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Astrologer's Notes: Medical Astrology |
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The Fire Family:
Heart of the Matter
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by Noel Tyl
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The heart is everything, of course. It is dramatically central to life. Its concept of energy supply is brought forward through the Sun (the life force), the ruler of Leo, and through Mars (adrenaline, energy), the ruler of Aries. We begin to assimilate the essence of the Fire Family as the management of energy.
The heart weighs only about one pound but manages to pump some five or more quarts of blood into the system per minute! In a single day, that’s about 2,000 gallons of blood pushed through the body’s circulatory system! The blood provides oxygen-rich cells to the tissues to nourish them. The arteries take the blood to the tissues and the veins bring the blood back to the heart. The blood brought back is recycled through the lungs (to pick up oxygen) before it starts out once again through the heart and into the arteries.
We want to keep this beginning orientation to Medical Astrology as simple as possible. So, an astrological generalization about the heart –within the perspective of this orientation—is not unreasonable or irresponsible: any horoscope showing the Sun in a developmental tension aspect with a strong planet is going to suggest a vulnerability within the heart.
When discussing the health history, the health profile with a client showing a strong tension focus onto the Sun (Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto square, conjunct, opposed, or quindecile Sun) or emphasizing Leo very tensely, I will ask the client, “Has a physician ever detected through electro-cardiogram or stethoscope a congenital anomaly in your heart (an unknown with which you are born)? Now, this sounds like a terribly intrusive, frightening question, but delivered with grace within the scope of authority achieved in dialogue between astrologer and client, it isn’t. --Consider that in the United states alone, at least 350,000 people die suddenly, or without much warning, from heart attacks each year; that’s one person every eighty seconds, at least! The health literature is filled with considerations of prevention of heart disease/attack against a backdrop of statistical expectation that is very, very high.
How else will people die? Certainly there are accidents, crime, other diseases … but even other diseases gather at the bottom-line of “heart failure.”
Within the developmental picture for potential heart disease or attack, many life-circumstance considerations come to bear, not just something faulty in heart construction. For example, a very intense, creative lady with Mars conjunct the Sun in Leo also has Venus (the final dispositor of her horoscope) opposed by Saturn retrograde, Venus in and ruling the 11th. –We see the Venus position clearly as a guideline to the consideration of the lady not feeling lovable, directly related to Saturn-retrograde phenomenology. With Venus also ruling her 7th, these anxieties have been carried over into her adult relationships. She develops emphatic health problems whenever she is around “people who squash me”; a lifetime of this strong anxiety has exacerbated her congenital heart weakness; she has major problems with health insurance; she lives alone..
Not having a strong aspect to the Sun or to a heavy focus in Leo does not mean we are probably free and clear of heart concerns. Having these tension aspects, though, heightens the coronary risk.
[Please insert horoscope: Bill Clinton, August 19, 1946 at 8:51 AM CST in Hope AR (Asc 5 Libra 31)]
Bill Clinton has recently had heart surgery, but there is no strong planet attacking the Sun, so to speak, in his natal horoscope. But look within the sign of Leo. Saturn conjoins Mercury, which brings Saturn into the realm of 7 Leo. And this allows Mercury AND Saturn to conjoin Pluto at 11 Leo. There is a triple emphasis in Leo, and –now NOTE this carefully: central to this triple conjunction is Mercury, ruler of the 12th House of critical illness. This shows us extremely clearly a potential for a heart condition, when Arcs and transit will accumulate with a focus on the Sun, the Leo area, the ruler of the Ascendant and/or the Ascendant (the health center) and/or the ruler of the 12th House of critical illness.
Mars symbolically stirs up anxiety in the part of the system signified by the planet with which it makes a strong aspect. The female example in text above showed this obviously by the natal conjunction of Mars with the Sun in Leo.
