Pushan Aditya covers the degrees of the Zodiac that align with Tropical Capricorn. For more on how to calculate Adityas, see my post, Calculating Adityas & Their Correspondence to Tropical Signs
Pushan
Pushan is The Nourisher. He is a nourisher but has no teeth. The reason he had his teeth taken out is he smiled over an insult to Shiva. Because he lost his teeth, his favorite food is gruel, soft, cooked grains.
His chariot is drawn by goats instead of horses. Horses are very finicky eaters. Goats can eat anything. Goats eat weeds that other animals won’t eat thus Pushan’s ability to nourish comes from the ability to get nourishment from just about anything. He possesses the capacity to negate himself, he had his teeth negated. He is related to Bhaga who had his eyes negated and who was also cursed by Shiva. A bond exists between them.
He is the protector of travelers. He guides Souls to the Afterlife which is the last journey. He is the patron saint of journeys. Movement is part of his life, especially air travel. He has the ability to travel efficiently.
Pushan has no children. He is definitely NOT The mother nourishing the baby. He nourishes by providing things that can be nourishing. He is related to the Earth. Pushan is a servant, the greatest servant of the Adityas. He embodies “The Love of Providing What Is Needed”. Nourishment is not desire, it is what we need to stay alive. Pushan is not concerned with anything above and beyond that.
Without having teeth, nourishment is not always connected to food so this Aditya represents fasting. Fasting causes the body to generate stem cells then heal rapidly. Pushan is minimalistic nourishment.
Pushan is the Measurer. He knows which Astral Planet to guide us to in the Afterlife depending on our merit that he can measure.
Nourishment happens if we stay out of trouble. Pushan is about restraining our desires and hopes so we don’t do things that are not good for our well-being. A motto of Pushan is, “If you don’t screw up, your life will be great!”
When the desire for the material is negated, spiritual nourishment is attained. This is an Aditya of renunciation. Pushan is the patron of Fortune Tellers and finders of stolen property.
Pushan has the ability to make things happen quickly. He is associated with wind element.
He can nourish without thinking of himself which is a Sudra mentality. This Aditya does not have to think of itself to make its life work, it must think of others to make its life work.
When Pushan is healthy, he enjoys thinking of others first and embodies nourishing as self-negation. If afflicted, he wants all the nourishment and can be a picky eater. Our service capacity is diminished and we feel a lack. It is difficult to think of others first.
Pushan is constantly nourishing, it is not a time-based like Dhata. Dhata nourishes until the recipient can be independent, then Dhata stops nourishing. Pushan never does.
Pushan is opposite Indra. Indra is all about himself but not in an arrogant or self-absorbed way unless he is afflicted. Indra is a Kshatriya (warrior) type. Pushan is opposite, the one who serves. Pushan people are happy in jobs where they serve because there is no pressure and less responsibility.
If Pushan is afflicted, the person can become interested in some really dark stuff to feel OK. The possibility of addictions exists.
Gautama Rishi
The Rishis see the Truth and create Divine Laws. The Rishi walks behind the Chariot seeing the Truth and creating Divine Law. All Rishis are ruled by Jupiter.
Gautama is the Law of Non-Action & of receiving what is needed.
Gautama means “light removes darkness/ignorance”. Great ability exists here to overcome our own personal ignorance. Ignorance is launched in our psychological wounds.
Gautama is capable of giving many joys, is a great archer and acts slowly and deliberately, without compulsion.
When not sure about something or someone, not acting is the best policy. Gautama does not act impulsively. He is considerate, thoughtful and bides his time. Refrain from action until absolutely sure and the way is clear. He is the Rishi that becomes free of impulse.
Those with Gautama strong will be interested in psychology and healing inner wounds, etc. With healthy planets here, the person is adept at healing their psychology. With starved planets, the person needs to heal their psychology. Psychological healing becomes an important focus because a lot of emotional pain can exist with Gautama due to his connection with Saturn. Healing the psyche has a lot to do with learning to be OK in the moment.
Getting what is needed is connected to this law of non-action. We become agents of Creation’s needs.
Vata Rakshasa
The Rakshasa is a demon that pushes the Chariot from behind. All Rakshasas are ruled by Saturn.
The Rakshasas are Saturn-ruled and by using them in a healthy way, things in our life come to their natural ending, we are finished, it is over and done. Saturn is all the shit in our lives we have accumulated due to our weaknesses and wounds. The Rakshasa forces reveal the way each of us can be done with all our psychological wounds, not just the wounds of Pushan, but all of them.
