Health

Christopher Reeve

• Quadriplegia

• Chronic bacterial infections of the skin [Kumbha = 8]

• L-6 in 10: leadership = injury-and-disease awareness

Like many with Ketu in lagna, Christopher Reeve was considered exceptionally handsome and mysteriously attractive. His international public persona shot to stardom in via his lead role in the acclaimed popular "Superman" film first released in December 1978. Reeve reportedly endured an extremely vigorous physical exercise routine in order to transform his appearance (lagna) for Superman.

• Gochara Rahu-Ketu = Simha-Kumbha [navamsha lagna]

• Shukra- Chandra period = swakshetra L-4+L-11 Shukra + Chandra lagnesha

Reeve was well educated(uchcha Budha; L-4 swakshetra Shukra).

By all accounts her was possessed of an intensely penetrating and sometimes arrogant creativity = Chandra-Mangala in arrogant Jyestha = bhagya 5th house for theatre and politics

His father was a professor of literature. His stepfather was a successful stockbroker. Reeve graduated from Cornell University, and attended the Juilliard School. Numerous sequels of Superman and many well-received dramatic portrayals brought him continuous wealth and professional acclaim.

Raised with significant wealth and given strong financial management skills (Kanya-3; Chandra-Mangala Yoga) by a professional investor parent, Reeve earned handsomely and invested well during his celebrity theatrical years. He enjoyed long romantic partnerships, had three children, and married once.

• = Passion to be recognized as an equal in bargains or contracts with those of higher status, although one has not yet earned the right to genuine equality.

  • Desires to "marry up". In a spiritualized nativity, particularly fierce placements of Rahu-7 may elevate the partnership ambitions so high that one seeks union with divine entities.

  • Engages in exotic or taboo-breaking counseling-advising relationships. May be a wheeler-dealer, negotiator, contract-maker, facilitator, middle-man, or broker. Special propensity to enter into promises with privileged foreigners. Via deal-making instincts, ambitious promises, and veiled concessions made during the bargain, one may become involved in unsustainable alliances that are "over one's head".

  • Desires to "marry up" but due to these pressures, unstable and ambitious Rahu in 7 generally indicates several marriages or multiple attempts to re-engage in a definitive contractual trust.

D-30 Trimshamsha

• Rahu has tremendous power to cause trouble, as confirmed in Reeve's Trimshamsha which shows matters of 6 = Misfortunes.

• In D-30, Rahu/Ketu rising with the very strong Vrischika-Mangala , where Kuja = yogakaraka for the Karkata lagna. Thus the Surya-Rahu period although positively catastrophic in terms of negative physical consequences offered a surprising next step in creative career.

• Reeve's advocacy for spinal injury research and healing of victims was not only tremendous Seva; it also gained him millions of dollars in performance pay (yogakaraka Kuja in D-30).

The karakamsha denotes the area of life or social contribution for which the native is best known. It seems unlikely that the karakamsha of a wealthy distinguished person - especially an internationally acclaimed actor and multi-sport athlete - would feature bhava-6 as the karakamsha of the Jyotisha nativity.

Yet, it is accurate.

• A tragic equestrian accident causing spinal cord injury, at age 42, suddenly transformed Reeve's life from extremely active and articulate to quadriplegic, bound to a wheelchair via a mass of straps and tubes (Azlesa). Simha rules the spine.

L-6 in 10 = leadership (10) in medical (6) awareness

• One of the many notable features of this nativity is that Reeves' tragic accident powerfully increased his public visibility and his financial standing.

• While he lived, until age 52, Reeve used his fame, his intelligence, and his handicap to promote public awareness of quadriplegia and raise funds for medical research toward its cure.

• After the accident and despite his suffering - which included difficult verbal articulation - Reeve became an extremely popular speaker and writer on the topic of spinal cord injury and medical work toward its cure.

Interestingly, his peak wealth period actually occurred afterbecoming quadriplegic, when his very successful books and speeches earned top dollar on the US lecture circuit. (Note the exalted Budha, yuti L-2, and Shani.)

• Surya+Rahu+Budha period

• gochara Rahu-Ketu = Thula-Mesha

• 27-May-1995: a tragic equestrian Accident, resulting in spinal cord injury, forced Reeve into a severely handicapped lifestyle wherein he was strapped into a mobile chair connected to various tubes (feeding, breathing).

BPHS Chap. 52: 23-26 1/2. Mahadasha of Surya and antara-dasha of Rahu says that if Rahu occupies a kendra, the native may expect

• "infliction of wounds and distress to wife and children.
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Furthermore, BPHS Chap. 52: 30-31 says:

• "if Rahu is in Dhana, or Yuvati or, if Rahu is associated with the Lords of either of these Bhava, adverse effects, like premature death and danger from snakes will be derived."

Rahu's lord Shani = L-7+L-8; moreover, the lord of the mahadasha Surya = yuti Shani.

Rahu is a fierce enemy of Surya and Rahu could have caused premature death. Yet, L-8 always holds out the possibility of transformative healing.

