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Pluto transit and Sunanda Pushkar’s death


Sunanda Pushkar (January 1, 1962 – January 17, 2014) was a businessperson and spouse of the Indian Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor (born 9 March 1956). On 17 January 2014, a day after the Twitter controversy, Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in room number 345 of The Leela Palace Hotel in the Chanakyapuri area of New Delhi.


There are several pieces of the astrological jigsaw that we  try and piece together in this post. Firstly, Sunanda has her radix Sun [10cp] conjunct Venus [4cp] and Mars [5cp]. Shashi’s Mars [6cp] is also here. The New Moon on her birthday fell on Pluto [11cp] and her radix Sun activating the entire Sun-Venus-Mars complex. Pluto began transiting over this complex about 3 years ago when Sunanda and Shashi met and married in a fairy tale wedding.

Whatever part of our lives and of our psyches that Pluto touches, especially by hard transit, is an area that Pluto compels us to explore more deeply. Superficiality is not acceptable for Pluto. Pluto transits insist that we get in touch with our core purpose and our deep sense of power. New levels of intimacy, not only with others but also with ourselves, are discovered and uncovered.

Fear—sometimes intense fear—can reveal itself at the beginning of a challenging Pluto transit. We confront our "dark" side—those parts of us that are raw, primal, and instinctive. Resisting this process can cause us to externalize or project these parts of ourselves. If we do this, Pluto's energy has to go somewhere, so we end up meeting Pluto in our lives in the guise of events and people. If we are attracting jealous, manipulative, and controlling people or situations, we can ask ourselves why this is happening. Is there something in ourselves that is provoking this kind of behavior or circumstance?

Although transiting Pluto is often associated with such things as separation and deaths, it is important to note that Pluto's action is to revolutionize parts of ourselves, and events that take place at this time can just as easily be new relationships, births, and new beginnings in general.

With Pluto transit over Venus  relationships in general  become more intense, but especially those involving love and sex. You will experience emotional extremes and, if a relationship is in a rut, you are likely to decide to break it off. "All or nothing" may become your motto, and the "all" includes a depth and intensity of emotional response. [1]





The next piece of the jigsaw is the Davison Relationship Chart (DRC) for Sunanda and Shashi shown here. Notice a Venus-Mars-Pluto T-square.  Transit Neptune [3pi] and Sunanda’s progressed Sun [3pi]  conjoin Venus [4pi] of the T-square setting it off.  


I’ve noticed Venus square Pluto people often get entangled in love triangles. I find that this is common among people who have affairs on their partners, as well as people who end up being the “other woman/man”. This aspect is known for fatalistic tendencies in love. Venus-Pluto people are known for getting into addictive relationships, even if they’re toxic, because unavailable people are so attractive to them. Even in a painful situation, it’s still hard for Venus-Pluto people to let go because the feelings are so intense. [2]

[2] http://starscopestoday.wordpress.com/tag/venus-square-pluto/


P.S.

A traditional Kerala Hindu wedding was solemnised at 8.30 am, on 22.08.2010 at the MP's ancestral home in Elevanchry, a village near Palakkad. http://bit.ly/19BuvnG




A chart drawn for the marriage is shown here. Notice the ominous presence of Saturn-Uranus-Pluto-Jupiter on the angles. The interpretation of the elements of the T-square are given below:

Saturn-Pluto-Uranus : the fear (Saturn)  of being overpowered, manipulated or being emotionally out of control (Pluto) because of  friends or group participation (Uranus); stress/tension creates an uncompromising situation that forces a disruption or break.

Saturn-Pluto-Jupiter: difficulties bring contact with experts in the medical field.

The composite Sun [28le] is conjunct the star Alpha (α) Hydra, Alfard,[27le] an orange star in the neck of the Watersnake.  Ebertin gives its influence as follows:

Of a Saturn nature, however, there is a measure of influence of Venus and Neptune. This combination is of a disadvantage in most cases…poisoned hatred in women, A 'poisoning' is also possible in a relationship between man and woman in marriage. [Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1928, p.50, under the name Alphard.]



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