ASTROLOGY AND MEDICINE – STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
OR PERFECT MATCH?
Welcome to an end of an era! Astrology used to be thought of as fortune telling, or just horoscopes in the back of magazines. Currently, there is a new interest in astrology, and how it relates to healing, because astrology can help an individual or a doctor understand the whole person. How can vibrant health be possible without understanding all aspects of not just the body but the soul of a human being.
For many many years, we lost the importance of astrology’s deep history with medicine. It used to be you couldn’t get a medical license unless you knew how to read an astrology chart. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine said, “Any man who practices medicine and doesn’t know how to read a chart is not a doctor but a fool.” Carl Jung would always look at his patient’s natal chart in order to understand them better. Many esteemed thinkers from Einstein to DaVinci, and Sir Issac Newton were devotees. They knew there was something for humans to gain from understanding what goes on above our heads in the heavens – “As above so below”.
As an astrologer with over 35 years of studying this ancient science, I am now working with western trained doctors, bringing a whole new understanding around their patients. These are exciting times, as we enter this new phase of medicine where we are looking at the whole person from every angle. We are now reconnecting to something that is much deeper and more ancient than traditional medicine, which has always had a more horizontal approach. Now we are moving into a more vertical system of how to heal the body where we are realizing our connection to the cosmos and the earth. This is a huge paradigm shift. Almost as profound as when the early explorers came back to say the world was not flat.
For years we have been lost in the horizontal axis, where there was a disconnection from ancient wisdom and where many were oblivious to the energies of the earth. We devalued the plant and animal realms, and how they used to talk with us. Every single plant is connected to the planets just as we are. Everything on this earth is in a constant conversation with the stars and the planets. The current renewed interest in astrology is allowing this connection to be heard once again. Recent articles about this current astrological boom have been seen in The New Yorker magazine, The Guardian, and The New York Times, etc.
Understanding the mind body cosmos connection is a key to good heath! Astrology explains that connection faster and more accurately than any other method, and it is my sincere honor to write this column for Masters of Health Magazine.
Each month I will relate stories about how astrology impacts and informs our human experience.