MEDICAL ASTROLOGY
such disease will prove fatal.
CAUSE OF DISEASE.
As before mentioned, either the Sun, Moon or the ascendant rule the health, and the aspects to the ruler of health by other planets indicate the time in life when one will suffer from ill health, and the 6th house and its ruler assists in pointing out the nature of such sickness. Therefore, when we find the ruler of health afflicted by evil directions at any time during life we conclude that when such direction culminates, the native will be troubled by ill health at that period, the nature of which we judge from rules given under "diseases of the planets, and signs".
However bad the aspects may be between the rulers of the 2nd, 9th, 10th, 11th and other house, will not cause sickness but refer to the financial and other affairs of life. Hence, we often find a person coming into possession of a fortune, while perhaps they die at the same time with consumption: showing plainly that health and finances do not always travel hand in hand, and the Astrologer must not judge them so.
In the horoscope we find several causes
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