Methods and Techniques of Medical Astrology
Medical astrology is the branch of astrology that deals with the possible and actual health and diseases of the client. Usually, people come to the astrologer in times of great life changes, such as
Should I change my job?
When will I come into my inheritance?
Should I marry him/her? etc
To the medical astrologer, however, people come in the progressed stages of the illness, often after some kind of surgery has already taken place, along with a rich history of dealing with doctors. The usual questions for the medical astrologer are:
Should I go for surgery?
Does it have to be surgery?
When should the surgery take place?
Why don't we have children?
Do I have cancer?
Will my cancer come to pass this year? etc
If the events in the history of illness coincide with certain astrological transits and configurations, we can find the astrological reason for illness, give the prognosis for the course and duration of the illness, and decide upon a therapy needed and so on. The opposite situation often takes place as well: the client comes for the usual astrological session, but the astrologer sees in the horoscope a danger long before the illness has manifested and materialized.
A great deal of expectations is attached to the advice the medical astrologer gives. Will there be surgery or not, to go for chemotherapy or not, for radiology therapy or not...
"On Tuesday, I have a radiology therapy appointment, should I go?"
"The doctor recommended taking my bladder away to stop cancer from spreading, should I do that or not?"
Medical astrology is the cruelest branch of astrology. If you cannot bear meeting with tough, terminal pathologies, if you do not want to take lethal responsibility for the consequences of your advice -- you better don't do it. If you are not a medical doctor by profession, you will have to prepare well and read literature, consult medical doctors, gather information from the Internet, and take part in forums, groups, membership sites, etc.
The problems of curing are drastically different from what astrologers usually do during the reading. In an ideal world, astrologers advise clients to change their behavior, in order to spend the surplus energy the planets and stars send them. The medical astrologer may be more concrete and suggest wearing certain crystals, colors, aromatherapy, flower remedies, and so on. It is best that the professions of medical astrologers and medical doctors do not mix. Ideally, a medical astrologer does not cure and the client is not the patient, unless the medical astrologer is a medical doctor as well, or eventually, a qualified homeopath. Neither should a medical astrologer be a healer: he or she should only give a highly qualified prognosis of malefic influences that have already manifested as a disease and will -- unless nothing is undertaken -- continue to manifest thus, probably with heavier consequences as time progresses.
Medical astrologer reaches out for all astrological techniques and methods from which something can be deduced about the nature of the illness. He or she must be, above all, a competent astrologer, must command a wide array of astrological techniques and use them for the benefit of the client and their health. Since he or she gives advice about healing, but cannot heal on his own, in an ideal world, he or she should be connected to doctors and healers, should know their natal charts, and through synastry decide whom the patient should see next. However, for practical reasons, it is best that the client finds his or her own doctors and healers to go after visiting the astrologer, otherwise, in case something goes wrong (and with ill people it always will), the astrologer can be accused of having a deal with the health practitioner that he has sent the client to.
From the chart, it is possible to decide upon the kind of therapy, such as homeopathy, Bach flower remedies, vibropathy, massage, classical medicine, attending spas, aromatherapy, crystal healing, Su Jok, etc.
The Signs
Signs represent the twelve large systems in the body of man, starting with Aries which represents the head, all through the sign of Pisces, ruling the feet. The signs that contain the planets, either by birth or through progressed horoscopes, will stand out, or will most probably be the sources of illness. For each sign a special tissue salt exists; these are the building materials for the human body, the substances through the combination of which tissues, organs, systems of organs, and finally the entire body are built. Using these salts on their own or by combining them in material or homeopathic doses, one's health can be much improved.
Quite similarly, for each sign, a special type of food is best. Medical astrologers will be qualified to give advice about food, and this will also improve the client's health in numerous ways. Using the theory of doctrines, i.e. finding the similarities between the zodiac, body, and herbs, it is also possible to connect signs with herbs and prescribe them to help the patient.
Degrees of the Horoscope in Medical Astrology
Each sign has 30 degrees, and each of these 360 degrees is connected to one part of the body. The planet on that degree is a predisposition for an illness -- the degree tells us which part of the body is in question, while the planet will show what kind of disease it will be. In a similar manner, it is possible to connect the midpoints and the degrees.
