If Mars is your Planet🔗

'I worship Mars, born from the womb of the earth, who has the beautiful brilliance of lightning, the divine youth who carries a spear in his hand.'

• Veda Vyāsa

Dynamic: How we take actions and are able to be ourselves

Keywords: Energy, power, strength, courage, freshness, agility, competition

Sign: Scorpio, Aries

Color: Red

Gender: Masculine

Cakra: Maṇipūraka

Temperament: Tamas

Governing deity: Subrahmanya, Lord Śiva's son

Mars in Vedic Scriptures

Опсее when Lord Śiva was engrossed in meditation in his Mount Kailāš, three drops of perspiration originated from his forehead and fell to the earth. From those drops manifested a very beautiful child who was reddish in complexion and who had four arms.

The child was handed over to the earth goddess, Bhūmi, for upbringing. The child was named Bhaum as he was nurtured and brought up by 'Bhūmi' (a name of the planet earth).

When Bhaum grew up, he went to Kāśi and did a rigorous penance to please lord Śiva. Lord Śiva blessed him by granting him 'Mangala loka' (the Abode of Mangala, Mars), which was superior even to the 'Śukra loka' in the universe (the Abode of Śukra or Venus, the God of love). The same 'Bhaum' is established in the solar system by the name of Mangala (the auspicious planet Mars).