With Steve Jobs going on leave for six months, everybody is wondering what has happened to Apple's iconic chief
With Steve Jobs going on leave for six months, everybody is wondering what has happened to Apple's iconic chief
Prestige is a double-edged sword and few know this as well as Apple. When you have Steve Jobs at the helm of affairs, you know that you can do no wrong. While this is great most of the time, there is one unfortunate danger if anything happens to Jobs, then the perception is that Apple may be in trouble. Such is the danger of having an iconic hero as the head of the company.
And to put matters bluntly, Jobs has not been helpful with the data on his health. He first cancelled his appearance at MacWorld, and since he didn't look too healthy around that time everybody assumed that he was ill. Of course, a haggard look is possible through either cancer or lack of sleep, but when Jobs didn't say what it was, people assumed the worst.
Even when Jobs gives information, one doesn't know what it means. He earlier said that there was an easily treatable hormonal imbalance, but later said that he had a complex problem that would require him to take a six-month medical leave of absence.
And since neither Jobs nor his doctors have revealed what is wrong with him, a lot of speculation is ruling the roost on the Net. Expert doctors say that the cancer for which Jobs underwent surgery on 31 July 2004 may have resurfaced, but since these are experts who have not examined Jobs' condition, we cannot be very sure.
A report in Reuters quotes Dr Roderich Schwarz, a cancer surgeon at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre in Dallas as saying that the kind of tumour that Jobs got (an islet-cell tumour) are easily removed surgically but recur in roughly half of patients.
So, is Jobs going in for surgery? Whatever the case, it would be good to have him back in Apple, hale and healthy, with his exemplary vision driving the company and the industry.
Will he face surgery?
Since Jobs is tight-lipped about what ails him, I thought a little jyotish was in order. The site astrodatabank.com gives his birth data as 24 February 1955 at 1915 hours PST in San Francisco, California with a Rodden Rating of AA, which is the most accurate obtainable. Using this data, we get the Lagna (ascendant) as 29 degrees and 3 minutes of Simha (Leo). He will be running Chandra Dasa Kuja Bukti from 20 January 2009 to 21 August 2009. Chandra (moon) occupies the 8th (chronic ailments) as the lord of the 12th (hospitalisation) and occupies the star of the lord of the 6th (diseases). Kuja (Mars) rules surgery and occupies the 9th (medicine) as the lord of the 9th in the star of Ketu (obstruction) and is aspected by Sani (Saturn), who rules the 6th house (diseases).
In plain English, Jobs may undergo surgery between 20 January 2009 and 21 August 2009. While he is bound to respond to treatment well, there is also some possibility of complications.
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