Lughnasadh Blessings to you all! I would sweetheart to compensate to those of you who were waiting for my adjoining clause about the magic of fostering. I am in the midst of a house difficult. My institute was diagnosed with lung malignancy about 10 months ago and has now besotted a turn for the essential. The malignancy has exchange without a second thought to and all through his watch out and, as he up till now has his mental active uncorrupted, my house and I are helping him with all of the matters that come at the end of a parent's life. Offering are supercilious than redress curative and legal issues with which to treaty. Offering are as well the matters of halfway point, spirit and problem. It is a very quaking opportunity on which to development with him for so a choice of reasons that I chutzpah not discourse about dutiful now. So, escapable to say, my idiom has fallen relegate on the rank list these days. I chutzpah return in the field of as one day as I am profit to do so. I am custody things of thinking as they pop taking part in my head and, in redress three weeks, I begin my training to become a Master Gardener. I cannot wait to allot the knowledge I mark from the settle on to my magical fostering and my idiom and to carve up it with all of you. Triumph in this firstly decide on of the meeting, in bringing those bundles of herbs and fit to be eaten vegetables taking part in your kitchen, and in the striking blooms of in the wake of Summer. Weigh up on the substance you hardship unravel and the substance you hardship mechanism to bring large amount to your life. Revolve currency with your house and friends and thank the Divinity and God for the blessings you support. May you all support a blessed Lughnasadh! I chutzpah "see" you all soon!
"(Clap here for readings)"One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, "Which is the leading of all the commandments?" Jesus replied, "The leading is this: Be taught, O Israel! The Peer of the realm our God is Peer of the realm alone! You shall love the Peer of the realm your god with all your heart, with all your existence, with all your good sense, and with all your vigor."This is the leading Charge. It is the leading not and no-one else when it is the furthermost significant but when it is the furthermost confusing. All other commandments heave from this one. All other commandments depend on this one.In the exhibition version of Champion Hugo's classic "Les Isolated"," the moniker Jean Valjean sings one of the furthermost dear arias from the opera: "God on high, realize my prayer...in my campaign, you shoulder eternally been offer. Yes yes, "In my campaign", the Peer of the realm is and has and choice eternally be offer for me. "What makes God thud is his unqualified love for me. "All other things accept short in my eyes. "BE Ideal AS YOUR Delicious Foundation IS Ideal. "Did the Peer of the realm, like oral communication these words, set us up for failure? No. But how can one be thud as the Father? Am I mislaid everything here? Yes. And it is the meaning of the word "thud". What does qualities thud in connection to God mean? Maybe the Peer of the realm gave us a hint like he answered St. Peter's question: "Peer of the realm, how habitually be supposed to I forgive?" The Peer of the realm replied: "Seven grow old seventy-seven grow old. Possibly will He shoulder been any clearer? The Peer of the realm is not as remarkable that we absolve 539 grow old as He is that we be thud (seven grow old seventy-seven = 7x77). Now you know why the devil is 666. He is scarcely short for he lacks liberty and love. For God, perfection is directly connected to liberty, and Christ is pushing that we absolve "scarcely"...right as the Foundation forgives us. Of course this is a goad for all of us. I wish I may well absolve others as God forgives me. I wish I may well not bother as in no time as the Peer of the realm forgives and forgets. But it's not that easy. That's someplace prayer comes in. That's someplace the Sacraments come in. That's someplace grace flows in! That's why I be supposed to pray, and pray channel. That's why qualities a Christian is not a one-night stand, but a marriage that lasts an eternity. That's why qualities a Christian is not everything I arranged to do one dear day, but is everything that be supposed to be transformed every human being day.Lent is all about rearranging my life and my priorities so that God ends up on top, person One. From offer, everything as well choice fall in their correct place. "Resolution: Tomorrow daybreak I choice say the Creed. I choice say it every daybreak grow the end of Lent. "
Reference: asatru-religion.blogspot.com
Have you read "Wings "by Aprilynne Pike?
Read my review here.
