{"id":4135,"date":"2019-04-04T09:35:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2023-02-02T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T19:37:39","slug":"paris-jackson-you-cant-go-back-to-neverland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=4135","title":{"rendered":"Paris Jackson: you can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t go back to Neverland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Paris\nJackson\u00e2\u0080\u0099s name turned up on social media last month when TMZ reported that she\u00e2\u0080\u0099d\nallegedly made a suicide attempt back in February. She vehemently denied this,\nbut it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s not the first time she\u00e2\u0080\u0099s been in similar circumstances. Can astrology\nconfirm or deny a rumor such as this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normal\npeople don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t understand depression, let alone the extreme act of ending one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\nsuffering by choosing death. But in the past year there\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve been a spate of\nhigh-profile suicides, most of which baffle us. In 2018 there were the suicides\nof fashion accessory designer Kate Spade, and of celebrity TV chef Anthony\nBourdain. And just a month ago there was the suicide of renowned economist Alan\nKrueger who rose to prominence in the Obama administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Astrologically,\nsuicide is sometimes seen as a consequence of a difficult Mars\/Saturn\nplacement, either conjoined or mutually opposed across the 1st\/7th house axis\n(because that involves the physical body), or across the 6th\/12th house axis\n(because that involves personal malaise and self-undoing), or across the\n4th\/10th house axis (especially with Mars in the 10th and Saturn in the 4th,\nfrom which position they both aspect the ascendant).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nare, of course, other combinations that could reflect self-harm, but those\ninvolving Mars and Saturn are classic, since Mars signifies violence in some\nform, while Saturn is the karaka<\/em> for\ndeath itself. Needless to say, these two planets alone are often insufficient\nto make the case for self-harm, and there typically needs to be some connection\nto the 1st (self), the 4th (one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s happiness or lack thereof), and the 12th\nhouse (the self\u00e2\u0080\u0099s undoing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paris Jackson’s birth chart<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Paris\nJackson was born at 6:26 AM PST on April 3rd, 1998, in Los Angeles, California.\nShe was the second child and only daughter of Michael Jackson and his then-wife\nDeborah Rowe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nfirst thing one might note of her chart is that the kendras<\/em> are empty. There is a piece of jyotish<\/em> folk wisdom that says, a person with empty kendras<\/em> will never make a mark in life,\nbecause they can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t get their hands on the wheel, and are therefore incapable of\nsteering themselves in any direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although\nempty kendras<\/em> should give us pause\nfor thought, we must be wary of rushing to judgment. Some highly accomplished\npeople, eg, the inventor of the AC electrical system, Nikola Tesla, and rock\nstar Jon Bon Jovi, also had empty-kendra<\/em>\ncharts, so there are certainly exceptions. So on that score, let\u00e2\u0080\u0099s hold that\nthought, and see what else arises from a closer look at this chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking\nof empty houses, the astute observer may note that the southwest half of the\nchart is empty, a consequence of the chart being bisected by the Rahu-Ketu\naxis, and (almost) all of the planets on one side of the nodal axis. This is a\nClass 4 Kala Sarpa<\/em> configuration in\nwhich one or more planets (Venus in this case) may lie outside the nodal axis\nwithout leaving the sign in which one of the nodes is resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kala Sarpa<\/em> is a bit like a double-edged sword, oftentimes bequeathing talent and\ngood fortune, or dogging the native with misery and misfortune, sometimes both.\nIn this case, the bias starts on the yoga<\/em>\n(positive) side, since both prime benefics Jupiter and Venus lie on the nodal\naxis, and no other planet is associated with or even aspects either node.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However,\nboth nodal dispositors (Sun and Saturn) are in the 12th house, and that gives\nthis Kala Sarpa<\/em> a nudge toward dosha<\/em>, or negative results for the\nnative. That inclination becomes compounded when we notice that Mars and Saturn\nare in graha yuddha<\/em>. And it becomes\nespecially pertinent when we further note that Mars is lagnesh<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever\nthe lagnesh<\/em> of a chart goes to the\n12th house, it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s a bit of a red flag to raise concerns about (a) addictions,\n(b) sexual issues, and (c) losing one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s way in life. Of course the 12th house\nhas positive associations too, eg, charity, spirituality and travel, but with\nso many malefics in weakened condition here, it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s genuine cause for concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As\nso often happens in a Kala Sarpa<\/em>\nconfiguration when planets are restricted to one half of the chart, several\nplanets will often bunch up in one or more clusters. When four or more planets,\nie, counting luminaries and planets but not the nodes, collect in one sign this\nforms Pravrajya<\/em> yoga. