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MEDICAL ASTROLOGY: Let’S Read Charts! MEDICAL ASTROLOGY: Let’s read charts! with Judith Hill Copyright ©, 2020, Judith Hill *DISCLAIMER: It may be illegal in your area for unlicensed persons to prescribe or administer herbs, diagnose, or to provide medical opinion or advice. The teacher is not responsible for student misuse of this material. This class is intended for educational and historic purposes only, plus delight and wonderment. CONTENTS 1ST 15 MINUTES: Components and Orientation Zodiacal Man/Woman, Rulerships, Basic Method, “Afflicted” vs “Afflictor”. Malefic houses. Planetary temperature, moisture, and speed. Elements and Modes. Basic signatures, malefic planets, dignity and debilitation. 10 MINUTE BREAK 2ND AND 3RD HOURS LET’S READ CHARTS! Kidney Failure: Jean Harlow’s “flu”, Nick Cannon, Sarah Bernhardt The Heart: Coronary Artery Disease: Dick Cheney Congestive Heart Failure: Hedy Lamarr Massive Heart Attack: Tyrone Power Weak Heart with Heart Failure: D.R. 10 MINUTE BREAK “Hill’s Special Conditions” by Element Cancer: Lung Cancer: Leslie Gore Throat, oral and lung cancer: George Harrison Ovarian Cancer, Laura Nyro; Breast Cancer: Bette Davis The Brain Stroke: Stroke: Bette Davis, Ram Dass Epilepsy: Florence Joyner Griffith Narcolepsy Five cases Medical mystery (vascular): King Henry VIII with death transits QUESTIONS (if we have time?) THE THREE TIERS OF HEALTH ASSESSMENT NATAL CHART ASSESSMENT Predispositions, Signatures, Quantity and Quality of Vital Force ASSESSMENT of TRANSITS AND PROGRESSIONS Current Transit Influences on the Radix, Elections MUNDANE TRANSITS Collective Health Transits Traditional “Homo Signorum”, the Man of Signs from Johann Regiomantus’ Kalendarius Teutsch, Augsburg, 1512 Modern “Zodiacal Man”, (Human) new style by Judith Hill, 2019 t'2 '/a "g/ \ '\.* r. 8ry IrL \r l*\ rf ☀ TRANSIT PLANETS SEND “RAYS” TO BODY FIELD (NATAL)� �RECEIVER Know Your Preeminent Health “Malefics”: Saturn, Mars, and the South Lunar Node (but remember, all planets have associative pathologies) ilh) JL & ⬆ ⬆ ♂ ⬅ ♄ ⬅ ⬆ ⬆ MARS EXCRETES SATURN CONSOLIDATES STIMULATES REPRESSED HYPER HYPO HOT COLD THE LUNAR NODES: STRENGTH/WEAKNESS Excess/Deficiency t\ # Planets in Signs A+B=C MARS Hot ♂ ➡ ♓ = � Pisces � SATURN ➡ Cold ♄ ♓ = ❄ � ________________________________________________________ MARS Hot ♂ ➡ ♊ = � � Gemini SATURN ➡ = Cold ♄ ♊ ❄ � PLANETARY AND SIGN SYMBOIS PLAhIET SIGNS Sun O Aries Moon D Taurus U Mercury V Gemini f Venus I Cancer 5 Mars d Leo /t Jupiter el- Virgo ndtf Saturn tr" Libra =e Uranus l-3{ Scorpio d{l' Neptune V Sagittarius ;7 Pluto ?,,9 Capricorn 1fj North Lunar Node Cl Aquarius 4 South Lunar Node O Pisces )t Pars Fortuna @ THE THREE MALEFIC HOUSES. (6th, 8th, 12th) Remember, planets in all houses can become pathological. However, planets are more likely to do so in these sectors. SIMPLE SIGNATURES (hot vs cold diseases) MALE Signs: (Fire & Air) + Mars, Uranus, Jupiter, Sun, N. Node (- Female) FEMALE signs: (Water & Earth) + Moon, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, S. Node, (& sometimes Jupiter, North Node) ( - Male) � � PLANETARY AFFLICTION “AFFLICTED” vs “AFFLICTOR” A PLANET UNDER SIGNIFICANT STRESS (Sun is our example) Any planet with at least three of the below aspects, (compounded by that planet’s tenancy of a malefic house, conjunction to a malefic or lunar node, sign debility, out of sect . THE FOUR ELEMENTS AND THE FOUR QUALITIES FIRE: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, (hot*) � movement is outward ⛰ EARTH: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn (dry: astringent* ) movement is consolidating, inward � � AIR: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius (cold*) movement is upward, and circulating around � WATER: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces (wet*) movement is downward, diffusive *signs belong to an elemental grouping but are not, in fact, the element! *signs are not “humors”. *Elements are not “humors”. E.g., Libra is moderate, (neither hot nor cold), and magnetic Taurus is far moister than fellow earth signs. A sign is a conflation of planet, element, seasonal and planetary influences! THE KIDNEYS URINARY SYSTEM RULERSHIPS ADRENALS: Mars, Aries, Libra KIDNEYS: Venus, Libra, 7th house (Mars-Scorpio governs excretion function) URETERS, OPENING TO BLADDER: Libra & Scorpio (shared) some influence Gemini? ( all tubes) BLADDER, URETHRA, URINATION Mars, Scorpio, 8th house Nr KIDNEY FAILURE Jean Harlow ☿22˚ ,,,Q\'♀2˚ - \t' \'"" ♄ 4˚ Death Transits: * /? outer circle /t€' o planets in red ♂22r B :TG )+ re, KIDNEY FAILURE Acute Nick Cannon -d > *{.