The Science of Planetary Signatures in Medicine: Restoring the Cosmic Foundations of Healing
A comprehensive guide to the cosmic influences that underlie health and how to apply them for profound health and healing

• Examines how ancient and modern traditions of healing interconnect through the doctrine of signatures, “As above, so below”

• Reveals how one’s astrological chart has implications for personal health and healing

• Explains how each sign of the zodiac corresponds not only to parts of the body and its chakras but also to specific plants, herbs, colors, and emotions

• Explores how to use sound healing to harmonize astrological imbalances

When we look at the vast and intricate cosmos--galaxies, planets, organisms, organs, cells, molecules, atoms--there is a fundamental order, a music or harmony of the spheres. Our cells reflect the images of galaxies seen through our telescopes. We are the microcosm, reflecting the macrocosm of the heavens. Our ancestors understood these patterns and connections between humanity and the universe and developed spiritual and healing traditions in line with these cosmic truths. Yet in the 19th century, knowledge of these connections was set aside as medical science sought to create the “one size fits all” approaches to healing that dominate modern medicine today.

In this comprehensive exploration of the celestial influences that underlie health and healing, Jennifer Gehl, with Marc Micozzi, examines how ancient and modern traditions of healing interconnect through the doctrine of signatures, “As above, so below”. She reveals how one’s celestial nature--the arrangement of the cosmos at the moment of birth--has implications for personal health and how each sign of the zodiac corresponds to parts of the body, the chakras, and specific plants, herbs, colors, and emotions. She explains how sound re-arranges forms according to the principles of harmony, leveraging not only the human self-regulating capacity to restore health but also that of the Earth to restore balance and harmony. Also explored are the recurrence of geometric forms in nature and how to apply this knowledge in sound healing and medical astrology.

Weaving together the threads of ancient science and spirit that formed the original tapestry of medicine, Gehl explains how to restore the cosmic foundations of healing for personal, planetary, and universal health and wellbeing.
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The Science of Planetary Signatures in Medicine: Restoring the Cosmic Foundations of Healing
A comprehensive guide to the cosmic influences that underlie health and how to apply them for profound health and healing

• Examines how ancient and modern traditions of healing interconnect through the doctrine of signatures, “As above, so below”

• Reveals how one’s astrological chart has implications for personal health and healing

• Explains how each sign of the zodiac corresponds not only to parts of the body and its chakras but also to specific plants, herbs, colors, and emotions

• Explores how to use sound healing to harmonize astrological imbalances

When we look at the vast and intricate cosmos--galaxies, planets, organisms, organs, cells, molecules, atoms--there is a fundamental order, a music or harmony of the spheres. Our cells reflect the images of galaxies seen through our telescopes. We are the microcosm, reflecting the macrocosm of the heavens. Our ancestors understood these patterns and connections between humanity and the universe and developed spiritual and healing traditions in line with these cosmic truths. Yet in the 19th century, knowledge of these connections was set aside as medical science sought to create the “one size fits all” approaches to healing that dominate modern medicine today.

In this comprehensive exploration of the celestial influences that underlie health and healing, Jennifer Gehl, with Marc Micozzi, examines how ancient and modern traditions of healing interconnect through the doctrine of signatures, “As above, so below”. She reveals how one’s celestial nature--the arrangement of the cosmos at the moment of birth--has implications for personal health and how each sign of the zodiac corresponds to parts of the body, the chakras, and specific plants, herbs, colors, and emotions. She explains how sound re-arranges forms according to the principles of harmony, leveraging not only the human self-regulating capacity to restore health but also that of the Earth to restore balance and harmony. Also explored are the recurrence of geometric forms in nature and how to apply this knowledge in sound healing and medical astrology.

