Sade Sati

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Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!!

 

Namaste dear list members!!

 

my experiences with Sade Sati appear to have been quite different in

some ways from those described previously by the list

members......depending upon your point of view one could say that it

was a very challenging time...or an afflicted time...or a case of

mixed blessings...

 

in my case, as i went into Sade Sati, everything seemed to go bust....

i have Sani Atmakaraka, with Makara Lagna, with Moon in the Lagna

Bhava...and it was VERY interesting times as they say in the old

chinese curse....at the beginning of it, my current job of the period

went bust, as my attitude had deteriorated, and quality had gone

down...it was very tough as i was suffering severe migraines often,

and headaches nearly every day!!...so i got fired deservedly...

about a half year before that (still in the sade sati), i had been

forced by circumstances to go off a drug i had been using for several

years to combat the migraines...unfortunately i had become

addicted...and as a result the medication no longer worked the way it

should have...(Rahu in the 2nd and Ketu in the 8th!...as Mr. Koch had

described)

 

Then there was the problem of trying to find a new career....and just

to find work at all was difficult...i had arguments with our local

Unemployment Insurance guys over whether i was qualified for

benefits...i lost!...no money forthcoming...so i had to take the

drastic step of asking one month for welfare support, which was

extremely humbling (as they intended it to be!!)....and made me very

determined to never do it again...so i took a job working with people

with disabilities....and also enrolled in school again to study Long

Term Care (working with elderly and handicapped people)...Also during

this period i had an dispute with Revenue Canada, who had first

allowed a deduction, and then wanted the money back...(i won that one

by a technicality!!...Government displeasure here!)

 

at the same time, my father who was just about in the middle of his

sade sati, passed away from cancer...just as my son's sade sati was

nearly over....so my father passed away while i was beginning sade

sati, while he was in the middle (and it had been challenging for him

the last few years...(in the sade sati)...the only reason he didn't go

earlier was due to medical science....), and while my son was just

reaching the end of his sade sati....My dad had PERFECT Timing for his

exit...all three sade satis in one!!!!(Actually i see it as the

immeasurable Grace of my Guru, as if he had gone when he was predicted

to go, (6 months after diagnosis), he wouldn't have gotten to

experience, and get to know and love his grandchildren!!!So Mother in

Her compassion allowed this to happen...to my eternal gratitude!!

 

also during the sade sati my marriage deteriorated to the point where

we separated...thus creating even more difficulties with money, and

laws, and so on...as well as being painfully separated from my

children....too, i was stupidly involved in a 3-way relationship that

could go nowhere....and which also crashed at the end of sade sati!!

 

there were some good results too...i changed careers...and there was

an increase in income afte i was "permanently" hired....too, due to

Sani's influences my interest in spirituality was rekindled after some

8 or nine years...and following Paramahansa Yogananda's advice i

started calling the Divine Mother in earnest to reveal Herself...for

months and months....and months...with tears, and longing.....

 

finally in spring 1995, Amma decided She had enough of my whining, and

called me finally to come into Her presence at Seattle...during my

Jupiter,Venus, Venus period, and while Jupiter was directly to the

minute transitting retrograde over my Natal Sun...in Scorpio...

and in fact, the day i met Her, Sani creeped over the edge from

Aquarius into Pisces...an infant at 0 degrees, some few minutes...(i

think Sani crawled back into Aquarius again after that for some

time...and then finally left after another year or so...)

Of course thru this Sade Sati i was also in a Jupiter Mahadasha...and

being as Jupiter is not particularly my friend, there were challenges

from that department too!!!the old Saturn Jupiter double whammy!

 

So in my own lived experience, it does not bode too well to offset,

and minimize the effects of Sade Sati....the only reason it wasn't

worse for me was that finally i took the steps in the "right"

direction as nudged by Sani's implacable will (She was using both the

Noose and the Goad i think, as i'm VERY stubborn!!!) (and Guru's help

too!)....and started working in a Sani-approved setting...helping

people with disabilities....SERVICE!!!!

 

Even so Sani was needing to severely clean out the closet...as there

was no room in there for Amma....so it was sweep sweep sweep, as She

cleaned out all the dusty relationships...and made everything clear

and much healthier...and this all had to happen before i met my

Ammachi....(of course the cleaning continues to this day...but the

major work was done then...)

 

So we could see Sade Sati as Mother Sani's invitation to the spiritual

feast....Her invitation to get clean, and live a virtuous, serviceful,

devoted to God kind of life...and if you are already in that place,

probably you won't feel the same about Her "afflictions" as you would

if you had started out more materialistic...

 

i See Sani as the Janitor of the souls...cleaning up the debris...so

that there's finally some room for the Divine to enter into one's

previously cluttered heart....

 

i hope that you found this interesting and useful...i just couldn't

let all those comments pass about how Sani's Sade Sati is nothing too

much....for me it was REVOLUTIONARY, and turned my life totally

around, reorienting it to God and Guru!!!!

 

So although i felt it was a very tough time, i can only Thank that

Great Devi, Maha Sani, Maha Kali......My Beloved Divine Mother...i

see now that the pain was mainly from my resistance to Her loving

ministrations....from Her cleaning "house"....i wanted to continue

living in my muck...and She just wouldn't let me any more...chop chop

chop...sweep sweep sweep.....AAHHHH!!! What a relief!!!Mother took

those heavy egos and tied them on to Her Lovely Waist!!!

 

All i can do is to bow humbly before Her, and say Thank you dear

Mother for all the blessings you have bestowed upon this unworthy

little child of yours!!!!!

 

and as i know now, i didn't find the Guru, She found me...and in fact

She was the one that orchestrated the whole trip...such that i might

become humble enough...such that She could be able to be heard...such

that She inspired this little one to call Her and call Her and call

Her...in reality it was Amma Herself revealing the Self to the Self,

and calling the child home...

 

thank you for reading this if you did!!

 

In my Amma's Divine Love,

and in Her Service,

this littlest child

humbly bows to you all,

making koti koti pranams!!!

 

as ever,

Your very Own Self,

 

visvanathan

 

Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!