Conditions for chronic illness
Lifetime disease conditions may accompany
the Rishabha lagna nativity
when lagnesha + L-6 Shukra is
ill-disposed.
In this nativity, Shukra + L-3 Chandra
occupy the dusthamsha vyaya bhava. Domain-12 is predominantly the house of
"loss": loss of personal identity, loss of muscular vitality, loss
of life force.
Soma in domain-12
notoriously signifies "insomnia"
- a loss of sleep and restless night dreams. Lagnesha Shukra in
domain-12 can imply a steady erosion of the personal identity, through the
karaka significations of Shukra (wife, marriage, alliances) as well as the
karaka function of Shukra's house, 6 for acute imbalance, disagreement, and
disease.
Dusthamsha lords
It is generally true that a dusthamsha
lord in occupation of a dusthamsha is beneficial, at least for the
purpose of muting the most severe effects of L-6 and L-12. The best
dusthamsha arrangement occurs when L-6 or L-12 occupies randhra bhava.
In this case, the draining of life force associated with L-12 is
"recycled" in domain-8; or the debts and exploitation
associated with L-6 are "destroyed and reborn" in a healthier
edition through the auspice of "sudden change" from the 8th
house.
Yet, when L-6 occupies vyaya bhava,
the acute nature of Ripu's illness is transmuted into a chronic,
steadily draining, erosive condition which neither kills the native
nor permits him to live with full vitality. Interpersonal disagreements
emerging from ari bhava - notably marital arguments since the graha is
Shukra - are "sucked up" into the dream state, held in
suspension in that astral realm which connects the time-space material
world to the higher fields of intuitive perception.
The L-6 is disempowered, which sounds
like a good thing. Yet the result of L-6 in 12 is that the native cannot
fight (except, at best, weakly, during periods of L-6 or
Mangala). He cannot defend
himself against the steady draining influence of Shukra's
portfolio: women, sugars (including alcohol), promises and agreements
Unfortunately, the native practices a
debilitating "L-6 in 12" behavior of constantly
making promises [Shukra] which he cannot fulfill. As
William James said, there is nothing more exhausting than thinking about
a task left undone. The promises normally entail either writing tasks
(L-3 Chandra in 12) or commitments to join and maintain various types of
alliances (Shukra in 12). Virtually all of the native's contractual
relationships (Shukra) and information-communication projects (Chandra)
are emotionally and physically draining for him.
Psychology of
Over-commitment
Even in the depths of debilitating
illness, the native can be observed making continuously more vigorous
promises to produce written works and to participate in collegial
partnerships. His commitment to various alliances and projects is based
on an assumption that he has substantial life force reserves from which
to draw. However, with lagnesha in 12, vitality levels are limited at
birth. The ends result is a chain of broken or unfulfilled
expectations, which generate a downward spiral of disappointment and
grief - from loss of self.
Research is Benefitted
On the plus side, lagnesha in
domain-12 may be a positive placement for research. Studies which occur
within enclosures - libraries, laboratories, and the abstract world of
private thought - may flourish. When Shukra = lagnesha, the native
enjoys a natural sense of beauty, luxury, and harmonious design, as well
as a life-force instinct to impose better balance in the world. L-6
naturally is concerned with toxins. The native is an environmental
scientist who has devoted his life to developing solutions to global
pollution problems.
Despite lifelong illness, the native
has completed several prestigious academic diplomas, conducted important
scientific research, held a responsible teaching position, raised a
family and offered extensive community service.
Incorrect, incomplete,
or ambivalent diagnosis
This
gifted male scientist has suffered
chronic skin & digestive health complaints for
most of his adult life. Symptoms of exhaustion, muscle spasm, skin
infections, insomnia, and headaches first arose in his Shukra/Guru period.
The complex of painful and exhausting symptoms, with the vivid evidence
of intestinal bleeding, increased steadily over the span of two
decades.
Physicians were unable to diagnose
the condition during the long years of
-
L-1/L-6 Shukra mahadasha [L-2/L-7
from Soma]
-
continuing through L-4 Surya
mahadasha [L-5 from Soma]
-
and L-3 Chandra mahadasha
[containing Rahu]
At the onset of Mangala mahadasha,
a suddenly definite diagnosis was obtained. Emergency surgery in
Mangala/Ketu period marked a major health crisis in the 4th decade of
life; yet the native survived this intervention as he has survived
others (Only Budha and Mangala are maraka graha in this nativity, with
Mangala having much greater empowerment.).
Mahadasha of L-6 Shukra:
Native was a physically active young man
during mahadasha of L-6 Shukra. He reports first intestinal troubles at
the end of his teenage years, in the period of L-6 Shukra / L-8 Guru.
He
was a high school bicycle enthusiast who manufactured custom bicycles in a
poorly ventilated shop. He assumed that his nausea & weakness, poor
appetite & skin eruptions, was due to some toxin in the manufacturing
environment.
Although suffering throughout his
college years from digestive problems including flatulence &
emaciation, and fairly severe skin eruptions, the native experienced
no lack of self-esteem.
He and his family consider the native to
be genius-quality intelligent. College was a mere formality for
him, since he was primarily focused on independent research.
Lagnesha Shukra yuti = courageous, self-made-wealth L-3
Chandra, in house-12 of
research with their dispositor Kuja in Kumbha, sign of visionary
conceptual thought.
College graduation in Shukra/L-5
Budha (rather than in a more conventional Jyotisha period of
education lord L-4) exemplifies his perception that college supported,
rather than proved, his intelligence.
Mahadasha of L-4 Surya,
L-2 from Chandra
Despite the slowly undermining
effects of chronic tiredness, this very determined man undertook a
research-intensive university doctorate in
sciences during the period of L-4 Surya in house-11; gains in
education
Here we see the conventional
education lord at work; the Ph.D. was for him not a personal
playground (as college was) but rather a significant social
validation.
