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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