Scientists Discover a New Way to Predict Blood Cancer

Boston, MA. Wednesday, November 26, 2014 -- Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard-affiliated hospitals have uncovered an easily detectable, "pre-malignant" state in the blood that significantly increases the likelihood that an individual will go on to develop blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, or myelodysplastic syndrome. The discovery, which was made independently by two research teams affiliated with the Broad and partner institutions, opens new avenues for research aimed at early detection and prevention of blood cancer. Findings from both teams appear this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.  http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/biom-tsi112414.php

What is Translation of Light?

Translation of light (also known as transfer of light) is a specific type of configuration that occurs when a fast moving planet separates from an exact aspect with one planet and then applies to an exact aspect with another planet.   In this way the fast moving planet is said to “transfer the light” between the planet that it is separating from and the planet that it is applying to.

Translation of light was originally developed in the early Medieval tradition in order to provide a means by which planets that are not aspecting each other could still be connected.  As a result of this, translation of light is usually invoked when the faster moving planet is connecting two planets that are otherwise either not aspecting each other or are separating from an exact aspect with each other [1].

Using this understanding of the translation of light we can see that the current New Moon of Nov. 22 is conjunct Saturn and square Neptune. In other words the New Moon brings to sharp focus a Saturn-Neptune square that is the process of forming. The phenomenon becomes very significant for Boston since the New Moon is placed on the Ascendant. For readers who use midpoints, the New Moon is in a sharp semisquare aspect to the Saturn-Neptune midpoint. Medical astrology recognizes the connection of Saturn-Neptune to blood disorders as the following reference indicates.

Saturn transits to Neptune can involve deep-seated toxicity of the blood and lymph [2].

Saturn [26sc] is conjunct the star mu Serpentis [26sc], the huge Serpent with which the shaman-healer Ophiuchus is shown struggling.

Ophiuchus, or Serpentarius, the Serpent-holder, the Serpent Bearer, the Serpent Wrestler, or the Snake Charmer, is depicted holding a snake, the snake is represented by the constellation Serpens. Ophiuchus is identified with Aesculapius (Asklepios, Asclepius), an ancient physician who grew so skilled in the craft of healing that he was able to restore the dead to life. However, because this was a crime against the natural order, Zeus destroyed him with a thunderbolt. [3]

Neptune [5pi] is conjunct the stars of the Indian asterism Satabhisaj. Satabhisaj means Requiring a Hundred Physicians suggesting an illness very hard to cure. Neptune is also conjunct stars of Pegasus, the Flying Horse that in mythology freed Andromeda from the jaws of the sea monster Cetus. Here it may be referring to “scientific discoveries” [4] that could free mankind from the eternal curse of the dreaded disease Cancer.

Recent work by Martha Wescott [5] has established that the asteroids Virchow and Handley are specifically linked to the disease cancer. Here we find Handley [5vi] with the asteroid Aesculapia [4vi] which refers to sickness and physicians opposite Neptune [5pi]. On Nov. 26, the date of the news announcement, the transit Sun [4sa] completes a T-square with Aesculapia-Handley and Neptune.

Notice that a chart drawn for the exact Sun-Neptune square at Boston has the planets and the asteroids Aesculapia-Handley placed sharply on the angles confirming our analysis.

[1] http://theastrologydictionary.com/t/translation-of-light/

[2] http://www.greekmedicine.net/medical_astrology/Prediction_and_Prevention.html

[3] http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Ophiuchus.html

[4] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, 690-92)

[5] Tools of the Trade; July 2013