ZIP DOBYNS (Astrology) - Film Score Rundowns

while?” The astrologer was a little taken back but she said, “Well, eh, I guess so.” She
had a spare bedroom, so the woman moved in. After she had been there for several
months, the astrologer finally told her, “You have to go now. I can’t keep you any
longer.” And this grown woman in her Forties crawled across the floor after first crying
on the shoulder of the astrologer, called her mother long distance to another state, and
said, “Mommy, mommy. Can I come home?” The mother’s voice could be heard clear
across the room: “If you’re ready to take orders, you can come home!”
Now the woman had four planets in Capricorn but all in the 4 th house. Mother still
had all the power, and the daughter was still baby! So the astrologer asked, “What do you
do with somebody like that?” Of course you have to help them, encourage them, to
become parent instead of playing baby—anything that you can encourage her to do that
would be helping others rather than looking for someone to take care of her, would help
her build her strength. And the astrologer said, “You know, I guess you’re right. The only
time I saw her show any character the whole time she was with me was when I let her
make tea and bring it to me.”
[comment from audience:] “Maybe if she got a cat, that would help her.”
Zip: “Yes. Anything that she could take care of where she felt like she was in
control of the situation, that she can nurture, and then gain a sense of her own strength.
At any rate, theoretically Cancer rules the stomach, so you can have all kinds of
stomach problems. Some are mild like butterflies in the stomach, nervousness, that
they’ve got to be dependent on their own resources, and nobody is around to take care of
them, or they fear not being able to handle whatever it is they are facing. Some are very
serious problems like ulcers. One study done by a psychoanalyst in Chicago, Alexander
French, in the early twenties showed that only big business men got ulcers in those days,
almost entirely. They were men who were carrying the load for everyone else. They
couldn’t let anybody do anything for them. So they develop ulcers, go back to bed, drink
milk, and let someone take care of them (be a baby again). Nowadays more and more
women are getting ulcers because they’re starting to carry that heavy load of
responsibility. And if they feel that insecurity gnawing at them, and they’re not facing it
and dealing with it, it will hit the physical body in some way. Of course they may still not
face it. They still may go to a doctor to treat the symptoms instead of dealing directly
with the emotional problem. You can therefore have all varieties of difficulties with
physical functioning. This can include problems with breasts for women. It was highly
significant to me that two First Ladies, Betty Ford and Happy Rockefeller, both had
breast cancer. Both of them dealt with the typical female helpless role, with their
husbands in politics, but not able to do anything about it—helpless and vulnerable about
their dissatisfaction. So what can they do but attack themselves, and attack the part of
themselves that symbolize they femaleness and vulnerability. They both seemed to have
come out of it ok, so it wasn’t a life-threatening disturbance [since it was caught early]
but it was serious enough to hit the body in a rather uncomfortable way.
So we can have a variety of illnesses that involve holding in the emotions. And I
think cancer is one of the ones that’s very much involved with this: people feeling
resentment (and that’s the most poisonous emotion there is!—angry at someone they
can’t express the anger, so it poisons themselves. With all of the water elements you have
this potential of holding in too long and somehow poisoning the bodily system. For
example, you may find someone doing the super-mother trip, taking care of everyone and
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