The Planets, Asteroids, and the Uranian Planets in Medical Astrology
The planets are sources of energy in the horoscope, and each is unique. For instance, the energy of Mars is fire-like; he flames up the fires in the body (resulting in high temperature) and cleanses it thus. Neptune stands for bacteria that are known to the medicine, while Pluto is for the unknown bacteria, and so on. The asteroids, the large ones in particular, such as Ceres, Juno, and others, behave in a similar way. In medical astrology, the Uranian planets can also be used. There are eight "Uranian" planets that have no astronomical data, but the influence of which can be felt quite strongly in the chart. Some of these planets have strong medical connotations, so using them can increase the credibility of medical astrology analysis up to 90% of success.
The Houses in Medical Astrology
Out of the twelve houses in the usual astrology, five are more significant that the others:
First house -- the physical body,
Sixth house -- diseases,
Eighth house -- support from others, sex, death, karma, terminal states, cancer,
Twelfth house -- isolation, hospitals and monasteries, psychic problems, auto-immunity.
However, every house has its own special meaning in medical astrology:
No. 1 -- face, consciousness, brain tumors, brain insults, etc
No. 2 -- blood, electrolytes, hormones, food intake, hypophysis, diabetes.
No. 3 -- the lungs, speech problems,
No. 4 -- producing food for others, mother, milk; genetics, inheritance,
No. 5 -- heart, infarction of myocardium,
No. 6 -- diseases, personal hygiene, meals, day-to-day habits,
No. 7 -- death through brain problems, the balance of the body, spine,
No. 8 -- Expelling of the processed foods, hypophysis, adrenal cortex, kidneys,
No. 9 -- the upper part of brain, the cerebral hemisphere, Jupiter rules over the left, Neptune rules over the right hemisphere;
No. 10 -- metabolism,
No. 11 -- circulation, hemorrhagia,
No. 12 -- autoimmune diseases, thymus, immunity in general, liver.
The ruler of the house is the main indicator of the events related to the house, while the planets in the house are not so important. For instance, to see what kinds of illnesses one can have, take a look at the sixth house and its ruler, its position, aspects and transits. Only after the ruler remained under pressure for a long time, we could be allowed to start predicting the existence of a disease.
Planetary Aspects
How will a planet expresses its energies primarily depends on its relations with other planets, which boils down to the angle that those two planets make with the center of the circle? Each pair of planets brings its own kind of sickness, for instance, a combination of the Sun and Saturn will slow down the metabolism, while the Sun and Mars make it easy for the person to burn his or her own energy -- such persons often go in for sports.
The angle of 150 degrees (in conjunction) is especially malefic. Whenever there is an exact in conjunction between two planets in the chart, the person will have to live through various troubles of medical nature. Malefic aspects from malefic planets to the Moon are the worst. Squares are extremely malefic, so Saturn squaring the Moon gives a predisposition towards cancer, although the same effect may be seen from malefic aspects from Neptune and/or Pluto to the Moon. Just as in other branches of astrology, malefic aspects produce action -- an illness of a kind. But, it always pays to see where the good aspects are, because they bring amelioration, often a complete cure -- sometimes through remedies, sometimes through persons that resemble the description of the aspect (for instance, a trine to Neptune -- healing through an apothecary, etc.)
If there are no beneficial aspects to the rulers of the 6th, 8th, and/or 12th houses, then we should find persons whose planets create harmonious aspects. If that person is a doctor or a healer, healing will be successful.
Midpoints in Medical Astrology
Each planet is on the middle distance of another two planets, as if in a triple conjunction. For every midpoint there is a special medical delineation: the midpoint of Jupiter and Saturn denotes liver, while MA/SA (the midpoint for Mars and Saturn) denotes spasms, in more involved cases even death. Midpoints make each chart as unique as possible and you cannot do medical astrology well if you are not using them. For even greater precision, include the Uranian planets and their midpoints, especially in progressed charts.
Medical Aphorisms
Medical aphorisms are configurations typical for specific diseases and states. For instance, Mars on 29 Scorpio near the Ascendent will give a predisposition towards bronchitis, as will any squared malefic in Gemini, as well Saturn on the Ascendant in a mutable sign... and there may be more such combinations, for any given illness. The medical astrologer must be very well acquainted with such configurations and should be able to recognize them in the chart. However, the clients won't hold it against you if the middle of the session you look up at the manual -- they won't care if it helps them get cured!
In these modern times, it is possible to have astrology software compute medical configurations in the natal chart. To be more precise, without such a piece of software, it would be very difficult to do medical astrology, because there are hundreds of such configurations.
