What Does it Take to be a Medical Astrologer, Part 3
Medical Astrology Blog 3.8.09 by Eileen Nauman, DHM, medical astrologer
I believe that every practicing astrologer should know some thing about medical astrology--even if to say: “Hey, this is beyond me, go check with your
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The information I’m sharing here isn’t an edict or the only way to go about becoming a medical astrologer. Indeed, many paths to Rome, as they say. For myself, I found myself getting into the physiology and anatomy of medical astrology first because I didn’t know the body and I wanted to understand how it worked. And after that, I began to create planet and zodiac sign assignments to it over a course of a decade of experimentation, failure and success. The assignments in my book have gone through a lot of testing to get to where they are today.
I had an interest in herbs because my mother was an untrained herbalist (info down the family line) and I was mostly raised on them in lieu of a medical
cialis because we couldn’t afford one. My love of herbs goes on to this day and morphed in 1970 into homeopathy. This is a 260 year old alternative medicine that began in Germany with Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. Later, I received my Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine (DHM) from the British Institute of Homeopathy, England. By law, I can practice homeopathy anywhere beneath the United Kingdom umbrella. I’ve written five books on the topic over the years and lectured worldwide on it.
Every student of mine who wanted to learn to become a medical astrologer had a passion for something, be it vitamins and minerals, herbs, energy medicine (Reiki, polarity therapy, hand’s on-healing, ect.), Chinese medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy, flower and gem essences and the list of complementary and alternative medicine grows every year.
Another area that will come up through clients seeking medical help is referrals. You will have traditional and nontraditional medical doctors and health practitioners, psychotherapist and other nontraditional healing modalities as well. The one thing I have learned is that there are no people who are alike. In looking at their dis-ease, where they are at within it, and if they really want to get well, all play into what you might suggest for them.
Also your client may have a strong sense of what they want to use to get well. Usually, I draw people to me who distrust the traditional medical establishment, got burned by it or really don’t want ANY (or as few as possible) drugs in their body. You’ll find out who you draw. My predicament with the client who refused to go to an M.D. was scary sometimes. Because that is exactly what the client needed. Back in the 1970’s and 1980’s, there weren’t many M.D’s around who were willing to give alternative medicine a chance. Trying to find an M.D. who was open-minded about it was very tough. I always kept a list of local people but usually, my cliental was global, so my little list wasn’t of much help to them.
Keeping a list of health practitioners and suggestions is key. When the client comes to you, they may be in a panic and not thinking clearly. It becomes your responsibility to go through the possible avenues of help for the is client.
You will find you have ‘pet’ therapies. Everyone does because it worked for them or you saw it work wonderfully for a close friend or family member. Or, you may have training in a modality. For example, homeopathy is ruled by Neptune (my assignment). People with a strong (Definition: the planet is conjunct the MC, ASC or conjunct another planet in their natal chart) Neptune responds remarkably well to homeopathy. I have run into cases where the client is turned off by it. And I don’t try to sell them on the efficacy of it, however. One of the many truisms of being a medical astrologer is you never take a client’s hope away from them. By trying to argue them out of the modality they believe will make them well to try the one you think best, IS taking their hope away from them. I’ve learned to work within the client’s reality---not mine. I can suggest approaches but ultimately, the client’s health is in her or his hands--not mine.
One of the best alternative medicine specialties I find useful are Naturopathic doctors. They have an expert knowledge of herbs, a half year course in homeopathy, as well as vitamins and minerals. If you do not feel qualified to talk about these, ask your client if they would consider seeing a Naturopath. Or, if your client loves herbs and believes in them with all their heart, then a Naturopath or an Oriental Medicine Doctor (OMD) would be possibilities that you ‘d want to acquaint them with as avenues of healing.
A real murky area that needs an herbal expert is this: what if your client is on one or more traditional medical drugs? Are you aware that many of the ‘medical herbals’ may have a chemical ‘fight’ with a traditional drug? And it can cause immediate, painful or possibly, even life-threatening situation for the client if he or she does not know this. That is why when I have a client submit to me their medical history, I always want to know if they are on traditional drugs AND herbal remedies. Herbs and drugs don’t always get along. There have been many times when this situation has come up. When it does, I send the client to a Naturopath to sort it all out because they are the experts on herbs and how they do or don’t get along with traditional medical drugs.
NEXT WEEK: The Med-Scan Technique or How Eileen’s Mind See’s Medical Interpretation of a Person’s Natal Chart!
Copyright Eileen Nauman 2009. (NOTE: RSS feed websites can use a few paragraphs of my blog with my permission on their website)
Contact: docbones224@earthlink.net. Visit her website at: www.medicinegarden.com. MEDICAL ASTROLOGY is available for sale at her website. For those interested in HOMEOPATHY, Eileen has written several and they too are on her website.