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s typically\nan indicator of concentration in some area of life whose theme may arise from\nthe house itself, or from that of the strongest planet therein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since\nthe 12th house embraces so many themes, eg, the \u00e2\u0080\u009cbed pleasures\u00e2\u0080\u009d of sleep and\nsex, addictions, charity, expenses, incarceration, immigration, suicide, spirituality,\ntravel, etc, we can only speculate for the moment which of these many\npossibilities might be part of her karma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\nsometimes happens within a cluster or \u00e2\u0080\u009cstellium\u00e2\u0080\u009d of planets, their crowding\ninto one sign may precipitate a case of planetary war, as happens here between\nMars and Saturn. Since these two are traditional enemies with antithetical\nnatures, eg, active vs lethargic, hot vs cold, impulsive vs controlled, etc,\ntheir association or opposition are usually problematic unless one is clearly\nstronger than the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthis case, neither has any significant dignity in Pisces (Mars in a friend\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\nsign is trivial). Worse, they\u00e2\u0080\u0099re both weakened by graha yuddha<\/em>. Planetary war occurs when any two of the true planets\n(Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus or Saturn) lie within one degree of arc from\neach other, no matter whether the cusp of a sign lies between. Symbolically,\nthey crowd each other\u00e2\u0080\u0099s space and struggle for supremacy. And even though there\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll\ntechnically be a winner \u00e2\u0080\u0093 by virtue of brightness, greater northern declination\nor higher zodiacal longitude \u00e2\u0080\u0093 it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s a bit like two heavyweight boxers going a\nfull 15 rounds. By the end of the fight, there may be a winner, but both\nfighters are bone-weary and seriously damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthis case, lagnesh<\/em> Mars has gone to\nthe 12th house where it associates with the Sun and a debilitated Mercury, and\ncompetes in planetary war with Saturn. The fact that it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s gandanta<\/em> (first degree of a fire sign or last degree of a water\nsign, simultaneously on the cusp of both signs and nakshatras<\/em>) just compounds matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To\ntease out the likely cause, manifestation or consequence of planetary war, we\ncan always start by considering the people in the life of the native. Lagnesh<\/em> Mars represents Paris. Its war\nis with Saturn, lord of the 10th and 11th. If we start from the family and work\nout way outwards, we can take the 11th house for elder siblings, of which she\nhas just one, Prince. Sibling rivalry is a commonplace dynamic, so that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s one\npossible source of her angst<\/em>. Further\non out into her social circle, the 11th also represents friends. Perhaps she\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\nbeen betrayed by friends, or feels unable to meet the expectations of her\nsocial circle. Expanding our orbit, we can also consider Saturn as lord of the\n10th, wherein it may stand for authority figures with whom she might have\nlocked horns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\ncan also take a different approach to all this by considering the Jaimini\nkarakas. Mars as the planet with the highest zodiacal longitude is the Atmakaraka<\/em> (AK), or significator of the\nSelf. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s a bit of a coincidence that Mars is already lagnesh<\/em> signifying the same thing, but that just gives it\nconfluence. Meanwhile, Saturn as the planet with the second highest zodiacal\nlongitude is the Amatyakaraka<\/em> (AmK),\nor significator of the career. Coincidentally, Saturn is already the 10th lord,\nbut that too gives our earlier idea some traction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To\ndate, Paris has tried her hand at acting, modeling and music, but so far hasn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t\nmanaged to make a success of anything in particular. In all fairness, she\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\nonly 21, so there\u00e2\u0080\u0099s nothing to be ashamed of. But her father was a major pop star\nin his teens, so she stands in a lengthy shadow. Between some psychological\nneed to outshine her brother, or to live up to the expectations of her social\ncircle, or simply to find her professional niche in life, the frustrations of\nbutting her head against a wall (Mars vs Saturn) might at times seem\noverwhelming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does\nher chart illuminate an appropriate path for her?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside\nfrom Kala Sarpa<\/em> and Pravrajya<\/em>, her chart reveals multiple yogas.\nFor instance, there are several Dharma\nKarma Adhipati<\/em> yogas contained within her 12th house cluster. As lord of\nthe 1st, Mars combines with 5th lord Sun and 10th lord Saturn. And 5th lord Sun\njoins with 10th lord Saturn. But these DKA yogas, although technically present,\nare weak since all of them involve a planet impaired by graha yuddha<\/em>. The same weakness is true of the two Dhana<\/em> yogas formed by 11th lord Saturn\nwith trinal lords Sun and Mars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\nthe other hand, the Dharma Karma Adhipati<\/em>\nyoga formed by 7th lord Venus and 9th lord Jupiter is not impaired by any\nobvious weakness. Admittedly, this is the weakest of the DKA yogas, and it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\nspoiled by association with the nodal axis, but this may only reflect an\neclectic social circle. The Venus\/Jupiter pair also forms a Dhana<\/em> yoga, since Venus rules the 2nd\nand Jupiter the 9th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\nalso has a Dainya Parivartana<\/em> yoga, a\nmutual reception or sign exchange of 11th lord Saturn and 12th lord Jupiter.