The world is driven by purpose and desire. Basically, Mars and Rahu run today’s world. Mars gives the drive and Rahu gives the passion towards our purpose. In today’s times we do everything in our conscious hours towards these two planets.
We wake up by an alarm, something which will infuse purpose for us to wake up in the morning. Our innate body hates the alarm, as it makes us leave our sub-conscious world, which is our Ketu. It flows against the Kapha element of our body (Jupiter) which takes time to convert our body into a Agni burning mode. All of this is overridden by the alarm (Mars and Rahu) quite vigorously as there is a purpose to reach office or school on time. No matter if there is a desire or not (pure Rahu), Mars pushes through in the early mornings. As the day moves forward, Rahu takes over. We take our morning coffee and check our phone (Rahu, the world of Maya). Ads start telling us what our desires are, friends on FB shows us what happy times are missing out on, and kicks up our Rahu to join hands with our Mars for the planning our day. Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and all others , keep playing their roles during the day but we keep serving our two masters – Mars and Rahu. We learn for a purpose, we earn for a purpose, we eat for a purpose, we walk for a purpose.
Infact, we even corrupt our children, who are pure at heart and want to learn for the sake of learning. We ask them, what will you do learning a violin, how much does a violinist make? We infuse unwanted purpose and invigorate their Mars. We compare them to other children and drive their Rahu crazy, up until a point, that they become like the rest of us. We are like zombies of Mars and Rahu who cannot let the Jupiter or Ketu live in the other person, we have to bite.
Our jobs are designed in a way that they impede our natural progress, and bring the element of purpose and desire front and center. Everything we do, is for a promotion, for a raise, a measly one-dinner -a- month amount keeps dangling in front of us, for a whole year, only to know that the markets are tight this year and we have to now again continue running after the false purposes which were promised to us. Have you ever tried to learn something in your job without any reason. That was your Jupiter caressing your Moon and Mercury. It felt good right? But then what happened? Reality hit and it showed no promise. Mars did not want any of that and Rahu conjured dreams of continuing what you are doing as the Promise Land was always around the corner.
Sports is another area of our lives which is heavily influenced by these two gone wrong. We breed sports people now, at our homes, at the academy, in schools and in leagues. We have even reduced formats of games to give thrills in smaller chunks of time. We want more thrill, more money, more ads, more glamor in much much lesser time. It’s a messed up affair of Mars and Rahu and we are bending over backwards for them. Not much is “for the love of the game” anymore.
A strong Mars and a well placed Rahu with all the right aspects is very important to ensure we nurture our Moon(mind), evolve our Mercury (intellect), feed our Jupiter (Knowledge), enjoy our Venus (blessings), enhance our Sun (health), overcome our Satrun (obstacles) and at the end of the make peace with our Ketu (let go).