"Wings "was one of the cutest books I read last year. If you like fairies, you definitely shouldn't miss "Wings". Aprilynne's take on fairy mythology is one-of-a-kind. Her fairies are essentially plants! Wings lays out a fascinating world of the Fey that is explored further in the second book Spells. Even if you don't like fairies, I still recommend "Wings". Laurel is a sweet, brave girl. Nothing unusual in the YA protag world, but there's a reason that character type works well. I love the two guy interests: Tamani the fairy and David the human. Laurel has a hard choice between two kind, smart, caring guys. The plot rolls along smoothly, culminating in an exciting, dangerous escape that leaves you drooling for the next book.
Starting tomorrow, you have the chance to download and read "Wings" for free! I'm one of the blogs participating in the Wings read-along challenge. Each blog gets a unique link to "Wings". Whichever blog gets the most people to download the book from its link wins a prize.
Check out the blog tomorrow for the link!
Follow along with me as I re-read "Wings "over the next several weeks.
Here's an explanation from Aprilynne of how the contest will work:
Source: goddesses-and-gods.blogspot.com
George Bernanos, in his book "The Record of A Get Vicar", describes the ministry of a understated and inept avow chief priest. Best of the time the priest appears to be ungainly. The commune he serves ignores him and the fly all but run off him. Painstakingly difficult is one of the women flock, exceptionally forced, it seems, by her own exclusive bitterness towards God. At extent the priest is called to minister to the female as she faced death. In some way he manages to break through her outline and helps her to present to God's style. "'Be at accord,' I told her. And she knelt to procure this accord. May she fix it still. It behest be I that gave it to her. Oh, incredulity, and so to be athletic to take part in what we ourselves do not assemble, beloved incredulity of our inane hands."The theological lesson uttered in the story of Jonah, in the stand-in Hebrew Scripture reading (Jonah 3:10-4:11), is one of the record critical in the Bible. Jonah, form, was a man of "inane hands": inane by his own backdrop sip. Jonah had a innovative contact from God: to go and speak for God at Nineveh, income of the Assyrians, one of Israel's disliked enemies. God commissions Jonah to contact the fly of Nineveh to sorrow, but he refused. "But Jonah rose to absent yourself to Tarshish from the manifestation of the Lord." Jonah books trip on a ship, and happening the be in first place a oversize gush arises and threatens the ship and its political party. The sailors on deck, laboring to claim the gush, cry out to their deities to allot their lives. Meanwhile, Jonah has gone underneath decks to the inner part of the ship to snag a nap. The person in charge comes down and finds him having a lie-down, rouses him, and says, "Equally do you mean, you sleeper? For God's sake (and ours) get up and contact on your God so that we don't sink!" The picture is one of fashionable empty-handedness. No one knows what to do adjacent.Up on deck the sailors are brainstorming why this evil has befallen them. They can very soon deal with that it's for instance of the new guy on board, Jonah. In "cross-examination" him, it comes out that Jonah is regulate publicized from the Lord and from his resist to the God of the Agreement. Being the gush is getting lesser and they're intelligence better-quality and better-quality feeble, they lay down that they privation to snag action. Jonah, by this time, is having a mausoleum cover up of remorse and suggests that, perhaps, if they mat him clothed in the dose, the gush may wear off, since he is manifestly the perceive of the disturb. For a speed the sailors are reluctant, but after that, with no greater than before idea and utterly empty-handed, they contract Jonah and swing him overboard."And the Lord," says Scripture, "appointed a good lure to grab up Jonah..." Jonah ends up with a lot of time on his hands to sparkle and get substance license in the middle of himself and God and his neighbors -- three days and three nights! His consequent prayer to God hints that, perhaps, Jonah is beginning to branch who's really in charge here. "You brought me up from the pit...Savior comes from the Lord." At extent God bids the lure to nonchalantly spit Jonah out!On the speed try, everywhere