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Medical Astrology
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Medical Astrology is the science that analyzes how these imbalances can manifest in our physical body. When the natal chart is studied in light of present or future planetary movements (transits), Medical Astrology also provides insight into the timing of events and may give us clues as to when problems may begin, or fade off.
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Very few people know that Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, and the one that medical doctors take an oath from, said that no one should call himself a doctor unless he/she was also an a astrologer; for no diagnosis could be made without the help of astrological information on the patient.
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In Astrology Human Body has been divided in to 12 parts and they have been correlated with 12 houses as follows: |
Houses |
Body Parts |
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Head |
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Face, right eye of the male and left eye of the female, mouth, tongue, teeth, Upper food pipe |
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Ears, Lower food pipe, Arms, wind pipe |
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Lungs and Heart |
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Stomach, Spleen, Pancreas, Liver |
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Small Intestine |
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Internal Sexual Organs, Kidneys |
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External Sexual Organs, Large Intestine, Anus |
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Hips, Hip Joints |
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Legs and upper part |
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Legs and lower part |
12. |
Feet, Left eye of the male and right eye of the female |
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Astrology has always played an important part in traditional medical systems the world over, and Graeco-Arabic Medicine was no exception. Because today's perception of the universe is governed by "rational" principles, that is, we tend to see the world around us in terms of how (we are told) it really exists, the ancients' way of trying to determine information about a disease by observing the position of the planets and stars may seem rather strange to some of us. But the ancients saw the world and the universe in a different way than we do today; they perceived and interpreted the world around them as a reality, that is, as they experienced it both objectively and subjectively. They therefore saw no problem in accepting the correlations they found between their own experiences and the great cosmic clock of planets and stars. To them it was no more strange to use astrology to predict the weather than to predict the course of a disease.
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There are many things that may be argued for and against both the modern and the ancient world views, but whatever one's opinion may be, to regard our ancient ancestors as a bunch of primitive fools and ourselves as profoundly enlightened, would be a grave error. There are certainly many things in our modern "rational" and "scientific" perception that the ancients would have considered quite irrational, because it blatantly contradicts everyday personal experience.
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Let us now have a look at the principles and practice of medical astrology. Please note that this is only a basic overview, as astrology is a complex and deep subject, that requires a great deal of study and knowledge.
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The main function of medical astrology is to provide an indication as to whether the cosmic influences extant at the time of an illness are likely to be advantageous or disadvantageous to the sufferer, and thus the:
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Likely severity of the particular disease |
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Likely duration of the disease |
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Probable eventual outcome of the disease, and |
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Additional means that might be employed by a Physician to counteract the disease and thus facilitate the restoration of the patient's health. |
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Traditionally the most common astrological methods used in medical astrology are natal transits (the birth chart compared to the current position of the zodiac and the planets) and horary astrology (hora = hour, a chart based solely on the current position of the zodiac and planets). A medical horary chart is also known as a decumbiture ( = lit.: "lying in") chart, as it is normally cast for the time the sufferer takes to their bed. Transit charts have only come in use relatively recently and decumbiture charts are by far the most ancient approach.
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Firstly, some terminology. In medical astrology "planets" usually refers to the "visible" planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, but also includes the Sun and the Moon. The zodiac is a 16° wide band of sky that follows the apparent path of the Sun. The zodiac is divided in 12 equal parts called zodiac signs, which are: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. Due to the earth's ration, the zodiac appears rotate around the earth approximately once every 24 hours. The 12 Houses are fixed divisions of the sky - from the point of view of an observer on earth - through which the planets and the zodiac appear to move as the earth rotates on its axis.
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