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This book is dedicated to all souls whose ancient self already knows
what is written on and in between these pages, but may have
forgotten. When darkness seems to divide us, there is a light
inextinguishable guiding us back to connection, and a voice that
calls us ever toward harmony.
Mankind needs less to be instructed than to be reminded.
SAMUEL JOHNSON, SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH
PHILOSOPHER
THE SCIENCE OF
PLANETARY
SIGNATURES
IN MEDICINE
“In The Science of Planetary Signatures in Medicine, Jennifer Gehl
illuminates connections among elements of astrology, math, history,
music and sound, alchemy, quantum science, and principles of
Chinese medicine. From the I Ching and the works of Pythagoras
and Plato to Nassim Haramein, Jennifer guides her reader through
the science and philosophy of the unified cosmos. Masterfully
written and extraordinarily readable, this book is a must-read.”
JUDE PONTON, DC, M.AC., L.AC., AND PAUL PONTON, M.AC., L.AC.,
SENIOR ACUTONICS PRACTITIONERS AND INSTRUCTORS
AND COAUTHORS OF ACUTONICS FROM GALAXIES TO CELLS:
PLANETARY SCIENCE, HARMONY, AND MEDICINE
“Jennifer Gehl’s book is brilliant. I can hardly wait to share it with
everyone I know! The title might suggest it’s just for healers—it’s
not. It is for all seekers. In it you will discover the bridges from the
ancient knowing to the present scientific understanding. Any seeker
who is looking for the connections between sacred geometry,
ancient wisdom, and modern scientific discovery will absolutely
love this book—it is a treasure trove of research and where they
intersect. I suspect it will become a classic like many other books,
referred to again and again to understand something new or old.”
MAUREEN J. ST. GERMAIN, FOUNDER OF AKASHIC RECORDS
INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSFORMATIONAL ENTERPRISES, INC.
“Jennifer Gehl takes us on a tour through history. Visiting a wide
variety of cultures, systems, philosophers, and thinkers, an
underlying thread is unmistakable. We are connected to all of
nature, including and especially, the planetary energies of our solar
system. Astrology can and does play a central role in all of life,
including the healing arts. In The Science of Planetary Signatures in
Medicine, we have the basic premise elucidated with striking
clarity: There is an order to the universe. What we do with this
realization is up to us. How might we integrate astrology and
nature’s intelligence into 21st-century healing arts? That is the task
before us, and this book is an excellent guide for all of us.”
ERIC MEYERS, AUTHOR OF THE ASTROLOGY OF AWAKENING
“The Science of Planetary Signatures in Medicine will surprise you
as a comprehensive and beautifully written text. It offers a strong
measure of historical and scientific background while remaining
crystal clear and intriguing. Gehl embraces the beauty of music as
she draws out the mathematical roots of music theory and lays out
its integral connection to the planet and universal laws at play. As an
example, we get to explore with the author how the principles of
harmonics in music apply to other vibratory phenomena in the
universe. The book is a lucid, scholastic exploration that every
practitioner will want and will use. It will be hard not to devour
every concept on the first read . . . it will continue to serve as an
excellent, authoritative reference for years to come!”
STEVEN WEISS, MS, DC, RYT, AUTHOR OF
THE INJURY-FREE YOGA PRACTICE
“Jennifer Gehl synthesizes cosmology, history, philosophy,
mathematics, music, and physics. She applies these perspectives in a
way that expands our knowledge of these disciplines in relationship
to healing. Ultimately the connection between sound healing and
physics is presented. Healers of all disciplines, and particularly
Acutonics practitioners, will find connections that develop the
conversation surrounding many of the principles involved in
healing.”
WILLIAM MORRIS, PH.D., DAOM, L.AC., AUTHOR OF
TRANSFORMATION: TREATING TRAUMA WITH
ACUPUNCTURE AND HERBS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I extend profound gratitude to Jon Graham, and the entire editing team at
Inner Traditions International (ITI), for providing me with expert assistance,
invaluable support, and above all, the opportunity to publish this work.
