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India migrant heads home after lottery win



A West Bengal man who won the Kerala lottery jackpot one day after arriving there is returning home. Mofijul Rahima Sheikh, 22, was the winner of the 10m rupee prize ($150,000; £106,000) at the Karunia government lottery. He bought the winning ticket in Kozhikode city, where he was looking for work. After discovering his win, he sought protection at a police station fearful that someone would steal his ticket. Mr Sheikh arrived in the city on Wednesday and, on the following day, was handpicked to work at a construction site. With the 50 rupees ($0.75; £0.52) he earned from his first day at the job, he bought the Karunia (compassion) lottery ticket. "He told me he purchased the ticket out of sympathy for the physically-challenged seller," local police official UK Shahjahan told the BBC. Three days later, Mr Sheikh discovered he had won the prize. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35771298


A powerful T-square containing Jupiter-Saturn-Sun-Mercury-Neptune is the defining aspect  of March.  A chart for the exact Sun-Jupiter opposition at Kozhikode is shown here.





The Neptune-Jupiter combination is  linked to  speculations, beliefs and big dreams [1]. It is also associated with sensitivity and compassion for those in trouble [2]. How strange that the lottery was called Karunia (compassion)!  And let us also remember, that Saturn aspects are not always unfortunate. At times a  Saturn aspect  relates to the stage of fulfillment so that here we have the fulfillment of a big speculative dream. Also  Saturn is in the 5th which among other things relates to lotteries and games of chance [3].

Sun and Neptune are conjunct Mercury  and part of a stellium that forms one leg of the T-square. Here Mercury is conjunct  the star Sadalmelik from the Arabic Al Sa'd al Malik, the Lucky One of the King, sometimes given as Al Sa'd al Mulk, the Lucky One of the Kingdom [4].




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