Back to Basics: The Signs III - 4 Goals of Life

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Four Goals of Life

Today let’s look at something extremely interesting: The Goals of

Life, and how they map to the Zodiac signs and their building blocks.

 

Vedic Astrology identifies four goals of life:

Kama - Pleasure, because fun in important!

Artha - Wealth, because you can have fun for very long without some

money.

Dharma - Morality, because someone else is going to interfere with

your money and fun unless we all agree to cooperate and get along with

each other.

Moksha - Enlightenment, because sooner or later you realize even your

morality is selfish, and that selfishness causes pain - so the best

way to true fun is selflessness.

 

Remember the previous posts, where I explained that the Zodiac signs

get their basic qualities by the building blocks they are made out of.

I identified that one of those building blocks was the elemental

nature or a sign: fire, earth, air, and water. The four goals of human

life correspond to these elemental building blocks, so let’s

synthesize the whole thing here:

 

Elemental Building Blocks

Fire - Fire orients a sign’s energy towards morality (“Dharma”), the

East, and towards leadership. It causes strengthening of physiological

acids.

Earth - Earth orients a sign’s energy towards wealth (“Artha”), the

South, and towards work & service. It causes strengthening of

circulatory physiological agents.

Air - Air orients a sign’s energy towards pleasure (“Kama”), the

West, and towards business enterprise. It causes the physiology to

become mixed.

Water - Water orients a sign’s energy towards enlightenment

(“Moksha”), the North, and towards philosophical occupations.

 

Note that this is quite balanced. You might think that morality would

orient one towards philosophical lifestyles and occupations. Yes, but

it more so makes one want to be a leader because they are concerned

with the application of philosophy to practical purposes. They want to

make sure justice is established. Therefore morality makes one a

leader (to use the Sanskrit terms, Dharma makes one a Kshatriya).

 

Or, you might think that wealth would orient one towards business

enterprise. Yes it does, but even more so, it orients one towards the

drive to work hard. Therefore the goal of wealth inclines one towards

a work oriented lifestyle (Artha makes one a Shudra).

 

Similarly, you might have thought that pleasure, the most base goal,

would be associated with hard work, the most base lifestyle. But it is

not so. Pleasure as a goal of life, is associated with air, which is

not strong but which is quick and difficult to catch. Thus one with

pleasure as a goal is usually quite cunning and quick witted.

Therefore his lifestyle tends towards acquiring the direct means by

which to enjoy pleasure: money; s/he because inclined towards business

enterprise.