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 Alcoholism
According to Shri
B. V. Raman, main Jyotisha factors for alcoholism include:
EXAMPLE-1 The native is a lifetime, third-generation alcoholic (parents and grandparents also alcoholics). He is wealthy (Lakshmi Yoga). But he suffers from high blood [Mesha/6, drishti from uchcha Mangala] pressure, irregular heart rhythm [Kuja drishti to Budha] and angina [Surya-Kuja], as well as violent marital conflict [6]. All the Mesha/6 disabilities are greatly exacerbated by chronic alcoholism.
EXAMPLE-2 Comedian W. C. Fields, Afamous early 20th-century vaudeville and film performer. In addition to practicing lifetime alcoholism, Fields made a career out of joking about his addiction. A prominent "gin blossom" nose was vivid proof of his genuine alcohol abuse. Nevertheless Fields enjoyed a long life and national recognition as a comic theatrical performer. His wit and grace under pressure (helped no doubt by an always-full flask of "pineapple juice") were legendary. 100 years after their creation, the films of W. C. Fields can still make people laugh.
EXAMPLE-3 The native is a multi-generational alcoholic (parents and grandparents also alcoholics). The addiction began in his twelfth year of life. During his first Shani return at age 30, the consequences of his drug-alcohol abuse reached crisis levels (destruction of family, hospitalization, job loss) and he joined a 12-step recovery program. The native claims that threat of descent into alcoholism permanently lurks under the surface of his personality; yet his holy vow of abstinence(Shukra = L-9) has oppressed the condition for more than twenty years of complete sobriety. He is a counselor and guide to many who struggle with addictions. (L-7 Guru counseling + L-6 Shani addictions.)
EXAMPLE-4 The native is a multi-generational alcoholic (parents and grandparents also alcoholics). The addiction began during his military service in the 1950's. At that time, the US Army provided alcohol to the young troops as a means of assuaging their homesickness and frustration. The native drank heavily through all of life's milestones: marriage to a beautiful young professional woman [Budha/7], the birth of numerous children, and several promotions in career. However the amount of poison he was ingesting on a daily basis was quite substantial (amplification of Rahu and Guru to the afflicted Shukra/6).In Guru/Kuja/Shukra period, (L-7+L-8+L-2; Kuja = L-7 from Chandra) he died from cancer of the liver at age 35.
EXAMPLE-5 = G. W. Bush, USA President # 43 (2000-2008). Stopped alcohol at age 40. Bush was a notorious alcohol drinker in his college years and he continued a pattern of substance abuse throughout his early career in business. His school grades were very poor and his social life showed vulgar tendencies when he was drunk. In Guru/Rahu period 1986, at the age of 40, G. W. Bush self-declared a religious conversion and took Avow of abstinence from alcohol, which he has apparently maintained throughout his life. Rahu in 11 amplifies the native's empowerment to set goals and earn achievements. Rahu is also a karaka for new behaviors. Rahu can give the native the energy and motive to break throughrestrictive, outdated, dysfunctional old patterns. In this case it was a restrictive and outdated pattern in his social life, the habit of using excessive alcohol as a socializing tool, which Bush consciously decided to leave behind in his past while he matured into a new level of power and self-control. Note that Bush's exceptionally powerful Shani Mahadashawas scheduled to start immediately after Guru/Rahu period. He may well have intuited that he needed to break out of his old circle of small-town friends (11), his old socializing behaviors (11) and his old love of sugars esp alcohol (lord of Rahu = Shukra) in order to be properly positioned to develop the overt (L-7) and covert (L-8) relationships that Shani would demand. See the Washington Post article, Bush's Life-Changing Year Chandra-Kanya, with Ketu in Vrischika 3rd-from-Soma, meet's B.V. Raman's rules for alcoholic personality. However, Shukra and Shani are exceptionally strong in lagna; and Shani does very well in Pushya Nakshatra esp in a kendra. The determining factor in G. W. Bush's successful liberation from alcohol abuse is reputed to be his steady and sober wife Laura Bush. L-7 Shani + L-7-navamsha in lagna, the native is deeply personality-identified with married status and with the views of the spouse.  -5
Here is another famous nativity which contains the alcoholic profile: Mesha-Chandra with neechcha Shukra in 6th-from-Chandra, afflicted by Mangala the lord of 8th-from-Chandra.
