Showing posts with label twin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twin. Show all posts

Monday, May 27, 2019

Twins of Irom Sharmila






Irom Sharmila became a national headline as she went on a fast for 16 years to protest about the problems faced by people of her state. After breaking her fast, she got married to a British citizen and settled down in Southern India. She was in the news again when she gave birth to twins recently in a Bangalore hospital.

I thought it would be interesting to check out my theory on twins using this case and determine whether the twins are identical or not.

According to the news reports, she delivered two baby girls on May 12, 2019 at 9:21 am. I presumed this is the birth time of the first baby and wanted to find out the birth time of the second baby using my theory on birth time rectification

Mars was sitting on the Navamsha border. A small change in time could put it in a different Navamsha. Hence, this became a very Ayanamsha sensitive case. After examining different Ayanamshas, I settled for 'Traditional Lahiri' Ayanamsha. Following is the chart for the given time:

After accounting for Parivartana both in Rasi and in Navamsha, Mars acting vargottama in its MT sign is the strongest planet in the chart. Though Lagna lord Mercury and 12th Lord Venus are conjunct, my theory of birth time rectification is still applicable as there is a strong vargottama planet in the chart. Using longitude of Mars as the time indicator for the first baby, the rectification time arrived at was 9:22:01. Venus being the second strongest planet being vargottama in a friendly sign, I used the longitude of Venus to determine the rectified birth time for the second baby. It turned out to be 9:24:20. Since, I had some contacts in the hospital where Irom delivered, I contacted a doctor there to get the actual birth times of the two babies. The time I got from this doctor is as follows:

Baby 1 - 9:21:50
Baby 2 - 9:22:40

I was happy to observe that the hospital was recording seconds also. Though the actual and rectified birth times for baby 1 are pretty close (difference of 11 seconds only), the difference for the second baby is pretty large (about one and a half minutes). Hence, it would need further investigation to determine the cause for the difference. If both times differed by similar amounts of time (even if it is one and a half minutes), it would have been acceptable.

Next, to verify the planetary conditions for birth of twins, my theory highlights the following two combinations:

[Rule 1]
 Take a look at the Lagna lord or its dispositor. One of the two following conditions can be seen: [Rule 1]
  • LL or its dispositor is involved in a Parivartana/Srinkhala[2] either in Rasi or in Constellation, or
  • LL or its dispositor disposits its own Rasi dispositor in Constellation (mixed Parivartana?), or
  • LL or its dispositor is closely conjunct with its dispositor (this condition has been modified after the publication)
[Rule 2]
Lord of 11th house (representing multiplicity) or the karaka of 11th house Jupiter influences Lagna or Lagna Lord by ownership or by conjunction or by graha drishti.


In this case, the LL is Mercury and its dispositor is Mars. Here first part of Rule-1 is satisfied as Mercury and Mars are in Parivartana. Since, LL Mercury is placed in the11th house and is in Parivartana with 11 lord Mars, Rule-2 above gets satisfied.

The next step was to determine if the two girls are identical or not. My theory states the following rule:

[Rule 3]
  • The 3rd lord and 11th lord are in close conjunction, hardly 1 degree apart! (or it could be within the same nakshatra pada), or
  • There is a Parivartana/Srinkhala between the 3rd lord and the 11th lord either in Rasi or in Constellation.

In this particular case, though 3rd lord Sun is placed in the 11th house, it is neither conjunct with 11L Mars nor Mars is placed in the 3rd house. Hence, the girls are not identical. However, notice that half of the condition is satisfied. Also, by parivartana Mars acts as if it is placed in the 11th house where Sun is also placed. It indirectly satisfies the first part of Rule-3 above. This made me think if this is a case of half identical twins or Sesquizygotic. This happens when the egg splits into two before fertilization and they get fertilized by two different sperms. Since the egg has identical properties for both the babies they could be half identical. However, the doctor I contacted at the hospital could only confirm that the babies are not identical.


Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Rare Twin Birth



"Mom gives birth to two sets of identical twins at Houston hospital" news item caught my attention. The following link gives the details of the news:

Rare Twin Birth


However, for ready reference, I am copying the news here:

A couple welcomed two sets of identical twins delivered at a Houston hospital on Valentine's Day. According to The Woman's Hospital of Texas where the babies were born, the odds of such a birth naturally is one in 70 million.

Tressa and Manuel Montalvo became parents to the tandem of twins last week after they were delivered within minutes of each other at the hospital. The boys developed in separate placenta and were delivered at 31 weeks.

Ace and Blaine were born at 8:51 a.m. weighing 3 pounds, 10 ounces, and 3 pounds, 15 ounces. Cash and Dylan were just one minute behind, born at 8:52 a.m. weighing 2 pounds, 15 ounces, and 3 pounds, 6 ounces.

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Birth Time Rectification

Birth Time Rectification for
Twins born in two different countries

The details about the twins born in tow different countries can be read from my previous post titled "Twins born in two different countries!". And, in this post, I will demonstrate once more the applicability of Krishna's BTR Technique in rectifying the birth time for these twins. Those who are not aware of my BTR technique, please look at the appropriate post.

I have used "True Chitrapaksha Ayanamsha" as given in jHora astrological software.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Twins born in two different countries!


This news item reported by BBC attracted my attention as this is unheard of before and that I had done some research on twin's charts a few years back. The link to the actual story is given below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-18767549.

The story goes like this:


A mother from Northumberland gave birth to twins less than two hours apart in two different countries.
Donna Keenan, 28, gave birth to Dylan Joseph at about 22:00 BST on 1 July in the living room of her house in Wooler.
After being taken 40 miles by ambulance to Borders General Hospital in Melrose, Scotland, Hannah Rose was born at 23:39 BST.
Miss Keenan and boyfriend, Joe Fox, 24, were watching the final of Euro 2012 when she went into labour.

I was curious to check out if the three rules that I formulated for twin charts would be applicable in this special case of twin births. Those who are interested in my write-up can take a look at Unique features of a twin's chart

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Sanjay Dutt’s Twins




It was in the news recently that well known film actor Sanjay Dutt became proud father of twins, a girl and a boy. Congratulations to Sanjay and Manyata!

When I saw this news item, I was curious to check-out this case for the conditions that I had specified for twin births in my earlier article titled “Unique features of twins chart”.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Krishna’s BTR Technique
Applied to Multiple Births


Every time a new Jyotish technique is offered, it is a challenge to show that the same technique works in the case of multiple births as well. If the technique is sound, it should work well for multiple births also. This article demonstrates the same for the BTR technique offered earlier.

In another post, Krishna’s BTR technique has been explained in detail. It might be difficult to follow this article unless the technique is understood first.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Unique features of a twin's chart
(published in Saptarishis astro magazine Aug. 2008 issue)
Charts of twins have challenged astrologers since ages. It has been observed that many twins have lived quite different lives over time. People talk about looking into either varga charts or cuspal links to understand the differences in their charts as well as in their lives. However, the focus of this research is not on that but something even more basic. The purpose was to check if the planets leave any specific foot-prints in the charts of twins. Some basic questions that came up were – what are the special characteristics of a twin’s natal chart? Is it possible to know through astrology whether the twins are identical or fraternal? and what the sex of the babies could be? The search for answers began. What was found may not necessarily be the complete blueprint of a twin’s chart. At the same time, it is believed that some clear watermarks could be found in such charts.