A Novel Approach to The Diagnosis of Cancer Through Medical Astrology T.S. Vasan

Article by T.S. Vasan

ABSTRACT:

The ancient science of Astrology has a multi-dimensional approach to human life including diseases and their diagnoses. Though it is an indicative science its approach is simple, systematic and the diagnostic methodologies are worth contemplating. Human Body is equated to the twelve zodiacal signs starting from Aries and each sign represents a particular portion of the human body. In the same way the twelve houses from the birth (or  Ascendant  sign) also represents different parts of the body.

The sixth house is the house of disease not only from Aries but also from the birth ascendant. In our research we take the sixth house from the Dasha Lord also. Therefore the dasha periods of planets and transit of planets help us to understand timing of the disease and also to a certain extent the type of ailment one suffers.

There are many techniques to understand the diseases and susceptibility of certain ailments  according to Vedic Astrology. In our studies we have to look into the Rashi (Main Chart), Navamsha (D9 or the Ninth division chart), Drekkanna (D3, or the third division chart) and lastly, Rogamsha (D6, or sixth division chart) for the incidence of any type of ailment and also from the point of view of the period of the onset of disease.

As a novel approach, to the diagnosis of Cancer I would like to take a few cases of Brain Tumour, Breast Cancer, and Bone Cancer. I will also draw the attention of everyone to the combination of planets which indicate the possible ailments  according  to  the ancient wisdom  of Vedic Astrology.  After studying sixty horoscopes of different types of Cancer, it is very clear to me to formulate some methodologies to detect and diagnose the different types of Cancer. The science of Vedic Astrology is replete with many techniques and I would like to make use of them in presenting this paper.

INTRODUCTION:

Medical  Astrology  is  a unique system of diagnosis of different types of ailments  including Cancer. For this purpose many classical texts including Jataka tatva, Prashna Marga, Jataka Parijata are helpful.

1. At the outset there is Yoga in Vedic Astrology called Parijata Yoga. According to this Yoga Lagnadipathi’s Navamsha position has to be seen and noting the lord of the sign which he occupies. This lord becomes the dispositor and he is very helpful in understanding the well being of the Lagna with individual personality, health, etc. In case this dispositor occupies a good house in the Rashi chart, we can say that the Lagna is fortified and gives good results as regards health, status etc.
2. The same rule could be applied for the house of health or ailment. This is the  sixth house  from  the birth sign. The   Navamsha  dispositor of the sixth lord if occupies a good house in the Rashi chart, it can do good      provided he is in a strong house without afflictions. The house which it occupies indicates the type of ailment pertaining to that house not only from Aries but also from the birth sign. The dispositor’s aspect, conjunction will also help us to understand the type of ailment including Cancer.
3. The Karakas (significators) for the brain, breast and bones have to be studied with their strength and weaknesses to indicate ailments connected with them.
4. Vimsottari Dashas have to be followed and dasha lords’ positions  are  important.  From   the  dasha  lord’s position the sixth house indicates the type of disease one may get during that dasha subject to its position, strength and afflictions.

5. In understanding this ailment, we have to look into 22nd  Drekkanna and 64th  Navamshas. 22nd Drekkanna from the Lagna is more important whereas, 64th Navamsha can be seen from the Moon, Lagna and also from  Sun to understand the  period of ailment following the transits over these sensitive points.

CASE STUDIES:

1. BRAIN TUMOUR:

Case 1

Case study of a patient born on 25th December 1985, 1720

Hours at Bangalore.

Preamble: The child when born was normal and healthy. On 8th August 1990, he was operated for brain tumor. Prior to this in July 1990, he went through a vomiting period.  After operation he was found to be alright and in July 1995, he again started vomiting. There was a recurrence of tumor and chemotherapy was started.

Astrological Explanations:

1. The birth has taken place in Mithuna Lagna, the lagnadipathi being Mercury occupies the 6th house along with Saturn who is an Avayogi for this child and hemmed between two malefics viz. Mars and Sun.
2. The 6th lord’s Navamsha dispositor is Saturn who occupies the same 6th house in Rashi chart in Mrityubhaga.

3. For this reason the child was suffering from ailment. Saturn which is heavily afflicted is responsible for Cancer and especially the brain tumor should be detected from the lagnadipathi’s position in the horoscope or his Navamsha dispositor.

