How Astrology Can Be Used For Healing, According To A Holistic Psychiatrist

There was a time when all physicians were astrologers. Hippocrates was a Greek astrologer-physician. Nostradamus and Paracelsus were famous French astrologer-physicians in the 1500s. Imhotep was a celebrated astrologer-physician in ancient Egypt, and renowned Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung also considered astrology extremely influential in his work.

Many astrologers, including myself, consider astrology charts to be the plan of the soul for each lifetime. The idea is that neither your life, nor your chart, is random. You were assigned—or chose—the family circumstances you incarnated into, and your chart was also planned in advance. Souls are here to learn, and there has to be some way to keep them roughly on track. Astrology is that way.

My belief is that the astrology chart functions as a sort of energetic hologram that gets synced onto the body and soul during the dimensional shift at the moment of birth. The chart then broadcasts its energetic signatures every moment for the rest of a person's life. It creates a big part of someone's "vibration."

If you connect well with someone, I believe it's because you have important things aligning in your astrology charts. You are literally "vibing" with them. Similarly, if you clash with someone, you have unfavorable angles forming between planets in your respective charts.

A multiple lifetime theory of existence plays a role in astrology, with a person's past accomplishments and actions likely creating the details in their chart. Talents are built over many lives, debts are created and paid, and personality quirks or challenges are refined. 

A psychologically minded astrologer can quickly identify a person's traumas, wounds, and struggles and help them realize their challenges were part of the soul's plan all along. This is a transformational realization that can bring a person to a point of spiritual understanding, forgiveness, or awakening that might otherwise take years to achieve.

Additionally, astrology can help people understand how different everyone is (and how difficult it is for someone to be anything other than what is in their chart). This expanded perspective leads to compassion; people are not meant to reject the difficult parts of their charts or themselves. 

Interestingly, the personality quirks that cause the greatest suffering are often tied up with the gifts people are on the planet to give. Strengths are also linked to weaknesses. This is a fascinating healing paradox astrology revealed to me many years ago. Every planet, and all the signs, have light and dark aspects, gifts and challenges. 

Understanding astrology can help someone rise above the denser potential and lean toward the gifts of their chart placements. Attempting to ponder why they might have had the family they had, what it taught them, and how it shaped them into the person they were supposed to become, karmically, can help develop insight, fortitude, and forgiveness.

Chiron is the "wounded healer" in mythology, and its placement by sign and location give clues about a prominent way we are wounded during our lives. Chiron's lessons usually complete around the 50th birthday.

Pluto is a planet associated with power, sex, and intensity. When Pluto is prominent in someone's chart, their path is not easy. They will be a "shadow magnet," attracting unhealed Plutonian energies from others, through which they can confront their own darkness.

Mars is linked with anger and aggression. If it is prominent in a chart, a person will usually have healing challenges related to managing their reactions, tempering their emotions, and learning how to be considerate.

Neptune is connected with themes of fear, illusion, and escapism. When Neptune is strong, a chart there can be a pattern of escapism (substance abuse, for example), or a tendency to be fearful or paranoid.

Astrology is an ancient spiritual technology that exists to keep your soul on track, and understanding it means understanding a secret. That secret? You.