Eclipse of Ratan Tata

Ratan Naval Tata, KBE (born 28 December 1937), is an Indian businessman who became chairman of the Tata Group (1991–2012), a Mumbai-based conglomerate. He is a member of a prominent Tata family of Indian industrialists and philanthropists.

Friday, December 28, 2012. Ratan Tata will hand over the top job at India’s largest industrial house, Tata Group, to his successor, 44-year-old Cyrus Pallonji Mistry. Mistry is taking over as chairman of Tata Sons, promoter-company of the group, ending a one-year-long apprenticeship. Tata, however, will serve as honorary chairman emeritus and remain chairman of the various Tata trusts.

Here we will look at the role of the last lunar eclipse of 28^th Nov 2012 in Ratan Tata’s retirement. Eclipses are known to shut down a past that we need to outgrow. They create a relaxation and re-stimulation both in Earth’s energy grid and in our neurobiological resonance providing an opportunity to release the past and engage in a fresh start. Notice that the eclipse places Uranus-Pluto along with Kronos-Hades on the angles of the chart at Bombay. In the words of Reinhold Ebertin, Uranus-Pluto is about the ‘end of an old order’. The TNP Kronos is about leaders and Hades is about their decline or retirement. But why today?. Notice that today’s Full Moon [7cn – 7cp] falls on the Ascendant-Descendant axis of the eclipse chart activating whatever it stood for. And since today is also Tata’s birthday, his radix Sun is on the descendant and, therefore, affected.

Finally, since Ratan Tata is a leading Indian businessman one may ask "does today’s retirement show up in India’s chart" and the answer is “yes”.  Shown below is the Solar Return chart for the Republic of India progressed to 28^th December. Notice Jupiter – Saturn occupy the meridian axis.

Astrology classifies Jupiter and Saturn as planets of business success primarily because Jupiter is associated with risk taking while Saturn provides the discipline and the capacity to get along with powers-that-be. In transit opposition :

Jupiter-Saturn; to have a happy separation (to be glad to leave or to leave for a good reason). - Martha Wescott Lang “The Orders of Light”