This
highly intelligent and sensitive parent, teacher, & businesswoman
was stricken with severe breast cancer in mid-life.
Rigorous treatment involved heavy drugs and multiple
surgeries, including extensive reconstruction.
In addition, a stressful divorce
& mid-life career change put multiple pressures on her healing process.
The mother of two young children, she has
survived intense and not always promising therapy,
emerging into recovery somewhat
weakened -- but clearly looking forward to a calmer life.
Mutual
aspects of L-8/9
Shani with L-6/11 Kuja
From a Jyotisha perspective, this person
is an exceptionally hard & dutiful worker.
See BOTH the notable strength of L-6 Kuja AND massive weight of super-responsible
L-8
Shani in
shad-bala.
Due to their unusual and mutual power in this native's
chart, we might expect periods of Shani and Kuja to produce strong karma
from expensive and painful surgeries . When Shani and Kuja are both
strong in shad bala, Behari says: "You may undergo
troubles from debts, cuts and wounds."
Kuja and Shani mutually aspect each other - creating a
personality that works very hard but is often frustrated.
Das says that
when Mars in Virgo is aspected by Shani:
Although
you try to apply your energy in a very serious way to something, it
seems like you can't quite give enough. No matter how hard you try to be
intelligent and directed it often feels like it didn't quite hit the
mark.
Das says when Shani in Sagittarius
is aspected by Kuja:
You may
suffer from diseases such as rheumatism or gout. Your actions are
questionable and impulsive; envious of other people; notorious;
criticized.
Her
Difficult Kuja
The
intense animosity-and-disease trauma she experienced in mid-life
powerfully illuminates
the karmic influence of a very difficult
Kuja.
First of all, in any chart, Lord Mangala
will rule :
-
Mithuna-lagna Kuja = house-6
of
enemies/disease/imbalance
-
Mithuna-lagna Kuja = house-11
of gains/friendships/associations
-
very importantly, Kuja also rules
navamsha-7, signifying the spouse
When Mars mahadasha occurs for the Mithuna-lagna native, we expect to see an
increase in both animosity/disease & achievement, articulated through
each of the nine bhukti planets in sequence, for the 7-year duration of
Mangala-mahadasha.
The best-case scenario for Kuja is that He should occupy his own signs of
Mesha [the ram] or Vrischikha [the scorpion] or his exaltation sign of
Makara [the crocodile]. If Mangala occupies these good signs, the Mithuna-lagna person will have stronger enemies
but also stronger achievement.
If house-6 receives benefic aspects,
the enemies may be surprisingly helpful in the end. If house-11
receives benefic aspects, one's goal-achievements will be very high.
But even when neither house 6 nor house
11 are
improved by benefic aspects, Mars in his own or exaltation signs will
boost the native's productive energy. (In the worst case the native will
hyper-produce lots of trouble for himself!)
For this native Kuja occupies Kanya, where He
acquires some inauspicious qualities.
Kanya-Kuja characteristically outputs anger via
mental and verbal channels rather than
via muscular action. Controlled by Kanya's lord Budha, Kuja here
articulates conflict through language, verbal argument, and
rationalization. Anger and other negative emotions like resentment will tend to
remain in the physical body, where they can be held unconsciously in storage
containers such as tumors.
Consider the qualities of radix Kuja:
-
occupying
Kanya, an intellectual sign difficult for physical Mars
-
occupying
house-4, which agitates the
home life, stimulating arguments in the home
-
drishti from house-4 makes the person hyper-critical of
spouse/colleagues [4th aspect], boss [7th aspect], and older
siblings/friends [11th aspect]
-
drishti onto
yuvati bhava creates the
aggressive marriage-imbalance known as
kuja dosha
-
strong in
shad-bala (above)
-
greatly
amplified by Rahu/Ketu
-
in mutual
aspect with his Great Enemy Shani,
-
last but not least, Kuja as L-11
creates networks of friendship & marketplace association.
Native has built a remarkable support network of fellow breast cancer
survivors, and enjoys their company greatly.
Trimshamsha
D-30: power of Mars
Lord of the Trimshamsha is Budha, who occupies a sign of
Mars in the D-30.
Lord of D-20 is a major troublemaker!
The native's significantly advanced
breast cancer was detected in Kuja/Budha period.
When Kuja is lord of the vimshottari period, Kuja
also activates His houses in each divisional chart.
By activating the signs of Aries
& Scorpio in each
of the varga charts, the mahadasha of Mars will activate her entire
Trimshamsha, the special varga for misfortunes.
(However, the fact that Mangala activates the lord of the
Trimshamsha is not in itself determinative. Varga patterns are only
useful in coordination with rashi/navamsha readings, used as confirmation
and support for judgments on the power of D-1 / D-9 planets.)
Guru encourages disease:
Mahadasha of Mangala activates occupants of Mesha and
Vrischikha in all vargas. Consider Guru in D-1 and
Budha/Rahu in D-9.
