This dedicated wife and mother raised three
wonderful, highly intelligent sons. The children received excellent professional-scientific
educations. They have all demonstrated high levels of
social responsibility in their communities. All three are distinguished, creative
thinkers who are agents of social change.
Despite the success of raising her live children to
happy & productive adulthood, the
loss of her third stillborn child remains a deep sorrow for this mother.
General conditions in the nativity,
regarding children and childbirth:
Rahu
in Sarpa-sapa Yoga
Sarpa-sapa Yoga
(not to be confused with Kala-Sarpa
yoga) =
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Sarpa-sapa Yoga indicates possible sudden harm to children.
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Traditionally it is said that children will die, due to the curse of
snakes. (Rahu is a snake-like god.)
General conditions of the child-karakas:
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L-1
Shukra occupies 11th-from-5th = fruitful for children in
general
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L-5
Shani occupies 12th-from-5th = loss of children
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L-5 Shani occupies friendly signs
of Shukra in D-9 and D-7
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L-5 Shani = exalted in the 10th
saptamsha, very favorable
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In general Shani is not too harmful
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L-9
Budha occupies 8th-from-9th = sudden, forced changes for
the third child
Guru
is associated with some child-destroying influences, but L-3/L-6 Guru is not
a default killer
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Guru occupies the sign of friend Surya, in the
gainful 11th house.
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Atmakaraka L-6 Guru has the radix superior degree
of 29:29:30 = an extraordinarily
weak "gandanta" position that is *unstable* and easily
influenced by marauding malefics..
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L-6 = 2nd-from-5th = potential to
trigger the poisoning death of a child - but this potential must be
activated
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Guru owns and aspects L-8 Shukra. As 12th-from-9th,
Shukra = potential loss of the third child - but this potential must be
activated
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Guru = yuti maraka L-2/L-7 Mars in radix, navamsha,
and saptamsha. Guru has the superior degree in all the Guru-Kuja
pairings.
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When activated, Guru can execute Kuja's maraka duties,
exacerbated by the Sarpa-sapa yoga upon Rahu in domain-5.
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Guru, Shukra, and Kuja occupy a navamsha of Guru
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Thus Guru *can* provide the material expression to
the psychic agenda of L-8 Shukra and L-2/L-7 Kuja.
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Guru is also with Kuja in saptamsha, in a D-7 rashi of
Shani, the radix-4 for loss of children. - but this potential must be
activated
Guru's involvement in the
Sarpa-sapa yoga remains dormant until activated.
The
activator = Gochara Rahu-Ketu transiting Simha-Kumbha
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On the day of the stillbirth, transiting Rahu
entered the rashi of Simha, contacting unstable gandanta Guru exactly (Rahu
travels "backwards" so Rahu's first entry into Simha rashi =
29:59 the degree of the mother's natal Guru.)
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Rahu's transit activated Guru's
malefic potential to poison the child through extreme
stimulation of the existing Sarpa-sapa yoga.
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In the Shukra/Guru stillbirth, the baby -
who had been healthy according to all pre-natal check-ups - was
asphyxiated by fecal matter ("mecomium") in birth canal, and was
dead upon emergence.
By contrast, a healthy son was born in the
earlier "unactivated" Shukra/Kuja period.
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Despite Kuja = maraka L-2/L-7, and casting drishti
upon Rahu in domain-5, the native's eldest son was born successfully in the
period of Shukra/Kuja. (Indeed that son is now nearly 60 years old.)
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During the Shukra/Kuja period birth, Rahu-Ketu
transited Vrischika-Vrishabha (Scorpio-Taurus) which did not activate the
Sarpa-sapa yoga
Vimshottari timelords
in force at time of four infant births for this mother:
L-8 Shukra
effect
The effects of L-8 Shukra are activated during
the Shukra/Guru period because Guru is the dispositor of Shukra.
L-8 = lord of 12th-from-9th = strongest child-loss effect
re: the 3rd child = domain-9.
To find the children in birth
order in the radix chart:
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First
child healthy, represented by house 5.
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Second child healthy, represented by
house 7.
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Third child stillborn, represented by
house 9.
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Fourth child healthy, represented by
house 11.
Rahu effect on the three living
children
Rahu is particularly disruptive in Kumbha, the rashi of conservative,
stability-loving Shani.
True to Rahu's domain-5 nature, this woman's children have brought great
social tension and drama into
her
life.
Her sons are eccentric, talented, pro-risk personalities
showing a mixture of genius and social disregard. The family is
wealthy (L-2 in 11; L-11 yuti L-5) and all progeny are
leaders in New Age fields (Kumbha).
The mother's mental & physical health have vacillated,
due to Moon/6. There was some serious post-natal depression which in the 1950's
and 1960's was culturally ignored. L-10 Chandra in domain-6
generally indicates that the native's social dignity is marginalized.
She grieves privately for the lost third child, even today. Due
to L-5 Shani in the super-conventional swakshetra domain-4, the
native's culture does not acknowledge or support her claim to
grief.
As teens and adults, the living children challenged social norms
(Rahu in Kumbha) and over-used drugs (Guru yuti Ketu). Because Saturn
is strong and grounded in the mother's rashi, the children's drug
usage was not socially damaging.
The children continue
to serve society as educated well-paid professionals.
Rahu period general effects
Rahu casts drishti to the
lagna while amplifying lord Shani. During Rahu's 18-year-long mahadasha, the
native developed a highly eccentric personality and her adult
children's non-conformism reached new heights. However these troubles
never exceeded social tolerance due to the constraining effect of
stable, swakshetra Shani (the basic respectful values of the mother's
home culture).
When Rahu-Ketu dominate domain-5, a great flexibility
toward social norms is required of the
mother. She has succeeded largely because, despite of
her conservative upbringing (Capricorn dominance in house 4) she
has allowed love and freedom of through to reign over convention.
Grandchildren arrive
Rahu/Rahu period and again Rahu/Guru period
brought to this mother the joys of
grand-parenting.
Neither Rahu/Rahu nor Rahu/Guru period
were disturbed by "triggering" Rahu transits through Kumbha-Simha.
Indeed the Sarpa-sapa yoga in the mother's chart does
not harm her grandchildren. While children may be indicated via domain-5 or
domain-9, grandchildren are represented only through domain-9)
updated: 21 August 2008