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Health 13:
Quadriplegic Actor Christopher Reeve
Christopher Reeves was a famous, handsome, well-educated actor of stage and screen who played the popular "Superman" film role in 1977. Numerous sequels of Superman & many additional dramatic projects brought him continuous wealth & professional acclaim.
A tragic equestrian accident suddenly transformed Reeves' lifestyle from extremely active to quadriplegic. While he lived, Reeves used his fame and his handicap to promote public awareness of the condition and raise funds for medical research toward its cure. He was widely honored for these efforts and despite his suffering which included difficult articulation, Reeves became an extremely popular speaker and writer.
One of the many notable features of this nativity is that Reeves' tragic accident powerfully increased his financial standing. Raised with significant wealth and given strong financial management skills by a professional investor parent, Reeve earned handsomely and invested well during his celebrity theatrical years. However, his peak wealth period actually occurred after becoming 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.)
27-May-1995 Surya/Rahu/Budha period:
a tragic equestrian accident forced Reeves into a severely handicapped lifestyle.
Rahu has no direct maraka powers. He rules no house.
Rather, Rahu amplifies the lord of the house which He occupies, and He will also expand the effects of any other co-tenants of the house.
Particularly in the house of a malefic graha, Rahu can cause catastrophe & chaos - including terrible debilitating accidents & near-death terror.
Rahu's special character includes the *element of surprise*.
In Reeves' radix, Rahu occupies a sign of Shani therefore Rahu enflames the results of L-7/L-8. The accident was certainly due to L-7 a potentially lethal experience, but L-8 always holds out the possibility of healing.
Reeves' radix shows L-8 Shani occupying house-8, where house-3 is 8th-from-8th. Shani in house-3 gives stamina, persistence, the ability to change the changes, i.e. stability.
Normally Shani in sahaja-bhava gives pessimism and a critical attitude; along with exalted Budha this combination makes Reeves a stickler for perfection. Combined further with L-2 Surya, Reeves was also blessed with a powerful capacity for speech communications. The net result is that he had the intellectual capacity to make projections & plans (Budha) for a creative public role (Surya) which accommodated and even capitalized on the severe restrictions (Shani) imposed by his quadriplegia.
Rahu has tremendous power to cause catastrophic trouble, as confirmed in Reeve's Trimshamsha (D-30) the divisional chart for Misfortune.
In D-30, Rahu/Ketu rising with the very strong Vrischikha-Mangala , where Kuja is accident-causing internal L-6.
During nearly a decade of extraordinary recovery efforts, including groundbreaking physical improvements in the nervous system previously thought impossible for quadriplegics, Reeve remained powerfully in the limelight as a spokesperson for people with disabilities - especially paralysis.
In Surya Mahadasha where Surya is yuti with diligent Shani and exalted L-3 Budha in the 3rd house of 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 Moon, which points to deep psycho-emotional intuition of fallen Moon as the seed of the accident. Scorpio Moon makes a detective & 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 & thus Mars imposes His huntsman's active lifestyle upon the otherwise passive Moon). Reeves was studying something. He was researching healing powers. Now he knows!
Again, observations arising from the navamsha-lord method are never intended to blame the victim nor reduce compassion for the terrible pain of illness & injury. Rather, the method will usually reveal 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 bhava, the 3rd house of 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 auspicious Chandra-Mangala yoga in putra bhava infused him with such highly creative & 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 & Kuja & 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 shamanistic channel, attracting the energy of tragedy and human extremes. As a tribute to the excellence of these planets, Reeves was able to send out a huge message of healing even while he endured profound frustration & pain..
In Moon/Saturn period age 51, on 8-Oct-2004, he died of infection from a pressure wound, a common hazard of severe paralysis.
Shani is the maraka L-7, even more oppressive and destructive than usual because His tenant is catastrophic Rahu.
L-2 Surya is a major maraka but in Reeve's rashi chart Shani dominates Surya by degree, which allows Shani to appropriate Surya's maraka powers
Death by pressure wound & exhaustion (Shani)
Prognosis:
Second house rules 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.
updated: 16 June 2006
