The hunt for a cure for type 1 diabetes has
recently taken a "tremendous step forward", scientists have said. The
disease is caused by the immune system destroying the cells that control blood
sugar levels. A team at Harvard
University used stem
cells to produce hundreds of millions of the cells in the laboratory. Tests on
mice showed the cells could treat the disease, which experts described as
"potentially a major medical breakthrough". Beta cells in the
pancreas pump out insulin to bring down blood sugar levels. But the body's own
immune system can turn against the beta cells, destroying them and leaving
people with a potentially fatal disease because they cannot regulate their
blood sugar levels. BBC; Oct 10. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29566784
The chart
for the Full Moon lunar eclipse of October 8, drawn for Cambridge ,
MA – the location of Harvard University
is shown here. Notice that it is very significantly aligned with the horizon
axis with the medical asteroid Hygiea [1] on the MC.
The eclipse
Moon conjoins Uranus and trines Jupiter. Jupiter-Uranus-Mars form a Grand
Trine.
In her
essay “Jupiter/Uranus: Bright Ideas and
Breakthroughs”, Kelly Surtees writes:
Jupiter brings an expansive, open energy which
complements Uranus’ inventive tone. As a pair, they have, throughout history,
been linked to creative and scientific breakthroughs. http://bit.ly/1rx3UiU
Here in the
Lunar Eclipse chart, Jupiter is the ruler of the 6th house which is
linked to illness and disease so that one can expect the Jupiter/Uranus scientific breakthrough to
occur in the area of medicine. http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h6.html
Then we
notice that Jupiter is sextile the eclipse Sun and Venus on the Ascendant.
Jupiter and Venus in strong aspect to each other
can symbolize a connection with diabetes since Jupiter rules insulin and the
pancreas (which produces this hormone) and Venus rules sugar. Jupiter also symbolically
represents an expansion process and, when in reference to Venus, can play out
as an increase in sugar levels under stress and the inability to produce the
amount of insulin needed by the body to
metabolize the increase in sugar. http://bit.ly/1C4kCY6
Therefore,
to students of astrology, news of a medical breakthrough in the area of
diabetes will not come as a surprise.
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