posted May 25, 2006 02:25 AM
Here are some links to help your friends. The moon in a fertile sign (water) may help: Cancer, Pisces and Scorpio. A waxing rather than waning moon may help. Good aspects between the Moon and Jupiter and/or the Moon and Venus may also help. A transiting Jupiter making an aspect to the natal moon may also help in the female's chart. The last link is an online fertility calculator. Good luck to them. http://www.spica.com.au/fertility.htm
For many women today, fertility issues can take over their lives. Either they are trying to conceive and experiencing difficulties or need help with contraceptive methods which do not affect their health.
Women all over the world have used the Rhythm Method for contraceptive purposes, and unfortunately, have experienced a high degree of failure. As a result, during the last few decades, women have turned to the Pill, IUD, and other modern forms of contraception, which although they have provided a more reliable method of birth control, have had an adverse effect on some women's health. Others have simply found these methods uncomfortable to use. Also some women are finding that after several years of postponing having children by using modern contraceptive methods, that when they do want to start a family, they are experiencing difficulties.
As a result, many women are looking for more natural methods of birth-control, and as a result of the research done using the lunar phase cycle, you can increase the contraceptive value of the Rhythm Method, or get extra help to conceive a baby.
It was found that if you were born on a full moon, that is the sun/moon angle in your chart was 180 degrees, each month you will be fertile on the full moon, if physically you are capable of conceiving. Furthermore, studies also revealed that the sex of a child depends on the position of the moon during this cycle at the time of conception. That is if the Moon is in a masculine sign (fire or air) you will conceive a boy, or if it is in a feminine sign (water or earth) you will conceive a girl. This information is not new, as centuries before women had worked with the Moon's cycles in relation to fertility. However, as we are concerned about the effect on some patients, who are having abortions for unwanted pregnancies, research for alternative contraception led to an investigation into these methods used since ancient times.
It was found that for many women, the time of ovulation and the lunar phase cycle do not always occur at the same time, and therefore, for many women there are two times in a woman's monthly cycle when she may become pregnant. This explains the high failure rate of the Rhythm Method. Even if she is accurate at pinpointing the time of ovulation, and avoiding intercourse during this time, she can still fall pregnant at the time of the lunar phase cycle. Therefore, by working with the lunar cycle, and your time of ovulation, you will increase the reliability of your contraception.
For women who are trying to have a child, using the lunar phase cycle will give extra help in pinpointing the second fertile time during your monthly cycle when you may conceive.
It can also be of use in helping to choose the sex of the child you wish to conceive, as the appropriate month in which to conceive either a boy or a girl, can be calculated.
For those women who wish to use more natural methods of controlling their fertility, knowing the time and date of the monthly recurrence of their lunar phase cycle will increase the knowledge of their own body's cycles, therefore giving them more control of their own health and contraceptive choices.
There are a number of naturopaths and other alternative healers in Australia at the moment helping their clients conceive using this cycle, as well as using herbs, flower essences, etc in order to get the future mother into the best possible health to have a baby.
Calculating your monthly lunar phase cycle is easy. Below are the details of a client who conceived this year using this method. She was also under the care of a homeopath who was helping her achieve the best possible health in order to conceive and carry a healthy baby.
Her Sun/Moon angle in her natal chart is 251 degrees disseminating. She was born with the Sun at 23 degrees Leo, and the Moon at 5 degrees Taurus. Therefore, each month when the Sun/Moon angle is at 251 degrees disseminating, this is a time when she is potentially able to conceive, if physically she is able to. I worked out the times for several months when the Sun/Moon angle was at 251 degrees each month, and until she was ready to conceive, she was able to use these dates and times to help with contraception. She conceived around the 20 March, 1998. The angle was exact at 3.30 am of this day, when the Sun was 28 degrees of Pisces, and the Moon 10 degrees of Sagittarius, so using the lunar phase cycle, implantation would had to have taken place before this time. As the Moon was in a fire sign, so there is a strong chance that the baby will be a boy.
If using the lunar phase cycle for contraception, it would be inadvisable to have unprotected sex for several days before the exact Sun/Moon angle, and up to twelve hours afterward, as the sperm can live for several days. If using the cycle for conception, implantation would be necessary during the twenty-four hours before the exact angle, in order for the sperm to reach the released egg.
An Australian naturopath, Francesca Naish has written an excellent book, which gives extensive data and detailed case studies with regard to the lunar phase cycle, and I have included the details in the bibliography. She has had great success in her naturopathic practice in Sydney, with helping clients with fertility issues, and her book is worthwhile purchasing, if you wish to investigate this subject in detail.
Bibliography
"Astrological Birth Control'' by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder. Prentice Hall, N. J. 1972
"The Lunar Cycle: A guide to Natural and Astrological Fertility Control", by Francesca Naish. Prism Press, (Nature and Health Books), Great Britain, 1989.
Copyright 2005 Spica Publications. www.spica.com.au Last updated January, 2005
http://www.elysian.co.uk/astrologicalfertility.htm
Can a woman be fertile twice in one month? And can astrology help determine those fertile times? That is the question that faced the Czech psychiatrist De Eugene Jonas in the 1950's. Significantly, it was through astrology that he believed he found his answer.
Many of Dr Jonas' female patients were Catholics, practising the rhythm method of contraception. It became apparent that some of them were becoming pregnant during the times of the month when it was thought safe to have sex. These unwanted pregnancies concerned him, and he felt the urge to find out why they had occurred.
