Autism - The enigmatic disease through astrology.
Learning may be unpredictable
Autism is a wide-spectrum disorder
What Are the Symptoms of
Autism?
What Are the Warning Signs That
a Child may Have Autism?
What Causes Autism?
What is Autism? What
Causes Autism?
Autism
is known as a complex developmental disability. Experts believe that Autism
presents itself during the first three years of a person's life. The condition
is the result of a neurological disorder that has an effect on normal brain
function, affecting development of the person's communication and social
interaction skills.
People
with autism have issues with non-verbal communication, a wide range of social
interactions, and activities that include an element of play and/or banter.
Learning may be unpredictable
How quickly a child with autism
learns things can be unpredictable. They may learn something much faster than
other children, such as how to read long words, only to forget them completely
later on. They may learn how to do something the hard way before they learn how
to do it the easy way.
Autism is a wide-spectrum disorder
Autism (or ASD) is a
wide-spectrum disorder. This means that no two people with autism will have
exactly the same symptoms. As well as experiencing varying combinations of
symptoms, some people will have mild symptoms while others will have severe
ones. Below is a list of the most commonly found characteristics identified
among people with an ASD.
What Are the Symptoms of
Autism?
Symptoms of autism typically appear before a child is
3 years old and last throughout life. Children with autism can display a wide
range of symptoms, which can vary in severity from mild to disabling. General
symptoms that may be present to some degree in a child with autism include:
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Difficulty with verbal communication, including problems using and
understanding language
·
Inability to participate in a conversation, even when the child
has the ability to speak
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Difficulty with non-verbal communication, such as gestures and
facial expressions
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Difficulty with social interaction, including relating to people
and to his or her surroundings
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Difficulty making friends and preferring to play alone
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Unusual ways of playing with toys and other objects, such as only
lining them up a certain way
·
Difficulty adjusting to changes in routine or familiar
surroundings, or an unreasonable insistence on following routines in detail
·
Repetitive body movements, or patterns of behavior, such as hand
flapping, spinning, and head banging
·
Preoccupation with unusual objects or parts of objects
People with a form of autism,
called savantism, have exceptional skills in specific areas such as music, art,
and numbers. People with savantism are able to perform these skills without
lessons or practice.
What Are the Warning Signs That
a Child may Have Autism?
Babies develop at their own pace,
some more quickly than others. However, you should consider an evaluation for
autism if any of the following apply:
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Your child does not babble or coo by 12 months of age
·
Your child does not gesture, such as point or wave, by 12 months
of age
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Your child does not say single words by 16 months
·
Your child does not say two-word phrases on his or her own (rather
than just repeating what someone else says) by 24 months
·
Your child has lost any language or social skills (at any age)
·
Does not establish or maintain eye contact
·
Does not make facial expressions or respond to your facial
expressions
What Causes Autism?
The exact cause of autism is not known, but research has pointed to
several possible factors, including genetics (heredity), certain types of
infections, and problems occurring at birth.
Recent studies strongly suggest
that some people have a genetic predisposition to autism, meaning that a
susceptibility to develop the condition may be passed on from parents to
children. Researchers are looking for clues about which genes contribute to
this increased vulnerability. In some children, environmental factors may also
play a role. Studies of people with autism have found abnormalities in several
regions of the brain,
which suggest that autism results from a disruption of early brain development
while still developing in the mother's womb.
Other autism theories suggest:
·
The body's immune system may inappropriately produce antibodies
that attack the brains of children, causing autism.
·
Abnormalities in brain structures cause autistic behavior.
·
Children with autism have abnormal timing of the growth of their
brains. Early in childhood, the brains of autistic children grow faster and
larger than those of normal children. Later, when normal children's brains get
bigger and better organized, autistic kids' brains grow more slowly.
Astrological pointers
Medically, the Ascendant represents the
body or physical vehicle that you came into at birth - its constitutional
nature and temperament, structure and appearance, and weak spots or
vulnerabilities. It also represents the nature and circumstances of your
birth, incarnation or physical embodiment.
Modern astrology gives the Ascendant an essential affinity or resonance with the sign Aries and its ruler Mars, since it's the cusp of the First House. And so, the Ascendant rules the body and its physical expression in general, and the head in particular.
Modern astrology gives the Ascendant an essential affinity or resonance with the sign Aries and its ruler Mars, since it's the cusp of the First House. And so, the Ascendant rules the body and its physical expression in general, and the head in particular.
1. Ascendant
/lord and mars.( already explained above)
2. Mercury
– The nervous system, speech indicator, body’s immune system
3. Saturn-
Cold and wasting ,responsible for toxic/waste
removals, chronic disease significator.
4.
Moon- Significator of
mind ,mother,body fluids etc. moon will give diseases related to lungs,
nervous disorders, sulkiness, depression, weak eyesight, emotional disorders.
Bad and horror dreams have been noticed when there is malefic effect on moon.
5. Rahu –
Poisions,pollutants , environmental factors responsible for unknown diseases.
6. Sun+
mer combination is very prominent in most of the nervous disorder diseases.
7. Uranus
+ Neptune as per western astrology.