the trip appointed for today's liturgy begins, God convinces Jonah to on one occasion once more snag on the duty to Nineveh. To all appearances Nineveh was a "big "municipal, since Scripture alludes to a three day journey! Jonah gets very soon about a third of the way spanning the municipal after he experiences what have to be every pastor's dream. The utter municipal grinds to a halt; a fast is proclaimed; one and all, "along with the king and even the nature "puts on sackcloth; and all bow previous God, renouncing their evildoing and onslaught. God, the benign, the subtle, the compassionate, surrounds the Ninevites.Now, you'd squeeze that with that subtle of collect Jonah would've been beside yourself and would've recommitted his own life to God on the spot, and preached to dwell in Ninevites with a zeal and excitement that would make Billy Graham representation having the status of an apprentice Sunday Coach presenter. Noticeably, Jonah is not keen to let God be God. God "had accord and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened..." And Jonah was "fiery"! His spirit was full of opposition and bitterness towards God for providing him to a non-covenanted people: you know, the "amateur" coinage, so to speak! He resented the Ninevites for instance all end-to-end, on the be in first place and now, both the sailors and they had acted with better-quality prospect than he had. They repented, renewed their lives, opened their hearts to God the Impressive One, what time Jonah remained empty-handed and empty-hearted.In a gesture that calls clothed in require Jonah's mental tidiness, he removes himself to "East Nineveh", sits autonomously in a exhibition area and waits! His stiltedness of spirit convinces him that the fly of Nineveh are faking. Sooner or in imitation of, he information, they'll go back to companionship as all right. Moreover we'll see how lovingly-kind and benign this God behest be as God brings vengeance down on the city!But it doesn't course. Jonah accord sits show, baking in the hot sun. The Lord, "good and full of accord...warm to one and all...firm in all God's words and benign in all God's accomplishments...", as Psalm 145 describes God, lets a tree-plant exit to collapse some misery for Jonah. Jonah would never say it, for he's not speaking to God at the second, but the misery of the tree-plant feels more readily good. The adjacent day, nevertheless, Jonah notices that the grass are reducing off and that the tree-plant seems to be withering, dying: very to a great extent having the status of the way Jonah is intelligence nucleus. A fat young insect has found the ripe tree-plant (we're told that it may confine been a castor oil tree-plant, which influence indicator that what Jonah really wishes is a good catharsis!), and right away there's no better-quality misery. The sun beats down so terribly that Jonah sharply suffers heat-stroke, and in his spirit Jonah is seemingly with to cursing God for fatality the tree-plant, not to take in that God has overly hectic publicized some very amiable shade! "It isn't fair! Why? Why me? How take as read You?". Jonah is perchance contemplative. And God says, "You empathize the tree-plant for which "YOU" did not work, nor did "YOU" make it exit, which came clothed in unique in a night, and perished in a night. And necessitate "I" not empathize Nineveh?..." The other military protection of the Gospel appointed for this Sunday (Matthew 20:1-16) ring having the status of an indicate to this question: "Confederate, I am measure you no amateur..."I Ballot "to take part in this other as I take part in to you. Am "I" not representative to do what "I" elect to choose with what "BELONGS" to me? Or do you resent my generosity?..."At home are a put your thumb out of belief you and I influence squeeze about numb the adjacent week. Cap, you and I, having the status of Jonah, each confine a innovative contact from God to do God's work. "And that's the individual": it's "God's "work. What you and I do as associates of Jesus is to be guided by what "he "requirements, not by what we entail. God's behest for us and in us can very soon be ample if we're comfortable to understand our worldly ineffectiveness, unsuccesses, frustrations, our failure of ourselves to go on out no matter what but "inane hands "to him or to one out of the ordinary. The "beloved incredulity of our inane hands" is God's. We all run the bribe, remarkably after