\nTheoretically, this could relieve her graha\nyuddha<\/em>, but it depends on how you visualize the exchange. The first way is\nto imagine the two planets \u00e2\u0080\u0093 Jupiter and Saturn \u00e2\u0080\u0093 exchanging places degree-for-degree\nby stepping directly into the position of the other. So Saturn would move to\n19AQ56, and Jupiter would move to 28PI15. But in that case, Jupiter would now\nbe in graha yuddha<\/em> with Mars. Since\nJupiter is also the 9th lord, the planetary war would imply a problematic issue\nwith respect to the father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nsecond way to exchange positions is to imagine each planet taking its own\ndegree into the other sign. Under this scenario, Saturn would take its own\ndegree (28:15) into Aquarius, while Jupiter would take its own degree (19:56)\ninto Pisces. But now, even though Jupiter would avoid planetary war with Mars,\nit would become totally combust with the Sun that sits at 19PI48. Consider\nagain the implications of a 9th lord totally combust. So it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s something of a\ndamned-if-you-do\/damned-if-you-don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\neither of these two scenarios, other hypothetical considerations arise. By\nswapping Jupiter and Saturn, we\u00e2\u0080\u0099d now have Saturn on the nodal axis. Thus, by\nremoving the prime benefic and replacing it with the prime malefic, we\u00e2\u0080\u0099d have thrown\na virtual switch converting her Kala\nSarpa<\/em> from a yoga<\/em> to a dosha<\/em>. This in turn has ramifications\nfor 5th and 11th house issues (the nodal axis), causing some degree of difficulty\nwith respect to intellectual acumen, creative capacity and the prospect for\nchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking\nof creativity, that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s already somewhat impaired, since 5th lord Sun has gone to\nthe 12th where it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s afflicted by Mars and Saturn. Perhaps Paris doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t have\nthe same creative spark as her father did. Certainly she wouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t seem to have\nsufficient drive and\/or discipline to make it happen. Quite aside from lagnesh<\/em> Mars being frustrated by war\nwith Saturn, there are other challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nher chart, lagnesh<\/em>, Sun and Moon are\nall in dvisvabhava rashis<\/em>. In fact,\nfive out of nine planets are in dual signs, which can spell ambivalence,\nindecision, procrastination and self-doubt. Furthermore, Mercury is perhaps the\nweakest planet in her chart, because (although retrograde) it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s debilitated and\nmoderately combust, and afflicted by Mars and Saturn. Since Mercury owns the\n3rd (desire, passion, talent) and the 6th (competition, routine), it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s likely\nthat she lacks the necessary drive to devote herself to the rigors of a world-class\nperformance that could secure her a lasting career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If\nwe conduct a career analysis from the point of udayalagna<\/em>, chandralagna<\/em>\nand suryalagna<\/em>, looking at the most\ninfluential planet(s) from those three perspectives, we find that Jupiter is\nthe most promising. This might suggest a game plan going forward, which could\ninclude (1) seeking trusted guidance via therapist, mentor and\/or guru, (2) a\nstrategic withdrawal from \u00e2\u0080\u009ccelebrity society\u00e2\u0080\u009d in favor of a rehab clinic and\/or\nspiritual retreat, (3) judicious weaning of friends and associates to reflect\nher higher social values, and (4) ultimate devotion to some form of\nnot-for-profit charity work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\nof July 2018, Paris is in her Saturn dasha<\/em>.\nSince Saturn is in planetary war with lagnesh<\/em>\nMars, she and her family have reason to be concerned about her well-being. And because\nany period lord will first and foremost deliver results on behalf of its nakshatra<\/em> lord, we must take note of\nMercury\u00e2\u0080\u0099s status. Recall that it is, aside from the Mars\/Saturn pair in graha yuddha<\/em>, perhaps the weakest and\nleast stable planet in her chart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturn\nbhukti<\/em> runs until the summer of 2021,\nafter which Mercury bhukti<\/em> kicks in.\nSince Mercury is swa nakshatra<\/em>, it is\ndoubly inclined to give its own results during its period. As weak as it is,\nthe prospects are worrisome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clock is ticking. One can only hope that Paris gets the counsel and care that she needs before entering this perilous period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For a discussion of the salient features of Paris Jackson’s chart, follow this link to <\/strong><\/span>YouTube<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and subscribe to my channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

~~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alan Annand<\/strong> studied with Hart de Fouw, and is a graduate of the American College of Vedic Astrology. He’s also a former tutor for the British Faculty of Astrological Studies, and the author of several books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KALA SARPA by Alan Annand<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Stellar Astrology, Volumes 1 & 2,<\/em> offer a wealth of time-tested techniques in the form of biographical profiles, analyses of world events, and technical essays. Parivartana Yoga<\/em> is a reference text for one of the most common yet powerful planetary combinations in jyotish<\/em>. His Mutual Reception<\/em> is an expanded companion volume written for western practitioners, covering the same subject of planetary exchange through the lens of traditional astrology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paris Jackson\u00e2\u0080\u0099s name turned up on social media last month when TMZ reported that she\u00e2\u0080\u0099d allegedly made a suicide attempt back in February. She vehemently denied this, but it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s not the first time she\u00e2\u0080\u0099s been in similar circumstances. Can astrology confirm or deny a rumor such as this? Normal people don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t understand depression, let alone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[543,478,129,541,489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4687,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions\/4687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}