Aquarius & the Heart
Posted: Tue May 16, 2023 5:22 pm
Sidereal astrology holds that Aquarius corresponds to the heart and its circulation of blood. (This is opposite the Tropical commonplace of assigning the heart to Leo.)
Dr. Millard, to encourage skepticism of old rules, wrote of a study she did to test Ptolemy's rule not to have surgery when Moon was in the sign ruling that part of the body. Today, the main surgery that has serious risk of death is heart surgery which - at the time of her study - had about a 15% risk of death. (By 1979, this had reduced to 5%.) She gathered about 200 surgical records for open heart surgeries at her hospital where the patient died. These were spread throughout the year and had pretty even distribution of Moon-sign at time of surgery.
Every sign had transiting Moon in it 16 or 17 times EXCEPT for Moon in Pisces, which had DOUBLE the frequency of the others. This, of course, was Tropical Pisces, meaning... the great excess was with Moon in Sidereal Aquarius, ruling the heart!
We still need many more such studies before claiming anything on this point, but I couldn't resist sharing this anecdote. It is common of many things that I find in Millard's book: Take her examples, convert to Sidereal, and suddenly the signs make sense and everything gets much simpler!
Dr. Millard, to encourage skepticism of old rules, wrote of a study she did to test Ptolemy's rule not to have surgery when Moon was in the sign ruling that part of the body. Today, the main surgery that has serious risk of death is heart surgery which - at the time of her study - had about a 15% risk of death. (By 1979, this had reduced to 5%.) She gathered about 200 surgical records for open heart surgeries at her hospital where the patient died. These were spread throughout the year and had pretty even distribution of Moon-sign at time of surgery.
Every sign had transiting Moon in it 16 or 17 times EXCEPT for Moon in Pisces, which had DOUBLE the frequency of the others. This, of course, was Tropical Pisces, meaning... the great excess was with Moon in Sidereal Aquarius, ruling the heart!
We still need many more such studies before claiming anything on this point, but I couldn't resist sharing this anecdote. It is common of many things that I find in Millard's book: Take her examples, convert to Sidereal, and suddenly the signs make sense and everything gets much simpler!