Medical Astrology

Recently I read Isabel M. Hickey's book Astrology, A Cosmic Science It is a great book. On page 269 she wrote Medical Astrology. This is what she wrote:

"The medical field is an area that could be greatly benefited by an understanding of Astrology. The correlation of the signa with the parts of the body and the rulership of the planets where the endocrine system is concerned is of deep import. The physical dis-ease (lack of easiness) is the end terminal of conflicts that occur in the emotional and mental levels before they finally terminate in physical disease. Psychosomatic medicine has shown that the relationship of the person in the body and the body is tied up with physical ills.

Research has shown that arthritis is tied with repressed antagonisms. Those who are strong willed and rigid in their thinking, those who are self-righteous and set in their judgments, are those who have the predisposition and the tendency to attract this disease. They have failed to learn to flow with the rhythm of life and their joints become calcified.

The same aspects that show repressed fear, hidden selfishness and resentment are the aspects in a chart that show predisposition toward and the tendency to attract cancer. Diet is very important and can be of very great help in any negating any disease but the mental and emotional qualities are equally important. Diabetes in the physical body is often the result of bitterness in the emotional vehicle. Sugar has always been the symbol of sweetness and an upset in the sugar balance in the physical body is the result of holding bitter thoughts and feelings. Sometimes this is on the unconscious levels and one must learn to love and reeducate that little self that lives inside the conscious self. One of the best books to get in tune with this hidden self is Secret Science at Work by Max F. Long. It may be ordered through New Pathways, 103 Goldencrest Ave. Waltham, MA 02154.

Paralysis of any kind is an overcrystallization of the will, either in a past lifetime or this one. This difficulty, like arthritis, is tied with fixed signs and Uranus afflictions.

In heart trouble the drive for significance has not been fulfilled and a feeling of not being loved is deep within. This does not mean the individual may not be important and is not loved. It means the person has not the ability to assimilate the love or have a feeling of importance. A man can be sitting at a banquet table loaded with food, but if he can't reach out, accept it and assimilate it he can starve. This difficulty is shown in the chart by afflictions to the Sun and to the fifth house.

Back difficulties are always tied with the misuse of the will. Often egotism and pride are outpictured by difficulties with the back. Obsessions and psychic difficulties are shown in the chart by Neptune afflictions.

The signs are correlated with the parts of the body. Planets are correlated with the endocrine system and the ductless glands. Each ductless gland has a psychic center behind it. Every gland secrets a hormone into the bloodstream The bloodstream circulates energy from one organ to another. The proportions of the glandular secretions make a man what he is; thoughtful, combative, sympathetic, moody, energetic or passive. Man by changes of consciousness, can accentuate or retrain natural tendencies. The bloodstream, like the Sun's radiations, extends through the whole system. No part of the body is too distant to be vitalized by the bloodstream. As the Sun's light and heat shines through all the planets supplying them with heat and light so the bloodstream serves the same purpose in the body. From Aries to Pisces, from head to feet, it circulates and flowing circulations bring health. Where circulation is impeded dis-ease manifests. Each of the houses in a birthchart represent external environmental factors that can affect the health in a constructive or negative manner.

The ascendant is an important factor for it rules the physical body and the sign on the ascendant shows the kind of conductivity or resistance which the physical body offers. The fire signs on the ascendant show the greatest ability to conduct the life force and vitality. Next in conductivity are the air signs but they are nervous signs. Being intellectual in nature, the mind often wears the body out. Water signs on the ascendant, especially the sign Cancer, give an over-active lymphatic system. There is too much retained liquid in the system. The earth signs are resistors and are not good conductors of the vitality flow. A child with a Capricornian ascendant is rarely physically strong in childhood. (Saturn shows circulation) but they grow more vigorous as they grow older. Saturn has staying power. Though Capricorn ascendants have difficulty in assimilating food in infancy they are much healthier when they go past their first seven years. Gemini is a ready conductor so people with this sign on the horizon are active, restless and in constant m motion. Cancer ascendants are healthy or unhealthy depending on the environment for they take on the conditions around them. They are emotional blotters, absorbing everything in the psychic side of life around them. Taurus is the most static and resistant and does not let the vital force flow easily.

There is a tieup between the opposing signs that is important to understand. As an example: Aries people are subject to headaches and if they persist there should be a checkup of the kidneys. Libra is the opposite sign to Aries and by reflex could be causing the headaches. Taurus rules the throat and Scorpio rules the generative system. A boy's voice changes when his power to create on the physical plane comes into activity. When a feminine has trouble with constant sore throats the generative system is often the seat of the difficulty.. The tieup of cancer of the lungs, rules by Gemini, to cancer in the leg or thigh (Sagittarius) is well known. The heat (Leo) and the circulation (Aquarius) are intertwined.

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Marguerite dar Boggia formerly served as Membership Chairman of ISAR. She was past publisher of Kosmos as well as Secretary of ISAR, the International Society for Astrological Research.. She is a co-founder of UAC and served as Registrar at UAC86. At this time she offers FREE esoteric studies of 3 pages weekly via email, based on the ancient Wisdom teachings as found in such books as A Treatise on Cosmic fire, which book was on Albert Einstein’s desk. She can be reached at maitreya33@csiway.com