The Pancreas in Its Natural Setting
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Introduction
This paper comes about as a result of a “seed paper” written in November, 2000 about the potential of identifying astrological significators for the endocrine glands. Here is the link to that paper: Astrology and the Endocrine Glands: The Pancreas and Pituitary--Sarah. Sarah had had a non-cancerous pancreatic tumor and also a serious back condition which resulted, among other things, with a markedly low level of indicators for human growth hormone. These two conditions are associated with mal- or under-function of the pancreas and anterior pituitary, respectively.

This astrological method shows that planets “on Angles” are more powerful than any other condition in an astrological nativity. The meaning(s) they symbolize must express in the individual’s life and they may have differing but consistent interpretations at different stages of life. Since the discussion of exactly what is meant by “on an Angle” with this method is complex, I have put the material in footnote 1 at the bottom of the page. Footnote 2 refers to another individual’s research defining what is on an Angle.

For the purpose of reading this paper, it is necessary only to know that “an Angle” is a general term for Midheaven (MC) and Ascendant (Asc), roughly the noon and sunrise points on each chart of 360°. So noon is at twelve o'clock midday and sunrise at 9:00 a.m. And a planet is “on an Angle” when it is conjunction, square, or opposition those points. Acceptable variation from exact—called an orb—is usually ±2°. For purposes of this research, it has been extended to ±3°.

Sarah had been born with moon and saturn on Angles in her pre-progressed chart, with the moon 1° 17’ before a square to C MC, and saturn being 7’ after the opposition. And, since both were non-harmonic, they were on those same Angles in all twelve charts used in this method. And they expressed strongly throughout her life as is the case for every one's planets on Angles, that is, especially within less than 1° of an Angle.

I am not sure of other models correlating the endocrines with planets, but at the time of writing that paper I had long been aware of the model presented by Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi in The Anatomy of Fate: Astrology and Kabbalah (cited below). I don’t think it originated with him and do not have the book to know who he cited for it.

In that model the pancreas was associated with the moon; the anterior pituitary, saturn. So it was interesting that Sarah had those planets on Angles.

Halevi's model is created by putting the planets in nearly astronomical order inside a diagram of the body. It starts with the sun = thymus’ ruler, then moon = pancreas’ ruler, and so on, forming a clockwise spiral in the body which culminates at the pineal body and neptune. It looks like this:

It takes going only one additional step to join these two concepts together. That is, that planets associated with endocrines through Halevi’s model when on Angles identify the endocrine gland(s) which might show disease or dysfunction in that individual’s life time. The “might” part of that statement needs the qualification that there have to be other astrological indicators symbolizing pathology in order for the disease or dysfunction to occur.

Combining these two concepts especially appeals to me because with this method it has already been found that planets on Angles act as powerful "directors" for and against other conditions in the chart. They divert the flow of the river of life one way or another radically determining the course of our lives. Some of the papers which show them directing "toward" a condition are those for diabetes, homosexuality, and lesbianism, though the diabetes one is still tentative. We might call them "pro-significators" for those life experiences. When acting as "anti-significators" they direct away from the condition. Some of the papers which show that are the paper on pedophilia which shows several such anti-pedophile significator which direct away from the expression of pedophilia; the second Alzheimer's paper, which shows the power of jupiter on Angles to reduce the severity of a condition, and the paper on the death of Bruce Lee, which shows the power of suns on Angles to mask an underlying allergic pathology. When he had progressions which matched the original allergic condition, these in turn overwhelmed his suns. Links to all are available on the Home Page.

I have written a number of papers on health problems. Here are their links ::
Parkinsons I
Parkinsons II
Robin Williams and Parkinsons Remission (?)
Hyper and Hypo Thyroid Function (10 Cases, Including One Set of Twins)
Alzheimer’s Disease (17 Cases)
Alzheimer’s Compared with Parkinsons, Parkinsonism, and Kreuzfedt-Jacob Disease and the Astrology That Mitigates All of Them
Asthma (10 Cases, Including Some Deaths)
Human Growth Hormone (1 Case)
The Astrology of Heart Disease
Death of One Adult Twin from Heart Attack and His Brother Ten Months Later--the Picards
The Silent Twins: June's Death From Heart Trouble (Myocarditis) While Her Sister Lived
Death of Enron CEO Ken Lay of Heart Attack
The Kray Twins: Ron Died of Heart Attack; His Brother Reginald of Cancer
The Astrology of Kidney Disease
The Astrology of Covid-19

Many readers of these papers on medical, psychological and sexual conditions read only about that condition, or perhaps one other. They thus have no idea how well this very different astrological method works. To get some idea of that, read some of the sixteen papers on twins on this site. In traditional astrology, twins are hard to differentiate. This astrology demonstrates the differences in astrology which account for their life differences. Here is a link to one of the twin papers:The Silent Twins. Links to the other twin papers are found in each paper.

The First Part of the Significator for Pancreatic Dysfunction
In the discussion below we need to know the definition of two terms.

First, what is a "set" as used with this method? A set is a combination of Angles and planets in relation to each other of a square, conjunction, or opposition within acceptable orbs (defined below under Method).

Next, what is a significator? It is the combination in one to several sets summed together--they are not actually added together, it is just acknowledged that both are effective in the subject area--which astrologically define a given condition or event.

• For instance, marriage is usually such a happy and joyous social event that it occurs when the greater benefic (jupiter) and the lesser benefic (venus) are in the same set, influencing an Angle (therefore forefront in life) and a 7th house (of marriage and significant partners), usually in the 7th chart.

• But venus and jupiter in the same set can represent many different joyous occasions, depending on the chart they occur in and the houses they influence. For instance, they occur in sets in the 2nd and 8th charts when some one wins the lottery.

• The two different life experiences above are represented by similar but different significators.
  • The marriage, in the 7th chart by Angle/light/venus/jupiter/7th.
  • Winning the lottery, in the 2nd chart (for one) by Angle/light/venus/jupiter/2nd/(8th).

• The above is somewhat an over-simplification. but here we are only trying to represent differences in significators. The net sum of all of the significators in an individual's chart have great influence on the course of the individual's life.

So, the first part of the significator for all types of Diabetes is moon on an Angle. It (or planets in its set) does not, as typically occurs in health conditions, have to influence the 6th house (general health). Without being either negative or positive with reference to health, by itself it simply identifies the location of a potential "something" as in the pancreas.

In all of the examples below, including known type I and type II diabetes as well as individuals who died from pancreatic cancer, following the model of Halevi discussed above, the first significator used to identify the chart indicating the disease is, then, moon on an Angle. With this method, moon can occur on an Angle in two different ways:

• (1) If the moon is non-harmonic and on an Angle, then it is on an Angle in all twelve harmonic charts of this method. I had expected that the moon on an Angle, which after all started the process of identifying a pancreatic pathology, would rule the 6th house concerning health. That proved incorrect. It is not necessary that this part of the significator influence a 6th house.
  • The three individuals represented below who were diagnosed with diabetes as children all had non-harmonic moon on an Angle. In addition, there were three others. Connors, who died at age 39; Carter, who died at age 54, and Dolphin, who died undiagnosed at age 39.

• (2) When the individual has no sidereal (or non-harmonic) moon on an Angle (therefore, not in any chart), then the only possibility for moon to occur on an Angle has to be through the harmonic moons, which vary from harmonic chart to harmonic chart.

There are a number of quite reasonable potential FAQs with regard to using this Angle/moon part of the significator. They are too numerous to put in the body of this paper. I have put the ones I know in an appendix. Here is the link: Appendix A—FAQs .

Defining Diabetes
The medical and genetic conditions presented by both Type I and Type II diabetes are complex. This paper is not the place to present all of them. Here is an excellent Internet site which compares the two: Type 1 Diabetes vs. Type 2 Diabetes.

