ZIP DOBYNS (Astrology) - Film Score Rundowns

[Question: "What do you think illness is basically from?"]
I definitely think illness is basically repression.
[Question: "And not displacement?"]
No. With displacement you are still doing it. You may be frustrated and satisfied
with the way it is happening, but you are doing it consciously to some degree. But when
it's really blocked or denied, then I think it goes into illness....And the more something
goes into projection, the less likely it will go into repression and illness. Life is always
producing consequences to make you aware so that you can do it in a more constructive
way. So you get it thrown back at you from the world (projection) or your own body
kicks up with some kind of pain (repression) that makes you face the fact that you're not
dealing effectively with a part of yourself.
Let's take an example that I often use in my lecture on psychosomatics. A woman
came to me who was becoming crippled by arthritis. Now arthritis is one of the
crystallizing illnesses in which there are many (gout, stones in the body, etc.). These
symptoms are associated with Saturn. Her doctors told her there was nothing she
could do but just take aspirin. So I looked at her Saturn in her 7 th house, and I asked her,
"Well, how are things getting along with your husband?" As it turned out, she was very
frustrated by her husband. So I asked, "Do you want to leave him?" She said no. So I
said, do you think you can accept what he is doing and not be bothered by it, not let
it disturb you--because it's not what he's doing that's causing your arthritis, but your
REACTION to what he's doing (this deep-rooted frustration and resentment which she
was feeling but couldn't fully acknowledge).
And she said, "Well, I'm going to try that." She came back two years later with
no arthritis. It had completely cleared. Now, her husband had been demoted at work
because he couldn't handle other people, so they put him in a job where he didn't deal
with the public. So he tried to restore his ego by taking over more of the house activities.
He was cleaning house, cooking food, washing dishes. And instead of her being
pleased about this, she was frustrated because this was her province--she was the
homemaker, and she didn't want him interfering with her ego-satisfying house activities.
So I suggested why didn't she go out and get a job, and get her ego-satisfaction through
work in the world. Let him do anything he wanted to do in the house and praise him
for it, tell him how great he was and thereby build up his ego which had been very badly
damaged. So that's what she did, and the arthritis went away. She got something that
gave her a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment, and she stopped being bugged by
what he was doing in the house.
Now, if she had been fully aware of her frustration, I don't think it would've come
out as illness. I think it was because a large component of it she wanted the marriage to
last that she didn't want anything to threaten it. She had a tremendous amount of
emotional security invested in that husband. She couldn't give it up. At the same time,
she had lost her own sense of power by her losing control over the home. So she
had to establish a new source of power through a job in the world, and then she wasn't
threatened anymore by what her husband was doing in the home.
[Question: "What role does diet have in illness?"]
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