Jeremy
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I am starting this thread in the hope that it is useful to others and that in turn people can add their own insights to the topic; I have made a limited specialisation of medical astrology and some interest in other threads has prompted me to finally type up the notes I have made in my little black notebook, plus a few other general observations. This is simply my source material and a few other pointers as to how I go looking for the root causes of physical ailments, I shall begin with making a few key observations.
[Jeremy, your list of zodiacal degrees and associated body parts appears to have been lifted from a copyrighted source: Jane Ridder-Patrick, _A Handbook of Medical Astrology_, 2nd ed. (Edinburgh: Crab Apple Press, 1990, pp. 129-139) with only minor changes. She translated the original source, Elsbeth and Reinhold Ebertin, _Anatomische Entsprechunen der Tierkreisgrade_ and she received permission to publish it from Hermann Bauer Verlag, the original publisher. The word-count greatly exceeds the Forum's 100-word limit on copied material, so I am obligated to delete it. Sorry! Waybread]
That's all I can think of for now, please add any further insights if you have them.
Peace,
Jeremy
- You cannot consider the health in isolation from the tone of the entire chart; which is something that all astrologers understand but occasionally forget. A lot of tension to Jupiter from the luminaries suggests an approach to life that tends to over-indulgence and subsequent negative consequences. This manifests in the body as a liver problem, or rather, it manifests anywhere downstream of the liver as a problem, but it is not thus isolated from the psychic attitude to life that is hinted at by stress between Jupiter and the luminaries.
- In my experience there is no more important point in the chart for stress-related afflictions than that of Pluto. Interesting, not least because stress is a "modern (that should be post-post-modern) affliction" of course and Pluto is less than a century from discovery. Pluto is the point where the body eliminates that stress, often volcanically. There is more to it of course, but you can use your experience and understanding of Plutonic principles to good effect here.
- Pay special attention to any stellia of planets or angles which contain Pluto because this diffuses the elimination point; it could then manifest as a point between Pluto and one of the major angles, or through a conjunction; Saturn if involved might give a tendency to eczema, not least due to the drying effect of Saturn and its influence over the dermis.
- Similarly aspects to Pluto might indicate blockages to that elimination or 'vents' for the stress, precluding the need for elimination. A subject with Jupiter in Pisces for example may find that meditation is the solution to their stress-related issues.
- Other configurations in the chart indicate various other principles. The Sun represents the overall vitality, moon functional issues, hyleg is important for gauging the constitution. Saturn limts, blocks dries and is cold while Mars heats, Jupiter expands and gives too much flow, Venus harmonises, Mercury quickens and so forth.
- Planets also affect systems; Jupiter the liver, Saturn bones and skin, Mercury affects the arms and hands; follow the rulerships. There is too much to list here, you know this stuff. Same with the signs themselves.
- Midpoints are often more relevant to medical issues than traditional aspects; especially midpoints between Pluto and other planets or the Asc. A midpoint between Pluto and Jupiter for example might be relevant for someone with liver problems. Midpoints often act as physical points of euilibrium between planetary principles.
- Pluto is a tough cookie and always acts in deadly earnest. It requires a great deal of self-awareness and courage to meditate on death but this is the only effective deterrent to Pluto problems. Well, there are others I am sure, but Pluto is the god of the underworld, our personal underworld and the death principle within us; so until we have faced that, we are likely to be rocked with Plutonic dread from time to time, especially as we grow older. There is no easy way to counsel it either, because talking to people about their mortality is the last great taboo, unless they have faced it, accepted and moved forward, in which case they probably won't be consulting with you in the first place. If you know what I am getting at here then you know what I am getting at here, right?
- My own belief is that Pluto was revealed to us in 1930 because we have moved into a higher evolutionary vibration; we are therefore wracked by Plutonic assimilation/elimination issues in a way that previous generations were not; this is a new journey for us and containing this intensity was always going to cause difficulties for the generations born since. This is especially prevalent in those for whom Pluto is stresed, angular or otherwise significant in the chart and insofar as medical astrology is concerned it is usually (in my limited experience) at least as important as all other factors combined. I realise that sounds potent, but what is Pluto if not potency personified?
- Pluto eliminates via sensitised degrees (as listed below), provided it is able to. It is more likely to eliminate if there are supporting indications, thus Pluto in the latter degrees of Virgo may well give liver problems, but if the chart also contains Moon square Jupiter then it dramatically increases the potential.
- The key observation is that the physical body is the final arbiter of the psychic body; we all understand this as astrologers, but it is patterns of behaviour which dictate illness, even if that pattern is conferred at birth; then we are just carrying something over with us. True cure is only possible if we can understand this and face up to our own Plutonic realms. I say look to Pluto's house to see where we need to transform, then we have an insight into our cure and thus our liberation.
[Jeremy, your list of zodiacal degrees and associated body parts appears to have been lifted from a copyrighted source: Jane Ridder-Patrick, _A Handbook of Medical Astrology_, 2nd ed. (Edinburgh: Crab Apple Press, 1990, pp. 129-139) with only minor changes. She translated the original source, Elsbeth and Reinhold Ebertin, _Anatomische Entsprechunen der Tierkreisgrade_ and she received permission to publish it from Hermann Bauer Verlag, the original publisher. The word-count greatly exceeds the Forum's 100-word limit on copied material, so I am obligated to delete it. Sorry! Waybread]
That's all I can think of for now, please add any further insights if you have them.
Peace,
Jeremy
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