Diagnosing an Illness Based on the Natal Chart
Every chart contains dozens of potentially problematic configurations. It does not mean that that person must be ill just because such configurations exist in the chart, neither will it mean that the person will have all those illnesses at once, nor will it mean that all possibilities for illnesses in the chart must become reality. Configuration is a predisposition for illness, and it will manifest itself only when at least three predispositions are active at the same time. For instance, a square between the Moon and Saturn is the most frequent natal predisposition for cancer. The second predisposition may then come every seven years since it takes seven years for the progressed Moon to make another malefic aspect to the natal Saturn. The third factor may come into play through a solar chart, in which there may be, say, a conjunction between the Moon and Saturn. Or the third factor may come through a slow transit of Saturn, perhaps through its stationary point squaring the natal Moon. If there are four such factors at one and the same period of time, the client will feel as if surrounded by evil, and wherever they turn, the situation looks hopeless to them.
Only when we see such a concentration of approximately identical transits, may we want to warn the client about cancer or some other such grave illness. Since we can compute the transits and solar charts in advance, we can exactly tell the client when his or her troubles will begin, as well as when will they end.
Sometimes, an identical predisposition will appear from different configurations. If there is a square of Uranus to the Ascendant, but that same Ascendent is also squared by Pluto, the combination for surgery will appear twice. Now it only takes a transit of Mars to empower one of those configurations, or for Mars to be on the Uranus/Pluto midpoint in the solar return chart and the surgery seems unavoidable.
Diagnosing an Illness Based on Transits, Progressions, Solar, and Synastry Charts
In natal astrology, in 90% of sessions we will need nothing more than the natal chart and the transits -- in one-on-one sessions there simply isn't time to dive into all the charts that can be useful. In medical astrology, however, it is routine to use many other types of charts. There must be three independent confirmations for illness to appear, regardless of which chart we see it. Looking for clues in the chart in the case of medical astrology often is detective-like work, until you find the constellation which was active when the symptoms first started. Once you connect real-life events with their possible astrological causes, you can predict how the illness will unfold, and with confidence.
Long transits of malefic planets produce all kinds of health problems, while the progressive horoscope produces the best long-term view of the client's life. In medical astrology, we always use solar charts, because there we see strong accents, which may not endure for long, but which sometimes leave the sequel for the rest of the client's life.
It also matters whom you live with. The person the client lives with and exchanges his or her energy with them. Sometimes they heal just by being present, in other times they make the client only sicker. The country in which the client lives will also have its own horoscope and that can be taken into account too.
Auxiliary Methods in Medical Astrology
Arabian Parts are formed by adding two important points, from which another, the third point, is subtracted. There are about 500 Arabian Parts, and some of them are directly related to health. Pars Fortunae is the most well-known Arabian Part, and it combines influences of the Sun, Moon, and Ascendant.
Each particular house has its own set of Arabian Parts. For instance, the sixth house has the following two Arabian Parts, which are of interest in medical astrology:
Incurable diseases, bad fortune, and vice (Asc + Mars - Saturn),
Curable diseases (Asc + Mars - Mercury),
The sixth house also contains the parts for servants, the prisoners of war, and the pars of the defeated, which have nothing to do with health.
The number of Arabian Parts per house varies: House No. 7 has 16 Arabian Parts, house No. 8 -- 5 Parts, and so on.
Quite often, horary astrology will yield loads of info. Instead of natal charts and the charts that are derived from it, in horary astrology, we erect the chart for the time of asking the question about the illness. Reading a horary chart is different from reading the natal and all other charts, so don't use this technique unless you know what you are doing. Nevertheless, it pays to learn horary astrology, because it often gives a direct glimpse into the real situation, the course of the illness, eventual surgeries, and deaths, etc.
The decumbiture chart is the chart for the beginning of an illness. We should make it only if we know for certain when the illness began. Also has rules of its own.
Electional astrology tries to discover when an action should begin. In medical astrology, such charts could be studied to discover when the prescribed therapy should start, when is the time for the doctor to visit the patient, and so on.
The Role of Medical Astrology in Healing
Modern medicine knows a lot about the state of the patient in the moment of measurement, and knows also, in a statistical manner, whether the prognosis is good or bad. Nevertheless, it never deals with the future of the patient and is almost always used when something bad has already happened. Medical astrology is the missing link between the recorded state of the patient, his or her current therapy, and the future development of the illness. Since it is possible to make the astrological prognosis in advance, it becomes possible to do something in advance as well. Homeopathy and other energy healing systems are a natural continuation of medical astrology because energy healing "spends" the unwanted but present energy that planets and stars send us via the astral body. The biggest advantage of medical astrology is that it enables us not only to predict which techniques and remedies can heal now, but when these techniques and remedies should be stopped, and some other healing modalities be taken and applied instead.