A ddictions should be confirmed from Chandra Addictions including alcoholism are the result of the native's desire to feel stability, satisfaction and contentment. Typically in the addictive nativity: bhava-6+ L-6 and 6/8-from-Chandra are afflicted. As a self-medicating response to internal disagreement, frustration, and conflict, the native engages in compulsive, repeating patternsof mind-numbing activity.The numbing activities may include substance ingestion, as well as behaviors like compulsive sex, gambling, skin-cutting or impulse buying. Because the motive is an emotional need for comfort, it is essential to confirm a Jyotisha prediction for any substance addiction (substance or behavioral addiction) from Chandra. According to Shri Raman (above), Mesha lagna
nativities which include a troubled position of Shani,
or Kanya
lagna nativities which feature a troubled position of Shukra, are especially at risk.
It is doubly true that if Shani holds an
inauspicious angle from Mesha Chandra, or Shukra is badly placed vis-à-vis
Kanya Chandra, that the Jyotishi should be on the lookout for
evidence of substance/behavior addictions in the native's life.
In my own experience, Shani rarely signifies
an alcoholic or drug addict. Shani does signify vulgarity when ill-disposed;
but, as a rule, Shani people don't have time to drink to excess. They are too
busy doing service.
Neechcha Shukra
Alcohol = sugar, and "sugar" =
"Shukra".
The most common alcoholic profile is "Shukra in
trouble" e.g.,
neechcha
Shukra,or Shukra in house-6 of conflict,
Shukra + Rahu-Ketu, or Shukra "hiding out" in the imaginative,
private, "denial" land of Vyaya bhava.
In my experience, natives with Shukra in bhava-3 or bhava-8 are not
excessive drinkers. Rather, these folk tend to be pleasant socializers who may indulge
excessively at small-group parties (3) or confidential occasions
(8).
Vrischika
Governing poisons, intoxicants, and
penetration of taboo boundaries, Vrischika can be a great healer or a great
wounder. In medium-to-high consciousness incarnations, Vrischika lagna or
Chandra = the very picture of the "wounded healer" archetype. Often
suffers addiction to poisons in the first part of life, followed by healing
guidance to others trying to conquer addictions, in the second part of
life.
Beware Shani + Rahu or Shukra + Rahu in
intensely controlling Vrischika. This native will never give up one's
"entitlement" to self-poisoning, unless a splendidly good Guru might
intervene.
A bout medicine, poison, addictive substances, brain chemistry, and neutrality Most medicines are indeed poisons. Poisons can be curative when used in skillful application. Commonplace and widely appreciated poisons (drugs, alcohol, addictive foods such as refined sugars, addictive combinations of foods such as sugar-with-oils, etc.) can provide the brain with surface impressions of deep well-being. The brain chemistry of addictions is unfortunately very simple. The "high" doesn't last long and the brain requires larger and larger doses of the drug to maintain the impression of satisfaction and inner accord. The self-medicating alcoholic/addictis often desperate to escape the cycle and feels enslaved.
Emotional pain underlying the physical condition. The "body" is always the last to know! The physical body is not the cause of illness. Rather, the physical body is a *result* of conditions in place in the more subtle astral patterns which permeate and interpenetrate the interstitial spaces in the "atoms" which compose the physical body. Physical medicine is great when it works. If physical medicine doesn't seem to be working, consider the route of emotional healing. The best reference index matching negative emotional feelings to physical expressions of pain and distress is in the book You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay (orig. 1984).
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