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Australian surgeons use a "dead heart" for transplant






Surgeons in Australia say they have performed the first heart transplant using a "dead heart". Donor hearts from adults usually come from people who are confirmed as brain dead but with a heart still beating. A team at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney revived and then transplanted hearts that had stopped beating for up to 20 minutes. The first patient who received a heart said she felt a decade younger and was now a "different person". Hearts are the only organ that is not used after the heart has stopped beating - known as donation after circulatory death. BBC; Oct 24 http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29751880





The solar eclipse of Oct.24  took place in the 11th house at Sydney, Australia. It was conjunct Venus, the lord of the 6th linked to health issues. About the 11th house Campion, Baigent and Harvey state: "we may also consider it relates to a society's collective long-term hopes, wishes, ambitions and ideals" . Places and institutions that offer relief and shelter. (Hospitals, along with asylums and various other institutions where our liberty is restricted have always been traditionally associated with the 12th house; however, in the sense that hospitals offer relief from pain and discomfort, there are situations where they are more appropriately signified by the 11th house) [1]. With the  eclipse conjunct the 6th lord in the 11th one may expect fulfilment of society’s long term hopes connected with health issues.

On the Ascendant is sigma  Ophiuchi [20sa58] – a star on the healer’s upper chest (heart!) along with xi Ophiuchi which was Wajrik, the magician and also Markhashik, the serpent bitten to the Copts. The serpent is an ancient symbol of death and rebirth so that a combination of the two stars here is referring to the magical restoration of life by the medicine man Ophiuchus who is often shown struggling with the serpent [2]. A second reference to the heart comes from the position of Saturn [23sc] which is conjunct the star Unukalhai, alpha Serpentis, heart of the serpent.

On the IC of the chart is Neptune [5pi] conjunct sigma and gamma Aquari which was in ancient times the doctor goddess Gula. This was also the Indian Lunar Mansion Satabhisaj. A Sanskrit dictionary says Satabhisaj means “Requiring a Hundred Physicians” a reference to very difficult health problems possibly like the one the Australian surgeons have addressed. Diana Rosenberg adds that this is an area of “major technological and scientific advances” [3].


[2] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p.367)
[3] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p.690-92)

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