Appetite control could be rewired,
say researchers.
The University of East Anglia
researchers say their find means appetite is not fixed at birth. Their study is
published in the Journal of Neuroscience. It was previously thought that nerve
cells in the brain associated with appetite regulation were generated entirely
during an embryo's development in the womb and could not be altered. But the
UEA study's discovery of these tanycytes, which act like stem cells, in the
brains of young and adult rodents shows that appetite can be modified.
The Society
for Neuroscience (SfN) is a professional society, headquartered in Washington , D.C. ,
for basic scientists and physicians around the world whose research is focused
on the study of the brain and nervous system. It was incorporated as a society
on July 11, 1969 at Washington ,D.C. [1]
It may come
as a surprise to readers that the date of foundation or incorporation of a scientific
society can not only be treated as its
horoscope but that subsequent progressions[4] and transits to radix planets can
reveal both the nature and timing of scientific breakthrough that the society members
might make.
Shown above
is the noon horoscope for The Society for Neuroscience (SfN). As the radix Sun
is always the most important planet to consider, notice that its position at
19cn09 is conjunct the stars Mirza [gamma Canis Major] in the dog’s head and Castor [alpha
Geminorium] in the head of the Twin
[2]. Diana Rosenberg in her pioneering work on Fixed Stars has shown
how planets in a horoscope conjunct star images can refer to relevant sections of
our bodies. By extension here we have a society that was founded to study
matters connected with the head or
brain! P422
The medical
specialty of neurology studies the causes of nervous system malfunction, and
looks for interventions that can prevent it or treat it. The society’s
progressed Sun [0vi56] has just moved into tropical Virgo. To see Virgo’s
connection to food and cereals just look at the picture of the Virgin holding a
sheaf of corn in her hand. The sign of Virgo also rules the nervous system and
the intestines[3]. The intestines assimilate food into the body.
But then
the progression [4] of the Sun into
Virgo was like the hour hand of the clock. Is there a faster moving transit
right now acting as a minute hand, so to speak, that triggered the scientific
discovery reported in the news? And the
answer to that is ‘yes’. If we look at the square between Ceres[8aq] –
Psyche [12aq] and Saturn [8ta] in the radix chart we notice that the current
Saturn transit [9sc] is aspecting both forming a T-square. Astrologers
recognize that all Saturn transits have a peculiar quality of manifesting or
giving shape to dormant potential. Martha Wescott interprets the meaning of Ceres-Psyche [5] as follows:
To see how neurology affects food
habits ; understanding that what you eat
may be affected by feelings of stress or
unhappiness.
Conjunct
the radix Saturn is Al Kaff al Jidhmah, in the head of Cetus, the sea monster. This monster is the
archetype of the deepest, most threatening chasms of the psyche. It is the anti-thesis
of the hero and embodies our fears that hold us back from reaching our highest
potential. The head of Cetus refers to the fact that this fear is hard-wired
into our neurology.
[2] Secrets
of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.422)
[5]
Delineate V2; Martha-Lang Wescott
P.S. The
chart for SfN has Sun square [Cupido/Poseidon]. Cupido is a TNP that rules
group or societies while Poseidon is about ‘psychic vibrations’ - with Sun on Castor on the head of the Twin, this a fairly good combination to describe a society founded for neurological research.
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