Symptoms of rectal bleeding,
flatulence, recurring acne (or what appeared to be acne), emaciation,
exhaustion, nausea, and a foul body odor dogged the native during
Surya mahadasha.
His strong personal charm ensured a steady flow
of friendship & romance, as well as committed support from his
professors. The university health service tried
antibiotic and anti-parasite treatments, to no avail.
Mahadasha of L-3 Chandra
Native was unable to find a
teaching position after receiving the doctoral degree (note Chandra's
house 3 is 6th-from-10th house,
= animosity & conflict with career).
Wanting to remain academically productive, he
undertook a massive multiple-volume book project instead. House-3 rules
writing, and all communications media. Due to exhaustion & the inherent
conflict between writing & career (which is true for everyone because
house-3 is always 6th-from-10th) the writing project was never
finished.
In Chandra/ L-10 Shani,
where Shani occupies 10th-from-Chandra, native received an tenured
professorship. Although he felt sick almost constantly, in
celebration of his new stability he married;
in the subsequent bhukti of L-5 Budha, he produced a child.
L-3 Chandra demands constant
writing, and the native's desire to succeed with large
international-research-driven writing projects is much amplified
Chandra occupying 12 (research, foreign travel) and Rahu in 3.
His writing continued sporadically through the mahadasha, although
weakness from the underlying disease caused much frustration.
In the midst of native's own
suffering, comes spinal trauma & paralysis for the spouse
Chandra/Shukra gave the
crisis of sudden spinal trauma with paralysis for this native's
spouse. L-1/L-6 Shukra = 7th-from-7th & 12th-from-7th,
showing the maraka power of Shukra for this native's wife.
L-12 shows her hospitalization followed by long-term convalescent
care. Shukra is also L-12 in navamsha.
Periods of L-6 signify conflict
in any marriage (especially the first marriage) because house-6 is
12th-from-balance, dissolution of agreements, and loss of
harmony.
Simultaneous health crises of
both partners put a tremendous strain on this young couple with a
toddler.
Amidst the native's own
suffering, spinal trauma & paralysis for the spouse
Chandra/Shukra produced a crisis of sudden spinal trauma with paralysis for this native's
spouse. Shukra is naturally the karaka for wife in a male
nativity. In addition, both the L-7-from-Chandra and the L-7 from
lagna are ruled by the native's own L-6 Shukra.
Shukra bhukti gave hospitalization
(12) of the wife, followed by long-term convalescent care (12). Shukra
= L-12 navamsha.
Periods of L-6 may signify conflict
in any marriage (especially the first marriage). Simultaneous health crises
for both partners put a tremendous strain on these young parents,
but their marriage did survive.
Mahadasha of L-7 / L-12
Mars - L-1/L-9 from Chandra
Facing an ever-increasing workload
under L-7 Kuja, 10th-from-10th for professional tasks; where
Kuja occupies the career-10th house, native's symptoms worsened dramatically.
Yet L-7 rules advisors
such as consulting physicians & attorneys. Blessed with an alert
advising physician, native was quickly diagnosed with Crohn's Disease
(colo-rectal disease: perforated bowel causing major blood loss through holes in wall of lower
intestines) which had been sickening him all this time.
Mangala is both a
natural and temporal maraka for Vrishabha lagna.
Guru = L-8 from lagna and Kuja =
yuti Guru.
Kuja/Guru period where L-7
Kuja is yuti L-8 Guru, has been exceptionally difficult health-wise. Yet the native's career is doing well because these
two trouble-makers do occupy the career-10th.
Shani =
Trimshamsha
For all misfortunes such as accidents, conflicts, financial issues, & disease, we consult the Trimshamsha
(D-30).
Guru as radix L-8 is already rules the sudden uprising of hidden diseases, and
is therefore a temporal misfortune-maker.
As lord of the Trimshamsha, Guru has
additional inauspicious
powers.
Furthermore in D-30, radix L-6 Shukra conjuncts radix L-8 Guru in the twelfth D-30,
a house of locally rising Shani who gives long-term struggles.
What planetary factors suggest a hidden, chronic disease?
L-6 Shukra is unfavorably located in
vyaya bhava, a house of hidden
things - often called a house of "pardaa" or "behind the
curtain". Disease factors remained hidden for decades, until
the period of L-12/L-7 Mars revealed them.
Venus indicates anemia, ailments due to the disturbance of
phlegmatic and windy humors, eye troubles, urinary diseases, or those
of the generative organs...
-- Phaladeepika, Ch 14, shloka 7
L-12 Kuja gives dissolution,
very long term hidden erosion and weakening. Major
weakening factors are the occupants of house-12: L-6 Shukra the
overt disease agent, and L-3 Chandra the mental health
agent.
Kuja/Kumbha is generally
an unfavorable combination, placing Kuja in the house of His bitter
enemy Shani. Kuja/Kumbha suggests irritation (Kuja) of
skin & nerves (Kumbha) and also - yuti with L-8 Guru -
widespread & invasive but hidden disturbance of the blood
(Mesha).
The same graha
(Kuja) which causes the dissolution also as L-7 may cause death -
probably in combination with the other maraka L-2 Budha.
L-8 Guru yuti maraka
L-7/L-12 Kuja emphasizes the hidden nature of this deadly process,
since L-8 not only creates the conditions of death but also rules the
sudden uprisings of long-festering subconsciously suppressed energies.
L-8 can also give remarkable healings if the native allows the
subconsciously suppressed information to come *all the way out
into full, responsibly accepting, consciousness*. This does
occasionally happen, and when it does, there is full healing indeed.
Health 3
updated: 08 November 2009