Alcoholism, Depression, Early Death - Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha

Alcoholism, Marijuana, Psycho-tropics, Depression, Health Professions

Shukra, Drugs, and Loss of Balancein bhava-6

This beautiful, friendly, and intelligent young womanbecame a teenage red-wine alcoholic.

She later supplemented the wine with hallucinogenicand numbing agents such as marijuana, LSD, and other "party" drugs.

The father was absent during her upbringing (Shani/9 plus L-9 in bhava-8) and her formative years were confused by Ketu Mahadasha.

At onset of Shukra Mahadasha, in high school, the young native's lonely single mother invited the daughter to become her wine-drinking companion.Not only is swakshetra Chandra exceptionally strong in the emotional bond with the mother, but Shukra in 2nd-from-mother shows the mother's mouthis prone to indulgence. (bhava-2 = 'intake'.)

Behari says regarding Venusin the 4th pada of Magha:

"You are always worried about the health of your mother."

Following a 20-year addiction, the native was killed in a solo automobile accident whilst driving under the influence, age 36. The planetary circumstance of her death are examined more fully in death-chart-1.

Numerous health issues present immediately in the high-traffic radix bhava-6 for conflict and disease.

L-6 Kuja occupies Ripusthana, along with L-3+ L-5+ L-6+ L-8 and Rahu.
Kuja/Kanya in 6 is a known factor for crash-type accidents because Kuja is L-1 of Mesha lagna - generating blows to the head.
Shukra is the karaka for "sweet pleasures" including sex and drugs. The key addiction item in this radix is Shukra's lord Ravi who occupies house-6 amplified by Rahu. Shukra is notably sensual in Putra bhava, but Shukra becomes an actual health hazard when His lord is both weak and troubled in Ari bhava.
Note also the highly intelligent uchcha Budhain house-6. This native was a very successful rationalizerof her substance issues. Budha gave her the perfect cover-up.
- As an adult, this native simultaneously managed her substance intake with her career as a government health care worker specializing in drug addiction research and treatment. She wrote copious reports which involved daunting mental challenges of measurement statistics - at which she was exceptionally gifted. uchcha Budha is very skillful and shrewd.

Vimshottari Dasha Narrative:

Shukra Mahadasha:

Onset of alcoholism in Venus/Venus period. For Kanya or Mesharising, if Shukra is troubledHe can createintake issuesbecause Shukra rules the 2nd house of "mouth".

the native 's choices about what to put in her mouth (L-2 Shukra) were directed by the disease of a chemically imbalanced (house-6) Ravi, lord of Shukra.

Drinking continued at home with mom, but due to this native's remarkable intelligence she maintained good grades in secondary school. She entered a prestigious women's college under Shukra/Chandra- where swakshetra Chandra is L-4 for education, and a strong karaka for educated women.

In her college years, the native used alcohol to manage stress of exams and a tumultuous love life. She partied extensively and she also drank alone. However (due to uchcha Budha) she completed the college requirements and received a diploma in laboratory science.

the native had a brief "intervention" and quit substance abusing during residential treatment for the brief period of Shukra/Guru, where Guru is dharmic L-9 and sanctuary-ruler L-12, occupying the healing house-8.

However, onset of Shukra/Shanireturned her to the party circuit of semi-itinerant "Dead-Head" migration. For the native this illusion of tribal, religious fellowship (L-11 in house-9) had a long-term impact. Shani's bhukti under Shukra is the longest duration of any Shani bhukti. The chemical toxicity built up over several years. Belonging to a rock music cult that celebrated inebriation/hallucination at concerts and whose local devotees consumed excessive alcohol at cultic house parties, she slipped into a very highly social (L-11) but also profoundly depressed (Shani) stage.

Shukra/Budhaprovided a reasonably good administrative career in drug treatment research. the native 's mathematical and social skills, in particular her natural, nurturing teaching ability (see strength of swakshetra Chandra/4 in shadbala) were always helpful in her workplace.

L-3+L-6 Budha is a naturally skillful office worker, who enjoys and profits from attending meetings and delivering reports.

However, as mentioned above, she was simultaneously researching drugs and abusing them. Shukra/Ketucaused the native to lose her normal workplace discrimination. She came to work inebriated on several occasions, and was let go. Abandoning all pretense of conformity, native indulged in serious, near-lethal, drug intake (Ketu/12 with permissive lord Guru in 8) during a period of intensive wandering.

Surya Mahadasha

Beginning of Surya period signaled an era of rebirth.

Native sought a new life based on authentic self-expression. She wanted to stay clean and have children. A "clean" lifestyle for her meant also a "clean" environment, so she moved to the fresh, cold air of the mountains (Surya is karaka for mountains) and started a new life as a public-service environmental educator. (House-6 = laboratory sciences and environmental issues).

Unfortunately, as we can see in the shad-bala graph above, Surya is a very weak planet. Shukra the tenant dominates His landlord.

Surya in Kanya/6 is often vigorously active (and for this native Surya being yuti with L-1 Kuja and Rahu, she was exceptionally athletic and a great enjoyer of outdoor sports).

However Surya here is lonely. Surya the karaka for individual self and soul, does not flourish in the house of conflict. Surya needs a deeply unified force to validate and promote the identity. The person either becomes their work (house-6), or they wither socially.

Thus, throughout Surya Mahadasha the native enjoyed a clean and healthy outdoor lifestyle where she role-modeled athletic enthusiasm and used her detailed scientific knowledge of. Earth's natural environment to great public benefit. She designed prize-winning outdoor education school curricula, and taught thousands of children.

But underneath her public performance was very low self-esteem. She struggled to recreate the glamour and ease of her drug-driven tribal-party era of Shukra Mahadasha... but couldn't. The era had passed, both for her and for the surrounding American culture.

The only way she knew to have validation, or to numb the suffering of low self-esteem caused by a weak identity, was to bolster her feelings with drugs. Wanting to lubricate her social life with co-workers, she arranged after-work parties with them, during which she indulged famously. Unfortunately, in the outdoor sports and environmental education communities, very few of her professional peers enjoyed heavy drugs.

She remained lonely and grew increasingly despondent with life, occasionally arriving at work drunk. She was let go (again) in Surya/Ketubhukti.

As happens so often in the vimshottari dasha, the qualities of a final bhuktigive physical and psychological closure. The final bhukti = Surya/Shukra = supreme maraka L-2+L-7 + karaka for sensual indulgence.

Native's death came at age 36 in Surya/Shukrafrom an automobile accident, when her car plunged off a mountain road in a single-vehicle crash. Head trauma was the immediate cause. Police report states toxic level of blood alcohol at time of death.

updated:10 May 2012

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