Obesity and planets

 Let’s delve a little deeper into WHY a person would crave sugar in the first place.  On a psychological level, Sugar symbolizes the sweetness in our life–or the lack of it.  Venus, the ruler of sugar, symbolizes our ability to be loved and to love others.  People who are denied love, particularly in the first eighteen years of their life, often turn to sweet foods to compensate for what they never received from their parents.  In my experience, they also have a tendency to go toward hyperinsulism.  Psychologically, we hunt for the missing love in our food.  The consumed sweets and carbohydrates like bread and pasta and desserts compensate for the love we never received enough of. 

Our heart is about the emotion of love.  Love, if denied or not given in the right quantities to a child will set them up for a life-time of seeking love on an unconscious level.  One of the disasters is targeting “comfort food” as a way to say, “I love myself.”  Unfortunately, food for someone who is hyperinsulism oriented, converts all sugar and carbohydrates directly into fat cells. And then, the weight gain begins.  These people have to be made aware of their compulsion to consume sweets and carboyhydrates like bread and pasta could be tied to a deeper emotional need.  

When we understand WHAT is underlying our craving for a certain group of foods, this can help us get a handle on it and control it.  And control what does into our mouth.  We need to love ourselves enough to do this regardless of how unloved we were during the childhood years.  We cannot be victims.   We must be pro-active and love ourselves enough to halt the weight gain.

    

Love denied.  Love starved.  Bittersweet.  Bitterness.  Love yearned for and never fulfilled.  All these different expressions and levels of love that are not bestowed upon the baby/child, set him or her up for sweet cravings. Or, as an adult when loss of a loved one will put them on this path, as well.  When carbohydrate consumption gets out of hand, weight gain is the result.  Obesity is the end of the road for this person.  Being unloved creates the psychological and emotional foundation for this type of over weight phenomena.

There is no question that low self-esteem breeds obesity.  The problems start at home and if not checked, understood or changed, then ‘comfort’ food becomes a primary way to assauge one feeling bad about themselves.

In my experience, these are the major reasons for fat and obesity in my clients.  Yes, genetics can and does play into this.  However, with proper education and knowledge, what you eat and how much you eat, can be understood and changed.   As an adult, we are responsible for what we put into our mouths.  We can change our relationship with food once we understand the foundation of how we got here from there.  If we are a child, we have no choice but to look to our parents and we hope they are knowledgeable about good foods vs. junk food/high sugar products, ect.

 Children sense being abandoned.  I realize that most parents would take issue with this, but looking at it from the baby’s standpoint it IS being abandoned.  Both parents are leaving it with strangers. And it is how the baby/child sees this that counts because that’s where the wounding–being abandoned–gets started and the foundation for obesity is laid.

With abandonment comes a whole host of other feelings for the baby/child.  There is a sense of no protection, of not being safe and perhaps, even being threatened.  The center of abandonment is loss of security.  Over and over again I’ve seen this scenario play out and adults who are obese who will tell me this familiar tale of being abandoned–although they may not use that word–usually, that they were “left alone,” or “day care,” explanations are used, instead. 

It’s a very common symptom in children and adults nowadays.  When you see obesity, there’s probably a strong chance that this person feels unsafe, threatened and unprotected in our world.

But ground zero is emotional wounding as one of the major components that sets a child off balance and the body responds to the wounding by packing on layers of fat, much like armor worn by a knight in the days of Yore, to protect themselves.  Only, the knight, after the battle, could shed his armor.  The children (and adults) of today WEAR their armor and until they feel safe and protected–it isn’t coming off.

I would strongly suggest everyone read my three blogs on PTSD and high cortisol — http://medicalastrologybyeileennauman.blogspot.com — which were published in November 2009 (just go to November ARCHIVES).  When a child doesn’t feel safe and is in a threatening environment parentally speaking, her or his cortisol goes sky high. And will remain there if there is serious, ongoing dysfunction in the family environment.  This child grows up to an adult and will have weight issues all her or his life until–and if–they get help.  That help for high cortisol is outlined in these three blogs–so please check it out. 

Moon

 The Moon symbolizes our mother.  There is a statistic out that if the parents are obese, the children will become obese, too.  Mom and children are interconnected and cannot be separated.  And if Mom is falling short in ways that it wounds her baby/young child, she may or may not know that.  Little babies can’t talk and young children simply don’t understand how they feel.  But feel they do.  And the Moon is about IMPRINTATION and CYCLES and BEHAVIOR and REPETITIVENESS of emotional patterns.  It boils down to being nurtured or not.  Children who are emotionally neglected or deprived for a million reasons, are not nurtured.  Mom equals breast milk, the food of life, the bond between mother and child and of being nurtured and feeling safe and secure in her arms.  We have billions of children who grow up without proper nuturing and in one way, it can be expressed via weight gain and obesity.

