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it has Rajas, activity at secondary and tertiary levels. Two symbols, a
palanquin and a house are assigned to it.
The Fathers are Vedic deities who have the special responsibility of guiding
the evolutionary course of the families and races entrusted to their care.
They intervene in their progeny's lives and relationships only when serious
digression or major diversion from the right course occurs. As long as
progress is according to the desired pattern, they merely watch and nourish
by their influence. They function like guardian angels giving protection in
the event of major calamities. Otherwise they are mere overseers, trying to
unfold their descendant's faculties and growth in the exuberance of Divine
blessing. Their influence is also directed towards maintaining the tradition
and cultural purity of those they look over.
Up to this point in the zodiac, the various asterisms are concerned with
formulating the matrix of growth. With Magha begins concretization. At this
stage, the soul in its individualized form begins to manifest outwardly its
archetype. The contraction of idea into form induces the spirit to long for the
freedom lost in the process of encasement. This craving for its lost original
nature is expressed as ambition, family pride, racial superiority, class status
and the urge to jump from the actual to the ideal. Restlessness arising from
the feeling of restriction, and through restlessness, the arousal of the urge to
reacquire the lost paradise, characterize this asterism.
Magha marks the beginning of Tamasic proclivities. It is expressed as sloth
and the desire to stay put instead of the moving forward which comes
through the Rajasic tendency of the first third of the asterisms. Rajas impels
the incarnating soul to immerse itself in materiality which attains its deepest
point under Ashlesha. At this stage, the Nagas impart ultimate wisdom and
bid the soul to proceed further according to the intelligence thus acquired to
complete the evolutionary impulse. The archetype is thereby impressed on
the finer atoms of the being and the soul acquires the power to actualize it.
This situation produces a contradictory tendency. The earlier impulse
induced the soul to proceed further, while the new influences of a Tamasic
nature, beginning with Magha, exert a decelerating motion. Under Magha,
therefore, one experiences conflict. This is emphasized by the secondary and
tertiary rajasic or active qualities of the asterism. One part of the being urges
the soul to swift action while the other puts on a brake to bring movement to
a halt. Magha leads to substantial psychological tension and frustration.
The symbol of the palanquin associated with Magha reveals its inner drive.
At this stage, the soul in its fullness as a representative of the Supreme,
embarks upon its material journey. Ashlesha bestows the wisdom of the
Nagas enabling the soul to hold within itself all the Divine attributes