St. Therese de Lisieux

• "The Little Flower of Jesus"

• "Therese of the Little Way"

Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin

02 January 1873

until

30 September 1897

Sanctuaire Sainte Thérèse de Lisieux

double parivartamsha yoga

• Budha + Mangala = L-1+L-4+L-3+L-8

• Surya + Guru = L-12+L-4+L-7

Thérèse de Lisieux in July 1896

The Little Way

Everyone is looking for a way up to approach the Divine; and at the same time, a way out of victim's entrapment - an exit from suffering, from bitterness, from personal difficulties.

St. Therese of Lisieux joins the list of "guides available to help along the path".

In context of the typical, tiresome, easily understandable tragedies and frustrations of a normal life - severe and painful illnesses, relentless grief after the death of a loved one, hateful school bullying -- Therese Martin of Alencon, France, was able to find and explain a highly accessible and normal "Little Way" up and out.

For all its unpretentious, conventional simplicity, the Little Way has provided guidance and comfort to millions of contemplative seekers since the early 20th century.

Within only a few years of her death, Saint Therese of the Little Way became an almost instant celestial celebrity in the Roman Catholic Church.

Her devotions are marked by profound humility. Her writings are inspired by an articulate conviction of her own humble human inferiority; yet these writings are not self-destructive or masochistic (for the language of her romantic late 1800's time period, although their phrasing might seem highly neurotic today).

Therese's personal inability to relieve her aggrieved feelings (Chandra-6) without the support of Divine grace, as expressed in her short life and her writings, have become a beacon of light to many trapped in the maha-dushtamsha vortex of illness, grief, resentment, broken promises, social inequity,

Rahu Mahadasha

• age = birth until 10

• Rahu in dharma bhava

• uchchamsha

• Shukra = L-2+L-9 = family + religion

Rahu+Shani

• birth

Rahu+Budha

Rahu+Ketu

Rahu+ Shukra (Shukra lord of Rahu)

• death of mother via breast-cancer, mother's age 45

Rahu+Surya

Rahu+Chandra

Rahu+Mangala

• eldest sister Pauline, Therese's replacement mother, enters 'hiding' in the celibate Carmelite cloister

Guru Mahadasha

• age = 10 until death

• Guru in friendly Simha rashi, parivartamsha Surya

• Guru = L-5+L-7 from Kanya lagna

• Guru = L-2+L-11 from ShataVishakaKumbha lagna

Guru+Guru swabhukti

Guru+Shani

• Christmas illumination - a sudden enlightenment of 'release of Self' = release of a great obstacle to happiness

• pilgrimage with her bourgeois family to sacred and interesting places in Italy = discovery of the human weaknesses of priests

• romantic attractions acknowledged but denied (L-5 Shani)

Guru+Budha

• enters Carmelite convent at age 15, by special permission (her birth sisters were already there)

Guru+Ketu

Guru+Shukra

Guru+Surya (parivartamsha of Brihaspati with Ravi)

• death of father

Guru+Chandra

• articulation of the Little Way, ultimately guides millions (L-11 community, network participation)

Guru+Mangala

Guru+Rahu

• death via tuberculosis of the lungs

Quotations

• Ambivalence (Ketu) toward publications, scripted mundane daily talk, writing, and team-communications.

• Desire for recognition (Rahu) within the patriarchal religions, as a father-figure, philosopher-professor of important wisdom, or religious preacher.

10th navamsha

= career and profession

• Makara = institutional regulation

• Shani + Chandra in Makara = 10th navamsha = "permanent sade sati" in the professional environment

• institutionalization of motherhood, replaces individual physical mothering with a socially legitimated title of Mother within the official bureaucracy. Professional, regulated, confirmed, approved, and supervised step-by-step combination of caretaking-mothering (Chandra) with lawful (Shani) behavior and relegation of ultimate responsibility to the larger social institution (church), not the individual family