SHILLONG: India's 11th President APJ Abdul Kalam died
on Monday evening at a hospital in Meghalaya, where he had gone to deliver a
lecture. He was 83. The former President, who was in office from 2002 to 2007,
had collapsed during the lecture at the Indian Institute of Management,
Shillong, around 6.30 pm. He was taken to the Bethany hospital. Doctors said he
had suffered from a massive cardiac arrest. July 27
Abdul Kalam (15
October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an Indian scientist who served as the 11th
President of India from 2002 to 2007. Kalam was born and raised in Rameswaram,
Tamil Nadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next
four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence
Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India's civilian space
program and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known as
the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and
launch vehicle technology. He also played a pivotal organizational, technical
and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since
the original nuclear test by India in 1974.
Abdul Kalam
had a powerful Grand Cross in which his radix Sun aspected Uranus-Pluto and
Saturn. The association of the Uranus-Pluto square to scientific breakthroughs
(Uranus) in the field of nuclear energy (Pluto) is well documented[1]. Here
Saturn is conjunct the star Rukbat, alpha
(α) Sagittarius [2] in the constellation of the Archer about which Manilius
wrote:
"As for the Archer, when the
foremost portion of his cloak rises, he will give birth to hearts renowned in
war and will conduct the conqueror, celebrating great triumphs in the sight of
all, to his country's citadels….Indeed, in the stars of this constellation the
human form is blended with a beast's and placed above it; wherefore it has
lordship over beasts. And because it carries a shaft poised on drawn bow, it
imparts strength to limb and keenness to the intellect, swiftness of movement,
and an indefatigable spirit." [Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century AD, book
4]
The ancient Archer’s bow and arrow is a perfect
symbol for a modern day missile so that Abdul
Kalam came to be known, very appropriately, as India’s “Missile Man”.
While
delivering a lecture at IIM Shillong on 27 July 2015, Kalam suffered a massive
heart attack at around 6:30 p.m IST. He was rushed to the Bethany Hospital in
critical condition, and subsequently died of cardiac arrest. His current
progressed Sun [15cp] is conjunct his radix Saturn [17cp] and square Uranus
[17ar]. Abdul Kalam was going through his Uranus return. Transit Uranus [20ar] stationed retrograde yesterday triggering the
radix Cross. A chart for the Uranus station
has it placed on the IC at Shillong square Mars[21cn]. Since his radix Pluto
[22cn] and the asteroid Requiem [21cn], linked to death, are part of the Cross, this retro station
became the trigger for his death. (Also notice that the current New Moon [23cn]
fell on Pluto).
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