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BBC airs ‘’India’s Daughter’’ at Venus-Pluto square



Jyoti Singh, 23, had cause to celebrate. It was no ordinary Sunday. “Happiness was just a few steps away,” says her father, Badri Singh, a labourer. He and his wife, Asha, originally from Uttar Pradesh, had sold their family land, to provide schooling not just for their two sons but also Jyoti. “Papa,” Jyoti had instructed her father. “Whatever money you’ve saved for my wedding, use it for my education.” Badri’s brothers wondered why he was wasting money on a girl. On this Sunday, 16 December 2012, Jyoti, a name that means light and happiness, had just completed her medical exams to become a doctor. Speaking excellent English, she spent nights working in a call centre from 8pm until 4am, slept for three hours, then studied. Her ambition was to build and run a hospital in her family’s village. “A girl can do anything,” she would say. March 1  http://bit.ly/1LYL9en








The story of the rape of 23 year old Jyoti in Delhi is being aired by BBC at a Venus-Pluto square. A chart drawn for the square shows it prominently placed in aspect to the meridian with Venus also conjunct Mars-Uranus.

When Pluto is in aspect with Venus, he slowly creeps up on her and pounces. Of all the planets – Pluto is the most secretive, his motives are never immediately apparent – and there is something in the essence of Venus which makes her almost always ripe for ambush.  The myth of the Rape of Persephone is essentially an  account of  the dynamics of Venus-Pluto aspects.


Named for the god of war, Mars represents such often-disowned functions as anger, aggression, and competitiveness. At its best and its most conscious level this is the energy that defends us on our journey. But it also has a negative side, it is our capacity to be a victim, to set ourselves up as targets – and then in the anger  such painful, humiliating events leave in their wake to seek to create pain in others. Pluto represents our will to power, and because power is so often abused, is typically disavowed and projected onto others. 

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