Question re: Health

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Greetings:

 

I've been a student, teacher and practitioner of modern, Western astrology

for about twenty years. For a number of reasons, I've decided to become a

student and, eventually, practitioner of Vedic astrology. I'm still in the

process of discerning which "system" would be most appropriate for me to

learn and follow and it is with this intent that I turn to this group for

whatever help members are willing and able to offer. Please bear in mind

that I am not even at the point where I can call myself a beginner: I have

yet to begin studies -- formal or otherwise -- of any kind. (I am, in fact,

seeking a comprehensive text for a beginner to use -- "Vault of the

Heavens" and "Light on Life" have each been recommended to me: any

suggestion as to which is better for beginners like me?)

 

I recently posted, on a different forum, the birth data of a good friend

who is (unfortunately) somewhat of a hypochondriac. His medical tests last

year were, in fact, quite positive, but he continually worries about his

health: he lost a sister to leukemia one year prior to his birth, there is

heart disease in his mother's family (his maternal grandparents both died

of this in their fifties) and colon cancer on his father's side (although

his grandfather, who suffered from this, lived well into his nineties).

When I posted his birth data, asking a general question about his health, I

received a response indicating that, in the System under which his chart

was examined, my friend may soon contract terminal cancer!!!

 

My question is: are there other methods of Vedic astrology which can

confirm or deny this dire prognosis? What does the "classical" or

"mainstream" tradition of Vedic astrology have to say about my friend's

chart in this regard? I have been given to understand that the System under

which my friend's chart was analyzed is a controversial one among most

classical Vedic astrologers, and I have been urged to "push for a deeper

interpretation" by one of my friends who is studying Jyotish herself. Is

there a different interpretation of these significators?

 

I've appended the relevant data below. I've been informed that there are

several indications of decreased longevity and poor health in his chart

(?); that 12th lord Mars is debilitated in the Rasi and afflicts the 3rd,

6th (health), 9th and 10th houses; that as the 3rd, 6th, and 10th houses

are mooltrikona signs, this affliction will be active during the bhuktis of

Mars, Moon, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter; that my friend is currently running

a Moon/Rahu period and Saturn is

caught up in the nodal axis, so this particular time would be difficult on

his health and may be terminal; that the following periods of Jupiter and

Saturn would not show respite through 2004; that Venus, lording the 6th of

health, is in old age and too weak to protect the health; that the Moon, as

an indicator of the lungs and immune system is debilitated in the 7th

house, pointing to the possibility of venereal or sexually transmitted

diseases; that Mars as the 12th lord and primary karaka for the immune

system is also debilitated and indicates blood-born infections; and

(finally!) that Saturn's weakness and affliction from Ketu, in addition to

its afflictions in the D-6 and D-8, shows the possibility for chronic

diseases including cancer.

 

If anyone would care to comment on the above delineation, or on my friend's

chart below, I would be MOST grateful and karmically indebted. I am barely

a beginner in Jyotish and no expert, but my intuitive sense (which is

usually reliable) tells me that perhaps the above Approach or analysis is

too simple (simplistic?) and there is a larger piece of the puzzle that I'm

missing here. I'd be extremely reluctant to pass on such a dire prediction

to my friend, and I'd want at least a "second opinion" from a different

perspective before I'd consider doing so.

 

Regards,

 

John Rabasse

 

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John's Friend

Oct. 4, 1962

Time: 8:45PM Zone: 3:00 DST: 0

Sackville, NB

Longitude: 64W22 Latitude: 45N54

Lahiri Ayanamsa: 23:20 365.25 Day Year

Current Period: Mo/Ra/Me