In this paper we are just interested in the fundamentals of diabetes. According to that website, factors which cause Type I diabetes can be genetic, environmental and auto-immune. Type I diabetes usually occurs in children or young people and such a diagnosis often has severe implications with regard to the their well-being and longevity. Astrologically, its occurrence in children means its significators are clear and strong, and therefore are there at birth. It is therefore diagnosable at birth.

We know that Type I diabetes occurs when beta cells in the pancreas are attacked and functionally destroyed by the body’s immune system. They lose their ability to produce insulin. Insulin is used by the body to take the sugar (called glucose) in the blood stream—produced by digestion or other processes—into the cells, where it is used as energy for life processes. Low or no insulin results in erratic levels of glucose in the blood. Too much or too little can cause diabetic coma. Over time, high levels may damage the eyes, kidneys, nerves, or heart.

Type II, diabetes, they state, may have several causes: Genetic, obesity, physical inactivity, high/low birth weight, GDM [?], poor placental growth, metabolic syndrome. Type II diabetes usually occurs among people 40 years or older it. But it shows up increasingly in young adults and children. The United States has the shameless distinction of heavily promoting the consumption of high-sugar foods. Wwith its multi-national corporations, the problem is becoming a world-wide one. It occurs when long-term dietary stress on insulin production (eating too many carbohydrates which uses insulin too much and too often) results in the receptor cells becoming less sensitive to the insulin, called insulin resistance. Similar to Type I diabetes, it results in too high a blood sugar level, or mixed sugar levels (too high and too low), and all the problems associated with same.. But with type II the pancreas is still producing insulin. It is just not used efficiently any more.

Put more bluntly, according to the above site, Type II diabetes appears to be related to aging, sedentary life-style, some genetic influence (though that is debatable), but “mostly obesity.” Over-eating and poor diet—usually too high in simple carbohydrates—lead to obesity and type II diabetes.

Unlike with type I diabetes in which the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas are destroyed, people with type II diabetes have been known to show improvement by improving their diet, eating more complex carbohydrates as well as proteins, weight loss, and through reasonable, guided fasting practices.

From our perspective, the important word in the paragraph above about type I diabetes is the word “immune.” With this method there are always two planets involved in representing various forms of auto-immunity or immune dysfunction. They are mars and neptune.

So we want to know more about what those two planets sponsor astrologically.

The Second Part of the Significator For Pancreatic Dysfunction—Mars and Neptune, The Planets Involved in Immune Dysfunction and Other “Crazy” Human Conditions
Mars symbolizes initiative, aggression, strife, cuts, tears, friction, injuries, and chemicals (the burning or corrosive aspect), among other things. Negatively, on a physical level it tends to represent some kind of attack against or injury of the body. (Like all the planets, it also can have positive expressions. Mars is connected with doing and action, is a major significator in the marital arts, and, in general, without its mode we would be unable to act.

Neptune (combining negative and postive implications) symbolizes confusion, fantasy, creativity, openness, porosity, and also fumes and gases. Neptune symbolizes porosity because it has a tendency to “dissolve” planets it is in contact with, making them more sensitive and porous than is their wont.

Neptune combined with mars produces an over-sensitivity resulting in noxious, confused, or highly charged reactions. Or, it places the individual in noxious conditions. Or, it renders their behavior at odds relative to normal behavior, as can be seen with paranoid schizophrenia, with neptune alone representing non-paranoid schizophrenia. Mars/neptune describes “crazy” or “highly emotional” or “charged” conditions astrologically. So, for instance, when involved with the sexual planets venus and mars in a man’s or woman’s chart, whether heterosexual or homosexual, it deepens and sensitizes sexuality, putting a high charge on it, compelling involvement.

When saturn joins mars and neptune as an influence, it increases their other-than-normal results. Forefront (i.e., on an Angle) in any chart mars/saturn/neptune represents siege conditions. Saturn does not produce, for instance, immune dysfunction. Mars and neptune do. But with saturn added, it aggravates any condition, making it life threatening, highly inflamed, or potently toxic. Saturn has a depressive effect on vitality.

So, for instance, mars and neptune forefront occur in the 3rd chart (of mind) with schizophrenia. When saturn joins them, as happened with John Nash, the individual is no longer capable of “managing” his schizophrenia and is hospitalized.

The siege conditions produced by forefront mars/saturn/neptune depend on two things: (1) the chart they are in, and (2) even more so, the path they take, that is, the houses they influence.

Here are some papers showing the effects of forefront mars/neptune in charts:
Paper on Asthma
Paper on Homosexuality Showing AIDS Occurring in Some Individuals
Paper on Death of Bruce Lee of Brain Swelling
Paper on Dr. Tom Dooley’s Death from Melanoma
Paper on John Nash’s Schizophrenia
Paper on Simpson’s Financial Siege Conditions When He Hired the Dream Team
and Paper on Guru Osho Including His Allergic Susceptibility.

Drug and severe alcohol conditions involve mars and neptune. I don’t have a paper showing it, but the 4th house, end-of-life astrology of a man who died homeless of alcoholism showed forefront mars/saturn/neptune. I have never forgotten the misery implied by that astrology.

Houses Influenced By the Significator
Type I diabetes, usually occurring in youth, is a disease caused by an auto-immune reaction. It has a very strong presence in the life of the individual who suffers from it. Strong presence of any condition implies its strong astrology. So, a type I diabetic should be almost if not actually born with a forefront influence of mars and neptune describing a path that includes an Angle (either being “on an Angle” as discussed above, or ruling one through a planet in the set).

And, whether we like it or not--it would be nice and orderly to have a completely different significator for diabetes type II relative to type I, and especially for pancreatic cancer relative to diabetes I--these first examples of diabetes type I occurring in childhood show us the way to the astrology for Type II diabetes as well as death from pancreatic cancer. (The difference is more in typical ages they occur, which in turn makes a difference in the way they affect the pancreas and its sites). The literature does not state that type II diabetes results from immune dysfunction. Nonetheless, it occurs when the pancreas and its "intended" sites of influence, the cells, fail to work normally. One could say the whole system was confused, or at least no longer efficient. Also, with cancer, whether or not it involves immune dysfunction or its weakness, the cells involved relative to the whole body and normal function are "confused." They have moved outside the parameters of normal function into "crazy" function. Confused and "crazy" are also the results produced by mars and neptune.

The mars and neptune in all sets describing pancreatic dysfunction plus whatever planets they are with should also influence at least two other houses.

They should influence the 6th house to show that the issue is one of health. The 6th house is the typical house describing health, though other houses may describe it.

If the individual’s dies, or has his life seriously threatened by the disorder, then the mar/neptune should influence his 4th house. In horary astrology (astrology done to answer a question for the time the question comes up), the 4th house represents “the end of the matter in question.” With this method, the 4th house also gives us considerable information on the last years of the individual’s life. Its involvement in any set can imply that set is operative at the end of life, including conditions causing death.

Since I saw it so many times in the examples below, I have tentatively included the 8th house as part of the path. The 8th house is normally associated with shared assets of all kinds and the transformations occurring either by being a part of something larger than just one’s self or by changing states, such as going from life to death. Transformations are also involved in conditions which take us from one place to another, often situations of radical learning. In this paper, the 8th house has been shown to occur almost always as part of the path for the conditions of diabetes and death from pancreatic cancer.

A shorthand way of expressing all of the above—as it turned out, for diabetes I and diabetes II as well as death from pancreatic cancer at the time of death—as a significator is Angle/mars/neptune/(saturn)/(4th)/6th/(8th). Items in parentheses are either optional. tentative, or depend on special circumstances. Written this way, of course, it does not discriminate whether the planets are actually on Angles or only influencing them through a ruler in the set.

Charts Involved
Thirty years research with this method has shown that significators most often occur in “typical charts.” For instance, a typical chart for a health question would be either the 6th chart (of health) or the 1st chart (of childhood health conditions), or the 6th house of the 7th chart—a chart impressive in showing much about any individual’s life, and the 12th chart of karma and hidden conditions.

