Since ancient times, astrology has been used also to track health problems and find ways to solve them. It is usually called medical astrology, or with a traditional term Iatromathematics (the math of curing). Your horoscope gives several clues to your health and what you might do to improve problems you may have with it.
     There are four major factors at work in the horoscope, also when it comes to health indicators: the what, how, where, and why:
     Planets and similar points in the horoscope show what happens, what active power is at work.
     Zodiac signs show how the planets act, the characteristics of the event.
     Houses show where in one's life, in what environment, the planets act.
     Aspects, the special angles between planets, show why the planets act as they do.
     It's the same regarding your health. An obstructed planet can cause health problems linked to its own nature, and with the characteristics of the Zodiac sign the planet is in, usually in the body part governed by that Zodiac sign. Your health problem will be particularly influential and apparent in the environment of the House the planet is in, and the reason for the planet causing trouble is seen in the aspects it forms to other planets – either those of your birth chart, or planets in the sky that form transit aspects to those in your chart.
     That's really all you need to examine. But of course, it takes some time to sort out and understand these variables correctly.


Zodiac Man. Each Zodiac sign represents a part of the body. Painting from 1413-16.

     A good way to familiarize yourself with how your horoscope indicates your health problems is to analyze illnesses or other health issues of your past. See if you can explain them by your birth chart, or by transits at play at the time of those ailments. You will have to choose significant health problems that you may have had, in order to find clear indicators of them in your horoscope. Not just any cold.
     Study your past to know your future. That's as true for astrology as it is for life in general.

© Stefan Stenudd
     1. Your health in your horoscope
     2. The Zodiac and your health
     3. The Planets and your health
     4. The Houses and your health
     5. The Aspects and your health
     6. The Transits and your health
     7. Disease in your horoscope
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