What began as a chat between husband and wife has
evolved into an intriguing scientific discovery. The results, published in May
in BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal) Open, show a “highly significant”
correlation between periodic solar storms and incidences of rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) and giant cell arteritis (GCA), two potentially debilitating
autoimmune diseases. The findings by a rare collaboration of physicists and
medical researchers suggest a relationship between the solar outbursts and the
incidence of these diseases that could lead to preventive measures if a causal
link can be established. Inspiring this study were conversations between Simon
Wing, a Johns Hopkins University physicist and first author of the paper, and
his wife, Lisa Rider, deputy unit chief of the Environmental Autoimmunity Group
at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in the National
Institutes of Health, and a coauthor. Rider spotted data from the Mayo Clinic
in Rochester, Minnesota, showing that cases of RA and GCA followed close to
10-year cycles. “That got me curious,” Wing recalled. “Only a few things in
nature have a periodicity of about 10-11 years and the solar cycle is one of
them.” June 16
The planet
Mercury went direct on June 11 after a three week period of retrogression. In
the wake of this direct motion we are now
seeing events which can be related to the station. A chart for Mercury
SD at Baltimore, Maryland, where John Hopkins University is located, is shown
here. Notice that Mercury-Saturn are on the horizon axis while Neptune is on
the IC. In other words they are all in a paran aspect [1]. Mercury [4ge] is
conjunct the star mu Tauri [4ge] in the knee of the Bull. In addition, Mercury
(movement) is conjunct the TNP Admetus and
opposite Saturn (both linked to restriction). Mercury is also conjunct the asteroid Hephaistos, which is linked to problems with lower limbs.
Neptune on the IC is opposite the medical asteroid Aesculapia connected to disease and illness. And finally Pluto
[15cp] which aspects both ends of the horizon axis is conjunct the star Rukbat
[17cp]. Alpha (α) Sagittarius, Rukbat, is a star on the horse's knee!
Saturn
rules our bones and teeth as well as having rulership over our tendons and
ligaments. And the ruler of Capricorn
is this planet. Nowhere in the body is
more important than these two items in our knees. Saturn also rules the cartilage of our body
whether it’s the discs between our vertebrae or the covering on our knee
joints. Sometimes, the knee joint, for
whatever reason (probably genetic) produces too much fluid (Neptune) . This is most often seen in people who have
degenerative or other types of joint disease (rheumatoid arthritis,
osteoarthritis). [2]
If we
remember that Saturn is the ‘capacity
for organization’ while Mercury is linked to the ability to see
connections in a ‘collection of data’ we
begin to understand how Wing and his wife Rider were able to arrive
at their remarkable conclusions at the Mercury station.
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