Guide To Natural Health: Using The Horoscope As A Key To Ancient Healing Practices,Used

About The Authorjonathan Keyes (Oregon) Is An Astrologer, Certified Herbalist, And Healer. With A Focus On Health And Spiritual Growth, He Provides Practical And Downtoearth Advice For Nourishing One'S Self Optimally According To One'S Astrological Chart.Besides His Work In The Astrology Field, Keyes Has Studied Health Sciences At The Evergreen State College Where He Received A Bachelor Of Science Degree. He Has Also Learned To Practice Plant Spirit Medicine, A Blend Of Shamanism, Herbalism, And Chinese Medicine.Keyes Has Lived In Mexico And Ecuador Where He Worked With Indigenous Healers And Shamans To Learn Native Healing Practices And To Speak And Write Spanish. He Is A Longtime Student Of Yoga And Chinese Medicine And Incorporates These Ideas Into His Work.Jonathan Keyes Is A Contributor To Stariq.Com And Llewellyn Almanacs.Product Descriptionguide To Natural Healthdiscover Four Element Medicineholistic Healingrooted In Astrology And The Natural Worldguide To Natural Health Merges Astrological, Shamanic, Pagan, And Healing Concepts Into An Easytoread Book That Will Help You Understand The Relationship Between Your Health, The Natural World, And Astrology.You Will Learn How To Assess Your Energetic Profile By Looking At The Elements, Modalities, Planets, And Signs In Your Astrological Birth Chart. You Will Find Out How To Address Imbalances In Each Of These Areas Using Simple Therapies Based On The Four Elementsearth, Air, Fire, And Water. By Working With Tools Such As Herbs, Diet, Stones, And Animal And Bird Totems, You Will Discover How To Harmonize Your Own Horoscope For Optimal Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, And Physical Health.Also Included In This Unique Healing Guide Are Many Ways To Deepen Your Connection To The Natural Worldrituals To Celebrate The Cycles Of The Moon And The Changing Seasons, Shamanic Techniques, And Instructions For Creating Healing Spells And Amulets.Excerpt. Reprinted By Permission. All Rights Reserved.The History And Practiceof Four Element Medicinethis Fall A Few Friends And I Drove Out Along The Columbia River Gorge In Oregon To Go Stargazing About Thirty Miles East Of Portland. The Wind Was Strong And The Night Was Bitterly Cold, But That Didn''T Stop A Number Of Us Amateur Astronomers From Setting Up A Base Camp Near The Side Of The River. With Telescopes, I Was Able To Make Out The Moons Of Jupiter And The Rings Of Saturn. A Few Meteors Shot Overhead As I Watched The Panorama Of Stars Stretch Out Through The Night Sky. I Had Never Seen The Moons Of Jupiter Before, And This Event Thrilled Me With A Sense Of Discovery And Joy. Almost 400 Years Ago, The Famous Italian Scientist Galileo Looked Up In The Night Sky To Spot These Same Moons. In His Texts, He Wrote:'Accordingly, On The Seventh Day Of January Of The Present Year 1610, At The First Hour Of The Night, When I Inspected The Celestial Constellations Through A Spyglass, Jupiter Presented Himself. And Since I Had Prepared For Myself A Superlative Instrument, I Saw That Three Little Stars Were Positioned Near Himsmall But Very Bright. Although I Believed Them To Be Among The Number Of Fixed Stars, They Nevertheless Intrigued Me Because They Appeared To Be Arranged Along A Straight Line . . . But When, On The Eighth, I Returned To The Same Observation, Guided By I Know Not What Fate, I Found A Very Different Arrangement. For All Three Little Stars Were To The West Of Jupiter And Closer To Each Other Than The Previous Night, And Separated By Equal Intervals.'1Galileo Used A New, Littleknown Piece Of Technology Known As The Telescope, A Tool That Would Revolutionize The Field Of Astronomy And Would Herald The Demise Of Astrology Over The Next 100 Years. Prior To The Discovery Of The Telescope, People Had Used The Naked Eye To View The Stars And Planets And Infuse The Heavens With Meaning, Mythology, And Spiritual Reverence. By The End Of The 1600S, A New View Of The Cosmos Had Emerged, One Based On Rat