This
professional woman married in Shani/Shukra
simultaneous
with the signature Rahu-Ketu transit to radix nodes.
Despite medical fertility treatments and attempted adoptions,
she and her husband were deprived of children until the classic period for
birth of children: Shani/Guru.
Shani mahadasha
enforced many years of waiting, working hard, accepting limitations, depression,
and finally acceptance of loss. Then suddenly, at the tail-end of
this battering of Shani, in the short space of Guru bhukti, this older mother
conceived and bore two very-close-in-age beautiful sons.
Shani the karaka of separation, delay, frustration, and poverty
is very strong in his own sign, in the 5th house of children. Shani
occupying putra bhava often means lifelong childlessness unless
Guru provides a helpful drishti to the
fertility-karaka's L-5, L-9, or Chandra.
Ketu can instill mystical
perceptions and meditative peace in some planetary arrangements, but when Ketu
conjoins material-bondage Shani the result is more often uncertainty, confusion,
and depression. At first glance, then, we might declare this woman
sorrowfully infertile.
From
the beginning of Shani's harsh mahadasha, the native suffered numerous health problems.
Irregular growths (Guru) of inner "skin" (Kumbha rules skin) appeared to
be preventing fertility. Medical treatments were both painful and
ineffective. Eventually the young couple abandoned hope of producing
a natural family.
Shani's mahadasha activates his rashi houses - 5th of children,
and 6th of animosity/disease. The wife's Shani mahadasha also activates
navamsha 1st and 12th houses, which signify her husband's experience of wife's
body and wife's body's hospitalization.
Guru's usual beneficence is deeply compromised in the hostile
sign of Kumbha in Ari Bhava, the
maximum-dusthana house.
Fertility waiting, despite the frustration, because
Guru aspects Chandra-yuti-L9-Shukra.
The mahadasha of Guru's dispositor Shani combined with the
bhukti of Guru the child-karaka activated the inherent fertility promised in
Guru's drishti to Chandra/L-9 Shukra.
Furthermore and very importantly,
Rahu-Ketu had returned to their natal
rashi positions on the 5/11 child-goals axis, greatly enhancing the powers of
the mahadasha-pati 5th lord Shani, and creating the extraordinary karmic
"breakthrough" that typically accompanies
the second full nodal return.
Both pregnancies were - given Guru's compromised position -
predictably complicated. However the native was so cautious and attentive
to detail after 17 years of practicing Shani's "due diligence" that all problems
were skillfully addressed.
The native was of course quite overwhelmed - in midlife - with
her surprise abundance. Luckily the mahadasha of her exalted,
panch-maha-purusha Budha, which brings favorable auspice into every area
of her life, ensued immediately after the children were born.
Thus she entered a period of great happiness, which
should sustain her through the duration of Budha mahadasha - another 17 years.
updated: 21 August 2008