THE LIVER AND GALL BLADDER
Male, born March 6th, 1831, 4 P.M.
This is the horoscope of a man with the fixed and fiery sign of Leo on the Ascendant, and the obstructing Saturn in Leo in the 1st house.
Whenever Saturn is placed in an angle, a fixed sign, or near the Ascendant, his influence is much more destructive than elsewhere, especially when in the sign of Leo, which rules the heart. Then we may expect that the
person will be lacking in vitality. Especially so in the case of this man as we find Saturn in square aspect to the dynamic Mars, and Mars in its fall and near the cusp of the 10th house, where its destructive influence may
result in the greatest amount of damage, particularly as we find these two afflicting and powerful planets in Leo and Taurus, two of the most powerful signs in the horoscope. These planets are of opposite natures; Saturn is cold and moist, while Mars is fiery, and dry. Consequently we may expect that the body will suffer as a result.
The sun, the ruler of the Ascendant, is posited in the 8th house, in the negative sign of Pisces, square to the moon. Here again we find an
indication of depleted energy and lack of vitality.
Now let us see how these afflictions work. The 10th house indicates the
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Taurus 16 SUN: Pisces 15:14 SATURN: Leo 27:05R ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Gemini 16 MOON: Sagitt. 13:09 URANUS: Aquarius 12:25 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 14 MERCURY: Aquarius 21:50 NEPTUNE: Capricorn 24:17 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Leo 13:12 VENUS: Aries 3:15 ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Virgo 13 MARS: Taurus 24:04 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Libra 14 JUPITER: Aquarius 10:05 ]
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the Father, and Mars afflicted by a square to Mercury and Saturn, and in Taurus near the cusp of the Midheaven would indicate the death of the Father by accident. At the age of twelve years when the moon passed the Midheaven and the conjunction of Mars, the Father was killed by the falling of a tree, leaving the mother and three small children penniless. This forced the
eldest boy, whose horoscope we are delineating, to help earn the wherewithal to live. He was placed as an assistant to a blacksmith in the neighborhood, and was compelled at the growing age of twelve years to do a man's work, wielding the heavy sledge hammer. As a result the valves of the heart were not fully developed. For years he suffered, and Each time he reached a state of financial success, his health would break, forcing him to give up and change to another climate for relief. Some doctors diagnosed his trouble as tuberculosis, others as asthma. He had all the indications of asthma, but these spells would come and go. Each winter while in the cold, eastern climate he spent some time in bed with pneumonia or congestion of
Here we see the effect of the affliction of sun square moon from the two common signs of Pisces and Sagittarius. We find Mercury in the fixed sign of Aquarius, in opposition to Saturn and square to Mars in Taurus, the throat, which would give some tendency toward a nervous contraction of the trachea.
Now we have found the afflicting planets indicating valvular heart trouble and weak lungs, but the man died from an abscess of the liver. Where do we find the indication of liver trouble? Mars in Taurus is in his detriment. This planet is the strongest in the horoscope; in fact Mars may be called the life ruler. When in the sign ruling the throat, it gives a desire to tickle the palate and a thirst which often leads to strong drink.
In this case we find Mars sextile to the sun and trine to Neptune. Neptune governs and sometimes predisposes to the use of drugs. This had its result in an abnormal desire for strong, black coffee. Instead of quenching his thirst with water, this man would drink cold coffee and in large quantities. Mars in Taurus also gives an abnormal appetite, indicating one who is apt to gourmandize. With the lowered vitality on account of the affliction to the heart and poor oxygenation in the lungs, the native was unable to do manual labor, thereby being unable to work off the excess of food. Consequently the poor liver was worked over time and became a receptacle for the poisons created by the excess of food which could not be absorbed by the blood. Jupiter rules the liver; we find Jupiter in conjunction with and parallel to Uranus in the 6th house, sickness, also parallel to the moon. Naturally the liver would be sluggish and easily overtaxed.
If this man had lived normally, he could have reached a ripe old age in spite of the planetary afflictions, for with Mars elevated and sextile to the sun, with the moon sextile to Jupiter, and with fixed signs on the angles there is no reason why he should have passed out at the comparatively early period of middle life.
Male, born November 13, 1885, 8:52 P.M.
We will judge first the mental caliber so that we may be better able to deal with our patient, for the basic quality and trend of the mind have a great determining influence as to the way a person views sickness, and we must be prepared to meet his ideas in such a manner that we inspire confidence. Mercury rules the 3rd house, which governs the lower mind. Its
parallel to Saturn, the planet of obstruction, curbs this flighty constituent of the personality and gives it depth, but this aspect also gives a tendency to look at the dark side of things; pessimism and melancholy are among its results. Mars in the mercurial sign of Virgo, square to Mercury, makes the native cynical and quick to anger.
Saturn in Cancer, the sign of the stomach, shows us that digestion is
obstructed. His opposition to Venus and the square of both to Uranus in Libra show that the venous circulation is also obstructed, particularly that of the renal veins which carry the blood from the kidneys (Uranus in Libra), and that part of the portal system which carries the blood from the stomach (Saturn in Cancer), through the liver. Saturn rules the gall bladder, and his position in Cancer, square Uranus in the sign of the kidneys (Libra), shows the concretion of sediment in both of these organs. As brick is baked clay, hardened by heat pent up in the kiln, so this sediment is burned into gallstones and renal stones by the restraining action of Saturn when anger is kindled by Mars. Inward impotent rage and vindictiveness which wait for an opportunity to get even, the nursing of a grievance instead of letting
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Aries 9 SUN: Scorpio 21:56 SATURN: Cancer 7:50R ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Taurus 16 MOON: Aquarius 13:18 URANUS: Libra 6:12 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Gemini 24 MERCURY: Sagitt. 8:06 NEPTUNE: Taurus 24:14R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Cancer 26:21 VENUS: Capricorn 7:33 ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Leo 17 MARS: Virgo 2:49 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Virgo 10 JUPITER: Virgo 29:41 ]
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anger have vent and then forgetting it, harmful though that may be, are the true cause of one of the most painful maladies to which flesh is heir.
