William Morris, PhD, DAOM, RH

Astrology!

Background
• 40 years experience as an astrologer, student of
Marion March, KN Rao, Dr. Charak, Olivia
Barclay, Lee Lehman, David Cochrane, Sanjay
Rath, Andrew Foss
• 40 yrs experience with more than 40,000
astrologically informed clinical interactions
using homeopathy, herbs, acupuncture, sound
• 2 earned doctorates, DAOM and PhD
• PhD in Transformative Inquiry, focused on
qualitative methods and politics of evidence

Marion March Olivia Barclay

Astrology
Guides
Rob Schmidt Rob Zoller Rob Hand Marc Boney, KN Rao

Lee LehmanDavid Cochrane Andrew Foss Sanjay Rath

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 KALA
PURUSHA

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Relief with Phanes, ca. 2nd century

A.D.
Modena, Galleria Estense, inv. 2676

The first bestower of life in the

universe, Phanes emerged from the
cosmic egg at the beginning of time.
For the adepts of Orphism he
represents a new era of salvation: the
band of the zodiac symbolizes eternal
time, while the serpent entwined
around it represents the rapid course
of human time.

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 u Saturn 29.5 yrs
• Humors: earth, hard, dry cold; melancholy
• Element ruler: earth and air
• Root chakra
• Tissue: bone, teeth, joints
• Organ: spleen, gallbladder
• Physiology: inhibitors, structures
• Pathophysiology: Restricting, depleting, obstructive
• Pulse: hardened arteries (ropy) – can be slippery
• Tongue: dry, pale, grey
“voices that are slow, deep, harsh and plaintive” Marsilio Ficino, Three
Books on Life, Bk. III, Chapter 21 (Kaske & Clarke) page 361.

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Jupiter 12yrs
• Humors: soft, moist, hot; lord of blood which is moist and
hot. Sanguine
• Element ruler: fire and water
• Tissue: fat, tendons, vessels
• Organ: liver
• System: circulation
• Physiology: growth
• Pathophysiology: Affects through over-abundance of
something. Corpulence. Associated with acidosis,
diabetes, biliousness, catarrh, auto-intoxication,
carbuncles, and fatty tumors. Contributes to cancer
• Pulse: tense, slippery
• Tongue: reddish and moist

“The music...of Jupiter is deep, earnest, sweet and

joyful with stability.” Three Books on Life, page
361.

Mars 2.5 yrs

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Humors: hot, dry, choler
Element rule: fire, water
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• Chakra: 4th
• Tissue: muscle, immunity, red corpuscles
• Organ: heart and vascular output
• Physiology: Influence upon the gonad glands
and the secretion of both adrenalin and cortin
by the adrenal glands. Blood iron, motor
nerves. Influences the sympathetic nervous
system.
• Pathophysiology: Acute disease. Pain.
Caustic, vesicant, eruptive, inflammatory.
• Pulse: urgent
• Tongue: red
“...voices that are...quick, sharp, fierce and
menacing...” Three Books on Life, page 361.

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 Sun 1yr
q • Humors: Fire, hot, dry, most powerful
fire, goodness
• Element ruler: Fire
• Chakra: 6th
• Tissue: vessels
• Organ: Heart
• System influences the heart, vitality
and general metabolic function.
• Physiology: vitality, resilience
• Pathophysiology: fatigue, ailments of
heart and upper spinal region; fevers
and breaking down of tissues; organic
ailments; fainting spells
• Pulse: moderate force and stable
rhythm and rate
• Tongue: fresh and vital
“...if [the songs] with their grace and smoothness they are
reverential, simple and earnest, the songs are judged to be
Apollo’s [the Sun’s].” Three Books on Life, page 361.

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Venus 225 days

r • Humors: moist - warm as morning star,
cool as evening star
• Element ruler: earth and air
• Chakra: 4th
• Tissue: sexual fluids
• Organ: kidneys, womb, genitals
• System: endocrine
• Physiology: veinous return, sexual drive
endocrine secretions
• Pathophysiology: skin conditions,
reproductive tract conditions.
• Pulse: relaxed
• Tongue: pink

“To Venus...we ascribe songs voluptuous with wantonness

and softness.” Three Books on Life, page 361.