(? I .d A\SC /3 q.r? / 7'H 4,"Y, 29˚ ♂ M♄ ☊18.40 trrg t<- KIDNEY FAILURE Kidney Dysplasia 0.19 Sarah Bernhardt ♆20.57 (J.n rF"." 0.19 25˚ Ten Minute Break Then, LET’S READ CHARTS! Next: The Heart THE HEART ☉ Hot❤ vs Cold Issues Heart, Aorta: Sun, Leo and 5th house Pericardium: Cancer and Leo Valves: Leo, Uranus Heart rate: Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Virgo-Pisces, Saturn Venous Blood and right chambers: Venus Arterial blood and left chambers: Jupiter Electrical functions (sinoatrial node et al): Uranus (Saturn stabilizes), Leo-Aquarius polarity Arterial Circulation: Sagittarius, Jupiter (Mars, Sun) Venuous Circulation: Aquarius, Venous (Moon?) Capillaries: Gemini flftq Coronary Artery Disease f zz.rq HEART FAILURE Dick Cheney "tntniD rmt N"' not all aspects shown ℞♆ 27.26 ⬉ ℞ +.rr, Iq F 'o.16 CONGESTIVE dX HEART FAILURE 10.20 ♄(near station) T Eclipse Hedy Lamarr 0.26 ♅15.43 ♆☊ 3.50 3.41 Dese 13'7 Death Transits: outer circle, red planets January 19th, 2000 T eclipse Jan 21, 2000 P eclipse Feb 5, 2000 ☊ 3.41 eclipse 16.02˚ Death by Massive Heart attack Tyrone Power {x '"'oL ,p q1{tt frsc z.rL natal chart P (not all aspects shown) r'/v t.l2 o(tdH..ucrz. CONGENITAL >+ ? ?.rf HEART WEAKNESS Dies of heart failure following heart attack aS D.R. ,Qe-"" lt'?r fr A" Q W birthday eclipse SN Lunar, 21.14 Leo Ten Minute Break WHEN WE RETURN: CANCER Cancer the astrological view COLD vs HOT HILL’S SPECIAL CONDITIONS by element (see: “The Hot & Cold Diseases of Saturn and Mars”) & I X vJ \ LUNG CANCER t],ta,c “Frozen Water” “Stagnant Water” -{( -<) Leslie Gore I J- 16.rY b dYt) o tr.7 t time unknown \t {/= A 'v t€.72 ♂q.2' ♇9.27 fr drl-t \ J ./l- Ovarian Cancer 0 Laura Nyro L ]L H "crV ,q Ctf* ♄ 20.43 b time unknown :L \r/ rt.oi- \cz(+ l )( \ ilL? Q, fl AN ELEMENT IN TROUBLE! Nothing but malefic planets in one element t-h THROAT, ORAL and ♇5.28 LUNG CANCER George Harrison F.>- 3.t,-t tf0r v ff* Air Element “in trouble” ''.o :flf/ 28˚ Mars-Saturn midpoint a3''/ ,A P.' 6 ☿9.54 1."? \6.o{ {C, rtn* BREAST CANCER, ⬇ STROKES Betty Davis ⬉ ⬈ ⬆ Ten Minute Break WHEN WE RETURN: The Brain THE BRAIN flc, “Wild Fire” Mars-Saturn tf az.qz Midpoint 27˚ ♄5˚ STROKE Ram Dass ♅5˚ w not all aspects Ct 1/3 are shown Stroke transits February, 1997 ♇5˚ red planets outer circle previous eclipse Oct 12th, 1996 ?<t! v L jfc, ♂D 5˚ 19.32 EPILEPSY congenital vascular abnormality, cavernous hemangioma (capillary malformation) Florence Joyner Griffith Dt 7.06 n' T\7'2" :tre^ NARCOLEPSY THINK IT OUT… �UNCONSCIOUS, “SLEEPY” CONSCIOUS - AWAKE� (mentally) Water Signs Earth Signs Pisces, (parasympathetic nerves) Virgo (sympathetic nerves) Neptune Gemini (efferent nerves) South Node Saturn Moon Mercury Jupiter in Water Sun Mutable Signs Mutable Signs & The Nervous System Gemini ☿ peripheral nerves afferent nerves V o l ♂ u ☿ Virgo A u t o m a t i c Pisces ♆ ♃ sympathetic nerves n parasympathetic nerves t a r y Sagittarius ♃ efferent nerves, coordinates \l\. 1 2 NARCOLEPSY signatures 3 Sources: My files (1) t-bl Lois Rodden’s American Book of Charts (2-4) NARCOLEPSY (more signature examples) 4 5 dq b\'1-:v.rr\ ,,L ))tt'22.,' apj HISTORICAL MYSTERY: Did the varicose ulcer of calf kill him? KING HENRY VIII (Ascendants vary between Leo and Virgo) ♂ S. Node eclipses ☋ I ☋&,♀ A♃n exact ♇ transit ☿ square ♃☉ ♄ Death Transits exact Outer Circle transit Purple Planets quincunx ♄ t66 m^) Books by Judith Hill More Books! Vocational Astrology: A Complete Handbook of Western Astrological Career Selection and Guidance Techniques, A.F. A. Inc., 1999, (Winner of the A. F. A. Paul R. Grell Best Book Award, 1999) The Lunar Nodes: Your Key To Excellent Chart Interpretation, Stellium Press, 2010. (Dave’s ‘Top Ten’ by genre.) The Part of Fortune in Astrology, Stellium Press, 1998 The Mars-Redhead Files, Stellium Press, 2000 (research compendium) Astroseismology: Earthquakes and Astrology, Stellium Press, 2000 (research compendium) Eclipses and You: How to Align with Life’s Hidden Tides, Stellium Press, 2013. A Wonderbook of True Astrological Case Files, (co-authored with Andrea L. 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