In Marc Jones' "The Sabian Symbols in Astrology" the degree symbol for Pisces 08 is "A girl blowing a bugle."
The noun girl descends from the Middle English girle, meaning child or girl. Definitions of girl include “a female child”, “a young woman”, and “a daughter.”
The word blowing descends from the Indo-European (IE) root bhle-2 which means “to blow.” Paronyms include bladder, blast, blaze, blown, flatulent, flavor, inflate, and soufflé.
The word bugle descends from the IE root gwou- which means “ox, bull, cow.” Its paronyms include beef, Bootes, boustrophedon, bovine, buccinators (muscle in the cheek), bucolic, buffalo, bugloss, bulimia, bumelia (thorny tree or shrub), buprestid (beetle) butter, butyric, cow, cowslip, gayal (Asian ox), guar (herb), gunny (coarse fabric), Gurkha (member of the Rajput ethnic group in Nepal), hecatomb, and nilgai (antelope).
COMMENTARY: There’s an intriguing relationship here between FOOD and PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTIONS to it, particularly by women. Among the paronyms of blowing we find soufflé, a “light fluffy dish of egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites mixed with e.g. cheese or fish or fruit.” Among the paronyms of bugle are several FOODS and food sources including butter, buffalo, beef, guar and cow.
In the category of PHYSIOLOGICAL REACTIONS to food there is the word flatulence (the presence of excessive gas in the digestive tract; generating gas in the alimentary canal, as food). A reaction to food that is both physiological and emotional is bulimia, a condition that Wikipedia indicates is much more common among women, especially adolescents:
Finally, it is notable that one of the American slang expressions vomiting is “blowing chunks”, i.e. "chunks" of partially digested FOOD.
The noun girl descends from the Middle English girle, meaning child or girl. Definitions of girl include “a female child”, “a young woman”, and “a daughter.”
The word blowing descends from the Indo-European (IE) root bhle-2 which means “to blow.” Paronyms include bladder, blast, blaze, blown, flatulent, flavor, inflate, and soufflé.
The word bugle descends from the IE root gwou- which means “ox, bull, cow.” Its paronyms include beef, Bootes, boustrophedon, bovine, buccinators (muscle in the cheek), bucolic, buffalo, bugloss, bulimia, bumelia (thorny tree or shrub), buprestid (beetle) butter, butyric, cow, cowslip, gayal (Asian ox), guar (herb), gunny (coarse fabric), Gurkha (member of the Rajput ethnic group in Nepal), hecatomb, and nilgai (antelope).
COMMENTARY: There’s an intriguing relationship here between FOOD and PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTIONS to it, particularly by women. Among the paronyms of blowing we find soufflé, a “light fluffy dish of egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites mixed with e.g. cheese or fish or fruit.” Among the paronyms of bugle are several FOODS and food sources including butter, buffalo, beef, guar and cow.
In the category of PHYSIOLOGICAL REACTIONS to food there is the word flatulence (the presence of excessive gas in the digestive tract; generating gas in the alimentary canal, as food). A reaction to food that is both physiological and emotional is bulimia, a condition that Wikipedia indicates is much more common among women, especially adolescents:
… Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating, or consuming a large amount of food in a short amount of time, followed by an attempt to rid oneself of the calories consumed, usually by purging (vomiting) and/or by laxative, diuretics or excessive exercise. Bulimia nervosa is nine times more likely to occur in women than men...
Bulimics are much more likely than non-bulimics to have an affective disorder, such as depression or general anxiety disorder: A 1985 Columbia University study on female bulimics at New York State Psychiatric Institute found 70% had suffered depression some time in their lives (as opposed to 25.8% for adult females in a control sample from the general population), rising to 88% for all affective disorders combined
The onset of bulimia nervosa is often during adolescence, between 13 and 20 years of age, and many cases have previously suffered obesity, with many sufferers relapsing in adulthood into episodic binging and purging even after initially successful treatment and remission.
Bulimics are much more likely than non-bulimics to have an affective disorder, such as depression or general anxiety disorder: A 1985 Columbia University study on female bulimics at New York State Psychiatric Institute found 70% had suffered depression some time in their lives (as opposed to 25.8% for adult females in a control sample from the general population), rising to 88% for all affective disorders combined
The onset of bulimia nervosa is often during adolescence, between 13 and 20 years of age, and many cases have previously suffered obesity, with many sufferers relapsing in adulthood into episodic binging and purging even after initially successful treatment and remission.
Finally, it is notable that one of the American slang expressions vomiting is “blowing chunks”, i.e. "chunks" of partially digested FOOD.