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e Mercury 365 days

“[if the songs]...are somewhat more
relaxed along with their gaiety, but
vigorous and complex, they are
Mercury’s.”
Three Books on Life, page 361.
• Humors; Air intermediate; neither hot,
moist, cold, dry; central nervous system,
mental aberrations, skin
• Element ruler: earth and air
• Chakra: 5th
• Tissue: Skin
• Organ: Lungs
• System: respiratory and nervous systems
• Physiology: the conscious thoughts, the
brain, nervous system, and affects the
frequency of the electromagnetic
vibrations of the body, breath, perception,
biocommunication.
• Pathophysiology: Involved in
nervousness, some mental troubles,
neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica, hay fever,
asthma, and some intestinal complaints.
• Pulse: changing
• Tongue: moving

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 • Humors; cold and wet
• Element ruler: water
• Chakra: 6th
• Tissue: interstitium
• Organ: stomach, breasts
• System: lymph
• Physiology: general health, fluid
Moon 28 physiology, linings and
containments
days • Pathophysiology: Tends to
atonicity, dropsy; sedative,
soporific. A factor in mental

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complaints. Diseases of the
Ficino says that the stomach and all contained spaces.
voice of the Moon is • Pulse: flabby
in between that of • Tongue: deep, cotton
Saturn and
Mars. Three Books
on Life, page 361.

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165 YRS 14 YEARS
EACH SIGN

SEEPING
EXPOSURES,
CHEMICAL,
PSYCHIC, TOXIC,
ADDICTION

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84 years 7 years in
each sign
sudden events,
electrical changes
spasms

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248 yrs
32 yrs in Gemini
12yrs in Sagittarius
deep change – genetics,
epigenetics

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 Diurnal and Precessional Motion

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Diurnal Motion

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Fire Signs
• Hot and Dry
• Being
• Passionate
• Aries – head
• Leo – heart
• Sagittarius – thighs
• Fastest metabolism – Sagittarius is
the slowest of the group
• Do your best

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 Earth Signs
• Cold and Dry
• Sensing
• Taurus – throat
• Virgo – intestines
• Capricorn – knees
• Slowest metabolism
• Don’t make assumptions
• Assimilate

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Air Signs
• Warm and Moist
• Connecting - thinking
• Gemini – connecting intelligent
• Libra – connecting relationships
• Aquarius – connecting groups
• Moderately fast metabolism –
Aquarius is ruled by Saturn and can
be slower as a result
• Be impeccable with your word

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Water Signs
• Cold and Wet
• Feeling
• Cancer: stomach
• Scorpio: reproductive, elimination
• Pisces: feet
• Moderately slow metabolism –
Scorpio being ruled by Mars is
faster than the others
• Don’t take things personally
• Absorb

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 Cardinal Signs

• Prognosis: Quick Capricorn

recovery
• Initiate
• First sign in season
• Active Libra
• Rajasic (passion)
• Kidneys, stomach, Aries
headaches, gallbladder

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Mutable
Signs Sagittarius

• Prognosis:
recover Pisces
inconsistently
• Third sign in
season
• Changeable- Virgo
ambivalent
• Satva
(goodness)
Gemini
• Lymph, lungs,
small intestines
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Fixed
Signs
Aquarius Scorpio
• Prognosis:
slow recovery
• Second sign in
season
• Still
• Stable season
• Tamasic Leo
Taurus
(ignorance)
• Colon, heart,
thyroid
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 Diurnal Cycle and Humors
Mid
Day
Air and Blood Fire and Yellow Bile

Sunrise Humors Sunset

Water and Phlegm Earth and Black Bile

Mid
Might

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First Place
• life, body head, brain, hair,
appearance, skin, sleep, freedom
from ill health, longevity and old
age, and the ability to perform work

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Second
Place
face, including the eyes
(right), teeth, tongue, oral
cavity, nose, throat,
steadiness of the mind

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 Third Place
• the ears, throat, neck, shoulders,
upper limbs, trachea, upper part of
the esophagus, clavicles, hands,
dreams, mental instability, physical
fitness and physical growth