8. Second
lord , mercury or Jupiter in trik bhavas ,afflicted etc.
9. Condition
of diseases lord of 6th in 2nd,6th,8th
,10th ,12th or making a connection with lord of ascendant
by aspect or being placed in ascendant.
Gemini,
virgo and pisces- Gemini indicatornerves and nervous system . Virgo The natural disease indicator of kaal
pursha and pisces as natural sign for hospitalization and inactivity.
System
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Planet
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Major Organs and Structures
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Skeletal
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Sun
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Bones,
cartilage, joints and ligaments that hold them together.
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Muscular
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Saturn
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Muscles:
(i) skeletal or voluntary (with bones and tendons is responsible for all
forms of conscious movement ), (ii) smooth muscles –responsible for
involuntary movement of internal organs, (iii) cardiac muscles, the bulk of
the heart.
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Nervous
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Mars
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Brain
and sense organs (eyes, ears, taste buds, smell and touch receptors), nerves and
spinal cord.
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Endocrine
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Venus
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Control
and influence the body’s chemistry and metabolic processes. Hormone producing
glands: pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenals, pancreas, thymus,
testes/ovaries.
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Respiratory
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Mercury
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Lungs,
bronchi (tubes to lungs), trachea(windpipe), mouth, larynx, nose, diaphragm.
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Cardio-
vascular
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Sun
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Heart,
arteries, veins, capillaries, blood.
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Lymph-vascular
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Mercury
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Structures
involving the circulation of lymph and the body’s defense against disease,
including lymph nodes, lymph vessels, spleen, tonsils, adenoids, thymus.
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Digestive
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Jupiter
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Mouth,
teeth, tongue, salivary glands, esophagus, stomach, small intestines, liver,
gall-bladder, pancreas.
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Reproductive
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Venus
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Male:
testes, penis, prostate gland, seminal vesicles, urethra. Female: ovaries,
Fallopian tubes, uterus, cervix, vagina, vulva. Male and female sex hormones
relates to sexual growth and function (menstruation in females).
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s Excretory Saturn
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Organs and glands
involved in the removal of waste matter from the body: sweat glands, large
intestines, urinary system (kidneys, urethras, bladder, urethra).
Let’s take some
example charts-
8th house and Taurus sign
has mars and venus ,mars is lord of 2nd and 7th a marak. ,Venus is lord of 1st and 8th,Jupiter is super malefic(
functional) being lord of 3rd and 6th Saturn as yogakarak
is debilated in 7th . Mercury the significator of nerves and body’s
ability to fight back is combust and aspected by Saturn (debilated). Saturn and
moon conjunct in 7th sign Aries indicate troubled mind and it also
gives propensity to be aloof and loner. Sun+ mercury combination is usually very prominent in all
diseases related to nervous disorders specifically true if mercury is combust
or the combination is badly placed, aspected or afflicted. Coming to nakshatra
of moon and Saturn are in its
ashwani indicating head, Cerebral Hemisphere and
diseases it generates are Congestion in brain, Thrombosis, Epilepsy,
Fainting, Head injury, strokes, spasm, coma, malaria, trance, small pox,
headache, neuralgia, cerebral hemorrhage. Venus the lagna lord is in
kritika indicating Head, Eyes,
Brain, Vision, 2nd, 3rd, 4th qtrs: Face, Neck,
Larynx, Tonsils, Lower Jaw. Cerebral Meningitis, Carbuncle Sharp Fever,
Malaria, Plague, Small Pox, Cuts, Wounds, Brain Fever, Injury, Accidents,
Explosions, Fire, Accident. Fourth house has Uranus+ Neptune combination
thought to be triggers of autism by western astrologers. Lastly we see that
Rahu ketu form a Kaal sarp dosh here.Gulika is in 9th house with sun
and mercury. Lord of second is conjunct lord of lagna and 8th .
Indicating speech problems.
Chart number2- Once again Sun conjunct
mercury and venus in Aries, here sun is lagna lord in ashwani nakshatra and in
aries the problem area again the brain/nervous disorder. Moon is in kritika
nakshatra again the specific area .Saturn as lord of sixth retrograde in virgo
( Natural disease significator sign) and Saturn is natural significator of
diseases so it makes a connection. Saturn by being retrograde aspects moon and
Jupiter while debilated mars also aspects Jupiter from 12th. Lagna
is in paapkartari with malefic on both
sides.Mandi and gulika are also in aries and in nakshatras kritikaand ashwani.Lord
of 2nd is again with ascendant lord
.Mercury is second lord with
ascendant lord sun and 3rd and 10th lord venus.
The common points—Aries sign, nakshatra
Ashwini and kritika,Sun+ mer combination ,rahu and ketu in 5th and
11th axis, Saturn’s aspect on moon. Jupiter and venus afflicted.
Lagna lord
mercury is conjunct second lord venus in
10th aspected by mars the planet placed in maran karaka sthaan in 7th
it also aspects the lagna the second and
lord of 5th and 6th Saturn . Saturn also aspects lagna
and it also makes a relation with moon in12th by being its dispositor .Jupiter
is again afflicted and aspected by malefics.