Vata means Air. How can anything having to do with air be connected to a fixed Sign? The more things change, the more they stay the same. No matter what we change – job, residence, relationship, we remain in the same psychological state. Nourishment is an experience within us. We nourish ourselves internally or we do not. No nourishment comes from the outside world with Pushan. His message is, “You don’t need anything to feel nourished except yourself”.
The unhealthy aspect of Vata is going from thing to thing or person to person, trying to get some fulfillment but not getting any. The great thing about Saturn Rakshasas is these are the definitive times to get over something. Sphurja (the Rakshasa of Bhaga) and Vata are about killing the demon. They work together because they are ruled by the same planet.
We can change our vibration through the Air element which is prana or chi in the body. Vata is where we shift our vibration so we can attract different things. The Air Element is putting people together and moving them apart. We will always have people come in and out of our life.
How do we change our vibration? This is an Air Sign. It happens on a mental level. It changes with affirmations, with mantras, anything that changes the ideas floating in our head. When we have untruthful thoughts, it changes our vibration and we attract negative things. We approach changing our vibration through the Air level, the use of the intellect, the mind. It is really that simple.
Everything will land on us according to that vibration. It is the vibration that is fixed. When does that vibration change? When we fully believe it.
We make a list of where we are not getting nourishment. We work out an affirmation then pound it into our consciousness until we believe it. Doing affirmations is something to do within the privacy of our own space. We do not affirm to everyone else that we are valuable. That is not how affirmations work. No one became valuable by telling everyone else they are valuable, they became valuable by telling themselves, over and over again.
The hurtful reality that follows us wherever we go is resolved at Vata. We believe something harmful about ourselves, then we attract people and situations that feed off that low vibration.
It’s at Sphurja and Vata that we make the full change. Until our vibration changes, our reality will not change.
We can have insights with all the other Rakshasas, but until we make progress with Sphurja and Vata, the detrimental reality will follow us and be part of our life. These are the only two Rakshasas where, when one happens, the other happens right away.
If progress on healing our wounds has been make but we are still stuck, examine Sphurja and Vata.
Dhananjaya Naga
Nagas are related to Moon. Purpose of Naga is to free chariot from its fetters so it can move toward a greater experience of love. The Nagas do this because they recognize the limitation of something.
Dhananjaya means “to conquer wealth”. It can refer to someone who acquires wealth. It also refers to the temptation of wealth, the influential power of wealth. When we conquer this temptation and/or desire, we are above it. Dhananjaya also refers to the conqueror who gains spiritual wealth.
The best strategy is to not waste energy on material things. Frugality is best with this naga. We do not need a lot to feel alive, nourished and be well. If afflicted, people can be very greedy.
All of the Nagas have the curse of the Mother and are separated from the Mother. How cursed are we? “I cannot re-acquire what I had.” We cannot return to the oneness with the Mother ever again. There is a deep force in our consciousness that knows something is missing.
We are mortal beings and we need to consider how we are investing our time and energy. The Dhananjaya force makes us realize something is missing. Air produces change. The biggest change is death. In that awareness, how will we handle our material lives?
How a person deals with worldly life is seen with this Aditya as much as it is with the Earth Adityas.
Susena Yaksha
Yakshas are Nature Spirits that harness the Chariot to the horses. Horses represent power. Yakshas are ruled by Mercury. The Nature Spirits harness us to our power which is unique to every individual.
Susena means “to have a good cluster”. It is related to an army. A good grouping, an efficient military. Having a good missile or arrow. We are consistently hitting the mark. We consistently do something right. In our lives, we must see what is working, “what am I getting a good grouping in?” Every time we do it, we hit the mark. Consistent success. What do we hit the target on consistently?
If we forget about what is consistently hitting the mark, we fall into a bad state. It is important to remember where we hit the mark. All we need is ONE THING done right, one thing that works. That one thing will carry us through everything else. That is what others can count on from us. There is more we cannot do successfully than we can do. Focus on what works, then appreciate it. Appreciate the good in our life. Appreciating what we can actually do, that is working consistently. We will discover a consistent theme in the people we meet.
We harness the chariot to the horses by appreciating the beneficial and good in our life and the consistent good things that follow us through life. Sometimes we have pathologies that hide that consistency. It really takes some contemplation to appreciate the fullness of our life. Appreciating things automatically helps us feel better. Right away, we harness the chariot to the horses and move toward a greater expression of love.