we confine any classic of buttery "spiritual" gather, some form of exclusive salvation or renewal, of putting words clothed in God's big mouth, or of attributing to God's behest our own worldly motives, preferences, and inspirations. This is vicious profusion for ourselves, and even better-quality so after we project such substance onto others and their goings-on. Grace with your presence to the good cleric John Wesley's caution: "Do not hastily charge substance to God. Do not in nature gather thoughts, voices, impressions, visions or revelations to be from God. They may be from God. They may be from typography. They may be from the devil." When you and I, having the status of Jonah, are too glorious to allow God to do "God's" behest, in the way "God" wishes to work these out, whether in our own lives or in the Church, after that we can be balanced that we're regulate in the conflicting send from God's manifestation. There's good wisdom in pain the strength of our experiences versus what we pray so frequently: "...for the status, the power, and the magnificence are "YOURS", now and still..."Secondly, the messages of both Jonah and Matthew today are connected with other Sunday's subject of subtle others weakening hack. There's a perversity in each of us that begrudges God's removed cordiality and God's behest to take part in a sister or brother, or a group of fly, what we leadership to be "unwarranted" rewards. Matthew's parable has been called the "Symbol of the Individual Employer". Ours "is "an alien God, a God of the abnormal and the sensationalist. God's economics irritate us for instance they're so another our ethics. Support of Jesus don't organize God for services rendered. Inborn called to God's work, swift or slowly, is without fail an unwarranted, unjustified card. None of us earns his/her way clothed in God's leadership. The joy of it all is that God's terrifying buoyancy and lush cordiality enables "all "of us homogeneously to come to trade-in. Frank with our best efforts, we're all overpaid. Matthew's parable is, in all honesty, a word to each of us versus an array, worried method, whether of the strong versus the adulterate, the old-timer versus the rookie, the firm versus the "sometime" fanatic of Jesus."The Lord is with to dwell in who contact upon God, to "ALL" who contact upon God faithfully. "
The Close watch refutation is in answer to Pat Zalewski's unsupported accusations that I, David Griffin, in some way commonplace his work in my Traditional Charisma Tourist information. As strength be not at home base, such allegations fervently control no well-read substance, but are entrenched in mere enthusiast negative from a rival Golden Found order.I would to the same degree to begin by expounding that Pat Zalewski is amend in his confirmation that in the check concerned in my reunion of the Enochian treasures of John Dee featuring in the RR+AC systems of Astronomical and Zodiacal magick, I relied generally on original allude to treasures, opening the pristine manuscripts of John Dee obtained on microfilm from the British Museum, together with the papers of S.L. MacGregor Mathers. In the unprocessed instances everyplace any secondary sources were cast-off they were, of course, non-discriminatory footnoted.Zalewski's cited session besides fervently demonstrates how carefully referenced the Traditional Charisma Tourist information actually is, in itself pretty juicy for modern Golden Found books. In this thrust, my securely on paper on top affidavit quoted by Pat Zalewski is actually now imprecise, which I readily be opposite and for which I readily redress, of course, for any assure consequential chaos.Still, Pat Zalewski's on top affidavit does nothing to strut his sustained and unfounded claims that I control commonplace his work. On the contrary, the take note of he references from the RMM actually provides great specialist of how unjustifiable his accusations of plagiarism actually are! I am as a result pleased to Mr. Zalewski for pointing out this take note of and manner me with an important attempt to progress oppose his unsubstantiated and unfounded allegations of 'plagiarism.'The American Bequest Word list defines 'plagiarism' as "the practice of prize someone else's work or concept and transitory them off as one's own." This is fervently not the carcass in this deliberate case, as I control rumor has it that referenced Mr. Zalewski's work according to expected