ZIP DOBYNS (Astrology) - Film Score Rundowns

Now this is where you can get your pathological problems with overweight.
Where Taurus is just into physical pleasure, and eats because they enjoy it, and if it stops
being pleasurable, they stop eating. Cancer eats because it’s security. Cancer eats because
it feels safe when eating. And anything that goes wrong (if there’s a strong emphasis on
Cancer or the Moon or the 4 th house), food is a pacifier like the nipple for the baby. It
reassures them that they’re going to be taken care of. Overweight is also like a shield
against the world, a bulwark. I talked with one woman who was quite tall as well as large,
and she said that when she had been slender in the past, she felt very weak and
defenseless. When she got heavy, it was like she could take on anything. She was a
Mack truck. Nothing could bother her, nothing could threaten her.
So again it’s connected to emotional security. The first road to working with that
kind of overweight of course is to check out the emotional security. The person needs to
develop some kind of faith in himself or herself, and faith in a higher power too because
nobody can do it all. The problems with Letter Four can be very serious. Of course it is
our first water Letter. Here we have the unconscious involved, and it’s usually the
unconscious that gets us into serious problems. So it’s very important to pay attention
when we have an emphasis of water in the chart.
There are all kinds of problems that are possible, including fluid retention in the
body which used to be called dropsy or edema. I’ve seen that in many people. The skin
would just swell up. The cells just retain fluid. This is connected to the water emphasis,
whether it’s Cancer, Scorpio, or Pisces—signs, houses, and planets. It’s holding on and
holding in for security, so if we can somehow build a sense of security and feel that we’re
ok. This is where, you see, we don’t face this kind of danger with the Taurus overweight
because Taurus feels ok with it. Cancer is not sure if it’s ok. Cancer is the baby looking
for the mother to take care of them, or it’s the mother looking for a baby. Either way the
focus is on trying to reassure themselves or others that they’re really going to be safe.
I have two favorite cases that show the enormous importance of the house
position and how this can override the signs. One was a man who had five planets in
Aquarius in the 4 th house. He was very Aquarian in many ways. He was a university
professor, involved in parapsychology, and traveled internationally. He was also rootless,
didn’t have a home of his own, a permanent home. But he showed the Cancer side of his
nature in that he was terribly insecure. He could not travel alone. He had to have a
companion. And he was absolutely neurotic about not having a permanent home that he
owned and had full possession of. He was just terribly obsessive about the fact that he
didn’t own a home.
Another case was a woman who came to an astrologer that I knew, making an
appointment on the phone. When the astrologer set the chart up, she felt uneasy about it.
She was more into the psychic than on understanding the principles, and she just had the
feeling that the woman was not the way she would have normally read the chart. So she
asked some class members, women who were studying with her, what their opinion was,
to check out her impression. With one voice they all said, “Oh, she’s a powerful woman!
Really strong.” And the astrologer replied, “No, she’s not. She’s a cry baby. She’s an
infant.” Yet she wasn’t sure why she felt that way. Well, when the woman came to see
her, she found out how right she was. The client found out that the astrologer was a
sympathetic mother of the world type (as many astrologers are) and towards the end of
the interview, she said, “I’ve got no place to go. Can I come and stay with you a little
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