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Having that feeling that this time, the flu has really got you, even
though you don’t experience full-blown symptoms, but only something
like a tickling in your throat
In all event (decumbiture) charts, the first house is given to the patient. In
horary questions about health conditions, the first house is for the person asking the
question. When a person asks his or her own question, this is no problem. But when a
question is asked about another person (or an animal, for example), the chart may
need to be turned. The exception is that if a person asks on behalf of someone else,
i.e., when the person asking is acting as the agent for the patient, then the patient is
considered the first house, and the technical querent (person asking the question) is
ignored. If this is not the case, then the chart is turned to give the patient to the house
that most closely indicates the patient’s relationship to the querent (e.g., to the fifth
house if the querent is the parent of the patient).

Before proceeding with the delineation, one of the things the astrologer needs
to know is whether the disease is physical, mental, or spiritual. The following table
compares some of the astrological indicators of physical vs. mental or spiritual disease.

TYPICALCONFIGURATIONS FORPHYSICAL ANDMENTALDISEASES

Physical/Mental/Spiritual

Ascendant and Moon afflicted; their rulers not afflicted.
The Ascendant and the Moon not afflicted; but their rulers afflicted.

Mars or Saturn afflicting the Moon, but not the Ascendant.
Mars or Saturn afflicting the Ascendant, but not the Moon.

Jupiter in the first or sixth.
Ruler of the ninth or twelfth in the sixth (witchcraft).

Ruler of the first in the sixth.
Ruler of the sixth is Mercury (witchcraft).

Moon or Ruler of the Ascendant in the twelfth.
Ruler of the Moon or Ascendant in the twelfth.

The debate in classical medical astrology was about whether the Moon and the
ascendant, or their rulers, represented the body or the mind. However, the presence of
a twelfth house influence was an argument for witchcraft, which, in those days was
believed to be a spiritual affliction. In modern parlance, “witchcraft” would be trans-
lated as involuntary coercion, a psychological affliction.

Before examining this classification, the astrological houses used in beginning
a medical horary analysis need to be defined:

The first house represents the health and vitality of the patient/querent.

The fifth house shows the liver, and what virtue(s) are disrupted.

The sixth house shows the disease.

The seventh house shows the health care practitioner.

The eighth house shows the possibility of the death of the patient.

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Medical Astrology