But, significators can and do occur in atypical charts. An atypical chart for a health problem can be any of the remaining charts not so far mentioned., that is, not the 1st, 6th, or 7th charts. There are several examples below that show that an atypical chart containing a pancreatic significator was a “center of gravity chart” of the individual. That is, his consciousness was primarily (but not exclusively) located in that chart, so his illness and his death showed up there, too. Whenever possible, astrology for diagnosis and death were done for atypical charts demonstrating how operative they were in the event.

I believe I first discussed center of gravity chart in the paper on homosexuality. Here is a link to that paper: Charts of Fifty Homosexual Males .

Whether occurring in a typical or an atypical chart, the significator and its path are always the same.

The biggest difference between diabetes type I, diabetes type II, and death from pancreatic cancer is the strength of the very same significator from the time of birth:

• For diabetes type I the significator is very strong (close by degree and containing all the necessary planets) and very forefront (either on an Angle, or ruling one, frequently with reference to a second house influence in the same ruler). An example of the latter is, for instance, let’s say mars rules C MC which falls in b 6th house Such a mars simultaneously provides both an Angle and 6th influence. The planets may even be on Angles—usually all in one set—as was the case with two of the diabetic children, Diabetics 14683 and Diabetes 9582, and one of the medical amputees, 7347.

• Because it usually occurs later than type I, the implication is that its astrology is less strong than with type I. So for type II either the orb between planets is “large,” (they qualify as a significator, but are separated into separate sets by progressing Angles)—an excellent example can be found in the astrology of Jayj Jacobs, below. It starts out loose--with an orb of several degrees--but is pulled into a stronger set by a progressing planet. Or the significator is missing a house influence which is added through progressions later in life.

• For death from pancreatic cancer, the significator appears to form within months of death from the disease. So it is not a surprise that pancreatic cancer is difficult to diagnose until it is too late to successfully treat it. In the somewhat unusual case of Steve Jobs, it formed on an Angle and stayed effective from a little before his diagnosis and surgery until seven years later when he died. More examples of pancreatic cancer are needed to verify these range from-diagnosis-to-death statements.

Examples in this paper, with some variation from the ideal, have been presented from those showing the most severe significator (type I diabetes), to those showing lesser ones (type II diabetes), to those coming together only several years or even several months before death(death from pancreatic cancer).

A Brief Comment on Research Problems
In the examples given below, as for all astrological research, we often are less sure than would be preferred that the time of birth—so crucial to good research—is exact. Life happens, and exact time of birth is not always the priority of people at the birth scene. Date of diagnosis is often lacking. And date of diagnosis does not necessarily mean that is when the disease started. Date of death occurs more often, but not all the time. Often data states only that an individual had diabetes, not whether it was Type I or II. Place of diagnosis and death is also helpful but often lacking. Biographical comments on the basic personality of the individual are often sketchy. Having all of this information would help to arrive at better research results.

Since this astrological method is so different from traditional Western astrology, below I have included a number of comments about the way it works.

Astrological Method
This method is not traditional. It uses a birth and conception planets and their harmonics and houses, all of which share the same axis. :

This astrology uses the sidereal positions of the planets based on the Fagan-Bradley’s SVP. My view of the practical differences between the tropical (Western) and the sidereal (Eastern) zodiacs can be found at Tropical vs. Sidereal Zodiac.

Harmonics are taken from the sidereal position of the planets. The Egyptian harmonic, discussed in the paper “About This Method” (link just below), is used.

”Lights” include suns, moons, and moons nodes. When mercury rules one or two Angles, it also acts like a light and has the same orb as the other lights. The MC or Asc also acts like a light, but one with only a 2° orb, because when a set is on an Angle it does not need a light to be active.

This method uses only conjunctions, applying and separating squares, and oppositions. Orbs for static planets with lights is 5°; without lights, about 2.5°. Orb for MC/planet or Asc/planet is 2°. Planets so related to each other are referred to as in the same “set.” A set, then, is two or more planets (or an Angle) connected to each other through conjunction, square, and opposition within the defined orbs. Sets without Angles are more active when they contain a light, and less active without one. Learning to look in terms of “crosses” can be helpful in rapidly finding planets that are in the same set.

Because this approach uses both a birth and conception chart and they share the same axis, birth houses usually overlap different houses of the conception chart. These are called “house overlaps.” As it turned out in this paper, house overlaps were not significant. They can be for some other conditions. Throughout this paper I use the convention when writing about house overlaps of putting the birth house first, then the conception house. So, for instance, a “5th/1st” overlap refers to an overlap of birth 5th house with conception 1st house in that order.

Birth planets (including their harmonics) rule only birth houses. Conception planets (including their harmonics) rule only conception houses.

For a more thorough explanation of this astrological approach, refer to the following papers:

About This Method

Empirically-Derived Chart Reading Rules

In the partial charts shown below, birth planets and their harmonics are inside the circle. Conception planets and their harmonics are outside the circle. Conception sidereal planets are red; conception harmonic ones, black. Birth sidereal planets are blue; birth harmonic ones, green. Occasionally, because of space limitations, I have had to violate this inside/outside arrangement, but the color coding remains constant.

Abbreviations used are b = birth, c = conception, and t = transiting. Even though the harmonic used for each chart is always two more than the chart’s number, in these papers—for ease of reading—I write the harmonic number the same as the chart number. For example, the 5th chart uses the 7th harmonic, but I have established the convention of writing harmonic planets for the 5th chart as, e.g., c5 mars, which reads, “the harmonic for the 5th chart for conception mars.” Pc3 mars stands for the harmonic for the 3rd chart of its progressed conception mars. T5 pluto represents transiting (at the time of the event) pluto for the 5th chart.

We are now ready for the examples.

Material below in brown print and smaller type is either biographical (usually from Astrodatabank) or other quoted material.

Medical: Diabetes 14683
Canadian diabetic female diagnosed as a child with diabetes late December 1983.

Therefore, this child was six years old when her diabetes was discovered.

Her Angle/ moon occurs in the following set:

Since that moon is on the same Angle in all 12 charts, any one of them could contain the significator for her diabetes. This one, however, rules an 8th house. So first we are going to check her 8th chart for diabetic significators.

Set (1) above shows her Angle/moon from the perspective of the 8th chart. C venus in the set rules c 6th house. Note that harmonic node conjunct the Angle. It identifies this chart as having special significance.

Set (2) above shows us B Asc in the same set with two moons, mars, and b neptune. C8 moon at 20 Leo 33 brings b8 moon, ruler of b 6th house, into the set. B mars rules B MC in c 12th house. This is the set that shows an Angular and 6th house lighted mars/neptune influence. It is very powerful, with it planets on Angles additionally lighted by two moons and lacking only a 4th influence. The more lights, the stronger the set. Since 4th houses are ruled by birth venus and conception mars, which progress rather rapidly, the 4th influence can easily enter the set.

The set involving C MC shows us an example of an individual who has both moon and mercury (both non-harmonic) on Angles, and who got diabetes. There was no report of thyroid problems in the biographical notes.

It helps to confirm the correct chart representing the disease by doing progressions either for date of diagnosis or death. In both instances, there are usually progressed and/or return Angle/mars and Angle/neptune, and often enough, Angle/saturn.

Diagnosed in December, 1983, I used 12-15-1983 for progressions. Here are some of them:

• pc8 mars, ruler of c 4th house, is at 17 Sagittarius 04, having entered set (1), the Angle/moon/node shown above. They were joined by pb8 sun, co-ruler (21 of 37°) of b 6th house, and return mars at 17 Virgo 32. (Return was done for this child for the place of birth and occurred on 12-9-1983.)

• progressed B MC at 4 Sagittarius 08 is in the same set with return neptune at 3 Sagittarius 59 and return8 NN at 3 Sagittarius 57.

• Return MC was at 26 Taurus -04 in the same set with return8 mars at 25 Aquarius 8.

• Pb8 NN was at 29 Gemini 13 in the same set at pb sun, 6th co-ruler, at 28 Pisces 37. That sun is heading for a conjunction to b SN at 29 Pisces 54—all the Pisces in c 3rd house (sorrow).