Using his research to encompass 'cosmo-biology' as he called his knowledge of astrology, he finally established a link between fertility and astrological movements. One line from Syrian/Babylonian texts sums up his findings neatly : "Woman is fertile during certain phases of the Moon".
After researching the birth data of thousands of women, Dr Jonas found that this mysterious, susceptible time for pregnancy was the recurrence of the natal Sun/Moon angle. Furthermore, the sex of the child could also be predictable - if the Moon was in a positive sign when the Sun/Moon angle recurred, the child would be a boy and likewise a girl if the Moon was in a negative sign.
The announcement of these findings at the time caused consternation in the medical profession, and Jonas was given a very short-sighted ultimatum - he was told in no uncertain terms to choose astrology or medicine, but not both. However, not everyone believed that Jonas' theory was hocus pocus, and some progressive minds embraced the knowledge. Astra International, a private clinic in Vienna, became the leading exponents of the Lunar cycle theory, ignoring the continued horror of the orthodox medical world. They too analysed the data of thousands of pregnant women, and found correspondences with the Lunar cycle to be as high as 97.7 percent.
What then are the implications today of Dr Jonas' theory? Firstly that each woman has a planetary blueprint of her fertility. This blueprint is her Sun/Moon angle at birth, and it comes into operation during her menstrual years.
Let us take the case of a lady we will call Sue as an example. Sue was born with the Moon at 17 degrees Aquarius and the Sun at 19 degrees Leo. Her Sun/Moon angle is therefore 178 degrees. This means that she will experience her Lunar fertile peak just before the Full Moon and will have the possibility of conceiving at this time of the month throughout her fertile life. In other words, the days immediately preceding the Full Moon each month are the ideal time for her to try for a baby - or, should she not wish to conceive, a time when she must be extra careful with contraception. Indeed, contraception should be used for three and a half days before the Sun/Moon angle recurs and for 12 hours afterwards. This accounts for the three-four day possible sperm life and 12 hour egg life.
Returning now to the original question of whether a woman can be fertile twice in one month - if one accepts Jonas' theory, then yes, she can be if the two peaks do not coincide. She may ovulate within her hormonal cycle at quite a different time of the month to the recurrence of her Sun/Moon angle. This perhaps accounts for many of the cases where women become pregnant during menstruation.
It is thought that what causes pregnancy during the Sun/Moon angle recurrence is a possibility of spontaneous ovulation, triggered perhaps by sexual arousal. However, if both the hormonal and the astrological cycles coincide, then it produces a time of the month which is 'super-fertile'. There is a case for arguing that the more a woman tunes in to her own body rhythms through relaxation, meditation and other methods, the more likely the two cycles are to coincide.
This advance in the knowledge of female fertility has important implications for the modern woman. She can now make more accurate choices about whether or not she wishes to conceive, and she can develop a further conscious awareness of her bodily rhythms. This is certainly an interesting theory for all those who seek a practical application of astrology!
As a final thought, we should perhaps consider that the Moon has always been regarded as a symbol of fertility, by most ancient peoples. Perhaps in times gone by, women were once trained in understanding their personal Lunar cycles - perhaps the theory uncovered by Dr Jonas is only a retrieval of previous lost knowledge? Either way, he has done a great service to woman-kind, and, surely, given us all food for thought.
http://www.astrologyweekly.com/astrology-articles/fertility-jonas-dicu.php
Fertility & Astrology
The Jonas-Dicu method to identify the fertile days
The astrological reasearch revealed that there are fertile days for each woman according to her natal chart. Using them in order to conceive might be a solution to otherwise unexplainable infertility.
The method proposed by dr.Eugene Jonas, a Czech psychiatrist, in order to identify the fertile days in a woman's from her natal chart consists in calculating the Sun-Moon distance in the natal chart and looking in the ephemeris for the monthly moment when the exact same distance will be reproduced by the transiting Sun and Moon.
Later research added to these days, the days when the angle (distance) between the transiting Sun and Moon is reproduces the distance from the natal Sun to the natal Moon's antiscion. This adds another astrologically fertile day each month.
Antiscia (or solstice point), is a Greek term which literally means a shadow on the other side. It is a mirror or reflection point equidistant from the 0° Cancer - 0° Capricorn axis, the solstice axis (such as 9°11' Libra and 20°48' Pisces).
The Romanian astrologer Mihaela Dicu identified another fertile day each month when the angle (distance) between the transiting Sun and Moon is reproduces the distance from the natal Sun to the opposite point of natal Moon's antiscion, that is the natal Moon's contrascion. (according to an article published in Astrele, a monthly Romanian-language astrological magazine)
The astrologer's task is therefore to identify these 3 monthly moments, discard from the list those moments that might announce big difficulties or an abortion risk and then advise the woman to have intercourse on those days, as close as possible to the indicated time.
http://www.astrologyweekly.com/fertility/index.php
Fertility & Astrology
Find out your astrologically fertile days!
This online program is based on dr.Jonas' findings about the correlation between astrological elements and female fertility.
Each time when the angle between the transiting Sun and Moon is equal with the same angle in a woman's natal chart, she is "astrologically fertile". Romanian astrologer Mihaela Dicu's research shown that in some cases it extends to the natal angle between the Sun and Moon's antiscia and the one between the Sun and Moon's contraantiscia.
This is what this program does: it calculates for you the times in a month when the current Sun-Moon angle coincides with the natal angles and the conception may happen.
The astrological fertility works within the biological limits of human body. Best results are achieved when the astrologically fertile days fall on fertile days of the biological cycle.