Progress on new research and treatments for
dementia has been "achingly slow", an expert has said.Dr Dennis
Gillings, the recently appointed global dementia envoy, said the pledge by G8
countries to develop a cure or treatment by 2025 was "impossible" without
better incentives for investment. Six months since the UK hosted a G8 summit on dementia, the prime
minister is speaking at a follow-up event in central London
Dementia is
a gradual decline of how the brain functions. It is incurable, and slowly
interferes with a person's ability to carry out the normal tasks of daily
living. Dementia can also trigger other mental health problems such as
personality changes, anxiety, mood swings and depression. In more advanced
dementia, the person may lose the ability to get up and move, or the interest
to eat or drink.
We will see
here how this news can be understood through the lens of the chart for the eclipse of April 29, 2014 at
London
Here we
find Uranus [13ar58] conjunt the stars Zeta
Cephei [14ar10], in the King’s head and Alpheratz [14ar31], alpha Andromeda, in
Princess’ head. Any reference to the head has by association links to mental
health.
The eclipse
[8ta52] was square the MC and placed in the 12th house which
rules asylums and therefore by association with concerns for mental health. It is also conjunct a retrograde Mercury –
another connection to issues of the
mind. A reference about Mercury in the
12th house tells us how it
functions.
It is often a good placement for helping others to
communicate, get their point across, or simply to listen. The person
understands about being overwhelmed by an emotional force so large that it
engulfs the ability to speak what they are feeling and these people can aid
others across the choppy waters towards a clearer understanding [2].
Writing
about stars in close conjunction to Mercury [12ta31], Diana Rosenberg states:
Here the ravening Sea-Monster (representing the
monsters of the sub conscious mind) is slain by gallant Perseus, the Hero and Rescuer,
enabling Andromeda to free herself from her chains.
This
extract tells us that this area is also about helping those suffering from
mental illness. If we progress the
eclipse chart by the PSSR method to June 18, the date of the news item, we find
the Grand Cross straddling the meridian axis. The challenge of the Jupiter-Pluto
opposition in the Cross is described thus by Sherene Vismaya [3]:
Jupiter is one of the most generous planets when it
comes to expansion, luck and wisdom. While in the sign of Cancer, this “great
benefic” brings great abundance in nurturing, feeling and connecting us to our
roots. Pluto in Capricorn continues to ask us to gut out whatever is faulty,
decrepit or in need of major transformation at the base level of our
infrastructures. Now that these two planets are forming an exact opposition, we
can bring the revamping energy of Pluto into our lives. Cancer traditionally
rules mother and feminine energy where Capricorn tends to apply to father
figures and worldly, patriarchal structures. We may find ourselves clinging to
one side of the spectrum now and battling against the other.
The obvious
implication, when we read between the lines, is that we need to do more to
nurture patients through revamping our
health care infrastructure thus reflecting
the essence of the news item.
The news
also mentions that Dr. Dennis Gillings said that the pledge by G8 countries to
develop a cure or treatment by 2025 was "impossible" without better
incentives for investment. This imoprtant detail can also be seen in progressed
chart. How is that? Well notice that the
progressed Ascendant [6le06] forms a quincunx to Neptune [7pi08]
which is in an area that is part of the Indian lunar mansion Satabhisaj “Requiring a Hundred
Physicians” reflecting the enormity of the task!
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