Rebirth: A Transgendering Surgery Creates a New Life

The original birth chart held forth as accurate until the surgery. Then the surgery chart was the accurate one for the years thereafter.

I can’t seem to get this published in the standard journals, so I am going to present some brief, casual material here — in the hope that more trans people might have their charts done, and that the real import of the surgery might be appreciated by all.

For those who think that Vedic astrologers should adhere only to old Indian culture: please remember that there are numerous references in the ancient texts to transgender situations. (See, for example, “Life on the Fringes,” Express India.)

Here are the charts.

Before: the natal chart

Our native originally had the rasi chart below.

Note the salient features:

• Exalted Saturn, dig bala, in the seventh — and indeed he had a long-lasting but mixed relationship with a woman, whom he married at the start of his Saturn dasha.
• Sun and Mercury in the sixth: he was primarily interested in helping others, often to the detriment of himself.
• A terrible planetary war between Jupiter and Moon in the third — he had a complicated, difficult relationship with most of his siblings, and indeed there was a kind of war between two of them and a third who held his heart (Moon).

The moment: the transit chart of the surgery

Now to the transit chart for the time of the surgery. Note:

• The release or loss of masculinity, with Mars setting in the seventh.
• Mars almost directly across natal Saturn — masculinity must have been very hard at the time.
• Venus (femininity) exalted, conjunct swa Jupiter and Mercury: a future dharma karma adhipati yoga.
• The beautiful triangle linking surgery (eighth house), the influence of the mother (fourth house), and loss or international travel (twelfth house) — the surgery was in another country, and was admitted to be a kind of excision of the mother’s influence.
• Ketu in the tenth, transiting natal Rahu and aspected by Mars: a pursuit of a public loss of the masculine self.

After: the surgery chart as a new birth chart

And with that, we get a new chart — her new birth chart, the chart of the surgery.

Her new life has articulated a number of important changes that belong to this chart alone:

• Working life, and public opinion of her, have turned challenging, reflecting debilitated Saturn in the tenth.
• Brilliance in advanced medical knowledge has emerged, as well as a passionate pursuit of academic Buddhism, with a superstar Saraswati Yoga: Venus, Mercury, and Jupiter in Pisces in the ninth — a better situation than Einstein had. (I predict possible medical school for her, or a career in medical writing, when she enters Mercury dasha in 2013.) This constellation also makes a Lakshmi Yoga, one almost too good to be true. I don’t think it has been activated yet: she is still in the Saturn period, Jupiter is awfully close to Mercury, and there is a papa kartari on both yogas. I don’t know whether that would compromise it. Plus, even Bill Gates had a period when he was toiling in the garage. We shall see in the Mercury period whether she becomes remarkably wealthy; I wouldn’t expect it to kick in until 2017 regardless.
• She had been dating — yes — a Capricorn who has Ketu in the first, a direct depiction of her new seventh house: someone more in touch with her masculine side, but also more open emotionally, which was not her type before, and which is likewise a direct reflection of her new navamsha.
• She is now much better at holding on to her masculine side in arbitration in home life (Mars in Libra in the fourth).
• She does have the “hungry ghost” of Rahu now in the first, and is constantly striving to improve her body and remake herself.
• The Pushya ascendant is not lost: she is an active metaphysical healer now, in direct contrast to the more physical Aries ascendant and path she was on before the surgery, and she uses creativity and art in healing. See below for Moon, as ruler of the first, as the explanation.
• Her heart — Moon, that is, her emotional seat, not her physical heart — is now very much connected with creativity, reflecting Moon in the fifth.
• Her relationship to domestic animals has greatly improved, reflecting as well her Moon now being in the fifth and aspected by Jupiter. (I have found domestic animals to be represented by the fifth house, with work animals represented, à la Parashara, in the sixth.) The recent difficult loss of a dog came at a time of dasha planets activating marakas in the new D-7 — which, yes, I use for pets — not in the old D-7.
• That she had been in Saturn dasha while a man, and has entered it yet again in the surgery rebirth chart, suggests some fixed karma. Perhaps she is meant to experience the lessons of Saturn, and here mere surgery is not enough to block The Greatness of Saturn and His important lessons.

She herself says that she believes she has chosen a relatively tough series of challenges in order to learn from them and grow more complete. I see the import of the change of charts as lying not so much in changing her life in the big picture of the qualities of dharma, artha, kama, and moksha, but in a radical change of trajectory — in the arc of actions taken to get there.

For example, an interesting thing is that she would have been out of Saturn dasha at the end of 2008, but will now have to wait until 2013. Her Mercury dasha, which comes next, should be considerably better in this new incarnation, with that amazing Lakshmi Yoga within a Saraswati Yoga — gifts of two Goddess energies, by the way.

Another thing that would be easily testable is that her relationship with her siblings — difficult before, because of a planetary war, and difficult now, because of Saturn debilitated in the tenth in the new drekkhana — might reach a place of healing in the Mercury dasha.

The surgery seems to have allowed the setting of a new stage for her to be her highest self. I wish to thank her for her time and her emotional investment in answering my questions. Best of luck to you!