Example Nativity:

In her early 30's, Princess Diana Spencer of the UK revealed that she had long suffered from bulimia.

Her eating disorder involved food gorging to the point of illness, followed by compulsive vomiting; the native gains the brain-numbing, mouth-pleasure of eating but self-deprives oneself of the nutrient which might be absorbed by the intestinal process.

Thus a slender, boyish, fashionable physique could be obtained even by a woman who ate heartily and bore two strappingly healthy children.

• Diana's chart shows both Ketu + Chandra and lagnesha Mangala in shad-ashtaka 6-8 from Shani.

• Also L-2 (eating, food, mouth) neechcha Guru is heavily oppressed by Shani.

• Powerful swakshetra Shani in lagna

Example nativity:

celebrity actress, model Margaux Hemingway

At the peak of her 1970's career (Shukra Mahadasha) super-model and film actress Ms. Hemingway was reckoned a great beauty. She held million-dollar fashion-modeling contracts and started work as a film actress. She was famous for her tall physique, her high cheek-bones and her beautiful, engaging smile.

Unfortunately, she struggled with epilepsy, alcoholism, and binge eating with bulimia -- Perhaps complicated by a bi-polar condition.

Her life ended in suicide at age 42

(Chandra-Rahu period; Rahu gives effect of maraka L-2 Shukra + Rahu).

• Lagnesha Mangala 6th-from-Shani

• super-strong uchcha perfectionist kendra Shani casts drishti upon lagna + bhava-4 (= emotional security)

• L-4 Chandra = security, belongingness = neechcha Jyestha Chandra in 8

• Jyestha Chandra = an emotional need to refuse human advice, preferring to seek counsel only with the Divine. In Jyotisha, the Jyestha Moon is considered especially prone to mental conflict including brain issues, due to Mangala's animosity toward Budha.

• L-2 for eating, drinking, 'what goes in the mouth' = Shukra +Rahu, taking drishti from perfectionist Shani

• (2nd husband = Shukra L-2 + Rahu was a foreigner, the Venezuelan film-maker Bernard Foucher.)

Example nativity:

Jane Fonda

• celebrity actress

• best-selling author

• 50+ year career

• third life-partner of media magnate CNN Ted Turner

The actress, political activist, and businesswoman Jane Fonda writes that she suffered a long battle with bulimia, from her age 16 until approx her age 40.

• Whilst in forced containment in a mental hospital , Ms. Fonda's bi-polar mother had committed suicide at young Jane's age 13 in the gruesome style of slicing her throat open with a razor .

After this type of severe childhood trauma, some coping mechanism type responses were crucial to survival.

Dysfunctional adaptations enabled the young woman to stay grounded on Earth. It would have been a very difficult time in life, for the young student and aspiring actress.

• Bulimia began in period and ceased (self-reported) in

• L-8 Budha self-destruction and rebirth in bhava-2 = mouth, food = transformation and the capacity to write about it later (she is a celebrated author due to strong graha in 3 and 5)

• Ketu in bhava-7 - initial lack of clarity about the point of lasting balance (generally multiple marriages ending in abandonment due to disinterest)

• neechcha Guru in 3 = depression + misplaced confidence in material success "faith in stones and bones"

• correcting the imbalance via Shani period near the age of 40, when Shani in the parivartamsha is able to do good work with maturity and law

• Shani does not harm the lagna. Physical appearance remains spectacularly attractive due to Rahu + Shukra. Chandra is harmed by the drishti of both Rahu and neechcha Guru which is eventually alleviated by parivartamsha benefits with age.

"... Motion and emotion must balance.

As in heaven [your own mind] so on earth [in your body and environment].

This is the great law of life."

You will find throughout all nature the law of action and reaction, of rest and motion.

These two must balance, then there will be harmony and equilibrium.

• You are here to let the life principle flow through you rhythmically and harmoniously.

• The intake and the outgo must be equal.

• The impression and the expression must be equal.

• All your frustration is due to unfulfilled desire.

If you think negatively, destructively, and viciously,

• these thoughts generate destructive emotions

• that must be expressed and frequently expressed as ulcers, heart trouble, tension, and anxieties,

What is your idea or feeling about yourself now?

Every part of your being expresses that idea.

Your vitality body , financial condition, friends, and social status

represent a perfect reflection of the idea you have of yourself

This is the real meaning of what is impressed in your subconscious mind and what is expressed in all phases of your life.

We injure ourselves by the negative ideas we entertain.

How often have you wounded yourself by getting angry, fearful, jealous, or vengeful?

These are the poisons that enter your subconscious mind.

You were not born with these negative attitudes.

Feed your subconscious mind life-giving thoughts

and you will wipe out off the negative patterns lodged within it.

As you continue to do this, all the past will be wiped out and remembered no more."

~~ Joseph Murphy, Ph.D. (1963). The Power of Your Subconscious Mind,p 38-39