ZIP DOBYNS (Astrology) - Film Score Rundowns

like that. But life threatening cancer is something much deeper than that: an attack on the
will to live itself because the person has tried for something and couldn’t do it, and it’s
just like giving up and cancer is the way out (unconsciously). It’s associated with
hopelessness and helplessness, a loss of something that they wanted to accomplish but
couldn’t, something that they feel they can’t live without.
…..”The studies that have been made of heart attack personalities is that they are
extremely ambitious. They’re the over-achievers that tend to get hypertension and high
blood pressure, the people who are time-conscious, fighting time all the time, pushing
and driving and wanting to do more. So I personally associate heart problems with Letter
Five (Leo/Sun/5 th house): Your ambition to do something bigger and be recognized for it,
have the world acknowledge you, to reach the top in some way. Now, if the person’s
ambition is centered on loving and being loved (also letter Five), then it might be a
personal, family situation. The old joke, but it really was no joke, about the mother who
had a heart attack when her son was going to get married and leave her. Then the son of
course couldn’t get married but stay home to take care of mother.”
[Rectification topic:]
Zip: “Your primary clue for really precise timing is the angles of the chart
because action and events are associated with cardinality—cardinal planets, signs, and
houses. This includes the Ascendant axis and Midheaven axis, and also East point and
Antivertex axis to a lesser extent.
You’re trying to match this series of events with this series of aspects. And it is
often a challenge. The easiest ones to rectify are where there are a number of dramatic
events widely spaced. A person who has had an ordinary life with nothing really
dramatic, just going along; or a person who has had crises every year, these are very
difficult to rectify. But if you have someone where there’s just a few really big events in
the life that changed the whole life pattern, very often you can get it—especially
surgeries because usually you will have Mars and Pluto, one or both, involved with
surgery. So surgery is one of your most useful events. Surgeries and deaths are probably
the most important, first and foremost. Marriage and divorce are probably just about as
important. Having children I don’t find very helpful in general, especially if the person
has had several. If you have only one child, then maybe it will stand out more—or if
there was a crisis with the childbirth, then it’d be more like the surgery cases. Travel is
not that helpful unless again it’s a once in a lifetime kind of thing. I’ve had people hand
me three pages of trips! It was like, forget it! Frequently when you have that kind of
traveling life you will find lifetime aspects, like it might be the nodes in Gemini-
Sagittarius or 3 rd house-9 th house, that the possibility is there for traveling anytime, all the
time.
For any health situation, usually there will be some kind of major aspect involving
the Ascendant. It might be the natal Ascendant, the local Ascendant if they moved, the
progressed natal Ascendant, or progressed local Ascendant. It will often, not always, be
an Ascendant-Mars aspect or Ascendant-Pluto.
My own personal preference is for secondary progressions as a tool in
rectification. I have not found transits as helpful. Transits of the major planets are
certainly part of the picture, but often they will be quite wide in orb to get an appropriate
aspect. You often have to go as much as three degrees on a transit. But in progressions, it
is strictly within one degree of orb. The fine-tuning are with the angles. You have a series
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