Children 3:

Five children, orphaned

This hardworking mother of five died of heart failure in her 35th year, leaving five motherless children behind.

Tragically, her husband died only a few months later, leaving five young orphans. 

The 19-year mahadasha of L-9 Shani is a highly mixed experience in this native's life. 

Shani is essentially beneficial in his home sign in the auspicious dharma bhava.    However, Shani is badly fallen in Mesha navamsha. 

As the all-good L-9 of the rashi chart who also receives drishti of the exalted Guru, Shani will give good results in outer life.  He provides traditional values, respectability, children, religious education, dedication to elders and tradition, and modest income through steady, disciplined work. 

However in navamsha which reveals conditions of the marriage, Shani is quite inauspicious.  He is fallen as L6 in the 8th navamsha with Shukra, karaka for love of the spouse, suggesting animosity arising from secret matters of the spouse, trauma of war, hate, bloodshed, etc - all the evils of barbarian Mesha Shani. (In fact, the spouse was heavily traumatized by his classified service in the Korean War.)

Regarding children,

• L-9 Shani is the karaka of separations.  He benefits enormously from drishti of exalted Guru the karaka for children, but Guru is also L-8, creator of the conditions for death.  So in the end Shani is fortunate for producing children but not for maintaining them.

• L-5 Budha strong in His own sign (Mithuna) occupying dhana bhava the maraka house, suggests the children would have a knowledge of death.  Yuti Surya L-4 and Shukra L-1/L-6, the knowledge of death may well be through their mother (L-4) and her health issues (L-6).

• In saptamsha, L-9 Shani occupies the 5th house of children, strengthening D-1's signification of this mother's commitment to transfer her traditional religious values and commitment to public service to her children.

• Ketu/Rahu dominate her 5th house, showing that something peculiar would happen with her children.  Ketu occupying putra bhava additionally suggests detachment and separation from children on the karmic agenda.

The charts of all five of these children display a strong "nodal" profile, very prominently affected by actions of Rahu/Ketu.

Marriage occurred in Shani/Budha period, where Budha is D9's lagnesha.  Nodes at time of marriage were correctly positioned in Scorpio/Taurus.

• First child was born in the expected time, bhukti of L-5 Budha.

• Three more children born in bhukti of lagnesha and lord of saptamsha, Shukra

• A miscarriage occurred during bhukti of maraka L-7/L-12  Mangala, karaka of blood and losses.

• A final child was born in bhukti of Rahu, who is empowered for childbirth not only because He gives the pro-child results of his lord L-9 Shani, but also because He aspects L-5 Budha.

Sudden death of the mother occurred during the classic gochara Rahu-Ketu return near the 36th year - ON THE 5/11 AXIS of the rashi chart and ON THE 1/7 AXIS of the navamsha while gochara Rahu/Ketu contacted mahadasha-pati Shani in the saptamsha. 

A very potent time for sudden upheaval and catastrophic change of all kinds, but considering its movement through 5/11 in rashi and contacting L9 in saptamsha, the implications for children are heightened.  All children were under twelve at the time, and devastated by their mother's death.  

However, perhaps due to the rigorous moral and technical education they received from their mother during her demanding mahadasha of L9/L11 Shani, all of the children were well prepared for public life.  Each completed their graduate education and all have prospered as adults.

updated: 04 July 2010  

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