Eclipse brings cure for diabetes

The hunt for a cure for type 1 diabetes has recently taken a "tremendous step forward", scientists have said. The disease is caused by the immune system destroying the cells that control blood sugar levels. A team at Harvard University used stem cells to produce hundreds of millions of the cells in the laboratory. Tests on mice showed the cells could treat the disease, which experts described as "potentially a major medical breakthrough". Beta cells in the pancreas pump out insulin to bring down blood sugar levels. But the body's own immune system can turn against the beta cells, destroying them and leaving people with a potentially fatal disease because they cannot regulate their blood sugar levels. BBC; Oct 10. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29566784

The chart for the Full Moon lunar eclipse of October 8, drawn for Cambridge, MA – the location of Harvard University is shown here. Notice that it is very significantly aligned with the horizon axis with the medical asteroid Hygiea [1] on the MC.

The eclipse Moon conjoins Uranus and trines Jupiter. Jupiter-Uranus-Mars form a Grand Trine.

In her essay “Jupiter/Uranus: Bright Ideas and Breakthroughs”, Kelly Surtees writes:

Jupiter brings an expansive, open energy which complements Uranus’ inventive tone. As a pair, they have, throughout history, been linked to creative and scientific breakthroughs. http://bit.ly/1rx3UiU

Here in the Lunar Eclipse chart, Jupiter is the ruler of the 6^th house which is linked to illness and disease so that one can expect the  Jupiter/Uranus scientific breakthrough to occur in the area of medicine. http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h6.html

Then we notice that Jupiter is sextile the eclipse Sun and Venus on the Ascendant.

Jupiter and Venus in strong aspect to each other can symbolize a connection with diabetes since Jupiter rules insulin and the pancreas (which produces this hormone) and Venus rules sugar. Jupiter also symbolically represents an expansion process and, when in reference to Venus, can play out as an increase in sugar levels under stress and the inability to produce the amount of insulin  needed by the body to metabolize the increase in sugar. http://bit.ly/1C4kCY6

Therefore, to students of astrology, news of a medical breakthrough in the area of diabetes will not come as a surprise. 

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