The trine of Jupiter and Neptune show the way of liberation through appeal to the higher nature, for there is a basic benevolence that may be invoked. Physical treatments can and must of course be given, but however effective they may prove for the time being, they are merely palliative, for until the patient changes his mental attitude there can be no real cure. Continued inward rage will form new stones to take the place of those eliminated or dissolved by the treatment. To thoroughly impress this fact upon the patient is the first duty of the astro-therapeutic health adjuster. The harm has been done in the present case, and cultivation of serenity can only act to correct. But if a configuration like this is noted in the horoscope of a child, we ought to warn the parents so that this trait of nursing wrath may be eradicated ere it gets a hold on the growing girl or boy. Prevention is always better than cure. It is not enough just to help people to regain health; our aim should be to teach them how to live in harmony with the laws of love and life that they may never be sick. Until we thoroughly realize this and practice it we are missing the greatest part of our privilege.
A person with Scorpio rising would be our first choice when selecting a healer for this case; one with Taurus would come next. But neither may have Saturn in the degrees of the signs included in the patient's 1st or 6th houses. The treatments, both mental and physical, should be given in the hour of the sun. Large doses of olive oil or copious draughts of hot water would be of great assistance.
Male, born April 23rd, 1850.
No. 10C is the horoscope of a judge of the Supreme Court, whose hour of birth we could not ascertain, but from events in his life we judge that
Capricorn would be on the cusp of the Ascendant. Although the writer never met this man in person, yet from indications in the home he was born some time near 9:30 or 10 P.M. This would place Jupiter and the moon in or near the Midheaven or the 9th house which would correspond with his character, for from reports of friends he was a very efficient and just judge. He had much in harmony in his home, which would be indicated by Saturn and Uranus in
Aries in the 4th house, describing the wife as nagging and erratic. Saturn is square to Mars in Cancer in the 7th house, again showing in harmony and quarreling with the marriage partner.
The Judge was also greatly troubled through the weakness of an only son, who squandered his time in drink and immorality, spending his money on the opposite sex. This is shown by the position of Venus in the 5th house, governing children, also pleasures. Venus is very strong in the sign of Taurus, which rules the palate and it is also sextile to Mars in Cancer, ruling the stomach.
People with Capricorn rising and with the ruler, Saturn, afflicted have a tendency always to see the dark side of life and to brood over it, and when Saturn is square to Mars there is much temper but not of the explosive kind. Capricorn people cannot as a rule forgive and forget. Suppressed
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 10C [FLAT CHART] ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn SUN: Taurus 2:57 SATURN: Aries 13:40 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius MOON: Virgo 25:51 URANUS: Aries 26:41 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces MERCURY: Taurus 9:17 NEPTUNE: Pisces 6:25 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Aries VENUS: Taurus 15:58 ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus MARS: Cancer 18:20 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini JUPITER: Virgo 13:32R ]
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anger when continued for years will crystallize the bile in the gall bladder, which will have a tendency to form into small stones, causing intense pain while they are being eliminated. The Judge suffered from these stones for nearly twenty years. About 1894 the progressed Saturn neared an exact square to the radical Mars, which may have set the time for the beginning of the forming of these stones. This patient passed into the higher life on
January 1, 1916, when the transiting Saturn had reached the
square to its own place at birth.
Female, born December 14, 1855, at 10 A.M.
This is the horoscope of a woman who has Capricorn on the Ascendant, and the ruler, Saturn, is in the 5th house, square to the inflammatory Mars. We have noted from a number of horoscopes in our files of patients who have suffered from gallstones that they have had Saturn and Mars conjunction or square. Saturn in this horoscope is in the house ruling children, the 5th, and square to Mars in the 8th. This woman's troubles were caused by aggravations by the children of her husband's first marriage, the stepchildren. Note how clearly this is shown by Mercury and the sun in the 11th house, which rules stepchildren, square to Neptune, ruler of the 2nd house. Anger and inharmony arose in her home on account of her husband's finances, and as usual the Capricorn nature would not forget and forgive, holding resentment within until she paid the penalty in 1903 when she had the first attack of gallstones, followed by another attack fourteen years later, about 1917. The progressed moon was in Sagittarius in 1903 and in Gemini in 1917. The exact time of the illness is not given, but the opposition and the conjunction of the progressed moon with Saturn will no doubt register the exact
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Scorpio 25 SUN: Sagitt. 21:52 SATURN: Gemini 26:55R ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 13 MOON: Aquarius 26:48 URANUS: Taurus 17:37R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 28 MERCURY: Sagitt. 12:08 NEPTUNE: Pisces 15:29 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Capricorn 16:39 VENUS: Scorpio 5:04 ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Pisces 17 MARS: Libra 0:07 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Taurus 0 JUPITER: Aquarius 27:38 ]
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This disease is one of the most painful of afflictions. When the stones pass from the gall bladder, pressing through the tiny gall duct which leads into the duodenum, they often get partly through this duct but remain wedged in, causing intense suffering. A very safe and often most beneficial remedy is to have ready one-half cup of olive oil and the juice of one lemon. Set the alarm clock to go off at 3 A.M.; at that time drink all of the oil followed by the juice of the lemon. Refrain from eating breakfast, and eat very little during the day. Repeat this for three nights in succession, and the third morning take a cathartic. A tablespoon of Epsom salts has been used by some with excellent results. If this does not eliminate the
gallstones, try the remedy again about two or three weeks later.
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