  Return8 neptune was at 9 Aries 55 conjunct C MC at 10 Libra 11.

• Return North Node was at 21 Taurus 24 in the same set with the Angle/neptune in Set (2) above.

That last set—node to Angle/neptune—seems innocent enough, but it isn’t. Nodes pack a lot of significance into sets. This child was born with her b NN at 29 Virgo 54. It did pass through Set (2) once before her diagnosis when it hit 21 Leo 24 (thereabouts), which occurred in April and May of 1979, when she was two years old. To my knowledge very few children are diagnosed with diabetes at age 2. But the next time this transiting node passed through Set (2) was December, 1983, the time of her diagnosis. By passing through the set it is highlighting her Angle/neptune, which in her astrology is connected to her diabetes.

Medical: Diabetes 10587
American diabetic female who contracted diabetes at the young age of seven and became totally blind by age 24.

Her Angle/ moon occurs in the following set:

Since the moon in Set (3) above is on the same Angle in all 12 charts, but rules the 2nd house, it seems to be referring us to her 2nd chart. So we are first going to check it for her diabetic significators.

C uranus, ruler of c 9th house, is also in Set (3), and on the same Angle. Maybe we should check her 9th chart for significators?

In fact her 9th chart contains diabetic significators in its 9th chart equivalent of Set (4) in her 2nd chart, shown below. Her 9th chart has the as the added attraction that one year nine months (purely an arbitrary choice from “several years before diagnosis”), progressed pb9, that is harmonic, saturn was in Cancer approaching opposition to her B Asc at 10 Capricorn 43. Progressed pc9 saturn was at 18 Gemini 54 conjoining her C Asc. These two progressed Angle/saturn sets could certainly have been the stressors to turn her incipient diabetes in factual diabetes. During that same period, progressed b9 NN, which started at 4 Leo 13 in wide orb to B MC at 2 Scorpio 43, had moved to 2 Leo 33, in a close set with it. As mentioned above, harmonic nodes, because peculiar to each harmonic chart, seem to have a strong connection bringing the implications of that chart to manifestation.

So, more than one chart may contain the significators for any condition. I did a count for occurrences of, for example, of homosexual significators in the various charts in the paper including fifty homosexual men. [Here is the link: Homosexual Significators for 50 Homosexual Men. ] In that case, the typical charts indicating sexual indicators were, as would be expected, the 5th (sexuality) and 7th (important others), and they contained more significators than did other charts. But atypical charts existed. In some cases, we had enough biographical information on the individual to be able to see why their significators occurred in the atypical chart. Other atypical charts for significators have also some times included relevant biographical information making sense of the this phenomenon, the significator in an atypical chart.

But with this study we do not have enough biographical material, enough examples of diabetes, enough differentiation between type I and type II diabetes, or enough dates, at least, of diagnosis, (but preferably date of onset) to give any explanation for why the significator occurs in an atypical chart. Often, all we have is that the individual is/was diabetic, more often with date of death (which isn’t so helpful for diagnosis). But we do have enough results on atypical charts to believe they are valid.

With Diabetic 10587, the decision to go with the 2nd chart is arbitrary. Either the 2nd or the 9th would have worked.

It could be asked, how can a 2nd chart, which is generally about money and personal possessions, contain information about health? For one, every single harmonic chart contains information relevant to all usual house meanings. For another, one can answer, “Why not?” Some individuals are focused on money and/or possessions, or sensual experience—all correlated with the 2nd house and its natural ruler, Taurus--so the 2nd chart could be their COG chart.

But even if it was not their COG chart, we are starting out with the premise that that all-charts moon on an Angle implies that one of its meaning, that as “ruler” of the pancreas, is important in that life. If one of those charts also contains a moon/mars/neptune set with influence at least to an Angle and 6th house—which we have already established has significance autoimmune dysfunction—then those charts are potential charts showing diabetes type I.

But let’s get to the example.

Set (3) above shows her Angle/moon from the perspective of her 2nd chart. C moon rules c 2nd house. She picked up two harmonic planets, but they are no different than the ones already on Angles.

Set (4) above shows her autoimmune potential. It includes sun/moon/mercury/venus/mars/2neptune/pluto. B mercury rules b 6th and co-rules (3o of 38°) b 8th. B moon co-rules (11 of 26°) b 6th house. B2 mars rules B MC. It is not as powerful as the previous individual’s because it is not on an Angle, but it influences one and includes everything but a 4th influence. Again, fast-moving b venus and c sun rule 4th houses, it would not be difficult for this set to pick up a 4th influence.

Note her charts are already quite stressed because her two non-harmonic saturns, at 9 Cancer 12 and 11 Cancer 17 are in the same set with her B Asc at 10 Capricorn 43. C saturn rules c 8th house. B saturn rules B Asc in c 8th house.

On October 5, 1952, one year nine months before her diagnosis (at “age 7”), her pC MC was at 4 Pisces 12 in the same set with her b2 SN at 4 Sagittarius 16. Her progressed c2 mars was at 27 Scorpio 47 approaching her C Asc at 28 Aquarius 18 (giving her both Angle/mars and her given Angle/saturn). Her pc2 mercury, ruler of b 6th house, was at 22 Taurus 25 conjunction pc NN at 22 Taurus 25. And her pc mercury, ruler of C Asc in b 6th house.

Medical: Diabetes 9582
Canadian diabetic female contracting diabetes from the young age of nine with partial blinding starting at age 24.

This individual has two non-harmonic Angle/moons, shown in Sets (5) and (6) below:

Following the principle that the diabetic chart is indicated by the house the Angular moon rules, we could have tried either the 1st (Asc), 10th (MC), 12th (C MC in a 12th house), or, again, a 10th (B Asc in a 10th house) charts. Through the harmonic development of Set (6) above, the diabetic chart turns out to be the 10th.

Without the moon in the set, we could not consider any but the moon and pluto in the set. Moon increases acceptable orb to an Angle. Set (6) contains B MC with 2 nodes and moon/venus/mars/neptune/pluto. Since it is on an Angle, none of the planets need rule one. But two do. B mars rules B MC, which we have already counted. But b moon rules B Asc, adding a second influence to an Angle for this set. C10 venus co-rules (27 of 32°). C10 neptune rules c 6th house. Being on an Angle with three lights (moon and two nodes), and influence to all the significator houses, it is very powerful.

Rather than having saturn on or to Angles as an additional stressor, this chart contains a sun/mars/saturn set with influence to an Angle, 6th, and 8th houses. Sun/saturn represents a depression of vitality, while sun/mars represents an attack on it. So sun/mars/saturn often represents physical suffering, though it does not have to be for a long time. Here is the set:

Some interesting progressions for a date two years (again, an arbitrary choice falling within “several years before diagnosis”) her diagnosis, she had progressed C Asc at 3 Libra 36 in the same set with her b10 South Node at 3 Aries 52. Progressed C MC was at 11 Cancer 48 aspecting her node/venus/neptune in Set (6) above. Progressed c sun, which started out at 7 Aries 08, was at 14 Aries 43, highlighting her BMC/moon/mars in Set (6) above. I did not find a timer for the sun/mars/saturn set other than progressed b saturn, at 25 Taurus 52, had moved closer to the set as a whole.

Medical: Diabetes 13280
Diabetic male who was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 21 almost precisely on his birthday.

His type of diabetes is not mentioned. For the purpose of doing regressions from his date of diagnosis, I have assumed Type I. The astrology shown below, aggressively diabetic, also points to type I.

This gentleman, our first grown up with diabetes, is also the first so far in this paper who does not have an Angle in a set with a sidereal moon (all charts). Neither does any one else—all adults—from here to the end of the paper. Since it is not disclosed, we cannot be sure they were not diagnosed diabetic in childhood, but none were declared so, we tentatively assume they were not. childhood diabetics.

