I recently had the opportunity to do a reading for a transgendered lady. In the course of that reading I discovered something astounding, something other astrologers flat out do not believe when I tell them: the surgery of the transsexual created a new person astrologically.
The original birth chart held forth as accurate until the surgery. Then the surgery chart was the accurate one for the years thereafter.
I can’t seem to be able to get this published in the standard journals, so I’m going to present some brief casual material here in the hopes that more trans people might get their charts done, and so that the real import of the surgery might be appreciated by all.
For those who think that Vedic Astrologers should adhere only to old Indian culture (http://ayurastro.com/astrology/?p=17), please remember that there are numerous references in the ancient textson transgender situations (http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Life-on-the-Fringes/286692/).
Here are the charts.
Our native originally had the rasi chart below.
Note the salient features:
exalted Saturn, dig bala in the seventh and indeed he had a long lasting relationship that was mixed with a woman whom he married at the start of his Saturn dashaSun and Mercury in the sixth, and he was primarily interested in helping others, often to the detriment of himselfthere is a terrible planetary war between Jupiter and Moon in the third and he had a complicated difficult relationship with most of his siblings and indeed there was a type of war between two of them and a third who had his heart (Moon)Here is the transit chart for the time of surgery:
Note the
release or loss of masculinity with Mars setting in the 7thMars almost directly across natal Saturn (masculinity must have been very hard at the time)Venus (femininity) exalted conjunct swa Jupiter and Mercury, a future dharma karma adipati yog
the beautiful triangle linking surgery (8th house), influence of Mother (4th house) and loss or international travel (12th house) – the surgery was in another country and was admitted to be a type of excision of the mother’s influenceKetu in the tenth transiting natal Rahu aspected by Mars= a pursuit of a public loss of masculine selfAnd with that, we get a new chart, her new birth chart, the chart of the surgery:
Her new life has articulated a number of important changes that are of this chart alone:
working life and public opinion of her has turned challenging, reflecting debilitated Saturn in the tenthbrilliance in advanced medical knowledge has emerged as well as passionate pursuit of academic Buddhism with a superstar Saraswati Yoga: Venus, Mercury and Jupiter in Pisces in the ninth, a better situation than Einstein had. (I predict possible medical school for her or career with medical writing when she enters Mercury dasha in 2013.) This constellation also makes a Lakshmi Yoga, one almost too good to be true. I don’t think this has been activated yet, but she’s still in Saturn period and Jupiter is awfully close to Mercury and there is a Papa kartari on both yogas. I don’t know if that would compromise it. Plus, even Bill Gates had a period when he was toiling in the garage. We shall see in Mercury period if she becomes remarkably wealthy. I wouldn’t expect it to kick in until 2017 regardless.she had been dating yes, a Capricorn who has Ketu in the first (a direct depiction of her new 7th house), someone who was more in touch with her masculine side but who was also more open emotionally which was not her type from before and which is also a direct reflection of her new navamshashe is now much better at holding on to her masculine side in arbitration in home life (Mars in Libra in the fourth)
she does have the “hungry ghost” of Rahu now in the first and is constantly striving to improve her body and remake herselfthe Pushya ascendant is not lost: she is an active metaphysical healer now, in direct contrast to the more physical Aries ascendant and path she was on before surgery and she uses creativity/art in healing; see below for Moon as the ruler of the first as the explanation.Her heart (Moon, i.e., her emotional seat, not her physical heart ) is now very much much connected with creativity reflecting Moon in the fifth.Also, her relationship to domestic animals (which I have found to be represented by the fifth house, with work animals represented a la Parashara (http://ayurastro.com/astrology/?p=20) in the sixth) has greatly improved, reflecting as well her Moon now being in the fifth aspected by Jupiter. The recent difficult loss of a dog had been at a time of dasha planets activating marakas in the new D-7 (which yes, I use for pets), not in the old D-7.That she had been in Saturn dasha while a man and has engaged in it yet again in the surgery rebirth chart suggests some fixed karma. Perhaps she is meant to experience the lessons of Saturn and here, mere surgery is not enough to block“The Greatness of Saturn” (http://www.vedicbooks.net/product_info.php?ref=154&products_id=685&affiliate_banner_id=1) and His important lessons.
She herself says that she believes she has chosen a relatively tough series of challenges in order to learn from them and grow more complete. I see the import of the change of charts to be not so much in changing her life in the big picture ofqualities of dharma, artha, kama, and moksha but in a radical trajectory change or arc of actions to get there.
For example, an interesting thing is that she would have been out of Saturndasha (http://ayurastro.com/astrology/?p=18) at the end of 2008 but will now have to wait until 2013. Her Mercurydasha, which comes next, should be considerably better in this new incarnation however with that amazing Laksmi Yoga within a Saraswati Yoga, gifts of two female Goddess energies, by the way.
Another thing that would be easily testable is that her relationship with her siblings, difficult before because of a planetary war, and difficult now because of Saturn debilitated in the tenth in the new drekkhana, might reach a place of healing in the Mercury dasha.
The surgery seems to have allowed the setting of a new stage for her to be her highest self. I wish to thank her for her time and emotional investment in answering my questions. Best of luck to you!