ASTRO-PSYCHO-PHYSICS: DYNAMICS OF DIABETES
By Richard Nelson

Part 1

Fourteen years ago, several students and I, had the chance to meet with Guy de Penguern, PMAFA, in Montignac, France.  We had started an e-mail relationship  a couple of years before that. He had demonstrated an uncanny ability to forecast and predict timing of diseases.  We do believe that our life’s potential lies in the natal chart.  He has gone far in demonstrating that in health areas.

In order to feel comfortable with his claims, I gave him birth information for me, my wife, my family, and several friends.  The results were amazing.  Guy gave me his methodology and we put a workbook together in 2005.  His client basis for claims in 1994 was over 2,000.  It is now over 3500.
           
In his work on Astro-Psycho-Physics1, Guy did not get heavily into diabetes, however.  Noel Tyl,  in his Astrological Timing of Critical Illness,2 did.  While not claiming to be specialized in medical astrology, Tyl noted that among several thousand clients, over 80 % of diabetics had strong Venus and Jupiter aspects.  
                                                                                                                  
Diabetes and sugar are listed under Venus in Rex Bills’s The Rulership Book3, Jupiter is listed under diseases caused by excesses, and glycogen, a polysaccharide of glucose is also listed  Bills, in his index, shows diabetes ruled by Jupiter, Venus, Libra and (Virgo/Mars). Parentheses are his.  J. Lee Lehman, Ph.D, in The Book of Rulerships4, lists Venus for diabetes, with Lilly and Ramesey as the historical sources.  Sugar is ruled by Jupiter, according to Dariot and Lilly.  Lehman has done an excellent job with this compilation, even to the point of showing agreements and disagreements of rulerships among eight sources.  Since diabetes was present on both sides of my family,  I decided to investigate this area myself.  There was also additional incentive, as my research has indicated that diabetes is a precursor to most major diseases.

For starters, about 25 % of several thousand charts in my database5 have Venus and Jupiter aspects.  I noticed this using Solar Fire’s defaults.  This corresponds to  the claim of Joseph Mercola, MD that diabetes or pre-diabetes now strikes one in four Americans.6  

Guy de Penguern’s methodology includes a number of specifics.  He makes much of Koch house cusps. He also makes an adjustment to the birth time since calculations based on the clock are really mean and not real time. This makes a major difference with fixed sign births.  The MC can be off by as much as four degrees, but those born at high and low latitudes, let’s say, might have the ASC off by 10 degrees or more. 7 
                           

The 1st house is the house of life, and the 6th , the house of illness. Transits or directions to the 6th house cusp tell much about health.  Penguern also makes the point that soft aspects may not be positive in interpretation; if you have a sextile with both planets in the signs of long ascension, they tend to be negative in their health interpretation.   For additional information, he utilizes what he calls QOTZ, The Quantified Tropical Zodiac on the Organic Level. This is a listing of body parts by each degree of the zodiac, as shown in Table 1.   Guy obtained this  information from Robert Jansky.  According to Guy, Dr. Koch developed this information from old sources, and  made minor changes along with colleagues such as Elspeth and Reinhold Ebertin about eighty years ago. You can see body connections by degree in the Solar Fire Interpretative Report.  With a three degree orb,  information is lacking from the neighboring degrees, so it is much easier to work from a table of the degrees.    These degrees are activated by conjunction and sendings.  Morinus is the main source for sendings.8  The most powerful sending is the polarity or opposition.  You will see manifestations later in life by transits, progressions, solar arcs, and solar returns. Guy also uses the Kepler program to see minor aspect sendings.  He also pays much attention to 165 degree aspect9, which he claims is evil for health. Continued...