Since this man did not have the all-charts moon/Angle, it was necessary to check each chart to see which included a harmonic moon on an Angle. were checked for those with Angle/moon. Then each was checked for the forefront light/mars/neptune of problems with immunity. For this man, his 7th chart, the very fist one calculated, was the most “diabetic.”

His Angle/moon is shown in Set (8) below:

From this section on we have to look for the significator in all the harmonic charts which contain an Angle/moon.

Set (8) is now fully developed for the 7th chart. C7 moon is over 2° from the Angle. But the rest of the chart is so proto-diabetic it looks like this moon/Angle is acceptable, though wide (with birth time likely correct at 9:54 p.m.,), but I wouldn’t make a habit of accepting such a large orb. Set (8), containing MC/moon/mercury/mars/saturn, is not the diabetic set, but its harshness, confirmed by progressions (below) plays in as a stressor to the precipitation of the diabetic diagnosis.

Set (8) influences b 8th house through mercury, co-ruler (30 of 35°) of b 8th house. It also influences a 2nd Angle, C Asc through its ruler, c saturn, here at 14 Scorpio 22. It is a serious or depressive set.

Set (9) is the diabetic one. It shows C Asc in the same set with node(a light)/mars/neptune. With mars and neptune on Angles, it is more powerful than when only influencing Angles through a ruler, but the whole set only influences a 4th house

The mars/neptune influence to (most) 6th and 8th houses is in other sets. Note that the mars of set (9) is lighted (by the node) and in b 6th house. That gives the light/mars/6th influence.

And b7 neptune at 24 Aries 44 is also conjunct a node in b 6th house. That produces the light/neptune/6th influence. It is also a part of Set (10) which shows a second light/mars/neptune. That has a second 6th influence through b7 mars, ruler of b 6th house, but it does not influence an Angle. Since he already has an Angle/node/mars/neptune, he doesn’t need any more to produce his health-destructive immune reaction.

Astrology for this man’s diabetes, though only accomplished by “summing” several sets, is still quite powerful. The Angular, lighted mars/neptune of Set (9) makes it possible for the other sets to function destructively without any further progressions.

Set (11) shows two more Angles in the same set with mars. B Asc is with C MC and in the same set with b mars, ruler of b 6th house, at 29 Capricorn 13. While saturn depresses vitality and stresses it, mars usually works through stress, though it is perfectly likely he also used this lovely mars in Capricorn for skill in sports and other activities involving control.

”Summing” all Angle influences, this man has three Angles are with mars, and one with double saturn. One with neptune. Mars/saturn/neptune produces all kinds of siege conditions—here, diabetes.

If we go back two years before his diagnosis to see what might have started his immune response, we can find them. But they are so interesting I decided to put them, plus the next year, plus the year of diagnosis into table form. Again, the date of diagnosis was very close to his 21st birthday, so 4-17-19790. In looking at the data below, keep in mind that c10 moon is at 13 Leo 55. Even with progressions it increases acceptable or for planet-to-Angle. Here is the data:

He has been through almost 3 full years of progressed Angle/moon/mars/saturn—very, very stressful. By the date of diagnosis, he was coming out of the progressed Angle/saturn, but not the progressed Angle/mars. He had a new progressed Angle/saturn:

And a new, shorter term, faster moving Angle/mars, with pc7 mars at 10 Leo 36 approaching his B MC at 11 Leo 10.

His return, cast for his place of birth (we don’t know where he was at the time) had MC at 5 Gemini 28 and Ascendant at 5 Virgo 29 in the same set with c7 SN at 5 Pisces 46. Return mars was at 12 Aquarius 47, which with the larger orb allowed for return sets, falls into set (8) above.

For this man his diabetic indicators were in place at birth. They appeared just waiting for a sufficient stressor to develop into full-blown diabetes. Three years plus of progressed Angle/mars/saturn in addition to the Angles afflicted by birth in this chart certainly constituted considerable and ongoing stress. Exactly how that manifested we do not know. Was it external? Internal? Was he aware he was stressed or did it all play out unconsciously through the aggressive (mars) dysfunction (neptune) of his immune system toward his pancreatic beta cells?

Nurse 7248
American nurse (female) who married once and had one child; the child died on January 22, 1979 of unknown causes. She was an alcoholic and had severe diabetes.[italics mine]

So, we lack diabetic type and date of diagnosis. It isn’t going to make any difference in picking out the most diabetic chart. It does make a difference in terms of convincing us that going from type I diabetes, usually occurring in childhood, to type II, which used to primarily occur in adulthood, is going from an astrology more strongly diabetic to one less so. So, it would have been good to know exactly, in each case, the type of diabetes involved.

Her Angle/moon is shown below in Set (12):

Set (12) is now fully developed for the 6th chart. Showing a doubly-lighted (therefore stronger) Angle/saturn, it influences the 6th house through c6 mercury, co-ruler (30 of 45°) of c 6thhouse. It also rules c 4th house. It depresses vitality. Jupiter/Angle usually acts as an anti-significator (ameliorating a medical condition), but here it is much less strong because it occurs only in this chart. To see instances of the power of sun and jupiter on Angles to act as anti-significators refer to the following two papers: Alzheimer’s Disease, Part II: Seven Cases of Alzheimer’s Disease, One of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease, One of Meningo-encephalitis, Three of Dementia Pugilistica, and One NOT Alzheimer's and Death of Bruce Lee—Murder or Allergic Reaction? .

Set (13) primarily shows us he has neptune on an Angle (B Asc), increasing his Angle/neptune influences, especially since the set also rules B MC, a second Angle, through b6 venus.

His set showing his immune problems was so large I decided to show it in table form below. It contains three lights (moon and two nodes), so acceptable orb is a little larger than normal.

Set (14) contains plenty of references to 4th, 6th, and 8th houses, suggesting the individual—short of innovative therapeutic intervention—would die (4th house) of this disease (6th house) and go through many transformations (trials and tribulations—8th house) because of it. She was born in 1933 and would be 80 years old if still alive, unlikely for some one with “severe diabetes” (until a better treatment is found).

As a “diabetic set” it is as powerful as it can get short of also having its planets on Angles.

Alcoholic 7060
American alcoholic a severe diabetic as well as alcoholism, she died of heart failure 1/22/1979 (born 5/11 1932, age 46) in the early morning, Houston, Texas

This individual may have been duplicate data with error. Compare her data to that of Nurse 7248 in Data Acknowledgments at the bottom of this page. Both were born in Lenora, OK, both were alcoholic and severely diabetic, data for both were contributed by Dona Shaw (though one states from the birth certificate and the other given in Modern Horoscopes April, 1984). The month and day were the same, but the year and time differed.

At any rate, I did not find significators for immune dysfunction in any of the charts for this individual.

Medical Amputee 7347
American amputee; a diabetic. Her first leg was surgically removed 6/16/1975 [age 41] and the second on 10/15/1975 in Washington, DC. Died 1/28/1978 [age 44].

Again, we lack diabetic type and date of diagnosis. But from her early short medical history, death at a young age, and from her astrology shown below, she certainly qualifies as a severe diabetic, and most likely Type I (more on that below).

Her Angle/moon is shown below in Set (15):

Set (15) is shown above fully developed for the 4th chart. Again, that jupiter conjunct Asc doesn’t help as much as it could because it occurs only in this chart and it rules the 2nd house, not a 6th or another Angle.

Set (16) is one of two immune dysfunction sets. Containing mercury/mars/neptune, it is lighted because mercury rules C MC and when mercury rules an Angle, it also acts like a light (and only then). Not only does it rule C MC, but C MC falls in b 6th house. It influences a second Angle, B MC. through the b4 mars, which rules it and b 8th house. It lacks a 4th influence, but can pick one up relatively easily through progressing b mercury, ruler of b 4th house.