4. Kalapurusha’s head is represented by Mesha, the ruler being Mars occupies an exalted Navamsha of Saturn and Saturn again comes to the 6th house in Rashi again in Mrityubhaga.
5. In August 1990, he was running Mars Mahadasha, Rahu bhukti, Mars being Kalapurusha’s head and his position we have explained in 4 above.

Case 2.

Native (Female) was born on 12th May 1950, at 0048 hours at Mysore.

Astrological Explanations:

1. In this case, Jupiter is Yogi and Sun is Avayogi. The lagnadipathi Saturn is in the 8th house along with Mars and the dispositor being Sun is exalted in Mesha.
2. The Lagnadipathi’s Navamsha  dispositor  being  Mercury occupies Krittika Nakshatra in Rashi chart, which is an Avayogi star.
3. The 6th lord’s rashi dispositor Mercury is again in rittika nakshatra an Avayogi star. These facts clear state        that the central nervous system being represented by mercury is afflicted in the horoscope in addition to lagnadipathi.

4. The major health problems the native noticed with mild headache in the end of January 1999 when Venus dasha Venus bhukti had started. Actually Venus is in Saturn’s star along with Rahu who is also in Saturn star. In all cases of cancer ailments, Saturn and Rahu will be involved directly or indirectly.

Case 3.

Native (Male) was born on 10th November 1993, 0100 Hrs.

Tadapatri, A.P.

Astrological Explanation:

1. For this Leo Lagna born, Lagnadipathi himself is an Avayogi. The sixth lord Saturn is in Kanya Navamsha and Budha, the Navamsha dispositor joins Avayogi in the Tula rasi in the rasi chart.
2. The next important indication is the lagnadipathi who is the indicator of head is debilitated in Tula and is very weak in Shadbala.
3. The ailment of brain cancer was diagnosed and operated upon in Sun’s dasha, Saturn bhukti. Here we have to understand that the lagndipathi dasha and the sixth lord bhukti has resulted in this ailment.

ii. BONE CANCER

Case 1.

Female, born on 26th Feb 1941, 4:25 PM at Ajmer, Rajasthan.

Astrological Explanation:

1. Ketu is Yogi, Rahu is Avayogi. The sun who is weak in shadbala occupies rahu’s star in the 8th house that too in vargottama position. Here the lagna is cancer and sun occupies nidhanamsha and the Navamsha dispositor of the sun is Saturn who is debilitated in the rasi chart.
2. The 6th lord  being  Jupiter  is  in  the  Navamsha  of Mercury  (Kanya  Navamsha) and Mercury becomes the dispositor of the 6th house.

3. In the dasha of Mercury and in the bhukti of Jupiter bone cancer was diagnosed and treatment was started.

Case 2.

Male, born on 29th October 1938, at 1 a.m at Bhatkal, Karnataka.

Astrological Explanation:

1. In this horoscope, the sun who is the indicator of bone related problems is debilitated in the rasi and is very weak in shadbala and he is in enemy’s Navamsha of Saturn.
2. The 6th lord for this cancer ascendant, Jupiter is debilitated in the rasi and occupies Kanya Navamsha and the dispositor mercury joins the sun in Tula in rasi chart. In sun’s bhukti, of Rahu dasha i.e October 1996, bone cancer was discovered.

3. Rahu dasha was responsible for this bone cancer because he controls the sun who is the karaka of the bone and in sun’s bhukti only it was discovered.

III. BREAST CANCER:

Case 1.

Female born on 12th October 1927, 6:15 AM in Madras, TN.

Astrological Explanation:

1. Here the 6th lord Saturn occupies Tula Navamsha for rasi lagna of Kanya. Venus becomes the dispositor of the 6th lord and in Rasi chart the 6th lord Saturn aspects Venus in the rasi and Venus is debilitated in Navamsha.
2. 4th house from Kalapurusha is indicator of breast and Moon becomes a natural karaka for the breast and his affliction may cause breast cancer.
3. That means, even the dasha lord’s fourth house should be taken into consideration for diagnosing breast ailments. In addition to moon, we have seen Venus also plays a very important role in breast cancer.
4. In this case, Venus occupies the 4th house from dashanatha Rahu and he is aspected by Saturn in the rasi chart. If we take rahu dasha into consideration,6th from rahu denotes the house of disease and the lord being Venus, (because Rahu  occupies  Vrishabha), and Venus is debilitated in Navamsha. Therefore, there is clear indication that the 6th lord Navamsha dispositor from rahu is Mercury and is aspecting moon and is the general karaka of breast cancer. All these happened in Rahu dasha because all planets indicating this particular ailment became active in causing the ailment.

