ASTROLOGY AND NUTRITION

by Laura Poggiani  

About Houses, the 1st, the 2nd and the 3rd indicate the physical body (the 1st), sensory feelings, in particular the taste and the sight (the 2nd), and the mind (the 3rd), respectively. The 4th, the 5th, and the 6th House, on the other hand, represent familiar traditions: in particular the 4th, for extension to the Cancer, represents also the dairy industry, the milk, so to shift from mother’s arms to the ability to take and give love to others, furthermore it also represents the skills to arrange creative dishes (5th). The opposite sign placed at the cusp of this House, in fact, shows the style we arrange the food we’re going to eat. The 6th House shows the process involving the food once assumed, while the 7th one indicates how balanced the body tackles with the digestion to be evacuated then (8th House, cosignificant of Scorpio) while in the 9th House there’s the full nutritive process. With the 10th House, the person, who fully accomplished his needs, begins to take profit of his time, while the 11th and the 12th House, opposite to the 5th andthe 6th respectively, indicate the duties of the person toward the society.

Signs in Cusp to the 6th Field:

ARIES: In this case the food is extremely compulsive and fast. The native eats only when is hungry and hardly gets accustomed to fixed times. Loving hot and spiced food, he tends to swallow without an adequate mastication. There’s also the tendency to burn proteins, so a larger contribution of meat and iron is needed in the diet, which is hardly followed regularly.
With AS Scorpio, the meal will hardly be a pleasant moment, because he does not care about the given food is tasteful and abundant, for he leaves the table as soon as satisfied. He hates cooking, and if he’s forced to, he tends to burn whatever he arranges, he hates restaurants and places where he has to wait long for the food, so his ideal place are fast-foods.

TAURUS: This is the very sign of gourmet! Food is slowly chewed so to be fully tasted. There’s the tendency to eat too much and the passion for cakes improves the predisposition toward obesity, mostly in the maturity.
With Sagittarius AS, and so a particularly strong Jupiter (Jupiter had its exaltation just in Taurus!) the tendency to exceed and to accumulate fat is strong.

GEMINI: Just like Aries, also here there’s a real difficulty in following scheduled times. On the contrary, there’s the tendency to "munch" often. Generally speaking, who has this combination, loves to cook for other people rather than for him/herself and while cooking, he/she tries here and there, so to get full before lunch! Conviviality is looked for and often the topic of the meal is what’s on during the day.

CANCER: Just like Taurus, also in this case there’s the love for good dishes and to share meals with the family. Traditional cuisine is preferred, especially if local, mostly related to family cuisine or based upon inherited recipes. As expert cooks, particularly skilled in baking cakes, they love cheese and dairy products in general.
With AS Capricorn, the variation of the daily diet is strictly reduced, although little changes are allowed. On the contrary, if AS is Aquarius, with Pisces in II, food will be extremely varying and based mostly on seafood and fish in general. Furthermore, they exaggerate in assuming alcohol, fried, and well-seasoned salads.

LEO: With this combination the well-cooked and hot food is preferred, especially if served ceremoniously. They love attending fine restaurants, especially if entertainment is combined with the meal. If there are guests, on the table a great variety of food will be shown.
With Pisces in I House, a great variety of alcoholics and liquors is associated to the different dishes. Colorful, fresh, exotic dishes are preferred as well as the best meat cuts.

VIRGO: Being the VI House associated with this sign, its influence is more strongly marked, in fact this position is often detected in many "maniacs" for natural food. Moreover, many people having this combination are vegetarian or at least follow strict diets. They also love sitting around the table always at the same time, checking calories of foods, and so on. 
Aries in AS brings a little patience toward other people’s alimentary habits. Beans, cereals, and pork derived are preferred just like colorful and hot foods. 

LIBRA: With this combination, besides showing AS in Taurus, meals are the good chance for conviviality and to socialize. Although cakes are certainly chosen, food is less important than good company around the table. Nuts and, as far as meat is concerned, cutlet and shoulders are selected.

SCORPIO: This is the sign of lonesome people and its disposer Pluto is related to dark and to solitary and strange places. Confidential, unusual restaurants, with low lights, out of the ordinary paths. It’s the same, though, to eat alone or in company of someone else! What’s more, the meal is often "rinsed" with alcoholics.
AS in Gemini and the II House in Con in Taurus make them likely consumers of milk and of dairy products in general. Moreover, they prefer oysters (especially crude), macaroni, pasta, eggs and mushrooms. There’s also the tendency to eat whenever they want and so lunch time are very compulsive: they hate to wait when they’re hungry.

SAGITTARIUS: "Plenty" is the key word for this combination, whose table is always rich of all kinds of foods to the excess; as long as money is enough to be spent, it will be used to buy food, usually shared with guests. In particular there’s a great attraction toward exotic and foreign cuisine, but also the tendency to excess and obesity. When cooking, though, other people are not welcome all around.
Almonds, cinnamon, maize, gin, citrus fruits, rice, grapes.
Cancer in AS gives sensitivity to what people think of ourselves, so the look is cared for even among the pots!

CAPRICORN: With this combination, much attention is paid to one’s own diet, leaving the table once satisfied, taking particular care for good manners and to how food is served, as Leo in AS stresses. When choosing a restaurant, there’s the tendency to select a fashionable one, and there’s no hesitation in sending back to the kitchen what’s not adequately prepared. Business are easily tackled around a table and drinking is copious.

AQUARIUS: The one having this combination is likely to work in a restaurant as waiter.
With AS in Virgo, a particular attention is paid in preparing dishes, for oneself or for other people, loving experiments. With a look at the budget, money is always cautiously used to buy food. 

PISCES: With this combination, eating is related to the "right mood". Although there’s the tendency toward alcoholics, there’s a great self-control to not exceed, because of Libra in AS, driving to maintain the body as attractive as possible. They love being adulated and so guests’ compliments are especially welcome for one’s own cooking skills. 

ALIMENTARY ALLERGIES

Mostly symbolized by the Moon and by Cancer, people having the Moon in the VI or Cancer on the cusp of this House usually suffer for alimentary allergies, most of all to dairy products and milk, though they love them.
In case of squares to the Moon, the symbolized food by that planet can cause allergy. Jupiter or Venus square to the Moon in VI, for example, sometimes indicate allergic reactions to strawberries.
Also people with Gemini in cusp of VI often suffer for allergies having repercussions on the respiratory apparatus and asthma, in particular, can be caused by alimentation. 

REFERENCES

"Astrology, Nutrition and Health" by Robert Carl Jansky

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