Virginia Woolf English Narrative Writer

Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha Vedic Astrology

Virginia Woolf elder Shri Shri Ganapati

Writers

Virginia Stephen Woolf

Adeline Virginia Stephen

b. 25 January 1882 * d. 28 March 1941

friend of TS Eliot

Career Profile

"arguably the major lyrical novelist in the English language"
possible bi-polar disorder; suicide by self-drowning in Rahu-Ketu period (Ketu in 12)
super-powered Mangala = L-6 from lagna + L-8 from Chandra

"When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, " Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading."

~~ V. A. Woolf

Virginia Woolf author Jyotisha Vedic Astrology radix navamsha charts

data from astrodatabank.com

Career Assessment: Story Writing and Publishing

L-2 for Story-Telling, Historical Knowledge, Cultural Lineage Values, Rhythms and Cadence of Phrasing
L-3 for Manual skills of Writing, making announcements, Publishing industry, Commercial capabilities
L-5 for Creative Intelligence, Genius, holding the Center of Attention, Performance Art
lagnesha = Atmakaraka = Budha
- lord of Chandrain D-1 or D-9
- lord of Arudha lagna = lord of 10th navamsha = Surya

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

~~Virginia Woolf

traditionally, Jyotisha finds "clerks and scribes" to have strength in commercial-administrative bhava-3, while "poets and bards" belong to the domains of history (2) and entertainments (5).

Successful writers of culturally celebrated literature must display strength in all three domains: 2, 3, and 5.
In order for their success to include financial gain, strength in domains 11 and 9 is also required.

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."

Salient features of the nativity

Karakamsha = bhava-3, writing, publications
lagnesha Budha + L-5 Shukra yuti Surya. Whatever the difficulties of their relationship, Adeline Virginia was aligned in personality with her father Sir Leslie Stephen. His interest in books and profession in magazine publishing = Surya (father) + Budha-Mithuna (publishing) + L-5 Shukra-Mithuna (creative writing, literature).
L-3 Surya (manual skill of writing) + L-5 Shukra (creative intelligence of authorship) + Budha (karaka for communications media, publishing)
tremendous influence of Kuja = L-6+L-11 from Mithuna lagna and L-1+L-8 from Mesha-Chandra, throughout the nativity.
Kuja = L-6+L-11 = profits are equal to expenses, generally.
Rahu-Vrischika in Ripu Bhava - disease condition = hormone imbalance in the sexual-reproductive system. Sexual exploitation by brothers (lord Kuja = brothers).
L-8 = neechcha Shani. Unfavorable hidden relationships= secretly sexually abused by her elder brother (11) = neechcha L-8 in 11
Ketu in bhava 12 = Rahu in bhava 6
- ambivalence (Ketu) toward retreat, ancestor-guides, and dreams; unable to attain peaceful imaginative sanctuary (suicide during Rahu-Ketu period)
- desire (Rahu) to be recognized as a clever adversary, adventurous druggist, or agent of conflict
Shukra-Makara in bhava-8:
= bhava-8 mysterious relationships =
Shukra is combust in Woolf's case therefore the effects are less pronounced. However overall the impact of literary-imaginative L-5+L-12 Makara Shukra in 8 will be that one prefers the alliances made with partners of senior standing in one's own profession. Her husband Leonard Bloom was a professionally respected writer and publisher with whom she co-owned a publically recognized literary press.
In 8, Shukra gives the aesthetic of hidden liaisons. One prefers to maintain a public reputation as a person who reveals the unknown, exposes secrets, yet conducts oneself with dignity despite the catastrophic changes enforced by traumatic upheaval.
Extraordinary Pressure at the time of Suicide:
- suicide during her Sade Sati age 59 in March of 1941.
- during most of her adult life, It is believed that she suffered bi-polar disorder (or some similar mood-swing disorder involving severe depression)
- Her Sade Sati in Mesha combined with a daunting, ultimately unbearable pair:
  - L-8 Saturn return to her neechcha Shani position in 11 with the natal moon (Nishturabashi Yoga = "permanent sade sati")
  - plus the Vimshottari period of Rahu-Ketu.

The Waves, published 1931

"And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"

file update: 13-Apr-2013

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