Mars — essence and what was added to it
Mars: bala — strength.
Essence: bala — strength. Stated at bphs-santhanam 3.12-13.
The three registers
One root, read at three levels. These are our derivations, not printed anywhere: each one has to follow from the root word above, and a reading that cannot be traced back to it is the fluff this method exists to remove.
Material. Land, property, machinery, tools, competition, and physical labour. Anything won rather than given, and anything requiring the willingness to be resisted.
Mental. Courage, initiative, temper, and the capacity to sustain conflict without collapsing. The mental Mars question is never ‘is there anger’ but ‘can the anger be aimed’.
Spiritual. Tapas - deliberate, chosen difficulty. The discipline of a practice that hurts and is continued anyway. Mars is why asceticism is a strength doctrine and not a sadness doctrine.
What genuinely derives from it
courage, initiative, conflict, injury, deliberate force, siblings, land, surgery, heat
What was appended — and is not carried here
These do not follow from the essence. Where they encode a social rank or a rule about who a person may be, we do not use them.
- warrior caste assignment
- kuja dosha as marriage gate
How to use this
A claim that follows from the essence is carried. A claim that does not was appended, whenever it was written — and almost all of it turns out to concern caste, gender role or marriage eligibility.
Mars says it in 20 seconds
Mars says: That friend who's starting Monday Read what it says
Get up. That friend who's starting Monday? It's been Monday for three years. Send them this. I rule drive. Yours is on a break. Now go. Starting Monday.
Mars says: That friend who joined the gym in January Read what it says
Get up. That friend who joined the gym in January? Twelve months paid. Went twice. Send them this. I'm proud they signed up. I did not say that. I rule drive. Yours quit in February. Now go. March is named after me.
The other grahas
- Mercury — essence and what was added to it
- Moon — essence and what was added to it
- Rahu — essence and what was added to it
- Saturn — essence and what was added to it
- Sun — essence and what was added to it
- Venus — essence and what was added to it
- Jupiter — essence and what was added to it
- Ketu — essence and what was added to it
All grahas and sources· The writing that uses them· How a reading is computed