I came across this description of needs on an NVC(Nonviolent Communication) related website which I found really helpful.
Connect to the Living Energy of Your Needs
For many, the word “need” is associated with lack, neediness, and scarcity. These associations are the opposite of the meaning of needs in Nonviolent Communication (NVC). In NVC, needs are the motivational energy of our innate wholeness and desire to grow, like the energy of a plant pushing it up through the soil and toward the sun.
- Eric Bowers
P.S. Interesting to see me coming across this during Exalted Moon and Exalted Jupiter. Happy Janmashtami!
I don´t know if I understand you as intended, but the raksasas come to mind, and how Ernst relate them to the adityas. Need as a motivational force. "Necessity is the mother of invention." As expressed, according to Ernst, by the Tvatha nakshatra.
There is a rune bearing the name of need, "nautiz" that is often feared, but I like to see it as challenge, rather than lack.
Ganesh takes obstacles away from our path, but also creates challenges for us to overcome.
I like to think of nautiz, need, as a birth canal. Being born is always painful.
Just a few reflections, hopefully not just banalities.
Staffan