However, Rahu occupies a trine from the mahadasha pati and Rahu 's lord Shani occupies the 6th navamsha, suggesting a terrible accident a bit more than immediate death. .

Reeve' radix shows L-8 Shani occupying house-3 = 8th-from-8th. Shani in house-3 gives depression but also stamina, persistence, and the karma of mental frustration.

Normally, Shani in Sahaja-bhava gives pessimism and a critical attitude; in addition, Shani yuti uchcha Budha = a stickler for perfection.

• Combined further with maraka L-2 Surya, Reeve was also blessed with a powerful capacity for speech communications.

• The net result is that he had the intellectual capacity to make projections and plans (Budha) for a creative public role (Surya) which accommodated and even capitalized on the severe restrictions (Shani) imposed by his quadriplegia.

During nearly a decade of extraordinary recovery and rejuvenation (8) efforts,including groundbreaking physical improvements in the nervous system (Kumbha) previously thought impossible for quadriplegics, Reeve remained powerfully in the limelight as a spokesperson for people with disabilities - especially paralysis. Chandra lagnesha becomes the mahadasha pati in 1999, as his speaking career comes into top national prominence. Reeve traveled extensively to present himself in person (lagnesha) under bright stage lights -- laying in his wheelchair bound by mass of straps and tubes including his microphone wires! (Rahu = straps, tubes, snakes, wires)

Surya Mahadasha

Surya = yuti + diligent Shani + uchchamsha L-3 Budha = Sahaja bhava-3 = writing-craft.

• the severely handicapped Reeve produced an influential book on Emotional Paralysis that was very well received.

The power of this healing book is especially clear through the lord-of-navamsha-of-L-6 method.

• Shani occupies a navamsha of Chandra, which points to deep psycho-emotional intuition of fallen Moon

• As the seed of the accident. Scorpio Moon = a detective and psychiatrist; a student of human motive.

Reeve wanted to know something about the depths of the human soul. He accomplished that goal through the mode of physical injury, associated with Scorpio Mars (who dominates radix Moon and thus Mars imposes His huntsman's active lifestyle upon the otherwise passive Moon). Reeve was studying something. He was researching healing powers. Now he knows!

Observations arising from the navamsha-lord method are never intended to blame the victim nor reduce compassion for the terrible pain of illness and injury.

Rather, the method will usually reveal the script = what the native is intending to discover psycho-emotionally from their childhood or past lives, through the agency of accident, illness, poverty, or conflict.

Reeve's remarkable ability to continue to generate an excellent income through speaking and writing for nearly a decade after becoming quadriplegic, is indicated by exalted Budha in Sahaja 3 = self-made wealth, yuti with L-2 Surya the wealth-lord. Working tirelessly on the inspirational lecture circuit, Reeve was said to earn more in speaking fees than many ex-presidents of USA.

During Chandra Mahadasha , Reeve's remarkably auspiciousChandra-Mangala yogain putra bhava infused him with such highly creative and self-expressive energy that he continued working in performance arts throughout his debilitating paralysis phase.

• As lord of two auspicious houses, Mangala is Yogakaraka for Karka lagna; and Chandra is lagnesha.

• Reeve's Chandra-Mangala yoga is very fortunate indeed.

However despite the individual excellence of both Chandra and Kuja and their chandra-managala-yoga power to bring theatrical talent, wealth, and public acclaim - Kuja's role in the misfortune-making D-30 is unmistakable.

Reeve's courageous publicly-acclaimed creativity in Chandra Mahadasha chooses A tantrik channel, attracting the energy of tragedy and human extremes. As a tribute to the excellence of these planets, Reeve was able to send out a huge message of healing even while he endured profound frustration and pain..

In Chandra-Shani period = age 51 = 08-Oct-2004 = the green-light signal "go forward" finally arrived. Having completed a significant karmic obligation, Mr. Reeves' flesh-body died of infection from a pressure wound, a common hazard of severe paralysis.

• Shani = marana-karaka "maraka" L-7. Shani gains even more maraka empowerment due to the extra exotic qualities of a "public death" contributed His tenant the ambitious agent Rahu-Makara. Makara = high visibility, lawful, public sight.

• L-2 Surya = also 'maraka' . Yet Shani dominates Surya by degree. Shani thus appropriates Surya's maraka powers, advancing the medically unbalanced (Kanya) conditions of both heat-infection (Surya) and paralysis-brittleness (Shani)

• Death of the flesh-body by means of pressure wound and exhaustion (Shani)

• The spirit lives on, following that clear light toward the next phase of wisdom development.

Future Life Prognosis:

Bhava-2 = part of the profile of one's "future" life. All humans crave to increase awareness in future lifetimes.

Reeve appears to crave awareness (Budha) of healing, death and rebirth.

L-2 Surya is helped by company of the exalted super-intelligent Budha, although Surya is somewhat restrained also by the karmic responsibility-and-restriction effect of Shani.

Future life will exhibit high intelligence and high responsibility, perhaps in the role of a knowledgeable medical healer who has a strong awareness of anatomical reality as well as the cycles of death and rebirth.