Although Guru expands the
influence of the house which He occupies, Guru's benefits are generally lost
(or much reduced) when He occupies dusthana houses 6,8,
and 12. Therefore when Guru occupies Ripu-bhava, matters of animosity,
disease, & debt are more influential in the lifetime.
When Guru occupies Vrischikha (Scorpio) the
sexual-reproductive system with all its ducts & glands is a natural magnet
for the angry feelings of life.
Guru continues to cast His healing, optimistic
drishti onto the houses 5th, 7th, and 9th from Himself. However, He
will also expand the troublesome activities the dusthana He occupies.
A central activity of the 6th house is food diet. Guru
in Ripu-bhava encourages the individual toward excessive or irregular eating
habits. This issue is probably exaggerated by the Shani-Mangala mutual
aspect which drives her to suppress relaxation in favor of productivity.
Her exceptionally hard-working Shani-Mangala nature, the self-critical Mars
greatly amplified by Rahu, and her powerful public image - the Leo Sun -
overwhelm the weak, dark Moon. There is very little time to hear the
"inner voice" (Moon) which gives healing instructions.
Guru in house-6 could make available a large range of foods
which, unconsciously mixed, could produce toxins. Unconsciously eating
toxic food combinations, driven by a tremendous workload to consume
stimulants & forego healing sleep, & also needing to retain waste
materials as storage for unrecognized negative emotions -- this body
might well produce major tumors.
Behari says of Guru in Vrischikha in Ripu-sthana:
Jupiter's influence [in house-6] is not easily harmonized.
There may
be severe physical disease, perhaps dyspepsia or ulcers, marital life will
be in the doldrums and difficulties concerning heavy expenditures.
There is
a possibility of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, though your
social status and respectability will be such that no one will talk about
your personal life openly.
Negative emotions of
divorce: a contributing disease factor
Given the existing harsh mutual aspect of Kuja
& Shani,
the first marriage was loaded since the beginning with heavy karma of hard
work, excessive duty, oppressive traditions, & repressed anger. When
Kuja became empowered as mahadasha-pati, he immediately stimulated the kuja-dosha which created an angry divorce. Upon the psycho-physical
foundation of this suffering, Kuja then manifested life-threatening disease.
L-7 Guru is no help and in fact as marriage lord in 6th,
Guru is a major hindrance to happiness.
"If the 7th lord is in the 6th house, the native will
beget a sickly spouse to whom the native will be inimical. The
native will be given to anger and will be devoid of happiness [in
marriage]."
--- BPHS Ch.
1, shloka 78
Exceptionally weak in shad-bala and occupying the house of
enemies, Guru represents the behavior of the 1st spouse in marriage.
Guru exacerbates the negative effects of 6th house matters such as excessive
expenditure, troubled import/export dealings, servitude, animosity, and
obsessive work habits in the behavior of the spouse.
This native's life experience is dominated by the
Shani-Mangala drive to succeed "even if it kills me". Prone to
suppress her awareness of these negative spousal behaviors in favor of
"trying again even harder" (Shani/Mangala) to fix the spousal problems,
the native exhausted her reserves and entered a period of severe illness.
Shani occupying yuvati bhava in Guru's sign is famously
unfortunate for marriage. Associated with promiscuity &
disintegration of family life, Shani nonetheless gains much power in kendra,
as shown in the shad-bala chart above. Perhaps on the
positive side, Parashara says of L-8 Shani: "8th lord in the seventh
house - the native will have two spouses" (shloka 91).
Navamsha-lord-of-L-6 method
of determining the beliefs or emotions motivating disease:
L-6 Kuja occupies a navamsha of
Shani. We look to Shani in radix, therefore, for information about the
circumstances, behaviors, beliefs, and reactive emotions which form the
disease environment.
Shani's strength in shad bala, His
inauspicious mutual aspect to Kuja, and His lord Guru occupying house-6 of
animosity & conflict, combine to implicate marriage as the
psycho-emotional stress center of her life.
Psychic matching
energy within the native's subconscious attracts such a demanding,
adversarial, unappreciative, and ultimately alienated partner.
Kuja, a major adversary to Shani in
radix, is lord of 7th navamsha which represents the spouse. This
spouse is definitely the primary suspect in native's psychic disease
process! However, it is the native's belief, very likely unconscious,
that she must carry a crushing workload, which is the pre-birth seed of
attracting such a spouse.
Unloading this superhuman workload
belief, or at least becoming conscious of it, is the key to physical health
in her future.
Prognosis:
L-2 Chandra & L-7 Guru are the
maraka grahas.
L-8 occupies 12th-from-swakshetra &
receives drishti from L-6, reducing longevity.
Should the native survive Kuja/Chandra
period, Rahu/L-7 Guru occurs about
three years afterwards.
Rahu's job is to magnify the effects of (1) his lord and
(2) his co-occupants.
The 18 years of Rahu mahadasha will therefore give the
effects of both Budha lord of Kanya, and Kuja the co-tenant of Kanya. Budha
is inauspicious as lord of Trimshamsha. Kuja = L-6.
In the best case, this
situation creates the extremely compassionate "wounded healer" lifestyle.
Health 7:
updated: 17 July 2008