Set (17) is so harsh. It shows lighted mars/saturn/neptune in a close set on an Angle, C Asc. Normally sun conjunct the Asc speaks of vitality, but here it is also acting as the second light (the first is through the Asc itself which has an orb of only two degrees) for this harsh set representing lifelong siege conditions. B sun rules b 6th house. C mars rules c 6th house and C Asc in b 8th house. It lacks a 4th influence.

I originally found this 4th chart as the diabetic chart by “thumbing” through the harmonics. When I saw that the non-harmonic Angle/sun/mars/neptune acquired a close saturn in the 6th harmonic (for the 4th chart), I could look no further.

Set (17) show influence to two Angles and both 6th houses. Moreover, Set (16), seemingly so innocent and simple, also demonstrates a lighted mars/neptune influence to two Angles and b 6th house. The 4th house part of the significator only indicates the individual will likely have the condition at the end of life, and perhaps die of it. It is not really necessary in the diabetic significator, as so far defined, except when toward the end of the individual’s life. Here, through progressed mercury, it can move into the set much more quickly than, for instance, would occur if b 4th house were rules by the outer planets saturn, uranus, and neptune. They progress much more slowly, and depending on where they start out, may never enter these sets.

With one significator on an Angle and the other influencing it, with both only lacking 4th influence, this woman astrology is very powerful for diabetes.

For removal of her first (I wish it had stated left or right—“first” makes it seem like she has a series of legs which could be removed, not just two bilaterally symmetric ones) on June 16, 1975 her progressions showed more Angle/mars and Angle/neptune:

• progressed B Asc was at 29 Taurus 33R in the same set with c4 mars, ruler of c 6th house, at 29 Aquarius 36.
• progressed b4 neptune had turned retrograde (it started out direct) and was at 19 Aquarius 38, while return4 (for place of birth) moon was at 18 Aquarius 58. Both these fit into her Set (17) above, adding extra emphasis.
• return MC at 17 Scorpio 11 was in the same set with return neptune at 16 Scorpio 29R and pc mars.
• Return node was at 6 Scorpio 31 in the same set with pB MC at 6 Aquarius 34.

Her death several years later on January 28, 1978, Washington, D.C. was simpler astrologically. It occurred under one of the two Angle-to-uranus progressions which can sometimes substitute for the more complicated and typical Angle/mars/saturn/(pluto)/4th that usually accompany death, and which is a necessary but not necessarily sufficient significator. The two are uranus in Scorpio and Uranus in Pisces, with the former occurring more often. She had strong Pisces, showing considerable bleakness and a sense of complete loss of control of her life:

• pC Asc at 29 Sagittarius 08 in the same set with pc uranus, ruler of b 12th house and in c 4th house, at 29 Pisces 14. Return sun was at 29 Sagittarius 29.
• pc mercury, ruler of C MC (in b 6th house) and therefore a light, at 1 Pisces 03. This all by itself constitutes a new Angular and “lighted” influence of mercury in Pisces
• pb mercury, co-ruler (30 of 46°) of b 6th house, at 21 Taurus 08 having entered the set with c mercury, ruler of C MC, at 21 Aquarius 08 conjunct b4 neptune at 21 Aquarius 15—increasing her 6th/neptune influence
• return moon was at 8 Pisces 53 conjunct return4 uranus at 8 Pisces 16 in the same set with her C MC at 7 Virgo 15

We do not know the exact cause of her death. It was not as if she were not expecting her death. She was.

We have come to the end of the individuals with apparent exact times of birth which I found through a search for “diabetes” at Astrodatabank.com. I first started working on diabetic charts by searching for “famous people with diabetes” on the Internet, then going to Astrodatabank to see if they had their birth data. Below is the astrology for some of these individuals. Two of them died by the age of 40 of complications from diabetes. Their biographies were much longer and have been reduced to better fit the subject of this paper.

Ruth Steinbrecher Connors
American noted family, diabetic, sister of astrologer/author Ed Steinbrecher, mother of astrologer Stephen Connors, …5 children. Death 1972/09/14, 3:30 a.m. MDT. Cause of death, complications of diabetes.

Mrs. Connors was 39 years old when she died. Her memorial site stated she died in Santa Fe, NM.

A possible Angle/moon is her shown below, but the harmonic chart containing her diabetes has a closer harmonic Angle/moon. Here is the non-harmonic one:

Set (18), shown above, also contains b mercury, which rules b 6th house and puts health issues forefront in her life. And according to what we know of the Halevi model so far, should bring thyroid problems. If none of her charts were afflicted, then it would indicate interest in health, health foods, health practices, and so on. But Connors’ 12th chart is very afflicted.

Set (19) shows us light/mars/neptune on B Asc. C12 moon rules c 4th house. It does not influence a 6th house, so although it provides the Angle/4th influence, it doesn’t provides the all-important 6th.

Set (20) contains moon/mercury/venus/mars/jupiter/neptune. C mars rules C Asc in b 12th and c 8th house. C12 venus co-rules (23of 48°) c 6th house. B12 moon rules b 4th house. B12 mercury rules b 6th house.

Set (19) provides the astrological environment (mars and neptune on Angles) for Set (20) to function against her pancreatic health, She is born with these sets, so although comprised of the sum of two sets, her astrology for diabetes is nonetheless quite powerful.

Since Set (20) also contains light/venus/jupiter/neptune, it also indicates states of joy, religious or mystical experiences.

Unnumbered sets above include C Asc in the same set with c12 saturn, ruler of C MC (so the set influences two Angles). And B MC is in the same set with b saturn and c12 neptune, with saturn progressing toward B MC. Assuming correct time of birth (given to the apparent nearest minute), it hit it when she was about 17 years old. But since it moves so slowly, it was influencing B MC for many years. Here are its places for a 6 year period of her life:

Without a date of diagnosis, it is not possible to say that this time period is the one in which her diabetes became active. It could have been. It did not have to have been.

”Summed,” Connors’ Angles in her 12th chart show considerable influence of mars, saturn, and neptune, indicating lifelong or close to lifelong siege conditions.

Her return planets for the date of her death at age 39 contributed mightily to Set (19) above. They included:

• return moon at 8 Scorpio 09
• return mars at 7 Leo 21
• return neptune at 8 Scorpio 07
• return12 sun at 7 Scorpio 31, plus
• pc sun at 9 Taurus 42
• pb venus, ruler of B Asc and co-ruler of b 6th house, at 8 Aquarius 36

Two degrees are okay for return planets to non-return Angles. So, although Set (19) did not start out with a 6th influence, at the time of her death it had acquired one plus several more lights. More lights means more intensity.

Nell Carter
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Nell Carter
American actress, 4' 11" and portly. She started out as a singer in jazz-blues shouter-tradition. She sang in New York cabarets and off-Broadway reviews in the early '70s, scoring her first major success in the hit Broadway musical "Ain't Misbehavin'." The show, based on the music of Fats Waller, won a Tony award, 1978.

Carter started her TV career with appearances on "Today" and on guest shots before landing a role in the daytime soap "Ryan's Hope," 1979. She moved into prime time with the comedy "Lobo," 1980 and the following year took the role of the boisterous black housekeeper in "Gimme a Break," where she hit the jackpot of stardom.

On January 23, 2003, at age 54, she collapsed and died in her Beverly Hills home and was found by one of her adopted sons, age 13. She suffered from diabetes and had had two brain aneurysms in 1992.

According to Legacy.com (6/30/13) Carter suffered from Type II diabetes and died of heart disease complicated by diabetes.

She has a sidereal and two harmonic Angle/moons in her 10th chart, the one showing her diabetes. Below is the sidereal one:

Set (21)	C MC	4 Libra 00
	b moon	3 Capricorn 11	(ruler of b 11th house)

Nell Carter Partial Harmonic Chart for the 10th House (aka 10th Chart)
Placidian House Cusps: c11—0Sco, c12—22Sco, c2—22Cap c3—1Pis b11—10Can, b12—10Leo, b2—5Lib, b3—5Sco

Carter’s diabetes comes from summing influences to Angles and 6th houses from her Sets (21) and (22).

