Shani in 6th from Chandra = severe osteoporosis

iatrogenic disease

Disease factors

• vargottamsha Guru = L-6 and lord of 6th navamsha

• Surya = Lord of 6th from Chandra + Rahu emotional imbalance

• Shani in 6th from Chandra + Rahu

• Shani drishti to Surya lord of 6th from Chandra + Rahu

Located in the individual's ego structure, but often hidden from the native 's own consciousness, the roots of disease are not always easy to understand.

Most people have no idea what a powerful role their thoughts, beliefs, emotional reactions, and expectations play in the interior bodily health environment. Habitual victim mentality can delude one into believing that an illness or injury just "happened" from random, external, or superstitious causes. But indeed the cause is always interior - as is the cure.

If there is no consciousness of imbalances at more subtle particulate levels - imbalances on the psycho-emotional astral plane, or on the mental-conceptual causal plane -- then the physical body becomes the default problem-solving location. The physical body inherits the task of resolving the imbalances in the only way it can: by manifesting disease.

Applying the method of radix-house-ruler's- navamsha-lord-in-radix, it is possible to gain a spiritually healing perspective on the disease factors present in the native 's psychological make-up.

These disease factors are the psycho-emotional or conceptual seeds of physical illness. Adjustments to these emotionally reactive or negative-belief factors Are within the native 's control.

Although the fleshly level of the disease process may be well advanced, improvements can be made. Sometimes the improvements are dramatic, when the physical body is relieved of constant psycho-emotional pressures.

Often therapeutic counseling, massage, psychic readings, prayer, meditation, and direct behavioral changes made under therapeutic supervision have a significant effect on physical disease.

Here is a useful example of the radix-house-ruler's- navamsha-lord-in-radix method which can reveal the D-9 seeds of disease.

This homemaker, teacher, and professional nurse (Karkata = 10th navamsha = nursing) has suffered from chronic health problems since childhood. Her physicians prescribed medications which over the course of decades leeched the vital nutrients from her body. By her 6th decade, a combination of drug effects had resulted in a severe case of osteoporosis and which left her nearly paralyzed.

• The health situation has worsened gradually with age and poverty.

Despite professional diplomas and a distinguished early career in nursing, teaching, and union-organizing (note the strength of the political 11th navamsha Simha) this ailing woman has lived in poverty since the illnesses overtook her life during Surya mahadasha; and she also aged prematurely due to Shani-2 casting drishti to Surya. Whilst her multiple illnesses are diverse, the single most miserable effect is chronic bone fracturing and frailty due to osteoporosis.

She is lonely and needy, yet critical of others and often ill-humored. In spite of lifelong community service work with several charitable organizations she has few reliable friends; her bitter unpleasantness, a lashing out from her pain and disappointment with life, is. The pain and weakness in her body defines her life. Why? According to this amsha-radix method, what is the root of the disease and what can she do about it?

First of all, does this sound like a Saturn problem? Age, suffering, paralysis, poverty, isolation, brittleness of the bones (osteoporosis)?Yes.

L-6, 3rd-from-swakshetra, in the 8th bhava of forced changes, surgeries, and trauama = an inauspicious situation. Viparita Raja yoga = "Sarala", yes OK. But Shani's drishti is also intensely focused upn randhrasthana.

On the material plane, this yoga tends to impoverish (6) the native through the healing process (8). This native has spent all of her funds on ineffective cures.

Furthermore L-6-in-house-8 is a marker of iatrogenic disease- physician-caused illnesses that spawn from the ill-effects of improper treatments.

This is part of her reality.

We are looking for a deeper insight into how people createtheir own reality from their own skandhas, their own karmic "heaps" of many-lifetimes-accumulated subconscious patterns.

1. radix L-6 is the disease agent

2. L-6 Guru occupies Kumbha navamsha

3. look therefore to Kumbha-lord Shani in the radix, to see where this native's compulsive (nearly always unconscious) behaviors form the seeds of the situation

Clearly this woman is suffering very deeply in this life, and there is nothing too funny about her situation. Poverty, disease, and loneliness are the very definition of misery. There is no motive in our method to "blame the victim" of this or any other misfortune. We are not here to criticize, but rather to heal!

Presuming our compassionate motivation, it is possible to see how she participates in creating and maintaining these awful realities, through her own repeating patterns as exhibited in Shani.

At the spiritually responsible level of perception, it is possible to observe -- in a neutral, guilt-free way -- that there are actually

No Victims. Each person creates their own reality from their accumulated past-life expectations. However, when those expectations are deeply negative, as in this nativity, it is easy - perhaps inescapably easy - to get stuck in the victim space.

ypically such a native is not interested in self-responsibility; rather, they are so heavily invested in the karmic habit of blaming others or "fate" for their dilemma that they must continue on their negative path.

However, in consultation, the practicing Jyotishi is tasked to find some way to suggest that a neutral perspective can be achieved. After the native has acquired this healthier, non-judgmental responsibility-without-guilt viewpoint, they can actually begin taking positive steps to eradicate the karma.

All karma no matter how severe can be consciously improved. The lives of the great saints are testimony to this truth.

Shani is highly inauspicious in radix. Occupying the rashi of His great enemy Surya, Shani's potential to achieve the highest levels of balance and social justice is greatly handicapped in the hostile environment of Simha rashi.

the native feels victimized since birth. Life is full of injustice And her personal integrity (Simha) is oppressed (Shani).

the native 's birth family (2) is oppressed (Shani) by (their attachment to) the frustrations arising from wasted efforts.

Maraka L-7 Shani in a death house (2) casting drishti upon its lord (Surya, father) caused the father, a high-ranking military officer, to be killed the day before he was due to return home to his family - during the native 's childhood Shani bhukti.

the native 's formative years were spent in a family environment of repressed anger at the injustice of their father's death in a morally-wrong, much-hated war.

Surya, the individual ego, being lord of this devastated house, the native 's personality uses this resentment and frustration at unethical situations as the warp-and-weft of the ego structure.

Of all her family members she is the most deeply and permanently attached to the wounding of injustice.

Repressed anger, an established family tradition in her lineage (bhava-2) = the source of this native's health problems. If she can release this boding, deeply internalized component of her socialized ego, and separate from the compulsive behaviors of the rest of her family, she has a chance to be healthier. "The mind becomes irritable." Irritability is her distinguishing feature. This is the key.

Budha, Kuja, and Guru occupy navamsha of Shani = radix Shani is exceptionallyinfluential in her life - creating the material reality of six radix houses, entirely half of her chart. The fruits of her "dharma" as revealed in navamsha show that Shani's angry, resentful, negative attitude is exactly what she needs to improve in order to restructure the reality of her radix houses 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, and 12. House-6 is health.

Behari says of Shani/Simha/2:

You face financial hardship. Your mind becomes irritable and your relations part company with you. You may suffer from speech problems or poor eyesight. Saturn can inflict serious mortal blows.

updated:18 May 2012

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