Parivartana case study 1-3

Mutual reception between lords of 1st and 3rd houses

Evel Knievel, the hell-raising stuntman who rode his motorcycle to daredevil fame, has been an active athlete in many sports throughout his life, eg, skier, pole vaulter, hockey player. After leaving high school he got a job at a local mine but was fired after he performed a “wheelie” with a large earth-moving vehicle and crashed into a power line. As a young man, he launched an environmental protest campaign to protect elk in national parks, a form of penance after he’d been discovered guiding deer-hunting trips in Yellowstone National Park. For awhile, he was an insurance salesman and ran a Honda dealership at which he offered $100 discounts for any customer who could beat him arm-wrestling.

He’s a veteran of multiple stunt injuries (75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps) that have resulted in 433 fractures in 35 bones, thus earning him a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the survivor of “most bones broken in a lifetime.” In getting repaired, he’s endured no fewer than 14 operations, during one of which he contracted hepatitis C, and was obliged to have a liver transplant!

With a past as checkered as his medical record, Knievel has been arrested for various acts of violence – assaulting his girlfriend, sexually soliciting an undercover cop, and beating his press agent with a baseball bat, a rules infraction that earned him six months in jail.

Debilitated Jupiter in 1st house Capricorn exchanges with Saturn in 3rd house Pisces. The two planets are both retrograde and therefore strong. Given Jupiter’s role as karaka for the liver, its debilitation is suggestive both of his hepatitis and the subsequent transplant of organs. Jupiter is in a Kesari Yoga with a strong Moon, giving him public fame. Although Jupiter escapes debilitation to become swa in the exchange, it loses dig bala in the process and is thereby somewhat compromised. Call it impaired judgment leading to rash actions.

Lagnesh Saturn in the 3rd is aspected by Mars, giving both a Dharma Karma Adhipati and a Dhana Yoga. However, with two malefic and tamasik planets, this perhaps explains his aggressive streak, his dogged defiance in the face of danger, and the multiple accidents that have earned him so many broken bones.

Since Jupiter is debilitated while Saturn is ordinary, this gives Saturn the relative strength to function as control planet for this exchange. Its placement in the 3rd gave Knievel a love of risky adventures.

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