The next time you see an overweight woman, wonder if she had a dysfunctional childhood.  The body retains memory of it.   Most people wear their wounding on the inside of them.   In this case, it is worn externally for all to see.  That should make us more compassionate toward that individual.

  Women aren’t the only ones impacted by childhood dysfunction.  Men are just as vulnerable.   The next time you see a man who is over weight, ask yourself:  I wonder if he had a tough childhood?  If you can picture that man as a little boy, compassion may flow instead of feeling disgust or prejudice because of the weight he carries.



Consider the Moon like the ceaseless ebb and flow of the ocean tide.  Water symbolically represents our emotions.  Whatever we experience in the first eighteen years of our life, we get imprinted with it.  And unfortunately, we tend to imprint the trauma far better and for far longer than any good experiences that ever happened to us.  I don’t feel it’s at all unusual that we would remember our emotional woundings and trauma longer than the good things we experienced in our life.  It is through our wounding that we learn. That’s just how it is on this planet.  Our karma is of our own making and walking through it to learn is what it’s all about ‘down here.’

Dysfunctional parents equals a child with hard aspects to his or her Moon.  The Moon imprints all emotional behavior whether supportive or detrimental to us.  It is about the cycles of our life.  Parental behavior imprints us.  The Moon and hard aspects to it is the second reason for potential weight gain and obsesity.  When we’re feeling attacked on any level, some people unconsciously use fat as a barrier and shield to protect themselves from the slings and arrows of life.  When a person is fat/obese, there should be intervention therapy that goes right along with a new diet.  They must know what is trip-levering this situation.  By making them responsible, it can often underwrite and support their reasons to lose the weight.

    We are all creatures of “habit.” And the Moon symbolizes our behaviors, good and bad.  The Moon is a major key to fat and obesity issues.  I am always distressed by the traditional medical model who merrily goes its way creating lap band surgery and other ways to decrease weight, when in reality, therapy must be a part of getting healthy once again.  Fortunately, homeopathy, a wonderful alternative medicine, enfolds a person’s psyche, behavior patterns and emotions.  

Mars/Venus:

 If the person has Mars in hard aspect with Venus (e.g., AK), then there’s the possibility of having high cortisol being thrown out into our bloodstream by our Adrenal glands.  High or low cortisol creates intense cravings.  Some people will crave salt.  Others will  crave sweets.  Some will crave recreational drugs or alcohol.  When the stress hits, however, then the ‘comfort foods’ for the Venus-driven person is going to be SUGAR related.  Sugar addiction is not uncommon in this position.  

Jupiter

If you get Jupiter on the MC  (e.g.AK) or Ascendant (e.g.,AN), then the largess factor arrives big time (pardon the pun!)  Providing the aspects are there, this individual can over eat. They like the food and they gorge.  Jupiter people don’t have any brakes to apply to their eating behavior.  Not unless Saturn (the brakes) is there in a sextile aspect (e.g., AN), or Saturn is well aspected as a whole in the person’s chart.

Jupiter can do everything in excess.  They don’t know when to say “stop” or “no” to the food they’re eating.  They tend to be gourmands as well, so this doesn’t help matter any.  And they like fatty meat, desserts and buttery recipes/sauces.  Sweets, desserts and sauces are their pyramid food groups. All, if eaten too often and in too large a serving, will eventually put on the weight gain.

Jupiter trine another planet, especially sun, moon or venus, can cause weight gain (e.g., AN).  People who have trines have a tendency not to exercise very much unless that have too.  We call a trine “lazy” and it can be.  The person can become lazy and indolent.  Of course, other aspects can change this potential. 

By definition, an unaspected planet (JP in AK) is one that has no major aspects to it: conjunction, sextile, square, trine or opposition.  In other words: it sits out there and operates on its own just as it pleases.  And sometimes to the detriment in health issues.  It is a rebel and has no responsibility to the other planets because the aspects aren’t there to modify or support its behavior one way or another. 

Please see my three-part series:  PTSD/high cortisol in 2009 on my blog for in-depth and detail explanation of this statement (check the archives from 11.28.2009 through 12.1.2009 for these blogs):  http://medicalastrologybyeileennauman.blogspot.com.