Sincere thanks to Donna Carey, L.Ac, and Ellen F. Franklin, Ph.D., today’s
natural scientists and pioneers, without whose research, support, and
editorial assistance this work would not exist.
To my mother JoEllen, and my recently deceased father, Ken (1933–
2015), I owe a debt of gratitude for the generosity and love that has always
guided and supported me while navigating life’s difficult passages; and to
all my family members, whose worldview, while different from mine, has
always been motivated by love.
To the many friends, colleagues, and mentors—that host of “silent
pioneers”—whose influence continues to inspire me to seek new pathways
of understanding, and given me the courage to express a new (ancient)
worldview, you are cherished beyond words. Most importantly, I want to
thank the silent host from the “other side” who have unceasingly loved,
patiently guided, profoundly inspired, and secretly indoctrinated me into a
world of unimaginable beauty and heavenly harmony.
J.T.G
CONTENTS
Cover Image
Title Page
Epigraph
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Ellen F. Franklin, Ph.D., and Donna Carey, M.S.,
L.Ac.
Preface
SYNTHESIZING MUSIC, ASTROLOGY, AND CHINESE MEDICINE
Introduction: Authentic Medicine
Chapter 1: Ancient Cosmology
ANCIENT CARTOGRAPHY
TEMPLAR SECRET BLOOD AND TREASURE
ANTIQUITY OF HUMANITY
MATRIARCHAL MYTHS, PATRIARCHAL PERSPECTIVES
THE ALCHEMICAL LINK TO MEDICINE
COSMIC LAW
THE MYTHICAL LAND OF MU
ALCHEMICAL TRANSFORMATION
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOLOGY
THE THREEFOLD NATURE OF HOROSCOPES AND HUMANS
PLANETS, PLANTS, AND PRECIOUS STONES
Chapter 2: History of Hermetic Medicine
APOLLO AND ASCLEPIUS
PYTHAGORAS
THALES OF MILETUS
EMPEDOCLES (490–450 BCE)
HIPPOCRATES (460–370 BCE)
PLATO AND PHILISTION OF LOCRI
GALEN (130–200)
A DIGRESSION INTO CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON MEDICAL PRACTICES
AVICENNA (980–1036)
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN (1098–1179)
PARACELSUS (1493–1541)
NICHOLAS CULPEPER (1616–1654)
THE RENAISSANCE
NEOPLATONISTS
CHRONOLOGY OF ANCIENT PHYSICIANS
Chapter 3: Cosmological Roots of Yin and Yang
THE LEGEND OF CHINA’S FU XI AND NUWA
EGYPTIAN COSMOLOGICAL MYTHS
ANCIENT SUMER’S ENKI AND NINMAH
THE DOGON-CHINA LINK IN COSMOLOGY
THE COSMIC EGG
CHAOS BEFORE THE CREATION
THE EIGHT PRIMORDIALS
SHAMANIC ROOTS OF ALCHEMY
ASTRONOMY’S LINK TO YIN AND YANG
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
Chapter 4: The Four Building Blocks of the Cosmos
FOUR ELEMENTS IN ANCIENT COSMOLOGY
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE
FOUR ELEMENTS IN ANCIENT RELIGION
FOUR ELEMENTS IN TAROT
FOUR ELEMENTS IN THE CROSS
THE SYMBOLIC SKY
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS
CARDINAL, FIXED, AND MUTABLE
NATURAL ZODIAC VERSUS NATAL CHART
Chapter 5: The Hexagon Phenomenon
THE SECRET LIFE OF SNOWFLAKES
THE WONDER OF WATER
COVALENT BONDING AND WATER “MEMORY”
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SIX
HEXAGONAL RELATIONSHIP TO ELEMENTS
HEXAGONS IN OUTER SPACE
REFERENCES TO ANCIENT ZODIACS
EMPTY SPACE “MATTERS”
HOLOGRAPHIC ENCODING
THE HARMONIC UNIVERSE
LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION
THE MEDICINE CONNECTION
ENTER THE I CHING
IT’S IN OUR DNA
AN-ATOM-Y AND GEOMETRY
Chapter 6: Cosmic Light in Inner and Outer Space
THE MYSTERY OF MELANIN
THE NATURE OF LIGHT
LANGUAGE OF THE LUMINARIES
LIGHT TECHNOLOGY
EGYPT’S LEGACY
THE TEMPLE IS THE BODY
INITIATION AND THE ASTROLOGICAL BODY
THE SERPENTINE SPINE
THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
THE CHAKRA SYSTEM
Chapter 7: PHI-losophy: The Mean Between the Extremes
FINDING VALUE IN THE IRRATIONAL
UNDERSTANDING RATIO AND PROPORTION
EXPRESSION OF UNITY
PYTHAGOREAN PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBER
PYTHAGOREAN THEORY
GEOMETRY: NUMBER IN SPACE
MUSIC: NUMBER IN TIME
ASTRONOMY: NUMBER IN SPACE AND TIME
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
PLATO’S DIALOGUES
Chapter 8: Nature’s Spin: A Sound Effect?