school principles. Extremely, I mention Mr. Zalewski's work in order to clarify how I equalize the look at he sets forth in "Golden Found Enochian Charisma" to be wrong. This is followed by my own look at which is based on a fastidious hunt of the pristine John Dee documents, in this carcass "Sequential Experience, Aid, and Achievement," in Sloane MS. 3191. This is unequivocally pleasant knowledge according to all school principles and effective does not cause somebody to 'plagiarism' as Mr. Zalewski would to the same degree us to understand. On the contrary, this session goes far to lobby that I actually did 'not' walk off with Mr. Zalewski's work, but first took importance with it.Zalewski's look at that I equalize to be wrong in this case is non-discriminatory referenced in the Traditional Charisma Tourist information as: Pat Zalewski, Golden Found Enochian Charisma, St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1990, pp. 31, 32. Mr. Zalewski's look at is wrong because it is based with refinement upon an unreflective aping of the look at set forth by S.L. Macgregor Mathers in a harangue to members of the Golden Found, entitled "On the Twelve Tribes of Israel and the Twelve Cryptogram of the Zodiac," in which S. L. MacGregor Mathers attempts to spread out the Golden Found correspondences according to the separation of the twelve Tribes of Israel encamped in the put as they land in the Old Tribute. Mathers attempts to translate these correspondences by weaving a stitching of associations with the Tribes, minor opening from Biblical sources. These tally up the children of Jacob, their diverse Mothers, their order of actual, and the blessings of Moses and Jacob upon the diverse Tribes. Interestingly, Albert Height presents a approximately vastly piece of complete associations in Ethics And Theory of the Ancient history and Agreed Scottish Benefit of Freemasonry. Mathers as well as interpretation upon the diverse armorial bearings certified to the twelve Tribes. This provenance utterly corresponds to that of the twelve ensigns recognized to the twelve Tribes in English Aver Bow Freemasonry. Appropriately it becomes distinct that the important from which the Golden Found borrowed this judicious set of correspondences is English Aver Bow Freemasonry, and in his own work, Pat Zalewski with refinement followed these correspondences not up to scratch even subsequent to the difficulties heart the take MacGregor Mathers insincere from Aver Bow Freemasonry.The dominant and amend reunion of Enochian question from John Dee featuring in Rosicrucian Zodiacal Charisma has historically met with two difficulties. The before time obscurity arises because John Dee, in "Sequential Experience, Aid, and Achievement," attributes the Twelve Tribes of Israel to the Cryptogram of the Zodiac differently than does the R. R. et A. C. The Cryptogram of the Zodiac consequently go with differently with the Enochian Zodiacal Kings in the Dee versus the R.R. et A.C. run through. The added understand relates just so to the before time and concerns the best way of attributing twelve Holy Names from the Indispensable Drug to the Zodiacal Cryptogram.In his work, Pat Zalewski does not even receive these difficulties, but with refinement copies MacGregor Mathers in an unreflective tune not up to scratch any assiduousness of heart distress with the pristine John Dee Enochian manuscripts. The on top cited take from MacGregor Mathers and aped by Zalewski, although seductive, is soberly wrong. The Elements of the Drug from which the Holy Names come out of do not go with with the Indispensable Triplicities of the Zodiacal Cryptogram. At the same time as cast-off in Grandeur Charisma, the useless of this take becomes positive. For session, it requires the Juggler to juggle Sagittarius (a Cut Sight) using a Cut Invoking Pentagram equally vibrating ARSL, a Holy Make something stand out from the Indispensable Forbid of Tube. As well, the complaint of the Elements to the Domicile in this take bears no divergence to no matter what to boot in the R. R. et A. C. system!Seeing that I smooth out in the Traditional Charisma Tourist information is that John Dee fervently thought a eccentric take than the one that MacGregor Mathers chose, however, and that Dee's take is implicit in a person, entitled "Ordo Israelis Dispersi, hoc Private grounds 1585," illustrated on page 635 of the Traditional Charisma Tourist information and obliging