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principle, and they tried a lot of different details trying to learn how to work with that
principle.
Now when we’re talking about a physical diagnosis, we’re talking about a
physical detail, and I think it’s pretty risky to try to do this. There are astrologers who
claim to be able to do it, and put out these formulas. And when you look at a chart that
has the formula shown, more often than not they will not have the problem. And
someone else may have the problem without the formula.
One of the most recent entrants into this field of medical astrology is one I’m
particularly upset about. I got the news a little while ago that this person is teaching a
seminar on medical astrology: a five-day seminar for $250 that includes just the teaching,
and only for a limited number of hours each day. And you are practically guaranteed that
you will be able to medically diagnose anybody with astrology after that five-day course.
She’s using a couple of techniques that I have no faith in whatsoever. They’re crazy! One
of them is putting the south node on the Ascendant and then diagnosing that you will
have a problem in the corresponding body part. So if Saturn falls in the 1 st house, then
your problem will be with your head. If it falls in your 2 nd house, then it’ll be with your
throat, and so on. Wherever Saturn and Mars fall in that south node chart that will show
your physical problem. You only have to do three or four charts to find out pretty soon
that doesn’t work. And the other technique is the Novian chart (her version of it) where
she subtracts 30 degrees from everything, or adds 30 degrees to everything, and sets up a
new chart with it. She believes in it. She has written a book that is for sale!
At any rate, there are a lot of things going on in astrology, and I always say take
everything you hear with a grain of salt. Nobody knows yet! There are no final answers.
We have lots of theories, and some of them work a lot of the time, but we’re on safest
ground when we talk about psychological principles. There we can be pretty sure. If
you’re a good psychic too, you might be able to guess physical details, but just be careful.
If we stick to the psychological principles, then we can help the clients understand why
they’re having the problems they are, and then they can do something about it.
What I am going to do is very simplistic at the start. I’ll begin with Aries/Letter
One, make a circle around the zodiac, and talk about the different body parts associated
with each of the twelve letters of the astrological alphabet. When I say Letter One,
obviously I don’t mean just Aries. I mean Mars and also the 1 st house. Letter Two
involves Venus, Taurus, and the 2 nd house, and so on.
The basic premise is that any kind of illness, or anything else, stems from
psychological roots. And most, if not all, illness stems from something that is at least
partly unconscious—partly out of awareness and therefore a source of potential danger.
So this whole idea of getting the unconscious up into consciousness so that we can deal
with it effectively I think is crucially important. I’ll say that for Freud. That was his main
goal. And even though I disagree very much in his metaphysics, I do agree with that.
Now the old traditions, as you know, started with the head with Aries and worked
down to the feet with Pisces. For what I’ve seen so far, this does seem to work pretty
well. It’s very simplistic but eventually we may fill in more details. At the moment
anything that goes beyond this I’m still very leery of trusting it as yet until we have
massive research.
Letter One/Aries/Mars/1 st House
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