Classically, Jupiter was given rulership over the liver probably because the liver is such a large organ (weighing about four pounds; next to the skin, the largest organ of the body) and Jupiter is the biggest planet. Next to the heart, it can be confirmed that the liver is the most important organ in the body. The liver plays a vital role in determining the amounts of nutrients (energy) that are sent to the rest of the body; assisting (through the bile it produces) with the absorption of fats into the intestines; and the storage of glycogen (a complex carbohydrate) that is converted into sugar for release into the bloodstream when sugar in the blood is low. –Jupiter, the ruler of Fire sign Sagittarius, under the duress of harsh aspects natally will suggest a weakness in the liver and with its functions.
A further note about the liver: for the past 25 years, I have asked thousands of people in private consultations and in lecture audiences—those who have Venus and Jupiter in strong aspect with one another—about the incidence of diabetes in their family or personal history … NOT necessarily in themselves. In the United States, the percentage answering in the affirmative is extraordinarily high (above 80%).
Here’s why the Venus-Jupiter connection symbolizes diabetes: the pancreas (ruled by Venus), a long thin organ about eight inches long, located behind the stomach, produces hormones essential to the digestion of food; the hormones produced by the pancreas metabolize the food we eat. They regulate how we use glucose, a simple form of sugar (Venus) that is a major source of energy for our cells. The pancreas must function efficiently in relation to our meals, exercise, stress, and infections. Insulin is one of the hormones produced by the pancreas when the concentration of glucose (Venus) in the blood increases. Surplus glucose is stored by the liver (Jupiter).
Diabetes results when there is a lack of insulin supply from the pancreas: the body’s cells are therefore unable to use the glucose in the bloodstream. This is a tension between Venus and Jupiter. The horoscope is a symbol of one’s gene pool, and the Venus-Jupiter tension can reflect the condition of diabetes within that gene pool, within the family history.
[Please insert horoscope: Male, February 1, 1949 at 3:54 AM CST in Poplar Bluff MO (Asc 21 Sagittarius 32)]
Note in this gentleman’s horoscope that Venus and Jupiter are conjunct in Capricorn, Jupiter ruling the Ascendant (the Health Center) and the 12th (the House of Critical Illness). The Venus-Jupiter conjunction is squared by Neptune (blood). The man is a diabetic. So was his father. So is his sister. –Diagnosis took place when transiting Neptune was exactly on his natal Venus
Note that the Sun (through conjunction with Mercury) is also conjoined by Mars, and opposed by Pluto. While suggesting a strong rebellion motif in development, this aspect vignette also brings immediately to mind a potential weakness within the heart, to manifest at some time or other in the aging process. The gentleman had a heart attack –“without any sign or warning”—and underwent successful triple bypass surgery. --The heart attack occurred when SA Mars was exactly on the fourth cusp with transiting Saturn also conjunct the fourth cusp, with SA Uranus exactly upon natal Pluto in Leo opposing the Sun.
In this orientation, we are seeing correspondences among Planets, Signs, parts of the body, and bodily systems. We see that tension natally –that which builds growth, character development, checks and balances among frustrations and accomplishments—becomes more dangerous with age. Key Arcs and transits set off natal predispositions.
This first glimpse has been of the Fire Family, our management of energy. Our next column of learning will focus on the Air Family.
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Noel Tyl,
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Noel Tyl (no-ell till) is one of the foremost astrologers in the world. His twenty-nine textbooks have led the teaching of astrologers for two generations.
Tyl has written the professional manual for the field, the 1,000-page text "Synthesis & Counseling in Astrology" that has securely placed astrology in pace with the most sophisticated disciplines of humanistic studies extant today.
Mr. Tyl is a graduate of Harvard University with his degree in Social Relations (Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology), lectures throughout the Western world, serves his clients from his office in Phoenix AZ, maintains perhaps the most sophisticated astrological teaching website on the web, noeltyl.com, and leads his highly esteemed Master's Degree Certification Correspondence Course throughout 16 countries.
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