SOUND EFFECTS
THE SELF-REGULATING EARTH
SPIRALING INTO CONTROL
UNDER PRESSURE
PHI IN THE SKY
PLANETARY PERIODICITY
Chapter 9: The Future Awaits Our Return
GEOMETRY AND PROPORTION IN ANATOMY
THE LEGACY OF LEONARDO
FIBONACCI SPIRAL
HARMONY, SYNTHESIS, AND THE COSMIC WHOLE
THE WHOLE CONTINUUM
HERMETIC POTENTIAL IN HUMAN BEINGS
CHINA’S CONNECTION TO HERMETICISM, HOROSCOPES, AND HUMAN
CARTOGRAPHY
THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES
TUNING IN FACILITATES TUNING UP
ASTROLOGY REVEALS HARMONIC RELATIONSHIPS
FROM GALAXIES TO CELLS
ASTRO-HARMONIC MEDICINE
ANTHROPOMORPHIC PSYCHOLOGY: WHO, WHAT, AND WHERE
MUSICAL METAPHOR
Afterword
Footnote
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Authors
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interest
Copyright & Permissions
Index
FOREWORD
Is it not. . . plausible that human nature, in all its creative
multidimensional depths and heights, emerges from the very
essence of the cosmos, and that the human spirit is the spirit
of the cosmos itself . . . ?
RICHARD TARNAS, COSMOS AND PSYCHE
The Science of Planetary Signatures in Medicine is a rich, multilayered
exploration of the direct connections among the planets, their movements in
the heavens, and their impacts on human health. This book explores the
wisdom of the ancients and traces patterns of correspondences from
prehistory to modern science.
Herein the inner cosmos is represented as a replica of the outer cosmos
and strong evidence for the affinities between the microcosm (physical
body) and the macrocosm (universe) is presented. Our cells reflect the
images of the galaxies and the universe. When we explore the vast and
intricate cosmos—galaxies, planets, organisms, organs, cells, molecules,
and atoms—there indeed appears a fundamental order, or fundamental
essence, that corresponds to (or at the very least hints at) the principle of
harmony and the music of the spheres. Although planetary gods are not
playing the strings of the universe, our ancestors’ insights and intuitions
about the relations of humanity to the vast universe that surrounded them
was correct. When humanity is seen as a microcosm reflecting the
macrocosm of the heavens—“As above, so below” and “As without, so
within”—we understand, as if for the very first time, the meaning behind
this ancient adage.
Whatever paradigms or beliefs you hold with regard to religion, science,
allopathic medicine, integrative medicine, energy healing, and/or astrology,
or whether you are simply seeking wisdom, a key for advancement and
evolution is to keep an open mind and heart. The health care model is
changing rapidly as people in record numbers continue to seek what has
been labeled Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). In the
healing modalities represented by CAM there is a recognition that health is
a dynamic state of balance that requires shifts, adaptations, and recovery in
a person-centered approach to wellbeing that moves away from the
materialist model separating mind and body and the reductionism that
breaks everything down into its smallest component parts.
