Tuberculosis in Astrology

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria usually attack the lungs, but they can also damage other parts of the body.
TB spreads through the air when a person with TB of the lungs or throat coughs, sneezes, or talks. If you have been exposed, you should go to your doctor for tests. You are more likely to get TB if you have a weak immune system.

Symptoms of TB in the lungs may include:

• A bad cough that lasts 3 weeks or longer
• Weight loss
• Loss of appetite
• Coughing up blood or mucus
• Weakness or fatigue
• Fever
• Night sweats

Skin tests, blood tests, x-rays, and other tests can tell if you have TB. If not treated properly, TB can be deadly. You can usually cure active TB by taking several medicines for a long period of time.

Astrological parameters for  disease TB:  

Ascendent: general physical and mental health, vitality
4th house/Sign Cancer: rules chest region
Sign Virgo: indicates sickness
6th house/lord: sickness
8th house /lord: chronicle diseases
12th house/lord :hospitalization
Moon:  body fluid, chest region
Mars: muscular tissues, inflammation of lungs, hemorrhage from lungs,, spitting of blood, infections and contagious diseases
Venus: indicates glands
Saturn: endocardium, ribs, cold, bronchitis and asthma
Rahu: chronic illness, Rahu is the planet who is responsible for causing tuberculosis of bones

Important  points to remember:

1. The common parts of the body subjected to the infection of tuberculosis are lungs ( mercury ), bones and joints ( Saturn ), glands ( Venus ), genitourinary system and intestine ( Moon ), rectum and brain ( Mars ) 
2. 4th house and sign Cancer are as water signs are the significator of chest region/respiratory diseases.
3. Moon is the significator of chest region and Sun is the significator of resistant and immunity of the body.
4. Rahu and Mercury are the planets of diseases spread by air.  Pulmonary tuberculosis spread through spitting, coughing and talking, so Rahu and Mercury are the main significators for pulmonary tuberculosis. 
5. 12th house indicates isolation and hospitalization.

Combinations :

Moon/ Sun/Mercury 

1. Moon and Sun in Leo or watery signs afflicted or conjoined with malefic planets indicate tuberculosis.
2. Moon and Saturn conjoined and aspected by Mars.
3. Malefic planet in ascendant and weak Moon in 6th house.
4. Moon is afflicted or debilitated in a watery sign and aspected or conjoin with malefic.  
5. Moon placed in sign Leo and Sun placed in sign Cancer indicates venerability for tuberculosis.
6. Moon posited in the navamsa of Sun and Sun posited in navamsa of Moon.
7. Moon and Sun combined in sign Cancer/Leo indicates tuberculosis.
8. Moon in cancer and Sun in Leo indicates rakkt –pita in which a person frequently vomits blood.
9. The Moon in debilitation associated with the Sun and aspected by the Mars or Saturn gives rise to pulmonary consumption.
10. The Moon hemmed in between Saturn and Mars and the Sun is in Capricorn.
11. The Moon in Conjunction with Saturn and aspected by Saturn.
12. Sun poisted in ascendant/4th/8th house and Saturn and Mars in the 10th house.
13. Mercury in water sign in 3rd or 6th house.

Saturn/Rahu/Ketu/Mars

1. Saturn is the planet associated with the consumption as its ruler. The tendency to suffer from tuberculosis is usually seen in the chart in which Saturn and Mars are in the 6th house with a powerful aspect of Rahu and the Sun.
2. Lagna (Ascendant) being hemmed in between Rahu and Ketu.
3. Moon, Saturn or Jupiter in Leo, Gemini or Aquarius heavily afflicted by Mars or Ketu may give rise to tuberculosis.
4. Ketu combine/aspect with 7th house lord. 
5. If Venus is highly afflicted with Rahu and Mars, then the native may experience consumption after marriage.
6. Consumption of bowels is caused by Saturn or Rahu’s affliction in Virgo. It is more effective when Virgo is ascendant. Inflammatory tubercular trouble in the bowels will be caused if Mars is in the common Navamsa, particularly Virgo. The same happens when the aspecting Sun is in Libra.
7. The ascendant is afflicted by Mars and Saturn and Moon afflicting in a watery sign.

4th house/Sign Cancer

1. Mars and Rahu combined in 4th /5th house.
2. Sun and Moon posited in water sign Cancer or Leo as 4th,6thor 3rd house.
3. Suna nd Moon posited in the sign of Cancer/Leo in birth or navamsa .
4. Saturn is posited in sign cancer and afflicted. 

 6th/8th/12th house: 

1. The presence of Rahu or Ketu in the 6th is also indicative of tuberculosis tendencies.
2. Lord of ascendant and moon combined in 6th house.
3. Weak Moon combined with a malefic in watery sign of the 6th/8th house.
4. Mars and Moon conjoin in the 6th/8th house and have relation with ascendant's lord.
5. Sun and Jupiter conjoin in water sign in 6th house and afflicted by malefic.
6. Mars and Mercury conjoin in 6th house and associated or aspected by Moon and Venus. 
7. Jupiter and Moon placed in 8th house in a watery sign and aspected by malefic indication for T.B. is noted. Placement of Jupiter in the 8th house make very difficult in diagnosing tuberculosis.
8. Jupiter, Saturn, and Sun combined in the 7th/8th house.
9. Mercury and Mars combined in 6th house aspected by Venus and Moon.
10. Venus combined with the lord of the ascendant in the 6th/8th/12th house.
11. Venus as lord of ascendant placed in the 6th/8th/12th house and influenced by malefic.
12. Ketu combine/aspect with 6th house lord.
13. Mars and Mercury placed in 6th house aspected by Sun and Moon.
14. If the 6th or 8th lord is with Rahu, then also the native is likely to suffer from tuberculosis.
15. Mercury in the 6th with Mars aspected by Venus and the Moon.
16. Rahu is in 6th house and lord of the ascendant in 12th house.
17. Rahu is in the 6th house and lord of the ascendant in the 8th house. 

By

Geeta Jha