The Kalam Effect

Sunday, July 20, 2008

A note on 12 Zodiac Signs

Aries

Symbol : Two Rams striking one another by the head.

Cause : Agni

Guna : Tama

The idea in this Raashi, essentially is action. There is a spirit of fighting and defending in its activities and such activities time to time face resistance from within due to Tama Guna and are at times at once instinctive and inert.

Taurus

Symbol : Bull.

Cause : Prithvi.

Guna : Rajas

Being an Earthy sign, the main ideas in it are activities relating to earth or material things. The Bull represents virtue, for the idea is primarily connected with the two supreme on earth - agriculture and milk that sustain human Life on Earth. Essentially, virtuous labor, slow activities, pleasure loving, sensuality or objects concerned with the senses are the ideas in this Raashi.

Gemini

Symbol : A man with a Club and a woman with a lute in clasp.

Cause : Vaayu

Guna : Sattva

It represents uncommon power to grasp thoughts or ideas of others and redeliver the same. Like air, it has flexibility and duality but also has sharpness and power to penetrate into any field of intellect through a peep-hole.

Cancer

Symbol : Crab

Cause : Jala

Guna : Tama

The ideas are identical to the forms and character of crabs. The abode of the crabs is the vicinity of water. Whenever they get fresh water, they plunge in the water in emotion and let themselves swayed wherever tide flows. In charm and emotion they move in pleasure, breed freely and shelter innumerable offspring. Blind in emotion, they do not object tot he torture of the youngsters, they remain absorbed in the pleasure of creation. The crab has ten feet, but two of them are always projected like a pincer - as if challenging. It clings and sticks, It moves sideways - not in advancement or receding. Crab had tenacity, receptivity and finest feelings or maternal principles. It has in it negative emotion - actions to come from outside to awake its latent virtues.

Leo

Symbol : A Lion

Cause : Agni.

Guna : Rajas

It represents expressiveness with a forceful and dominating spirit or spirit to rule over others. It attaches a tendency towards show, grandeur, power etc.

Virgo

Symbol : A Virgin with a bundle of corn in one hand and a light in the other, standing on a boat anchored to the shore.

Cause : Prithvi.

Guna : Sattwa.

Being an earthy sign it represents earthy things or material things - trade, commerce, etc. also concentration and expression by representation, viz. painter, craftsmen, etc.

Libra

Symbol : A scale with two plates

Cause: Vaayu

Guna : Tama

It represents balanced ideas, balancing ideas by judgment, comparison or test, also trade, representation of a thing viz. pictures etc.

Scorpio

Symbol : A Scorpion

Cause : Jala

Guna : Rajas

This Raashi represents mystic idea and being the eight house from Aries, it is also regarded as an occult sign. Essentially, the ideas in it are the destruction of materialism, to give birth to psychics.

According to the theories of Science, the scorpions are lovers of hot countries. They generally hide during the day, concealed under logs of wood or under stones or in holes, in sands, which they dig for themselves. They hunt their prey at night although their power of vision is feeble and they seem to be quite deaf. When a scorpion finds a victim, it is promptly seized and torn to pieces. If it is strong enough to offer resistance it is paralyzed by the sting and is then slowly eaten up. They are slow eaters. The poison they secrete is often instantaneously fatal to insects and centipedes, but it is immune from its own poison. Scorpions' food seems to provide its body with all moisture it needs, for these creatures never drink and can survive a prolonged fast. Scorpions will not use their stings unless considerably provoked. Indeed, when they are discovered they show much more marked desire to avoid notice, then to attract To their own kind they are however, hostile. They generally live solitary lives and if two are found together, one is eating the other. Scorpions indulge in courtships and after mating the female sometimes eat the male. Since Scorpio sign has ideas in creation after destruction, it shows two types of character - destructive, destruction of baser qualities and then creative - aspiring attainment of higher ethical virtues.

Sagittarius

Symbol : An archer on a horseback about to shoot an arrow and has an empty quilt.

Cause : Agni

Guna : sattwa

This sign represents aiming high, with certain object in mind. It aims at one thing at a time and has, therefore an empty quilt. It is expressiveness- ascending from material to spiritual plane.

Capricorn

Symbol : Forehalf animal and the rest is fish, partly under water in a stream with current.

Cause : prithvi.

Guna Tama

Hard labor, concentration, high devotion, reluctance or inattention to material things, philosophers etc. are represented by thus sign. There is duality of ideas in it, viz. mystic as well as psychic.

Aquarius

Symbol : Empty water pot with a lid on.

Cause : Vaayu

Guna : Rajas

It represents unseen power, emptiness, concealed contents, occult knowledge, uniting, uniting to objects of amenities of Life, creator or producer etc.

Pisces:

Symbol : Two fishes chasing each other in a cyclic way under water.

Cause : Jala

Guna : sattwa.

It is an occult sign representing mystic ideas and psychic pursuits. It is also called a Salvation ( Moksha ) Raashi.


Thanks for Bhaskarji.

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