ZIP DOBYNS (Astrology) - Film Score Rundowns

at them and told them they should diet. The other woman took him very seriously and
went on a diet, but my grandmother said, “Food is my main pleasure in life. I’m not
going to give it up!” She went right on eating, lived to be ninety, healthy right to the
end—sick only a few months before she died. The other woman was dead in a year! She
lost all her pleasure in life, and there wasn’t anything worth living for. So don’t let just
plain overweight scare you!
Another case I remember was a man who was one of the most loving people I
have ever met. He was a psychotherapist and his reputation from everybody who ever
met him was that he was just a totally loving person. It seemed, however, that it was kind
of insatiable. He had a wife who totally adored him, wrapped her whole life up with him,
but he still wasn’t quite satisfied. He still couldn’t quite get enough love ever. At the time
that I did his chart he had progressed Venus on the 7 th house cusp, and he was having
serious throat problems. In spite of the fact that he was surrounded by love, there was still
this insatiable quality that he wasn’t getting enough. When I did the planetary nodes, he
had the south node of Venus on the Ascendant natally. Hmmmm. So this doesn’t mean a
lack of this area where you have the south (which is a challenge indicator), but it’s
something that you need to look at, and be careful of. It may be some kind of excess,
some kind of extreme, some kind of blocking, some kind of overdoing. But generally
speaking, I think Letter Two is relatively harmless or benign than the rest in terms of
really critical pathologies.
Letter Three/Mercury/Gemini/3 rd House
Traditionally this rules the lungs and breathing. You can have all kinds of
breathing problems, but normally they’ll only be serious if compounded by conflict with
other mutables, especially Letter Twelve, if you have serious problems like asthma, TB,
emphysema, bronchitis, and so on. Next to that, and Letter Six in combination (Virgo-
Pisces axis).
Also this has a lot to do with the nervous system. You get all kinds of nervous
twitches and ticks, and people who jerk, facial ticks, can’t sit still, and just wiggle a lot.
One of the things that you’ll notice of course regarding the traditions about which signs
tend normally to be heavy, and which signs tend normally to be slender, is associated just
with the very fact of movement. Aries is normally a slender sign because it’s in action all
the time—high metabolism, go-go-go! And Gemini is just fidgety and wiggly all the
time, and it tends towards being slender. Whereas Taurus is still and placid and gets fat.
So if you want to help speed up your metabolism, fidget more! One study of children
showed that overweight children often ate less than the slender children. They ate less
but they moved less also. The others wiggled, they ran, they played games, they were
always in motion, while the overweight kids were sitting around in the playground and
not moving much! So it isn’t just sheer food, it’s the amount of actual motion that keeps
the metabolism really functioning.
Anyway, when you get a really heavy mutable emphasis, you can get a person
who is tremendously restless, and this may also communicate to the physical framework
in a kind of hyper way. Usually there will be fire involved in this to be of an extreme
degree.
Letter Four/Moon/Cancer/4 th House
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