I’m taking an inventory. Not looking for advice *for me* but wondering what do *you* do when you feel unwell? The Sun and Venus are still in Virgo. It’s still a good time to talk about health, physical, mental, spiritual.
I am back on track as far as readings go. Maybe even slightly ahead of schedule, according to my projections when I was sick, and someone this morning commented that I recovered quickly, and honestly I don’t know. Is 24-48 hours quick? For a fever/cold? Perhaps it is. But the cold had been lingering for more than a week and finally just knocked me out. I did a number of things, best I could, while continuing to work. And I really wanted to go to Ground Zero today but decided to stay in. I have to be out tomorrow anyway, so tomorrow it will be. I kind of wonder if Senni was “put down” this morning — and maybe that’s why I started to feel tired/heavy.
Now I’m not saying my little illness was transit-related but I think the transits brought exhaustion which brought the illness. And the weather. I was working in two days of extreme damp and rain. Saturn is exactly square my Sun now.
So let’s talk health. Do you have favorite remedies? Supplements? Visualizations? What do you do to get well? How important to you is faith/belief in your ability to get well?
Music, believe it or not, was crucial to my recovery.
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8 thoughts on “A Question For My Readers: How Do You Get Well?”
Getting rest and homeopathy work for me. I rarely get sick, but when I do, its usually a sore throat which is stress related. It’s amazing what stress does to the body. I have Chiron in the sixth. Health and healing are very important to me.
Glad u r feeling better… I take vitamin c chewables when I get sick and load up on zinc lozenges… Hot green tea w lemon and honey soothes or lemon soother tea w honey 🙂 helps!!!!
Thanks for these responses!
Oh, and walking in the woods or working in the garden is essential too.
If it’s just general under-the-weatherness I take to my bed with a really good book. After a hot bath. And eat lots of savoury comfort food. If my tummy is empty I feel even worse so food is important.
For more serious conditions I swear by homeopathy, and acupuncture. A lot of the problems I have seem to stem from energy overloads and blockages of one sort or another, and acupuncture works wonders. I started another course of it recently for some very debilitating perimenopause-related conditions and feel like a new person already.
One of the things the acupuncturist and I got to talking about was the overemphasis on mind or body and how out of balance it can become. With me it’s definitely too much on the mind/spiritual way and not enough body work so I’m working on evening it all up now. And after two treatments I had enough energy to reconnect to my faith-life which had got dissipated along with the physical.
Very Virgo/Pisces couple of weeks I’ve had recently:) Glad you’re feeling better….
Saturn transiting Sun can supposedly dampen the vitality of the immune system, so it is said. The Sun does represent vitality, energy and life force.
Saturn is, on the other hand, heavy; a slowing down and entrenched process of learning, sometimes karma, and sometimes “blocks of stone” (or lead) we must endure, and things that burden us or slow us down. Weight and then lastly, ice and chill.. its transit isn’t usually associated with fevers unless Mars is involved, however it is associated with a dampening down the immune system, tiredness and fatigue that can bring about colds and other infections which are not accompanied by fevers.
The Sun can fight back with fever, the fire of life and the purification process.. the Sunshine and optimism in the blood (blood being usually represented by Mars) when they say “laughter is the best medicine” they are probably meaning the “sunny” nature that is brought out by optimism which flushes one’s face with health and vitality, just by laughing..
An old band mate of mine, who didn’t get sick very often said he used to drink hot tea, put on a warm coat and attempt to break into a sweat by playing the drums.. it worked for him.. I can’t say it would work for me if I was bedridden, but everything is different for everyone.
Me, when I used to get sick, I didn’t do anything but take extra medicine like the doctor told me to do, I needed to double up on the asthma meds when I had a cold, and for 3 years straight I did that, had lots of colds and felt horrible and it seemed like I got like 8 colds a year. Now its been hardly a sniffle..obviously, if I sniffle, I clean my nose out with ionic silver water, and or take a really warm bath. Yeah drink hot liquids and suddenly, just as soon as I wake up the next day, I’m ok. Which is amazing for me.
Everyone is different, and before I didn’t even bother to rest because there would always be more work for me to do, now at least when I feel I’m coming down with something, as soon as I feel my energy fluctuate I sit down, drink some warm water and lemon and take it easy and try to go to bed early.
I know, boring! Yawn! My neighbour, who is a Pisces who went to school with my husband, said she does notice the number of Virgo people on the job with her, and takes note that they do have these “Virgo tendencies” and wondered if it was actually the nature of the sign or the job she works in.. I figure its a little of both, due to the fact Virgo is attracted to working within the health industry.
Glad you are feeling better.
Take care,
AET 🙂
P.S. the Pisces in question is a doctor…specializing in the liver.
Tea is always nice and plenty of rest. Maybe a movie. A hot shower feels pretty good too.