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Fourth Place
• Stomach, chest, lungs, blood
vessels of the thorax, and
diaphragm. Epigenetics and
imprints upon the genetic stream of
the ancestors, post burial

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Fifth Place
• heart, upper abdomen and
surrounding viscera such as the
stomach, liver, gallbladder and
spleen.. mind, thinking, pregnancy
and the manner in which the
individual prepares foods

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 Sixth Place
• small intestines, micro biome,
disease in general, ill health,
wounds, mental agony, madness,
phlegmatic illnesses, tuberculosis,
tumors, eruptive diseases, poisons,
and peptic ulcers

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Seventh Place
• lower urinary tract, prostate gland,
seminal vesicles, urethra and the
kidneys

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Eighth Place
• reproductive tract chronic and
incurable diseases, longevity, severe
mental anguish, uterus, ovaries,
testicles, seminal vesicles, anus and
sexual union.

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 Ninth Place
hips, thighs, femoral arteries, sciatic
nerve and nourishment
Teachers and mentors
Higher education travel

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Tenth Place
• knee joints, patella, popliteal fossa,
and all vascular, neurological,
lymphatic and connective tissues in
the region

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Eleventh Place
• legs, left ear and can serve as an
alternative house to the six house
for evaluating diseases and their
recovery

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 Twelfth Place
• feet, left eye, disturbed sleep,
mental imbalances, physical
ailments, hospitalization, crippled
limbs and death

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Research that
Supports Astrology

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Curth, L. H. (2005). "The

medical content of English
almanacs 1640-1700." J Hist Med
Allied Sci 60(3): 255-282.

• 1,392 almanacs printed between

1640 and 1700
• Two major findings:
– Almanacs played a major part
in the dissemination, and
longevity of traditional
astrological and Galenic
medical practices.
– Almanacs played an important
early role in the growth of
medical materialism in Britain.

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 The Casebooks Project

A digital edition of Simon

Forman’s (1552–1611) medical
records
his protegé Richard Napier
(1559–1634) extended the cases
through 1634

• There are 48,500 cases now

live. When complete, it will
contain 80,000 cases and
images of the manuscripts.

• http://www.magicandmedicin
e.hps.cam.ac.uk/

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• Diurnal Movement

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Infant Mortality

• Arno Müller, Professor

of Psychology at the
University of Saarland,
Germany: Studied the
lives of 1,145 German
nobility over five
centuries
• Showed significantly
higher infant mortality
(p=0.0004) within the
first 15 months of birth
when Saturn was rising
or culminating at birth.
(Müller & Menzer 1986)

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Monthly

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Quigg, M., et
al., Circalunar • Methods: Seizure and menstrual
diaries of ∼3 months duration were

and ultralunar
obtained from women enrolled in a
trial of hormonal therapy for
localization-related epilepsy.
periodicities in Midluteal progesterone levels
identified ovulatory (≥5 ng/ml, OC)

women with from anovulatory cycles (AC).

Individual cycles were normalized to
a common phase and period (day 0 =
partial seizures. menses onset, intervening days = 28
bins). Periodicity of combined data
Epilepsia, 2008. was estimated with cosinor-
nonlinear least squares analysis.

49(6): p. 1081- Best-fit rhythms were estimated

with 95% confidence limits.

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• In 17 patients with rapid cycling

bipolar disorder, time-series analyses
detected synchronies between mood

Wehr, T.A., cycles and three lunar cycles that

modulate the amplitude of the moon's
semi-diurnal gravimetric tides: the
Bipolar mood 14.8-day spring-neap cycle, the 13.7-
day declination cycle and the 206-day

cycles and lunar

cycle of perigee-syzygies
Measurements of circadian rhythms in
body temperature suggest a biological

tidal cycles. mechanism through which transits of

one of the moon's semi-diurnal
gravimetric tides might have driven
Mol Psychiatry, the patients' bipolar cycles, by
periodically entraining the circadian

2017 pacemaker to its 24.84-h rhythm and

altering the pacemaker's phase-
relationship to sleep in a manner that is
known to cause switches from
depression to mania.

