“Worry is either about acquiring what is out of reach or holding on to what is already acquired. When you know that it is the Divine who brings you what is out of reach and protects what you have, you are free from worry.”
~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Worrying is like praying for bad things to happen! A friend who was stricken with multiple sclerosis late in life used that phrase often, and in his case he was speaking from experience. He was what we might consider to be an odd ball and except for a very few like minded “friends” in astrology, he was an introvert and shut-in.
In addition to the genetic, environmental and immunological factors influencing MS, we know that there psychological triggers that correspond with the onset of the disease. Chronic stress and trauma for example, have a cumulative effect on our health, where negative life events and inadequate social support may correlate with higher rates of anxiety and depression. Trouble within the life dynamics of family and work can be fertile ground for autoimmune diseases like MS.
Take neuroticism which is a marker of emotional instability and often coincides with unresolved inner conflicts, for example, between self-identity and external expectations. I wrote about this two days ago discussing the hermetic maxim As within, so without, in my post Shattering. Feelings of separation, feeling fragmented, can manifest somatically as illness in psychodynamic models.
Cognitive behavioral links to catastrophic thinking (believing for example that fatigue is a sign of irreversible decline) as an example, perpetuates cycles of exhaustion and reduced activity — the lack of movement itself feeding into the behaviors that reinforce the cognitive errors to begin with, and very much relate to worry.
There is another conspicuous concern about today’s prompt that has to do with time. As an astrologer I am schooled specifically in the evaluation of time and have learned a thing or two in my temporal studies of symbols. The question of meaning always rears up — but the current crop of astrologers seem too addicted to prediction as if knowing the future is some kind of priceless street cred. It’s not! Knowing the future is no more valuable than knowing the past, or the present. In fact, knowing the simultaneity of time is far more valuable and with that in mind what in God’s name is there to worry about if we are all but passengers on this singular flight, this one path, around the Sun?
HVA
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Hudson Valley Astrologer 
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