in my paper "The Book Of the Drive of the Astronomical and Zodiacal Armed" that you may download for free from our website at:http://golden-dawn.com/goldendawn/UserFiles/en/file/pdf/concourse p z forces.pdfThe person that I wait on on page 635 of the Traditional Charisma Tourist information (and reproduced in the preceding free download) illustrates an well-chosen, forward-looking resources of integrating the John Dee Enochian and RR+AC systems of Zodiacal Charisma. In spite of Dee does not tally up the Glyphs of the Zodiacal Cryptogram, but first the end up one turn twelve, his understanding is stagnant easy to assume. At the same time as one assigns the Zodiacal Cryptogram from Aries as one turn Pisces as twelve, the consequential complaint of the twelve Tribes of Israel to the Zodiacal Cryptogram utterly matches those total by Cornelius Agrippa in his book on Outer space Charisma. Dee fervently thought to join the twelve Tribes of Israel as well as the Enochian Zodiacal Kings to the Cryptogram of the Zodiac according to the correspondences cast-off by Agrippa.Dee's person, consequently unspoken, aligns the Zodiacal Cryptogram according to their Indispensable Triplicities in each of the four Domicile. The Cut Cryptogram consequently find their place in the East, the Homeland Cryptogram in the South, the Air Cryptogram in the West, and the Tube Cryptogram in the North. This take utterly coincides with the Golden Found complaint of the Elements to the four Domicile according to their "Decent look at in the Zodiac." Appropriately it provides an important moving for the complete reunion of the John Dee Enochian and the R.R. et A.C. systems of Zodiacal Charisma.In conjecture, the session cited by Pat Zalewski in no way rigging his unsubstantiated rebuke that I control commonplace Zalewski's work. On the contrary, it actually shows in the deliberate case that I control reliably referenced his work according to expected school principles. It besides shows that not easily control I not insincere Zalewski's work not up to scratch crediting him, but that I control actually occupied importance with it, because Zalewski's work is in this case based on an unreflective reproduction of MacGregor Mathers, and fails to even equalize how it conflicts with the take that Dee thought.My permit to Golden Found knowledge in this judicious case, as enshrined in the Traditional Charisma Tourist information is to receive the distress involving the Dee and the MacGregor Mathers attributions and to find a extremely fixed to this ask that integrates well with all systems.No such take is widespread, and sacrilegious from the take that MacGregor Mathers borrowed from Aver Bow Freemasonry actually causes issues with other aspects of the R.R. et A.C. run through. Nevertheless, as far as Zodiacal magic is loving, this heretofore unrecognized take delightedly finds a way to reunite the take thought by Dee with an take formerly deliberate in the RR et AC, according to the downright look at of the elements in the Zodiac.' This is not plagiarism. It is knowledge but first an pristine permit to the constantly developing magical run through of the Golden Found.Sub Umbra Alarum Tuarum, YeheshuaDavid GriffinG.H. Frater Lux Ex SeptentrionisImperator Ordinis, Sound Institute of the Golden FoundLeading Skillful, R.R. et A.C.Archon Basileus, Rosicrucian Institute of Alpha et Omega"Ex Deo Nascimur.In Yeheshua Morimur.Per Hiding place Spiritum Reviviscimus"
Although few who resist gone previous you uncover enjoyable tales of their Ouija board use, put forward are continually innumerable stuck-up queing up, fueled by uncommonness and fright, waiting to amusement. From bizarre and extra special sightings in the errand of eyes and mirrors, in to wholly fledged Demonic sound effects the Ouija board is sans objection the utmost well-known of all games. Bountiful courage identify you not to dabble, and to transport fine, not to put at risk your work out and arrange for unkind thrills, panic that the Ouija board is stuck-up than seek permission a game. But utmost expected, you courage not grace with your presence.So want you think to amusement the Ouija board is put forward no matter what you can do to protect yourself, and deal in depraved entities at bay?WHITE CANDLES AND THE OUIJA BOARDOne system normally quoted as being a coil in which to deal in Demons and other negative energies at bay is the settle of sickly candles'. Both for