As you have discovered, asteroids can provide a whole new level of ideas,
words and delineations. So let's talk about that for a bit. Take the
asteroid, Panacea, which stands for "the cure, the treatment, the idea of
making things better, of fixing or improving things." (You might also use
the asteroid, Sano #8660 for Treatments or Cures. Just keep in mind that
Sano can also stand for the Substantia Nigra of the brain, an area
associated with movement and identification of reward. It's especially
significant for Parkinson's, depression, fatigue and tremors.)
As you study charts to learn about Panacea, you contend with aspects
(hopefully via the 90* dial axis and it's "Golden Triangle" to pick up
additional aspects/comments.) Here are some of the things you can encounter
as other factors complicate the efforts of Panacea or Sano:
1. Admetus (or Admetos or Admete.) With this aspect, treatment can take
time; people can delay seeking treatment; the treatment itself may be such
that a person has to "endure" it. Too, the treatment may encounter
blockage, a thickening or narrowing complication, or a mineral imbalance.
There can be a "treatment resistant" issue. (Note that there are specific
medical asteroids for Treatment-Resistant Anxiety, Copland #4532, or
Treatment-Resistant Depression, Berman #25158.)
2. Hades. As well as suggesting the potential of a treatment having
difficult side effects (including nausea or bowel problems,) the Hades can
indicate a negative result: the treatment isn't effective. You can see this
aspect too when people use the Hades to decline treatment or when a disease
source hasn't even been discovered. Sometimes the Hades indicates that what
needs (Panacea) treatment or improvement is the presence of a congenital,
bacterial or viral condition. Of course, Hades can also stand for
depression and that can also be in need of treatment.
3. Panacea can also be up against a faulty or wrong diagnosis. You would
want to examine the pattern of Nemesis (fault, cause) and also of the
asteroid, Weseley #25513 that can represent false attribution (thus tracing
symptoms to an organ or system that is not responsible for them.) The
asteroid, Kalypso, with organ or medical points may be trying to alert you
to the fact that there are hidden or not seen problems causing a diagnosis
to be less that complete or accurate. What kinds of things do you say to a
client who has a retrograde Panacea?
4. Panacea may be in aspect with Astraea. Then you're thinking that the
vision or eyes may need correction or treatment, but it also has to occur to
you that Panacea is trying to "fix" something from which recovery is very,
very difficult. There can be an ongoing problem.
5. Maybe Panacea (or Sano) closely aspects Sisyphus, and you think, "Oh
great. Even if we get this resolved or improved, it's likely to recur."
6. Like Nemesis, Panacea can point to an organ or system that's "in trouble"
(as so to speak.) For instance, Panacea = Eros suggests that the heart,
hormone balance or reproductive system needs attention (of the medical
sort!!!)
7. Panacea can be in an aspect pattern with Psyche and, where the medical
issue is not the brain or a psychological issue, you want to to pursue a
full look at the aspecting points and consider the asteroid, Parker #5392,
that can signal an emotional trigger and/or precursor of serious illness.
It can be a divorce, a loss, a mind-blowing realization, career
disappointment-- whatever. For some people, Parker is triggered even as
much as a year before they face a difficult diagnosis. (Consider this kind
of issue where Panacea aspects Pluto too. Pluto in the pattern can also
indicate an intense psychological "scar" as the basis or origin for
disease.)
8. Those of you who subscribe to the Research Access area of my website know
that there are now nearly 2100 medical asteroids. Many of them pinpoint a
specific disease. Others identify issues that detract from healthy immune
responses. As we delve into this level of medical astrology, we're able to
more closely identify things like the metabolism's inability to sufficiently
screen toxins & carcinogens or fully utilize vitamins. We can look at the
"microbiome," those microscopic organisms in the gastrointestinal tract that
are essential to the immune and central nervous systems. While you may look
at Pluto for that, also consider checking the condition of the asteroids,
Cook #3061 and Lewis #4796. Note that both of those asteroids have other
applications. The idea is to truly provide a useful service to your
clients. Since disease indications are shown in the radix chart, the
potential to intervene is shown there too!
9. Do you get how these aspect combinations could show up (and how would you
add to the delineations?)
* Panacea-Lilith: Rejecting the very idea of treatment or the need to choose
among treatment options
* Panacea-Pluto: Seeing that "improvement" also goes to inner confrontation
& psychological change
* Panacea-Apollon: As well as hearing of chemotherapy, you can see that it
takes several things to try to "fix" what's wrong.
* Panacea-Handley: Do you hear of cancer treatments or of attempts to repair
very difficult or negative things?
* Panacea-Urania: As well as possibly using Astrology to bring about
Improvements, where do you see a need to repair biases in perception? Where
do you recognize that one of the first steps to resolve difficulties
(disease or otherwise) lies in correcting the processing of ideas and
meanings?
10. As you look at charts to work with these ideas, you'll have to deal with
complex patterns and dial "orders." Here's one example: Panacea,
Rx\Ascendant x Aesculapia - Mars x Horne = Neptune x Orpheus. This is the
dial axis of Panacea and it tells you that the Panacea wasn't effective. The
fact of having the Ascendant, a personal point, in this pattern emphasizes
its importance. The Mars x Horne shows that the two points were close on
the dial, although they were square and the Mars indicated an aggressive or
active form of Horne (lung cancer.) The "result" here (= Neptune x Orpheus)
depicts the immune failure and fragility at the time of death.
Those of you with Research Access are accustomed to such examples and can
trace through them in the Medical Orders area.
11. If it sounds to you like I am advertising the Research area of the
website, trust your feeling. The available information is nothing less than
amazing. I know that it's more than some of you want to know. But then,
you hear of someone close having a medical issue...and you want to have more
to say that the plain chart allows; you want to know the points that stand
for metastasis, surgery, pancreatic cancer or CT scans. The Research Access
is just $12.00 a month and it doesn't require a long term contract. You
sign up on this website through PayPal and if you find you don't use it, you
can just cancel. The membership also holds access to three other listings:
Medical Orders, Mundane (for use with crime and regular charts,) and the
Aspects section with more than 4,000 aspect delineations among planets, TNPs
and asteroids. These are lengthy and not just a line or two. If you have
the book, "Angles and Prediction," it has about 2700 aspect delineations.
Imagine more than 4000!
12. Let me also mention that you can order a printout of the 2000+ Medical
Asteroids for a person for $9.00. It comes as two lists. One is in
alphabetical order by the available points; the other is in zodiacal order
(so you can see what's in the pattern of the personal points or currently
angular on a return chart.) The Medical Asteroids include many
psychological points... in case you know someone with Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder or who is leaning towards Hoarding Disorder or who has some trouble
controlling impulsive or angry reactions.
As the Saturn-Pluto gathers steam, I am sure hearing from people dealing
with difficulty (and not all of it concerns finances for the older
years or realizing the level of inner strength very difficult situations can demand, so-- take care!