Set (21), shown above contains 2moon/mercury/mars/saturn and yields the Angle/light/mars/6th/8th part of the influence for diabetes. Since mercury rules B MC and B Asc, it acts like a light, so this set contains three lights. B10 mercury rules B Asc, and B MC in c 6th house. C10 moon rules c 8th house. It influences three Angles.

Since the 10th chart also contains information on our relationship to our mothers as well as our social image and career, Set (21) is the set that explains the “hurtful comments” from her mother that her brother helped protect her against when she gave birth to a child of rape but felt too young to raise that child (which was raised by a sister). Mercury/saturn also represents gossip. (Her career benefic is a golden one—sun/venus/jupiter influencing C MC.)

Set (22) provides the Angle/light/neptune part of the diabetic influence. It contains B MC and B Asc in the same set with moon/venus/uranus/neptune. Birth uranus rules b 6th house. C venus rules C MC and c 6th house, so this set influences three Angles and both 6th houses. It starts out lacking 4th and 8th influence.

Carter’s two summed Sets (21) and (22) sponsor her diabetes. They are powerful, but less powerful than significators seen so far because her mars/neptune set is not on an Angle, mars and neptune are not even in the same set, and it took two sets for her astrology of diabetes.

Her Set (22) simultaneously shows her career in movies/TV/(or creative something) with the Angle/neptune the female domestic partner she was living with at the time of her death. In the latter case, the significator is Angle/light/venus/neptune/5th plus an Angular venus with 5th influence.

Sun/mars/saturn with influence to an Angle is at play in instances of heart attack. (It can stand for any life-threatening situation because the sun represents vitality and mars and saturn with it an attack on same, but it does not, for instance, represent death from diabetic coma. The latter appears to come about through an increase of mars and neptune influence to Angles and 6th houses. As well, there must be an Angular saturn.

Carter’s return for death occurred on 1-11-2003 at Beverly Hills, CA. Her sun/mars/saturn for heart complications is shown by the following set:

Set (23)	pc sun	12 Capricorn 43	co-ruler (30 of 39°) c 8th house
	n NN	12 Aries 01
	return moon	12 Aries 22
	c10 saturn	13 Aries 59	co-ruler of c 1st house
	pb10 uranus	13 Cancer 39	ruler of b 6th house
	b mars	12 Libra 36

Normally that mars would not be considered in the same progressed set with that saturn. It is, however, because there are two lights involved increasing acceptable orb. Set (23) does not contain influence to an Angle. I am not sure it had to be in this set. Her Angle/mars and Angle/saturn came in the following set:

Set (24)	C Asc	14 Sagittarius 47
	pc10 saturn	14 Pisces 39R
	pc10 moon	13 Gemini 16
	pc10 mars	14 Virgo	ruler of c 4th house

Jayj Jacobs
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Jayj Jacobs
American second generation astrologer, raised by Donald "Moby Dick" Jacobs who started his training when he was 15. Jayj began his professional practice in '72 when he moved from Hawaii to San Francisco.

…He developed "Experience Astrology" with his dad in 1975. An equal house advocate and innovator of graphics and flow charts, he became known for his expertise on Astrology and the Bible and Astrology's influence on culture. ..

A Type II diabetic, diagnosed 10/1995, he had a heart attack on 2/21/1997, 2:18 AM leading to triple by-pass surgery 2/25/1997, 11:05 AM, Green Brae, CA. In 1998, he broke his ribs on April 4 and had a car accident on June 18, bouncing off the road and back, resulting in what appeared to be painful whiplash (before X-rays) but was a crushed (L-1) vertebrae, and aggravated a spinal (L-4-5) injury from a an old motorcycle accident (after dark, September 1970 in Kailua, HI).

He died on July 3, 2011 [age 62].

From solsticepoint.com I found other, interesting information about Jacobs. JAYJ JACOBS PASSED AWAY on July 3, 2011 shortly after 5:00 PM in Oakland, CA surrounded by his family. A fierce champion for the legal rights of astrologers; for professionalism, clear thinking, and collegiality; and a founder of AFAN, Jayj was always a fighter. He had been struggling for years against heart disease and diabetes. After some strokes that left him mute and paralyzed while alert and attentive, he chose to leave the body that had become a prison. [italic emphasis mine]

I had concluded his 9th chart was the one which contained his significators for diabetes before I found out he had a strong interest in legal rights. The 9th chart, like the 9th house is correlated with Sagittarius which in turn is correlated with law, philosophy, and religion. Jacobs’ took the form of interest in law. [Which interest does not have to be in the 9th chart. It could have been in his 3rd chart of mind, 7th chart of significant others, and 10th chart of career. But finding that he had such an interest was confirming for the significators.]

Jacobs Angle/moon is shown below in Set (23a) :

Set (23a)	C MC	20 Sagittarius 43
	c9 moon	21 Virgo 27	co-ruler (15 of 24°) of c 4th house

Jayj Jacobs Partial Harmonic Chart for the 9th House (aka 9th Chart)
Placidian House Cusps: c11—15Cap, c12—17Aqu, c2—5Tau c3—29Tau b11—14Lib, b12—7Sco, b2—3Cap, b3—11Aqu

Set (23a) shown in the drawing shows us one of Jacobs’ “union cards from the universe” for being an astrologer. Angle/moon/jupiter/neptune is rather psychic and shows success and good fortune (jupiter) gaining information from unseen (neptune) sources and is also mystical of religious.

However, that node in set (23b) is instrumental in setting up his astrology for active diabetes. By progressing into the set and providing the second light it strengthens the sun/mars/neptune. He was diagnosed with diabetes in October, 1995. The following table shows the position of the important, progressing c9 South Node then and in the several years before his diagnosis:

Table IV	DATE	PC9 SOUTH NODE	YEARS BEFORE DIAGNOSIS
	10-(15)-1996	5 Cancer 38	1 Year After
	10-(15)-1995	6 Cancer 34	Date of Diagnosis
	10-(15)-1994	7 Cancer 22	1 Year Before
	10-(15)-1993	7 Cancer 56	2 Years Before
	10-(15)-1992	8 Cancer 15	3 Years Before
	10-(15)-1991	8 Cancer 18	4 Years Before
	10-(15)-1990	8 Cancer 08	5 Years Before

I didn’t go any further back than 1990. The midpoint between mars and neptune is 6 Cancer 40. So he was diagnosed when that pc9 SN was very close to that midpoint. Moreover, it had moved very fast into and out of it relative to how slowly it had been moving before that. He was likely developing the diabetes even by 1990.

Jacobs diabetes wasn’t diagnosed until he was age 46. His diabetic set, Set (23b) is rendered less potent by the fact that the planets in it are in a wide orb to each other—mars is 1° 45 minutes from neptune and the set contains only one light until progressing c9 SN enters the set and makes it much more potent. This is especially true because progressing nodes appear to have a great deal to do with activating a previously inactive set. Some would say, setting off a karmic condition, that is, one slated for this life time.

Note that his diabetes did not end when the pc9 SN moved below the set. It just sets off the condition. It does not let us know when, if ever, it will pass.

Two of Jacobs’ significant progressions for diagnosis other than the one above were:

Set (23c)	pC Asc	14 Capricorn 38
	pb9 saturn	14 Aries 24R
	pb9 pluto	14 Libra 42R

Set (23c) is a set of withdrawal. What it actually shows is the sense of separation from the rest of humanity we all tend to feel when confronted with a serious or fatal diagnosis.

Set (23d)	return	14 Capricorn 38
	pb9 saturn	14 Aries 24R
	pb9 pluto	14 Libra 42R

Progressed C MC was at 6 Aquarius 32 in the same set with pb saturn at 6 Leo 46R, and pc9 mars, ruler of C Asc, was at 19 Cancer 52 with his c NN at 20 Aries 02. We usually have progressed mars and saturns to Angles for our really hard times.

