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Khayyam: An Astro-obituary



Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi (18 February 1927 – 19 August 2019), better known mononymously as Khayyam, was an Indian music director and background score composer whose career spanned four decades.

On his 89th birthday, Khayyam announced the formation of a charitable trust, Khayyam Jagjeet Kaur KPG Charitable Trust, and decided to donate his entire wealth to the trust to support budding artists and technicians in India. His wealth at the time of announcement was valued at around 10 crore (US$1.4 million). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Zahur_Khayyam#Personal_life_and_death


Eclipses tend to bring about endings and new beginnings. The areas that these changes can affect is a function of star alignments and other aspecting planets occurring at the time of the eclipse. Although eclipses effect the entire Earth, they are more influential in places where they fall on the angles or make hard aspects to them.

The partial lunar eclipse of July 17 at Bombay (Mumbai) made hard aspects to the Ascendant and the MC (also conjunct Khayyam’s radix Sun)  marking  it out as one place where its message would be felt. The eclipse Moon was amid  the stars of Lyra, often referred to as the celestial harp and square the asteroid Requiem (death) so is it all surprising that the eclipse is hinting at the possible death of a musician. 

The eclipse chart adds other details which match with the life of Khayyam. The Ascendant [4pi] is conjunct the star Enif of Pegasus about which Nick Fiorenza writes:

Enif of Pegasus, the nose of the magical flying horse, brings intuitiveness and sensitivity to the humanitarian / Aquarian pursuit. Enif is characteristic of altruistic people, those with the intuitive awareness to recognize what is of essence, of value, and worthy of humanitarian support. It is of those who are capable of providing material and financial support and who have the sensitivity to do so. A fortuitous star, Enif asks us to follow our intuition to do what is truly supportive to our greater wellbeing and to those around us. 


134340
Pluto-Charon
21 cp 50'14"
Rx
10199
Chariklo
22 cp 0'11"
Rx

Moon
24 cp 4' 6"


Sun
24 cn 4' 9"

2254
Requiem
24 li 7'32"


As shown in the table above, the eclipse highlights the Pluto-Chariklo conjunction.

The Pluto-Chariklo-Ketu synthesis also impels us to elevate how we use our personal power, and power in the world, to create an energetic environment that is healing and that supports to the nourishment and development of the unique attributes inherent to our selves, to our young, and to humankind. https://www.lunarplanner.com/2020/index.html


But how can we sure that the eclipse was indeed active at Khayyam’s death. Regular readers will be aware that eclipse charts can be progressed to any future date. On the days that the progressed angles align with the eclipse configurations are the days when the eclipse message is felt very strongly. Here is the eclipse chart progressed to August 19, the day Khayyam died. Notice the perfect alignment of the eclipse configuration with the horizon axis!

[1] The Lore of the Lyre https://www.lunarplanner.com/Lyre.html

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