Sometimes, we will hate certain aspects of the people in our lives. It is important that we acknowledge those feelings because if we repress them, resentment and sickness ensue. The reality is every relationship is a love/hate relationship. Cease to focus on the negative, focus on where the person comes through for us.
If afflicted, the person easily forgets and cannot see what to appreciate. Fulfilled and nourished with very little, that makes life simpler.
Susena also refers to a particular plant that can be used for everything. It has a widespread benefit. What do we have to work with? List everything that is an asset. When we see what is working, now we can easily move forward.
Suruci Gandharva
The Gandharvas are warrior/musician demi-gods that sing in front of the Chariot to inspire it forward.
Su means “excellent, beneficent, good”. Ruci means taste and luster. Suruci – an excellent luster. Suruci is often translated to ‘takes great delight in something’.
Pushan is the nourisher that has no teeth, ruled by Saturn, the planet of very little. Jaimini tells us that Pushan is “wells and tanks”. We have a need to take delight in something that makes us lustrous and so much in life is trying to discover what that is. Sometimes we get it and realize that is all we ever needed. It’s the most critical thing for us to have. The goal of Suruci is to make us aware of what this is. We will be lustrous, radiant, healthy when we get what we need.
Oftentimes, we believe certain things are Suruci and we have excitement, but they do not work out. If we examine how we feel after the initial excitement has passed, that is when we can tell if it is true Suruci. Are we still feeling delight, lustrous, strong?
The “tanks and wells” that describe Pushan in Jaimini Astrology, are ultimately the interior tank. A spiritual reservoir to take delight in. We have a well inside of us below the surface of the world. As we shift into different states of being, ultimately, the lasting Suruci is the spiritual water to drink from. Suruci understands what it needs to feel OK instead of wasting energy in a bunch of different things that cause excitement but ultimately leave us feeling depleted.
If afflicted, the person is running around looking for that one thing that they need but finding their energy and strength deteriorating. Nothing is right, nothing is satisfying. We often get a lot of weird sexual and alcohol problems in the old books related to this Sign because it is connected to nourishment. It is so easy to take nourishment in the direction of other people and substances. We search for nourishment in ways that won’t be satisfying. We have expectations and fantasies but it is outside of ourselves and causes disappointment. The excitement phase is not the truth of the situation. This is how we evaluate if tis Suruci or not.
If Suruci is healthy, the beneficial or lack thereof is recognized immediately.
GhRtaci Apsara (gree-tach-ee)
Apsaras are celestial nymphs that dance in front of the Chariot, enticing it forward through feeling, mood and ambiance. Apsaras are ruled by Venus.
GhR means ghee, filled with ghee, endowed with ghee, abundance of ghee.
Saturn is prison and karma. Karma is what makes us stuck and we must move out of it. The most important planet in moving through that karma, especially by letting go of what we need to release, is Saturn.
Life gives us shit and we give life back something better than shit, then later on, life gives us something better than shit and we give back something even better and later on we receive something even better from life. That’s how it works. Saturn is debt. Over time, we get something better. That’s how we work out our negative karma.
Giving back to the world only what it gives you is limited state of being.
GhRtaci is filled with ghee, can also mean cream. It is the best part of cream. We need calories which are energy or we will die if we don’t have enough. The highest quality calories are in ghee or cream. It has the most energy per gram, easily digestible and assimilable. Ghee is one of the substances that is thought to store Virya or vital energy. Ghee is also very comforting to the system.
The Apsaras appear to give us a feeling that we want to do something. The number one feeling is if we have enough energy to do something. One of the reasons we are not doing what we need to do is because we are not finding the energy. GhRtaci shows up and gives us the energy to do something. Many times, we don’t have the energy for something because we don’t have a strong enough feeling for it. GhRtaci appears and suddenly we have a lot of energy for something, when before we may have been dragging our feet.
If afflicted, the person will not put their energy into what really matters the most. They’ll put into things that waste their time, that are preventing them from reaching their goals.
Energy is a resource and Pushan has to do with wells and tanks which are limited resources of water. We can remain stuck because we are wasting our energy on things that won’t get us what we want. We arere using the energy to trade for the life we currently have in for a better life. Afflictions will make it very difficult to find the energy to make the trade.
The only thing it takes to change the fixed karma in our lives is the application of our energy. Change happens based on how we expend our energy.
Use the energy to trade in for a better life not to retaliate, not to prove you are better, but to put it into something worthwhile that will change your life in the way you want. That is the highest use of energy. If something bad happens and you spend hours screaming and complaining, how does that improve your life? Don’t waste your energy.
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