Jacobs died “voluntarily” on July 3, 2011 in Oakland, California. If it shows a lot in his 9th chart astrology, then that helps confirm that it was the chart showing his diabetes. (Death almost always shows in the 7th chart as well.) Here is some of his 8th chart astrology for it:

• progressed b mars at 16 Pisces 45 in the same set with B MC at 16 Virgo 32 and lighted by it. Mars is in b 4th and co-rules it (14 of 27°).
• pb mercury at 11 Pisces 57. Since mercury rules B MC, it acts as a light, and this one-planet set is both a light and influences an Angle. It shows his sensitivity and perhaps sorrow at the time.
• pb9 mercury at 11 Scorpio 25—same thing, a light and a ruler. It shows thoughts of death.
• pb9 mars, 4th co-ruler, at 4 Capricorn 14, b NN at 4 Aries 39, and pb9 saturn at 4 Aries 45 show the influence of lighted mars and saturn to a 4th house.
• progressed B Asc is at 7 Aquarius 10 in the same set with pc9 moon at 7 Aquarius 22 and pb9 neptune at 7 Leo 18. It shows a form of being open.
• progressed C Asc at 11 Gemini 02 is in the same set with pc9 saturn at 10 Sagittarius 58. Return pluto was at 11 Sagittarius 53.
• progressed c sun at 8 Gemini 59 with pc mercury at 8 Gemini 10 and pc venus, ruler of c 3rd (mind) and 7th (significant others) houses was at 8 Gemini 51. These showed that even though he could not speak, he was in active communication with loved ones.
• return (occurred on 6-2-2011) MC was at 28 Cancer 24 in the same set with c mars at 27 Cancer 13, b mars at 27 Capricorn 48, and c9 saturn at 29 Libra 55.
• return mars was at 22 Aries 45 conjunct his b9 mercury, ruler of B MC in c 6th house, at 22 Aries 49.

Of interest in his manner of death was his pb sun, ruler of b 9th house of religion, at 20 Pisces 41 conjunct his harmonic b9 sun at 20 Pisces 15, both in b 4th and c 12th houses. His birth sun had “come home” to his 9th harmonic sun. He had c moon at 23 Virgo 46. All these together were lighting up his c9 uranus at 22 Pisces 10, giving him a lighted uranus in Pisces in 4th/12th. They suggest a sudden, sorrowful end (4th), or more likely, sorrowful conditions at the end of his life and a sudden, willed end to them. (For moon conjunct pluto in Pisces in a 4th for permanent insanity see the charts of Friedrich Nietzsche and Vaslav Nijinsky in the Woolf paper. Here is the link: Paper on Insanity and Schizophrenia for Woolf, Van Gogh, Nijinsky, and Nietzsche

Nat Adderley
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Nathaniel (Nat) Adderley
American jazz musician, brother of Cannonball and indicted into the Jazz Hall of Fame. He played cornet, trumpet, mellophone and French horn. Their dad played a jazz coronet and it was a musical family; as a kid he was a singer. During service in the U.S. army 1951-53, he played with the army band. He played with Lionel Hampton, with his brother's combo, with J.J. Johnson and with Woody Herman, many successful gigs with top talent. When his brother died in 1975 he reformed the Adderly quintet, Spring 1976. Still hot into the '80s.

Adderley died 1/02/2000 at age 68. [Under the subheading “Events” in ADB it states Adderley died of complications of diabetes.]

Adderley has a harmonic Angle/moon, shown below, in his 6th chart, the chart showing his diabetes:

Set (25)	C MC	0 Taurus 37
	b6 moon	0 Leo 54	(ruler of b 9th, co-ruler (30 of 36°) b 8th houses

Nat Adderley Partial Harmonic Chart for the 6th House (aka 6th Chart)
Placidian House Cusps: c11—3Gem, c12—4Can, c2—29Leo c3—28Vir b11—4Lib, b12—30Lib, b2—24Sag, b3—29Cap

Adderley’s diabetes comes from two sets in his 6th chart.

With mars and neptune on B Ascendant, Set (25) shows the Angle/mars/neptune with influence to an Angle, 4th, and 6th houses. B6 mars rules b 6th house and B Asc in c 4th house. With this influence already on an Angle, I would think his diabetes showed up fairly early in life. We have no date of diagnosis.

Set (26), which is formed around C MC (but not C Asc) likely acted as a second diabetic influence when progressed b6 node moved over it. Containing C MC with moon/mars/saturn/neptune, it starts out lacking that all-important 6th influence. Nonetheless, it gives a lighted mars/saturn/neptune (siege conditions) influence to an Angle and 4th and 8th houses. B6 moon co-rules (29 of 35°) b 8th house. C sun rules C Asc. C6 mars rules c 4th house and c6 neptune co-rules (28 of 29°) c 8th house.

Since Set (26) has such a wide orb over-all (3° 12’), the progressing node passing through them is going to separate the set into individual influences. Moon and mars with the node would go together. Sun, saturn, and neptune, with the progressing node, would also fall together. Pb6 NN was at 27 Capricorn 40 on the day of his death, uniting that sun/saturn/neptune with its influence to an Angle and 8th house. Still no influence to a 6th house, just some stress over-all.

Set (26) did acquire influence to a 6th for a while when progressing c6 saturn, ruler of c 6th house, passed through it. Here are some of the positions which show it:

Set (27)	Date	pc6 saturn	Years Before His Death	Age
(1)	1-2-1945	29 Cancer 01	55	13 yrs. old
(2)	1-2-1946	29 Cancer 46	54	14 yrs. old
(3)	1-2-1947	0 Leo 30	55	15 yrs. old
(4)	1-2-1948	1 Leo 14	52	16 yrs. old

(1) and (2) above likely gave him an Angle/sun/saturn/neptune/6th/8th influence while it lasted—several years, perhaps, of depressed vitality. (3) and (4) would have given him a moon/mars/saturn/4th/6th/8th influence, again for nearly two years, with several years of distressed health.

Adderley’s two, summed significators for diabetes are powerful. He doesn’t even need the second one, Set (26), for diabetes. But it made his likelihood of it much greater when it acquired a 6th influence—in his teens, adding to his already powerful Angle/mars/neptune/4th/6th/8th. It may have played into his diagnosis for diabetes. Certainly Set (25) looks like a set that belongs to Type I diabetes. Dying at age 68 seems old for some one with Type I, but Adderley lived into the decades when care for Type I diabetes improved greatly, increasing life expectancy..

His “complications of diabetes” set, that is, his sun/mars/saturn set showed up as this:

Set (28)	pb sun	17 Capricorn 47	in c 6th house
	pb mars	17 Capricorn 42	ruler of b 6th house and B Asc in c 4th, in c 6th
	return saturn	17 Aries 27
	c6 sun	18 Aries 08	ruler of C Asc
	b6 jupiter	18 Aries 10
	pbc6 saturn	17 Cancer 58	ruler of c 6th house

The jupiter in set (28) was not enough to offset its destructive, catabolic qualities.

Adderley died in Lakeland, Florida. His return for that even occurred on November 25, 1999. Its C MC was at 10 Aquarius 19 in the same set with c neptune at 10 Leo 58. Return Asc was at 26 Taurus 06 in the same set with b mars at 26 Scorpio 19 and c moon at 26 Scorpio 13, with pc6 saturn at 25 Leo 08, yielding an Angle/moon/mars/saturn. Progressed C Asc was at 7 Libra 07, pc sun at 7 Aries 00, b6 sun at 8 Cancer 08, c mars at 7 Cancer 33, and return neptune at 7 Capricorn 22, yielding an Angle/2sun/mars/neputne. As can be seen, his astrology was loaded with forefront malefic--that is, destructive to life--influences at the time of his death.

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Eric Dolphy
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Eric Dolphy
American jazz musician, he played saxophone, clarinet and flute. He first came to national attention as a band member with Chico Hamilton but began playing solo shortly afterward in late 1959…

At the height of his career, he died on June 29, 1964, not even 40 years old, from complication of undiagnosed diabetes in Berlin, Germany. [italic emphasis mine]