Andromeda about to be devoured by
Cetus
Most
of Tehran’s newspapers put a remarkable photo on their front page last Sunday.
It showed an Iranian woman with short hair, her head uncovered. Officials
allowed editors to ignore Iran’s strict dress code for female pictures, to mark
the death of the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani. Although she left Iran for the
US in 1999, Mirzakhani, who was 40, remained a heroine for many in her home
country, including President Hassan Rouhani who released a condolence message
about her “unique brilliance” and her contribution to the scientific progress
of Iranian women. https://www.ft.com/content/dc9b7bf8-6d67-11e7-b9c7-15af748b60d0
Stanford mathematics Professor Maryam Mirzakhani (b. 3 May,
1977), the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal since its
inception in 1936, died Friday, July 14. She had been battling breast cancer
since 2013; the disease spread to her liver and bones in 2016. Mirzakhani was
40 years old. She died at Stanford Hospital.
Presented here is the noon chart for Mirzakhani. Notice the
powerful T-square involving Sun-Mercury-Saturn-Moon-Uranus. Mercury-Uranus is the aspect of an intellectually gifted
person.. Mercury-Saturn aspects indicate intellectual discipline, a serious outlook,
good powers of concentration, and a knack for logical reasoning. With Saturn’s rulership
over form and structure, this combination gives both brilliance and discipline
in mathematics in general and geometry in particular. So it is not surprising
that Mirzakhani’s work focused on topics
in algebraic geometry. She specialised in the geometry and dynamics of complex
curved surfaces — a theoretical field that reads like an obscure foreign
language to non-mathematicians.
Mirzakhani was born close to a Full Moon that formed a
T-square with Saturn-Uranus. Although her time of birth is not known, it is
quite likely that both the Sun and Moon were seriously afflicted. In
traditional astrology, this is one of the most important factors that indicate
a short life. Her radix Sun [12ta47] is conjunct the star Almach [13ta54]
and Menkar[13ta59] while Mercury [8ta30]
aligns with Schedir [7ta27].
Alpha (α) Cassiopeia, Schedir, is star on the left breast of the Queen while Almach is the foot of the princess
Andromeda about to be devoured by Menkar in the jaw of the sea-monster Cetus
(see image). Symbolically, Cetus refers
to all kinds of troubles including illnesses that can suddenly erupt from the
unconscious. Recall that Mirzakhani suffered from breast cancer (Schedir)! The
cancer was diagnosed in 2013 when Saturn transited opposite her Sun-Mercury and
over Moon-Uranus. And since March 2017, Saturn has been in an upper quincunx
(often called the ‘death quincuncx’ because of its 8th house
connection) to her Sun-Mercury.
In a video to mark her Fields Medal award, Mirzakhani gave
an example of the sort of problem on which she worked: calculating the
trajectory of billiard balls on pool tables as their geometry is deformed into
increasingly complex shapes. In astrology we link Saturn with rules as well as
with shapes and boundaries. When Uranus acts on Saturn (Mirzakhani has Saturn square
Uranus), those boundaries can no longer be rigid. At best they become flexible
and at worst they simply shatter.
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