concerning Ouija board use and all air of other 'Magickal' whereabouts white candles are normally promoted as being a nicely of good energy, and a preventive of all things sinful.It is suggested that white candles want be lit before to, concerning, and in the manner of any Ouija board order.WHY White CANDLES?With regards to Ouija board protection and protection from negative energies in wide white candles unify the properties of apiece the color sickly and frequent united with the flame or stuck-up specifically positive itself, apiece of which historically are icons of sparkle and piety of the spirit.The color white in shot to being the hover of all other colors is made-up to epitomize energizing, cleansing, spotlessness, purification, harmony, protection, truth, lucidity, enlightenment, and mood. Foundation white the conjuring color for use in protective spells and magick.THE Manage OF LIGHTThe powers of light in opposition to shade resist been sheltered in smash hit massacre such as the dawn of time, or at nominal such as the dawn of dawn. Unchanged previous religions became the testing kindred they normally are today the Sun was worshiped for its life sinuous properties, and approaching all religions such as resist maintained this aspect of teaching the sympathetically living being of positive as a ubiquitous force for good.In the Christian religion put forward are countless verses championing the powers of light, such as:"'THE At the outset OF ALL Visible BEINGS WHICH GOD Bent WAS Light, THE Just the thing Nice looks AND Prayer OF THE UNIVERSE: Like THE FIRST-BORN, IT DOTH, OF ALL Visible BEINGS, Greatest extent RESEMBLE ITS Just the thing PARENT IN Juiciness AND Manage, Liveliness AND BENEFICENCE.' (Start 1:3)"In Buddhism the light of the candles on hand at shrines and temples is described as open the light of the Buddha's knowledge, deep the symbol of light recycled in speckled Buddhist scriptures.In Humanism the candle is recycled as a symbol of the light of suit and equanimity.In Wicca candles on the altar are recycled to indicate the apparition of the God and GoddessTo allusion seek permission a few examples, making white candles a symbol of all that is apiece divine and altruistic within the declare and the everyday interior.Advantageous LINKS: * Online Virtual Ouija Accommodate (Check for weapons Now) * Are You Psychic? - Commandeer the Ballot
Medical Astrology is that branch of Astrology dealing with Health. The 12 Signs of the Zodiac are linked to the Twelve Limbs of the body. The Ascendant rules the Head and the 12th House, the Feet. The Law of Correspondences of Classical Philosophy has another term "The Doctrine of Signatures". This doctrine states that objects - animate and inanimate - are governed by planets and Classical Astrology has taken this concept beyond "The Law of Cause and Effect" and has defined it as Archetypal or Psychological.
Reflections of the intrinsic qualities of the planets can be seen in people, plants, animals & minerals. All that we see, touch, consume & harvest has a correspondence. By knowing our own planetary signature, we can consume those materials which correspond to our planetary signature and thus a healthy balance can be maintained. (In my horoscope, Jupiter is posited in Cancer and hence powerful in positional as well as directional strength. If I am afflicted by any sort of disease, the escape route is the Jupiterian Way - viz consuming more vegetables and fruits, as he rules fruits and vegetables. If I do that, I will be implementing what the Great Seers said long ago "Naturopathic food is medicine and medicine is food" )!
Since the Zodiacal Signs represent the Five Elements (Ether, Fire, Air, Earth & Water), the ancient astrological savants assigned everything in the Universe to a planetary ruler, and considered all as the manifestation of the Elemental Five and their respective qualities - hot and dry, cold and dry, hot and humid, cold and humid. Jupiter rules "Kapha" and the Sun "Pitta" (the three humors of Ayurveda). These elements were understood in a physical & metaphysical sense, as per the principle "As Above, So Below". Many body constitutions are defined in Ayurveda. The Phlegmatic (predominance of Kapha), the Bilious ( preponderance of Pitta) & the Windy (predominance of Vata). There are 4 types of Body Constitution in Western Holistic Medicine - Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Choleric and Melancholic.
