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The seventh or invisible star of this asterism, the seventh sister, is said to be
married to Dhruva, the pole star or the rishi who governs it. As the entire
globe rotates around the pole, Krittika is the seat of this guiding impulse and
its sevenfold manifestation through which life on Earth proceeds. The
relationship of Krittikas with the pole star emphasizes the importance of a
central and invisible principle from which the laws of life
derive.
An important characteristic of Krittika is its feminine or passive quality, the
Shakti tattwa, which is abundantly represented by Bharani, the second
asterism. Under the third lunar mansion, differentiation of the feminine
principle begins. This aspect is emphasized by the myths connected with it.
Karttikeya, the son of Lord Shiva, is linked with Krittika, from which his
name derives. Shiva is the most powerful of the Hindu gods. His power is
rarely used for cosmic creation. His procreative seed is employed only when
the other gods prove ineffective.
In Hindu mythology, it is said that there was a time when the demons were
destroying the world and creating tremendous problems for all creatures,
even the gods. To defeat them, the gods obtained the seed of the Lord Shiva,
which refers to his virility, energy or power. When the gods got Shiva's seed,
it required special arrangements to preserve it. It had such a fiery quality that
an ordinary receptacle or womb could not hold it. The seed was thus cast in
fire and protected by water. The Krittikas were requested to nourish it in
their womb. Karttikeya was thereby born and on the seventh day after his
birth killed the mighty demon Taraka, and thereby delivered the gods from
the demons who had defeated them.
Those of spiritual knowledge are aware of the importance of the divine seed,
the essence of fire or solar positive creative energy. They also recognize the
importance of the principle of water, the lunar passive preservative quality.
Essentially, man is a son of God, a fragment of the Absolute, the nature of
which resembles fire. For his development the fluid, the bythos, is necessary.
It provides the ever changing conditions under which the primeval essence is
enabled to manifest at different levels while preserving its essential nature.
For the growth and nurturing of the individual soul, the fiery seed
fragmented from the Absolute, the motherly influence and care bestowed by
the third lunar mansion Krittika is necessary.
The influence of Krittika builds the divine qualities in man. The materiality
of existence, the demonic forces, expressed in many forms such as false
humility and self-centered docility, is incongruous with the radiation of
Krittika. The Pleiades are the collective womb of the passive septenary
principle. They enable the divine downpour that cleanses all the sheaths of