Case 2.

Female born on 27th July 1950 at 1619 hours at Combatore.

Astrological Explanation:

1. In this case, Jupiter is yogi and Sun becomes Avayogi and sun occupies cancer which is the seat of breast cancer from the kalapurusha’s angle.
2. Again, moon who is the indicator of breast cancer is in the lagna and occupies the sixth lord’s star which is again the Venus star which also indicates that moon and Venus are responsible planets for the breast cancer.
3. In D6 chart moon occupies cancer in the fourth house from the lagna and lagna being Mesha.
4. In rahu dasha, mercury bhukti, this  disease was diagnosed. When we see the 6th lord’s position from Rahu, i.e. from Meena, he occupies Kanya Navamsha and the Navamsha lord Mercury was responsible to indicate the  connected ailment during rahu dasha, mercury bhukti which started from 22nd April 1996 and ran upto 9th November 1998.

iv. BLOOD CANCER (LEUKEMIA)\

Case 1

Male born on 3rd October 1975, in Bangalore at 8:00 PM

Astrological Explanation:

1. Acute lymphatic leukemia was diagnosed on 13th October In this case, Mercury is Avayogi and he occupies the 6th house in retrogression in Mars’ star. Mars who is the lagnadipathi (Mesha) is in his own star in Mithuna.
2. At the time of diagnosis, in October 1997, the native was running Mars dasha, rahu bhukti.
3. Just like seeing the 6th lord from the lagna, we should also take into consideration we should take the 6th lord from dashanatha who is again Mars who indicates the ailment connected with blood.
4. Another karaka for  the  blood  is  moon who occupies Vrishchika Navamsha and Mars again is the lord who indicates the disease connected with blood and as we have observed earlier in Mars dasha only this ailment was discovered.

Case 2.

Male born on 18th September 1930, at 8:00 PM, at Madras, TN.

Astrological Explanation:

1. In this case Saturn is  Yogi, moon is Avayogi. Moon occupies Buddha’s Navamsha which is the 6th lord’s Navamsha of Mesha lagna.
2. In this case the 6th lord Mercury, though exalted in Rasi is debilitated in Navamsha and aspected by moon, and Mercury occupies a watery sign in Navamsha, along with Venus and Mars in the Navamsha chart.
3. In 1974, when he was running Moon bhukti of Venus dasha, he had the problem of blood cancer.
4. The special feature in this horoscope is Moon in the Rasi chart occupies own house in Saturn’s star and in debilitated rasi of D6. Therefore it is clearly seen that moon plays a very important role along with Mars for causing blood cancer.

Case 3

Female, born on 19th March 1992, at 8:02 PM in Bangalore

Astrological Explanation:

1. In this horoscope Moon occupies the lagna in his own star and mercury being yogi and mars being Avayogi and the problem of blood cancer started during the dasha sandhi of Mars and Rahu dashas. Rahu dasha started in September 2004.
2. When we see the position of the 6th lord, who is Saturn for  Kanya lagna, he joins moon’s Navamsha and moon being the indicator of blood cancer occupies lagna and aspects the lagnadipathi who is debilitated in the 7th house. Among all the planets, the lagnadipathi is very weak in this case and in Navamsha lagna which is Kanya mars occupies that house.

3. If we observe Rahu’s position and its sixth lord, we can say that since he is in Dhanus, the sixth lord is Venus and is in the star of Rahu and rahu dasha was responsible for this ailment. The 6th lord from rahu being a watery planet, and Mars who is the indicator of blood occupies his own star and also lagnamsha. These are the reasons for the ailment.
4. We have to note also that Saturn joins Mars in the 5th house.

5. Even in the D6 chart Mars occupies the lagna and D6 chart is indicator of disease.

Conclusion:

The above case studies will demonstrate the incidents of the disease and also the period of occurrence which will help us in the diagnosis of the disease and also for its cure.  There are many remedies (UPAYAS) laid down in vedic literature. They are Mani, Mantra and Oushadas.