This
artistically gifted, intuitive, and well educated businesswoman died of
ovarian cancer at age
forty-nine.
She struggled courageously with her disease for several years,
attempting a variety of material cures, some very expensive & exotic, before
succumbing to death against her will.
She
was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the early days of Budha's mahadasha, early
1998. Although she experienced several periods of remission, Budha's
proximity to severe maraka Shukra (within one degree) plus His illness-causing
sixth lordship would guarantee a terminal condition.
Timing
of Death:
May, 2003: in a state of
advanced pain, anger, bitterness, & frustration - yet surrounded by very
loving attendants.
L3-L6 Mercury, immediately conjunct the maraka 2nd-and-7th lord
Shukra, is a tremendous maraka bringing a prolonged illness, and mental
misery.
On the day of death, both gochara Budha
and
gochara Shukra crossed the exact degree of her radix janma lagna.
Note also these two marakas, together at birth, and causing the
native's death, simultaneously moved through the navamsha's maraka 7th house,
showing the husband's experience of the death of his wife.
"Mercury, when malefic, works much misery by producing wind imperceptibly in the regions of the privities and the stomach, by bringing of leprosy, indigestion, colic,
diarrhea and other diseases, and also through the instrumentality of spirits, the devoted servants of Vishnu of whom the leader is called
Buddha."
~~Jataka
Parijata, Ch. 2, Shloka 78
Surrounded as she was by many loving friends and
family -- who were perhaps better able to accept the injustice of a death she
did not want -- we can also acknowledge Mercury's auspicious occupancy of
dharma sthana, and His beneficial relationship to L5 Surya, significator of
the soul.
Both Mercury and Venus occupy 22 degrees of dharma
sthana, in
the dwadamsha of "yogic practices".
Although angry with abusive relatives and suffering waves of
excruciating pain, this dying woman nevertheless received an exceptionally
high level of religious and spiritual guidance as she worked toward the final
breath.
She died with head pointed upward, an auspicious state in which
the spirit moves comfortably outward, through the crown chakra.
Many
elaborate Buddhist religious ceremonies were performed for her in the days
following her physical death.
Due to Shani, who was gochara the 3rd-house of mental health
at time of death, she may not have been entirely at peace in the time of
passage. However she was blessed by a tremendous outpouring of
unconditional love and support which no doubt smoothed her journey to the
other side.
No matter how materially troublesome, a 9th-house planet
will have good spiritual results!
Conditions
of death are found in the details of domain-8.
As the maraka pair Budha/Shukra transited the rashi lagna,
they simultaneously cast a ray up on L-8 Mangala, in the maraka 7th
-
"ripening" the conditions suitable for physical death.
Physical conditions of death =
-
domain-8 = Vrischikha =
sexual-reproductive system
-
L-8 Mangala
sharing maraka domain-7 with Soma's dispositor, Shani.
Emotional conditions of death =
-
Shani's hierarchical
excellence in exaltation brings highly trained death managers and Guru's drishti
to randhra bhava infuses the death scene with compassion and wisdom.
-
Native experienced a great deal of personal anger
& body pain [lagnesha Mars] but the
supporting planets - Shani & Guru - brought much stability & spiritual
benefit to the overall death situation.
Chandra is quite weak in Kumbha, where He rationalizes and
argues instead of intuiting & accepting.
Thus the body's own healing
systems, ruled by the Moon, are compromised naturally - giving no real challenge
to a deadly disease, during the era of the disease-giving 6th lord.
There is long-lasting frustration with the inevitability of
the turning of the cycle of birth & death caused by Moon's inability to relax
& accept. Soma-Kumbha is a scientist's Moon, always looking for an
abstract, conceptual solution to the problem. Unable to simply accept the problem.
Emotionally, this death (and its
immediate after-effects) was quite troublesome for the native.
Chandra's
lord Shani in 9th-from-Moon, and uccha, is highly auspicious.
The native received a remarkably high level of
spiritual support throughout her illness & death. She had the money
& the social connections to provide access some remarkable teachers & healers along the
way.
Buddhas and Bodhisattva's were tangibly present to many at the time
of her passing. In spite of herself, she received a powerful psycho-spiritual
education in the process of fighting with death.
All of these efforts
will pay rich rewards in her next life. Subsequent life can be read using the
current life's dhana bhava as janma lagna.
updated: 28 July 2008