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Acupuncture and Alexander Technique may improve neck pain








Acupuncture sessions and Alexander Technique lessons both seem to improve the symptoms of chronic neck pain after one year, according to a new study. Alexander Technique involves hands-on lessons for self-care in everyday activities, aimed at reducing poor posture, excess muscle tension, poor coordination, stress or pain. Single interventions for chronic neck pain do not on average provide long-term benefits, so the positive results with acupuncture and Alexander Technique lessons were surprising, said lead author Hugh MacPherson of the University of York in the U.K. Nov.2 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/02/us-health-neckpain-idUSKCN0SR2FH20151102





The news about the success of Acupuncture sessions and Alexander Technique for healing neck pains comes just a day before the last quarter Moon. A chart for the Moon phase at York has a skewed Grand Cross straddling the horizon axis. Uranus-Pluto in its positive manifestation is a scientific breakthrough. Here Uranus [17ar] is conjunct the stars Altais, delta Draconis, [17ar] in the Dragon’s neck  and kappa Andromeda [17ar] in the constellation of the Chained Woman. As a generalized symbol the Chained Woman, Andromeda assailed by the Sea Monster Cetus rules all kinds of afflictions and here more specifically, the Dragon’s neck pinpoints the area of affliction.

The word chronic which means “continuing for a long time” comes from  the Greek word chronos – another name for Saturn. Going further we notice that Saturn [4sa] ,which  is in a hard aspect to Uranus [17ar], is conjunct the stars in the head and neck of the beast Lupus and Yed Posterior, epsilon Ophiuchus, in the left hand of the shaman holding the serpent of healing.  Diana Rosenberg includes head, face and neck ailments in this area.

Ophiuchus, or Serpentarius, the Serpent-holder, the Serpent Bearer, the Serpent Wrestler, or the Snake Charmer, is often depicted holding a snake, the snake is represented by the constellation Serpens. Ophiuchus is identified with Aesculapius (Asklepios, Asclepius), an ancient physician who grew so skilled in the craft of healing that he was able to restore the dead to life.The association of the serpent (Serpens) with this constellation, Ophiuchus, may indicate the miraculous powers which are ascribed to snake-charmers. Before medicine became a science the role of the physician and priest were combined in many cultures, and existed in what we know today as the witch doctor, shaman, or medicine man, and the earliest snake charmers were traditional healers. Their aim was holistic healing, the healing of both mind and body. They used herbs, potions, charms, incantations, exorcism, magic, divination, and prayers, in their means to establish the cure [1].


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