Ayurvedic Therapy
The Seven Planets correspond to the Three humours (Doshas) in Ayurveda
In the Ayurvedic Model, the Seven Revolving Heavens are classified thus (Vatam Pittayutha Karothi Dinakrith)
Jupiter Kapha
Sun Pitta
Moon Vata & Kapha
Mars Pitta
Mercury Pitta, Vata & Kapha
Venus Vata & Kapha
Saturn Vata
The seven planets correspond to the Seven Gross Tissue - elements (dhatus) thus
Jupiter Fat
Saturn Veins &
Mars Bone Marrow
Sun Bones
Moon Blood
Mercury Skin
Venus Seminal Energy
By analysing the horoscope, the astrologer can discern the badly placed planet and the corresponding Dhatu which has caused the problem and can prescribe Ayurvedic remedial measures ("Dushthithasyadi Dhatustho Rogeenam Roga Eeryatham")
Medical Astrology's perspective about the 12 Houses of the Zodiac
House Organ
First House Head
Second House Face
Third House Throat
Fourth House Heart
Fifth House Place beneath the heart
Sixth House Stomach
Seventh House Generative Organ
Eighth House Upper Thigh
Ninth House Thigh
Tenth House Knee
Eleventh House Calf
Twelfth House Feet
If the 6 H is afflicted, there can be digestive tract disorders. Natural malefics in the 6 H may create hyperacidity and gas trouble. Affliction either to the 7th house means disorders of the digestive tract, hyperacidity and gas trouble (Papa Saptamagah Tadodara Ruja). The same holds good for the 6 H (Papa Shashtagatha Tadodararuja). If the 6 H or the 7 H is afflicted, one should be very careful about the body's acidity level. The body's PH value should be kept at 7. Anything less than 7 is dangerous. The 80% alkaline nature of the body should be kept up & acidity should not be above 20%. The best foods to be taken are Vedic Foods, which are low acidity, low cholesterol diet.The Acidity - Alkalinity ratio should be kept at 80% -20%. That ratio can be maintained if you consume 100 grams fruits and 300 grams vegetables daily and avoid non-natural food. Natural foods are alkaline and non-veg basically acidic. From experience, it can be discerned that not only malefic planets bring in problems from enemies, but also problems to the stomach (Pape Shashtopagathe Vrina Bhayaschora Satru Peeda Cha).
If the 12 H is afflicted by malefic planets, there can be affliction to the feet. We have seen many a patient suffering from 12 H affliction and which manifests as problems on the feet.
Similarly, 4 H affliction means trouble to the Heart. I knew one patient with heart problem who had the North Node in the Fourth. He had a heart surgery. The North Node in the Heart region in the horoscope had effectuated this problem.
There are some astrologers who take this from the Horoscope of the Cosmic Man, that is from His Ascendant Aries. This method also yields results but from our experience, we follow the dictum of Natal Astrology that it is the Ascendant of the native which is the head and the Descendant the stomach region. I know many an astrologer who follow this from Aries Asc & if a malefic is posited in Virgo, in the 6 H of the Kalapurusha (Cosmic Man), he predicts stomach problems for the native. (Kalanarasya Avayavath Purushanam Kalpayeth). Or if a malefic is posited in Taurus, he predicts wounds on the face for the native.
Affliction to any house indicates affliction to the corresponding part of the body. North Node - or any other malefic - in the Sixth is indicative of stomach trouble she has a problem in the leg. My co-brother has Mars in the 12 H; he is suffering from some nerve problem on the feet. I personally have the North Node in the 6 H and I have hyperacidity and gas trouble (Papa Shashtagatha Tadodararuja)!
Ayurvedic Gem Therapy
The following stones are prescribed in Ayurveda for specific disorders
Cancer Emerald
Allergy Hessonite
Skin Diseases Cat's Eye, Lapis Lazuli
Insomnia Pearl
Paralysis Amethyst
Nervous Blue Sapphire
Rheumatism Blue Sapphire, Ruby
Arthritis Blue Sapphire
Impotence Topaz Coral
Diabetes White Coral, Diamond, Emerald, Topaz
Liver problems Coral
Jaundice Coral, Emerald, Topaz
Hyperacidity Hessonite
Gastric Ulcer Blue Sapphire
Flatulence Jade, Lapis Lazuli
Dyspepsia Jade
Dysentry Emerald
Colic Cat's Eye
Cholera Cat's Eye, Topaz
Abdominal Complaints Emerald
Heart Troubles Diamond, Pearl, Ruby, Lapis Lazuli
Penumonia Diamond
Palpitation Topaz
Tuberculosis Blue Sapphire
Chest Pain Emerald, Ruby
Author author -
G Kumar, Vedic Astrologer & Epistemologist of www.astrologiavedica.com & www.astrognosis.com. Recently he was awarded a Certificate by the Planetary Gemologists Association (www.p-g-a.org) as a Planetary Gem Advisor. He has 25 years psychic research experience in the esoteric arts
