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Quality of marriage linked to cardiovascular health




According to new research, positive interactions with your partner can lower the risk of heart attack or stroke for you.

"More negative interactions between partners were linked to having thicker carotid arteries - the blood vessels that carry blood through the neck to the brain," Nataria Joseph from VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System in California was quoted as saying. Times of India; July 5

To understand this news item we will look at the chart of the  current New Moon at Los Angeles. Notice that with a Grand Cross on the angles the New Moon is extremely significant for the place.





The New Moon [5cn37] is placed on the IC. The stars  Tejat, mu Geminorum [5cn30] of the Twins and Murzim, beta Canis Majoris [7cn] of the Greater Dog are here. The “soul-mate” Twins and the Greater Dog (a symbol of fidelity) bring issues of devotion and constancy in relationships. But while the Twins hug each other also notice  that Castor carries a bow and arrow in one hand while Pollux holds a club. This implies that while they are committed to each and in a kind of loving embrace  they are often at logger heads – an important requirement in relationships that grow and transform.

Uranus-Pluto is about crises ..times of great upheaval that test our mettle, challenge us to grow, help us forge our soul, and ask us to summon the courage to transform.

Mars has been forming a T-square with Uranus-Pluto. It’s been in Libra since December 7 and leaves Libra on July 25. This is a long time for Mars to journey through Libra - the sign of relationships. In the New Moon chart, Uranus [16ar16] is on the Ascendant while Mars [16li57] is on the descendant [14li08]. The Sabian symbols of the three degrees [15li], [16li] and [17li] involved here reveal an  interesting progression.

15 Libra : Circular Paths: Emphasizes  the need for establishing steady or committed relationships
16 Libra: After a storm a boat landing stands in need of reconstruction. Confrontation with broad issues of relationships often result in temporary destruction. Relationships must then be repaired.
17 Libra: A Retired Sea Captain. A calm mind that has now evolved and is at peace after successfully negotiating relationship issues.

The progression here is essentially telling us that (a) steady relationships are required (b) confrontations that take place must be dealt with in a positive spirit so that damages are repaired (c) then growth and transformation take place automatically. When step (b) leads to negative interactions, we see a negative outcome characterized more by the Sabian symbol 17 Aries that is opposite – “Two spinsters sitting in silence” representing a withdrawal from relationship and therefore little possibility of transformation.


Rilke  was one poet who probably understood the need for relationships to move into areas that are confrontational because that  alone could  lead to growth and transformation.

“It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.”

“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave”.

― Rainer Maria Rilke


The foregoing tells us that a “positive” openness  to confrontational relationships can lead to growth and transformation. What about the outcome of “negative” attitudes to relationship interactions?  Given below is a list of the asteroids/TNP that form hard aspects to the Grand Cross and the angles in the New Moon chart along with Martha Wescott’s delineations that explain what happens much in line with what the new research has discovered.

Aesculapia [10cn]; Hades [3cn]; Orpheus [5cp]; Eros [8cp]; Admetus [29ta]


Admetus/Eros
This may refer to  a person being "cold or hard hearted," and you'll hear of some  obstruction, thickening or blockage that affects the cardiac system or  arteries (especially the walls of veins or arteries).

Aesculapia/Eros
Medical matters that focus on the cardiac system.

Eros/Orpheus
Cardiac conditions that are life-threatening.



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