to perfect the image it is trying to create. Neptune is the vision in that potential of the creation that is being made. As humans were building this image.
Takshaka creates within us a need to keep the chariot moving forward. Humans can get stuck and they need to build themselves into something else, like going back to school or learning a new skill, or becoming fitter.
In relationships, we need to change those parts that make us into non-relationship material. Taking that and building, forming and cutting ourselves into something that is relationship material. Anything can be crafted into what you want with this Naga.
The critical thing with Takshaka is once we acknowledge the need, no matter what kind of wounds, fears or anxieties we have, we can mold and build ourselves into what we need and satisfy that need.
This is the most human Naga and can grow whatever it is you need. Human nature is such that when it acknowledges a need, it starts building the thing that will fulfill that need. All we must do to work within this Naga is acknowledge the true need. As soon as that’s done, human nature will take over and start building our lives to satisfy that need. Refusing to acknowledge the need is what is preventing us from having.
All the Nagas have the ability to change their forms because they are subjective beings within ourselves. The subjective can always change forms. If we are not using the Naga force in a healthy way and holding onto an unconscious limitation, that belief will be lived out in different forms, people and situations.
We only have so much love energy, so it is natural to use it in a narrow fashion but as we free our chariot with the Naga force, that fashion becomes wider.
When someone says, “I need more love, more attention, more respect,” those things are not the remedy. What they need to do is to give more of these things and to change their ‘need’ energy into ‘love’ energy.
Anytime we do anything of self-improvement, that is the Takshaka force. Takshaka has had an experience of living as a human. He is the most human of all the Nagas. If we have a need, we can build something to satisfy that need. If we acknowledge the absolute importance of a need, nothing can stop us from building that which will satisfy it. This applies to the inner needs, emotional and spiritual as well.
The reason we don’t succeed in what we want is because we don’t recognize the depth of that need. It is a huge investment to turn ourselves into something where more energy can flow through us.
HaHa Gandharva
The Gandharvas sing our unique song walking in front of the chariot. They are the inspiration and determination to move forward.
Haha is not a name so much as it is a sound. It’s an expletive of, “I got it!” “I figured it out!” “this is it!” When we laugh, “haha”, its because we got the joke. Our system gets it. It is the same as ‘aha!’
Understanding something means we’re on the right track. We grasp the knowledge. Every time something comes to us, our system is registering a sound. The question is, can we hear that sound? If the sound is haha or a double A type sound, that means it’s a good sound. It is the sound of ‘Yes!” this is where the energy wants to go.
Mercury is about discovering and finding the right path and what allows him to do that is he is not attached, he is objective.
We can only hear the Truth of something when we are impartial. Moon says to Mercury, “I need this” and Mercury goes out into the world to find the right thing, says, “this is it”. Mercury must be impartial to work optimally.
It’s because of our wounds, sorrows and fears, that we don’t hear the Haha or Aha! This is why predictive astrologers are so busy because people cannot hear what is right for them.
Menaka Apsara
Apsaras are celestial nymphs that dance in front of the chariot.
Menaka means a woman of refined mind, intention and thought. She is the most beautiful Apsara. She is popular because she is sent by Indra to seduce some poor sage trying to reach enlightenment. She is the wife of Himavat which is the personification of Himalaya, the mountains. Children were Ganga the river, and Uma.
Himalayas represent spiritual elevation and getting closer to heaven. Because wives are shakti (power), she is the power of spiritual elevation.
This Aditya is crucial in spiritual transformation. From Mitra, Saturn rules the 8th and 9th house. These are very different houses. The 9th house is a foundation of our being, our Self grows out of the 9th house. 9th house represents parents and culture. We are the progeny of our culture and our parents which is the 5th from the 9th – the Ascendant. 8th house is 12th from that so it is the loss of our culture, the loss of our parents, the loss of our roots, the loss of our beginning. The purpose of the 8th house is to break us free from being the product of our parents and culture. 8th house relates to taboo things.
What’s unique about Mitra is Saturn rules both these houses. This one planet wants to break who you are but also establish your identity. Very contradictory houses ruled by one planet. Saturn is filtering out the best parts of the culture and transforming into a better state of being. Mitra is where we figure out which rules work and create the rules. To do that, we need to break the law (8th house) sometimes. Saturn is transforming the law and your roots.
Hands make humans very different from animals and are an integral part of creating art. Menaka is the Art of Mercury, the ability to start with a rule set. Then break those rules because we feel the need to do so. Through that we create a change to something better.
This Menaka force can cause us to do atrocious things because it is the right thing to do. The feeling is, I’m going to do this differently. She is about finding new rules, writing new rules. She brings out the best potential in a situation. Mercury is about learning from our mistakes. She is the female intelligence that will find a way.
Mitra is a lucky Aditya. Luck comes from following the feminine intelligence within us and because we did something in a better way. We must find what works for us and it will be different than what works for others. This includes the spiritual path. Every being needs something a little different to maximize potential fully.
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