ASTROLOGY AS AN AID TO HEALING 151agrees with that of the patient’s ascending sign,
whether fiery, earthy, airy, or watery.
When Saturn in the horoscope of one person
occupies any degree of the zodiac included in the 1st
or 6th house of another, those people are mutually
incompatible and incapable of conferring benefit upon
each other. Mars and Uranus also have an evil effect,
but their force is quickly spent; it may be compared to
the snap of a terrier. But the influence of Saturn is like
the locked jaws of a bulldog, a strangle hold, a death
grip, from which there is no release.
The Sun is the great reservoir of Life, the very
opposite of Saturn; we may therefore readily see that
its position would mark one as particularly beneficial
to a certain class and in certain diseases. This influence
is determined by its position according to triplicity.
Thus, those who have the Sun in one of the fiery signs
have great healing power with respect to people
suffering from diseases ruled by these signs; those
with the Sun in airy signs have power over diseases
usual to airy signs, etc. Those born under the cardinal
sign of a certain triplicity are most successful in
treating acute cases of disease pertaining to those three
signs; one who has the Sun in a fixed sign is apt in the
cure of chronic diseases of that triplicity. Those born
with the Sun in common signs make the least
successful healers, but have more power to soothe the
sick, and often bring recovery by their quieting
influence on the patient’s nerves. Therefore, they make
the best nurses for patients under their triplicity,
especially where there is mental trouble or where
physical illness is the result of mental unrest.