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 Turanyi, C. Z.,
et al. (2014).
"Association
between lunar 319 patients who had been referred for
sleep study were included. Individuals with

phase and sleep apnea-hypopnea were excluded.

characteristics." RESULTS: Full moon was associated with

lower sleep efficiency moon P < 0.001],

Sleep Med even after adjustment for several

covariables.

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1416

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The influence of the • 447 consecutive patients with

full moon on the gastrointestinal haemorrhage admitted
during a period of two years.
number of • The number of admissions was
admissions related allocated to the corresponding day of
the lunar cycle, and full moon and
to gastrointestinal non-full moon days were compared. A
wide variation in the number of
bleeding (2004) admissions throughout the lunar cycle
was observed.
Roman et al. • There were 26 admissions on the 25

pp.164-172. days of full moon and 421 admissions

International
Journal of Nursing
Practice Vol.9.4
in the remaining 713 days of non-full
moon. This difference was mainly
related to a higher incidence of
haemorrhage in men and variceal
haemorrhage at full moon.

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Chakraborty and Ghosh (2013).

"A study on the physical fitness
index, heart rate and blood
pressure in different phases of
lunar month on male human
subjects." International Journal
of Biometeorology 57(5): 769-774.

• At rest, both systolic and mean arterial BP

were ∼5 mmHg lower in New Moon and Full
Moon compared to the 1st and 3rd ¼
• HR ∼4 beat/min and systolic BP 5 mmHg
lower after step test during NM and FM
compared to FQ and TQ.
• Recovery of HR after step test was quicker in
NM and FM compared to that of FQ and TQ.

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 Ahmad, F., et al. • RESULTS: There were 7219 admissions during
the study period, comprising 167 complete lunar
(2008). "A link cycles. Stroke admissions were evenly spread
throughout lunar phases (P=.72). Admission with
between lunar medically unexplained stroke symptoms was
phase and significantly increased during full moon phases
(P=.023). There was no variation in admission
medically rates during other significant dates.
unexplained • CONCLUSION: There was a statistically
significant association between admission to
stroke symptoms: the acute stroke unit with a diagnosis of
medically unexplained stroke symptoms and
an unearthly lunar phase. The reasons for this observed
influence?" J variation remain elusive; our data do not support
a convincing biological or psychosocial
Psychosom Res aetiology.
65(2): 131-133.

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Annual & Solar

Factors

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Annual
Seasonal

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 Morales-Munoz, I., • 8135 Finnish subjects was invited to take
part in the population-based Health 2011
S. Koskinen, and T. Survey, of whom 5903 did participate and
Partonen, Seasonal 4554 were interviewed for mental health
affective disorder status with the Munich version of
Composite International Diagnostic
and alcohol abuse Interview. They also completed the
disorder in a modified Seasonal Pattern Assessment
Questionnaire, the Mini-Mental State
population-based Examination, the category (animals)
study. Psychiatry verbal fluency test, and the Rey Auditory
Res, 2017. 253: p. Verbal Learning Test. Our results reveal
the existence of a strong link between
91-98. SAD and AUD in a large sample of
Finnish population, as well as association
between SAD and short-term memory
problems.

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Sunspot • Evidence of a "highly significant"

correlation was found between
Cycle and periodic solar storms and incidences
Giant Cell of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and giant
cell arteritis (GCA), (Wing 2015)
Arteritis and • Incidences were higher in higher
Rheumatoid geomagnetic latitudes. [Note: Dr
Percy Seymour and others have
Arthritis shown a correlation between
(2015) planetary line-ups and solar storms.]

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Rochlin, I. and J.T. Morris,

Regulation of salt marsh
mosquito populations by the
18.6-yr lunar-nodal cycle.
Ecology, 2017. 98(8): p. 2059-
2068.

• The 18.6-yr lunar-nodal cycle drives

changes in tidal amplitude globally,
affecting coastal habitat formation,
species and communities inhabiting
rocky shores, and salt marsh
vegetation. Records were obtained
over a period of over four decades
in two estuaries in the northeastern
USA. Salt marsh mosquito habitat is
near the highest tide level where the
impact of the nodal cycle on flood
frequency is greatest.

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