Weaving together the threads of ancient science and spirit that formed the original tapestry of medicine, Gehl explains how to restore the cosmic foundations of healing for personal, planetary, and universal health and wellbeing.
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The Science of Planetary Signatures in Medicine: Restoring the Cosmic Foundations of Healing

The Science of Planetary Signatures in Medicine: Restoring the Cosmic Foundations of Healing

The Science of Planetary Signatures in Medicine: Restoring the Cosmic Foundations of Healing

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A comprehensive guide to the cosmic influences that underlie health and how to apply them for profound health and healing

• Examines how ancient and modern traditions of healing interconnect through the doctrine of signatures, “As above, so below”

• Reveals how one’s astrological chart has implications for personal health and healing

• Explains how each sign of the zodiac corresponds not only to parts of the body and its chakras but also to specific plants, herbs, colors, and emotions

• Explores how to use sound healing to harmonize astrological imbalances

When we look at the vast and intricate cosmos--galaxies, planets, organisms, organs, cells, molecules, atoms--there is a fundamental order, a music or harmony of the spheres. Our cells reflect the images of galaxies seen through our telescopes. We are the microcosm, reflecting the macrocosm of the heavens. Our ancestors understood these patterns and connections between humanity and the universe and developed spiritual and healing traditions in line with these cosmic truths. Yet in the 19th century, knowledge of these connections was set aside as medical science sought to create the “one size fits all” approaches to healing that dominate modern medicine today.

In this comprehensive exploration of the celestial influences that underlie health and healing, Jennifer Gehl, with Marc Micozzi, examines how ancient and modern traditions of healing interconnect through the doctrine of signatures, “As above, so below”. She reveals how one’s celestial nature--the arrangement of the cosmos at the moment of birth--has implications for personal health and how each sign of the zodiac corresponds to parts of the body, the chakras, and specific plants, herbs, colors, and emotions. She explains how sound re-arranges forms according to the principles of harmony, leveraging not only the human self-regulating capacity to restore health but also that of the Earth to restore balance and harmony. Also explored are the recurrence of geometric forms in nature and how to apply this knowledge in sound healing and medical astrology.

Weaving together the threads of ancient science and spirit that formed the original tapestry of medicine, Gehl explains how to restore the cosmic foundations of healing for personal, planetary, and universal health and wellbeing.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781620554999
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Publication date: 01/27/2017
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Jennifer T. Gehl, MHS, instructs astro-harmonic medicine continuing education to licensed professionals. She is a certified Acutonics practitioner, astrology sound healer, and mentor with a master’s degree in health sciences from St. Francis University. She lives in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., is adjunct professor of physiology, biophysics, and pharmacology at Georgetown University School of Medicine and adjunct professor in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The author and editor of 30 books, he lives in Longboat Key, Florida.
Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., is adjunct professor of pharmacology and physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the founding director of the Policy Institute for Integrative Medicine in Washington, D.C. The author and editor of Fundamentals of Complementary&Alternative Medicine and coauthor of The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion, Your Emotional Type, New World Mindfulness, and Avicenna's Medicine, he lives in Maryland.

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THE FUTURE AWAITS OUR RETURN

All manner of manifestation is influenced by the invisible realm and contains a stellar imprint, known by ancient physicians as the Doctrine of Signatures. Many have applied these signatures to plants, fruits and vegetables and their medicinal effects on the body. However, little attention has been paid to planetary effects on health.

When we examine Pythagorean concepts of number expressed through geometry, music, and astronomy, it allows us to look at the astrology chart as geometry, as music frozen in time. Therefore, music is a most effective means for restoring harmony to dissonant angles and aspects representing “parts of the self.” By freeing up those harmonic relationships, the individual engages an awakening process that, not only connects neglected parts of the self, it also awakens one’s perception of the greater whole.

This awakening of the self provides access to the intrinsic communication network already existing between humans, animals, plants, earth, and the cosmos. The natural science, upon which the ancients drew to advance all manner of living, is available to us today. There is much to rediscover, and it requires not only asking the right questions but questioning what we are certain we know. Embracing the mystery is the first step toward creating a more wholesome future for medicine.

THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES


Our current medical model is completely out of sync with those who are by nature “spiritual,” and to whom the notion of separating parts in exclusion from the composite body is equally absurd. Knowing the operations of energy, especially in terms of the morphing process of the four elements, we must consider the metaphysical properties of form, particularly that of the human body.

For relevance regarding the practice of medicine, it’s helpful to remember that from the scientific viewpoint, no matter the “first cause” of creation, life force is energy. The laws of physics and thermodynamics show that energy is conserved--it does not die, but merely changes forms. Taken from this perspective, the idea that human life force energy (or any living creature’s) can change form once the physical body dies is plausible. From a strictly scientific perspective, this continuation of life energy does not require a theological mediator or savior. From the Hermetic perspective, whatever governs the subtle realms and higher octaves of space also governs the lower physical octaves of life.

What is helpful, if not required, is having a language that provides a roadmap for understanding the human being’s connection to the cosmos.

This is the relevance astrology brings to the process of responding to the larger cycles and hierarchical influence. It also facilitates understanding in the application of the doctrine of signatures to each human’s life and, as applied by both Paracelsus and Agrippa Von Nettesheim (1486-1535), provides alchemical information regarding the process of healing.

Despite its controversy, we have to consider the longevity that has been demonstrated by astrology. While its popularity has waxed and waned over the centuries, like the moon, it remains ever present, orbiting the mainstream.1 For this reason alone it deserves consideration as part of the historical, medical, and philosophical milieu of human inquiry.

THE THREE-FOLD NATURE OF HOROSCOPES AND HUMANS

In The Culture of Astronomy, Dietrich posits that cosmic law informs natural law. Cosmic law expresses the inherent order, harmony, and interrelationship of all things. The ancients believed that the heavens were the divine expression and means of communication between humans and their creator. They believed that the human body, created in the image of the cosmic body of the creator, was imbued with divine characteristics.

Not only the human body, but Earth, as a celestial body moving through the precession of the equinoxes, experiences the attributes of the twelve zodiacal houses that represent the cosmic body: Aries (head), Taurus (neck), Gemini (shoulders/arms), Cancer (breasts), Leo (heart), Virgo (intestines), Libra (forearms, navel, lumbar), Scorpio (genitals, reproductive system), Sagittarius (thighs), Capricorn (knees), Aquarius (calves, ankles), and Pisces (feet).

In her 1894 book The Influence of the Zodiac Upon Human Life, Eleanor Kirk reminded us that the human constitution is three-fold in nature: spirit, soul, body (or father, mother, son), and echo the Hermetic terms objective, subjective, and passive. Within the context of astrology,
these attributes were expressed amongst the three zodiac signs that are assigned to each of the four elements:

Fire - Aries, Leo, Sagittarius

Earth - Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

Air - Gemini, Libra, Aquarius

Water - Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

Regarding spirit, soul, and body, Kirk states that the mind has power over matter:

. . . there is a mind more interior than the animal mind . . . quickened by the solar fluids or planetary action, for it is the genius of the natural man. And there is a still more interior mind, the spiritual, which is absolute over all earthly or planetary conditions, which glows and continues to ripen the divine human into celestial man.(2)

No one element or single event holds the answer for the state of disease or restoration. Neither can we say that there is only one medical system or “magic bullet” that will provide relief. It is always a combination of factors that culminate to reach a point of extreme (crescendo to use an Italian term in musical notation) as well as the return to cadence (harmonic resolution) and health. Without practice, there remains an inability to recognize warning signs (symptoms in body or mind) that help one tune into the body as an instrument built for change.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Ellen F. Franklin, Ph.D., and Donna Carey, M.S., L.Ac.

Preface

Introduction: Authentic Medicine

1 Ancient Cosmology
2 History of Hermetic Medicine
3 Cosmological Roots of Yin and Yang
4 The Four Building Blocks of the Cosmos
5 The Hexagon Phenomenon
6 Cosmic Light in Inner and Outer Space
7 PHI -losophy: The Mean Between the Extremes
8 Nature’s Spin: A Sound Effect?
9 The Future Awaits Our Return

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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