Covid awakened things in my body I didn’t even know were there, but looking back, I should have known all along.

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My grandmother dealt with it… my mother is dealing with it… so why wouldn’t I?

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Since I was a kid, I've strove to be healthy. For the majority of my childhood, we were on food stamps so the food we were getting wasn’t the best, but I always asked my mom to stock our place with some fruits and vegetables so we weren’t eating total junk. As I got older and went off to college, I wasn’t playing basketball or volleyball regularly anymore, so I made sure I moved my body by either walking around everywhere (with a couple walks of shame thrown in there) or going to the gym a few times a week.

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I didn’t get sick often, maybe once a year… until late 2019 hit.

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The pandemic wasn’t “live” yet, and Covid wasn’t a thing, yet I believe I had Covid when I fell incredibly ill late November/early December of 2019. This was unlike any illness I’ve had before. No sickness made me want to die the way that one did. No sickness made me scared of my body the way that one did. No sickness made me question every single thing about myself the way that one did.

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That sickness awakened something deep within me, and I’ve been striving to heal myself ever since.

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When the pandemic was declared three months later, I instinctively knew I was one of the first to get it. This was it… and I survived! I survived the thing that was terrorizing the globe. It fucking sucked, and was not fun at all, but I gratefully survived. When they started talking about vaccines, I knew I was good… I don’t need that shit, my body knows what’s up! And yet… I got one shot. I let peer pressure grab a hold of me and got my puncture. It hurt too, but the after effects were worse.

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I became ill hours after getting that shot, and was down for the count for days. At that point in my life I was living alone, so you can imagine what was going through my head; like, did I just make the stupidest decision ever?

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Well, apparently so, because then I proceeded to get sick (I’m talking can’t get out of bed sick) every other month for years. Two years, actually; until I did this detox (and developed a preventative health routine). Now, I get sick several times a year instead of every other month. My body feels stronger, more equipped to handle danger, but still in the process of healing.

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Funny enough, if it wasn’t for that first bout of Covid, who knows if I would’ve stumbled onto the path of Traditional Western Medicine and Medical Astrology. Traditional Western Medicine taught me the art of detoxification and cleansing my body; Medical Astrology taught me about my body (and life) specifically, and what I need to heal. Thank you, Ultimate Creator.

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It all just feels very fateful; and the other day when I decided to read the astrological weather of the pandemic, when it was initially declared, I discovered it really was fateful. All of it.

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Allow me to demonstrate a little bit:

This is an astrological map of the sky the moment the pandemic was declared on March 11, 2020. The outer ring of symbols represents the 12 Zodiac signs and the position of the constellations at 11:29a in Washington, DC; the inner ring of symbols represents the different planets and their positions at that time as well. While there are many symbols, I specifically want to talk about the Sun, Neptune, and the North Node.

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Side note: what I’m demonstrating now is a reading of the astrological energy at the exact moment the pandemic was declared to the people of the United States. I chose Washington, DC as the location as that’s our country’s capital, and I want to see what the energy says for the country as a whole. I can do this for a specific person, but this is a reading of the collective energy.

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Okay so, let’s start with the Sun.

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Astrologically, the Sun represents our life force, our vitality, and core strength. While we all have different Sun Signs (the position the Sun was in the moment you were born), we are all affected by the Sun’s daily movements. The Sun (symbolized by a circle with the dot in the middle), was in Pisces at that exact time, which is the chief ruler of the immune system (according to Medical Astrology). Pisces is also the weakest sign constitutionally (due to many factors), so I read this as immunity being a big deal overall for the country. Weak immunity, to be specific. Our life force is weakened, and with Neptune (symbolized by the pitchfork) within a few degrees of the Sun (also in Pisces), our overall life force is challenged even more.

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You see, Neptune is the planetary ruler of Pisces, so not only does it govern the immune system, but it also governs poisons and drugs (or, foreign substances introduced into the body that deceives its perceptions and makes it react in abnormal ways) and ailments such as addictions, psychosis, alcoholism, energy depletion, and obscure, hard to diagnose diseases. Any of that ring a bell?

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Now, let’s look at the North Node in Cancer in the First House. The North Node (symbolized by the upside-down horseshoe) is the northern coordinate where the Moon’s path intercepts the path of the Sun, and relates to our karmic destiny. It brings energy from the universe into our physical form and can be a trigger point for illness, especially autoimmune disorders. With it being in Cancer, another sign prone to frequent illness, as well as hypochondria and physical illness brought on by anxiety, it seems like our overall karmic destiny was on track for illness across the board. Not to mention, the First House — which is the first of twelve divisions of the sky, representing different areas of life — governs our physical bodies and how we handle stress; and boy was that a stressful time.

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Man-made or not (which it was), Covid and the pandemic seemed fated to happen. The changes that happened in my body (and life) were fated to happen. I’m curious what else is/was fated to happen.

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Something to think about…

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