Health astrology - medical astrology

Astrology can give us an insight into our health weaknesses and strengths and gives us warning about possible health problems. One of the things to look for in health astrology are eclipses. Note the house position and the sign the eclipse is in. Look at the aspects it triggers in the natal chart.

ECLIPSES:
• Effects last six months
• Strongest is an eclipse to the Sun
• Eclipse to the moon looks back to the past and brings things forward
• Emphasizes things of the house in which it falls. There will be a health crisis if the eclipse falls in the 6th or 12th house.
• The 6th house is acute illness; the 12th house is genetic or chronic
• The only aspects that relate to health are the conjunction and the opposition


RELOCATION
If you live more than 100 miles from where you were born, relocate your chart. The cusps move and this can show how where you live can affect your health. Your Natal chart is still valid, but your relocation chart adds to it.

EXAMPLE:
Natal Mercury in the 2nd may inhibit writing for publication, a relocation chart for a move West that puts it in the 3rd house will enhance publication.
Don’t move anywhere that puts a 1st house Sun into the 12th. Also use the basic rules of synastry when planning a move. Compare your natal with your relocated chart. To set up a relocated chart, simply calculate a new natal chart as if you were born in the new place.

NUTRITIONAL RULERSHIPS AND CONSIDERATIONS
The planets rule vitamins, minerals, enzymes, nutrients and specific foods. Aspects, signs and houses give us a clue to how we process these things and potential problems that can be presented by afflicted planets.
The horoscope indicates our instinctual nutritional behavior. Houses 3, 6, 9, 12 give us an idea about how to handle health problems, especially how we deal with problems when young. The 6th house shows how we deal with daily problems and how we deal with feeding our body. One way to use the 6th cusp is to see how to modify eating habits to get more from food.
• Enzymes are ruled by Pluto
• For effective learning and studying, take the Aries cell salt Kali Phos (for brain cells and nervous system)
• More planets on the Western side of the chart—more likely to have things happen to your health from the outside.
• Houses 10-3 deal with inner environment of the body.
• More planets on the Eastern side—life is under your control. Things that happen are consequences of your own actions.

HOUSE RULERSHIPS
1st: How the body is constructed
2nd: Connecting mind to the body—the senses
3rd: Mind
4th: Food processing; psychosomatic problems inherited from parents
5th: Food preparation or ceremony
6th: Eating and initial digestion/natural eating habits
7th: Small intestine digestion
8th: Final digestion and elimination
9th: Nourishment/using nutrients for growth
10: Knees, hamstrings, and thighs, also medicine
11: Lower legs, including the ankles
12: The feet, also the subconscious and emotions

The sign on the 2nd cusp shows what type of food you like. For example, Libra on the 1st and 2nd cusp shows a love of sweets. Scorpio on the 2nd might show a love or dislike for Licorice. Scorpio also rules mushrooms, garlic, and onions.