The Taj Mahal ( Crown of the Palace) is an ivory-white
marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of
Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (reigned
from 1628 to 1658) to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it
also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself.
Mumtaz Mahal died at age 38 (7 July 1631) while giving birth
to Gauhara Begum in Burhanpur. According
to historians Shah Jahan was noted as being "paralysed by grief" and
weeping fits. Qazwini records that he even considered abdicating his throne and
becoming a religious recluse, such was his sense of loss after Mumtaz Mahal's
passing. Her body was temporarily buried in a walled pleasure garden known as Zainabad
Her death had a profound impact on Shah Jahan's personality and inspired the
construction of the Taj Mahal, where she was later reburied.
In this post I shall attempt to show how the Emperor’s
grief and the construction of the Taj was written in the stars of his birth
horoscope. Presented here is the chart of the Emperor as provided by
Astro-Databank [1].
Notice that the TNP Admetus was rising on the Ascendant
making hard aspects to Cupido, Zeus, Neptune and the Moon. The table below
includes the asteroids that pepper the configuration.
Admetos
|
22 vi 12'20"
|
Requiem
|
22 vi 36'51"
|
M87
|
25 vi 13'28"
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Valentine
|
0 li 12'18"
|
Astraea
|
2 aq 13' 3"
|
Orpheus
|
2 aq 17'16"
|
Moon
|
7 aq 15'15"
|
Zeus
|
7 sc 21'42"
|
Cupido
|
7 ta 34'25"
|
Martha Wescott provides the following definitions:
ASTRAEA: Blocked
closure; staying to “the end” (the sometimes bitter end;) believing that “it
ain't over 'til it's over”—even if it already is; an inability to read
beginnings and endings or to “let go” of things, people or events.
ORPHEUS: Sense of
mourning and loss; grief (for what you don't have—what has gone out of your
life-- “might have been” or what was);
contact with death.
ADMETUS: Paralysis.
REQUIEM: Connection
to the ceremonies of death (and the formalization of grief)
VALENTINE: Love and
passion.
CUPIDO: Building, decor;
artistry; sense for art.
NEPTUNE: Ethereal;
fantasy; ideal; transcendental.
ZEUS: Enthusiasm for and planning of creative
projects.
MOON: Woman, wife.
Putting the pieces together, we have:
Moon-Orpheus :
Death of a female relative (wife).
Astraea-Orpheus:
Inability to let go of sorrow. With Admetus, paralysis accompanying grief.
Cupido-Requiem: A
mausoleum…with Neptune…one that fulfills an ideal or fantasy.
Finally we look at the major transit that was taking
place in the Emperor’s chart at the time he began the construction of the Taj
Mahal. Notice that in 1632 Neptune which was square radix Cupido was completing
an opposition to Cupido. The Emperor was planning a creative project (Zeus) …the
building of an ethereal mausoleum for his beloved wife.
DYNAMIC
REPORT
Dynamic
Chart (2):
Shah Jahan - Natal Chart
15 Jan 1592 NS, 10:25 pm, LMT -4:57:12
Lahore Pakistan, 31°N35', 074°E18'
Geocentric Tropical Zodiac
Koch Houses,
True Node
Selection:
Outer transit aspects
P1 (H) Asp P2
(H) EXL Type Date Pos1 Pos2
Nep (2) Opp Cup
(8) (X) Tr-Na 3 Jan 1632 NS 07°Sc34' D 07°Ta34'
R
Nep (2) Opp Cup
(8) (X) Tr-Na 16 Mar 1632 NS 07°Sc34' R 07°Ta34'
R
Jup (8) Cnj Cup
(8) (X) Tr-Na 13 May 1632 NS 07°Ta34' D 07°Ta34'
R
Nep (2) Opp Cup
(8) (X) Tr-Na 28 Oct 1632 NS 07°Sc34' D 07°Ta34'
R
*** END
REPORT ***
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