Various theories in physics and cosmology, such as renowned physicist
David Bohm’s exploration of wholeness and the implicate order, attempt to
demonstrate that the workings and transformations of the parts affect the
whole and are able to both order and organize nonlinear functions through a
process of enfoldment. Essentially there are subtle forces at work that
interact, organize, and affect the larger picture on all levels (not unlike the
theories put forth regarding the macrocosm and the microcosm, or which
are implicit in the tenets of East Asian cosmology and medicine). Bohm
was trying to reconcile Einstein’s theory of relativity and quantum theory
while accounting for nonlocal effects, which posit that nothing is complete
in and of itself. There is mutual participation (entanglement) of everything
with everything and Bohm clearly articulates that everything that falls
under the purview of “science” cannot be practiced in a fragmentary way as
independent parts but must be explored through an awareness of the
undivided wholeness of the universe.
Unfortunately, the modern focus of academic research continues to be
dominated by those “splitters” who seek to demonstrate differences rather
than similarities, to break down and tear apart rather than look for
commonalities and the potential for cross-disciplinary collaboration. In the
unending quest for more medical research funding we see double-blind
studies and control groups that rarely take into consideration the whole
person and the quality of life changes they might experience if their illness
or condition was seen from a physical, emotional, and/or spiritual
perspective. Despite the growth in qualitative research we often fail to value
the subjective quality of life experiences, and believe that the “objectivity”
of logical positivism is the Holy Grail.
In medicine, there is the “if not this, that; if not that, this” approach to
differential diagnosis that invalidates anamnesis, the ability to remember
and reflect on (or simply not forget) previous foundations that contribute to
the whole. It is rare to be able to take a holistic approach to any research or
education, to be able to step back and examine studies across multiple fields
or specialties when framing new studies or the acquisition of knowledge.
Jennifer Gehl has done just that. She has effectively woven together
research findings that span thousands of years and diverse traditions from
the disciplines of early medicine, mathematics, myths and legends, sacred
geometry, music, and East Asian medicine. She provides compelling
perspectives as to why we should care about the influences of the planets
and the cosmos on life on Earth.
We first met Jennifer in 2004 when she came to an Acutonics class in
Loveland, Colorado. Acutonics is a healing modality that uses planetary
tones on the meridian system of the body as well as on its acupuncture
points. This class was an unusually large, advanced group of health care
practitioners, including nurses, acupuncturists, bodywork practitioners, and
physicians. Many of these students would go on to become certified
Acutonics practitioners and teachers. Jennifer was one of those exceptional
pupils: a seeker of knowledge who attended the intensive course with a
desire to deepen her understanding of the powerful connections that exist
among music, astrology, and Chinese medicine, all of which are explored in
our program. She was an active contributor in class and possessed a
profound understanding of planetary influences on human health. She went
on to complete her studies to become certified as both an Acutonics
practitioner and teacher, and she also developed a course in the basics of
astrological medicine, which is now offered as an elective in our program.
Her continued quest for knowledge led her to pursue her master’s
degree in health sciences, and to seek out Dr. Marc S. Micozzi, the
visionary anthropologist medical doctor responsible for the seminal
textbook Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, which
is now going into its sixth edition. This connection resulted in Jennifer
being asked to contribute a piece on Acutonics to the textbook. She
describes how Acutonics blends ancient wisdom, East Asian medicine,
archetypes, myths, and modern science into a cohesive approach to health
and holism that incorporates the use of vibratory energy, or sound, of the
planets on acupuncture points. Jennifer then felt compelled to research and
write a far more comprehensive work that weaves together ancient wisdom
and modern science to provide a fresh perspective on how this knowledge
can be used to redefine our approach to health and holism. She was
encouraged to pursue this path by Dr. Micozzi, who offered his wisdom,
years of writing experience, and editorial guidance.
Whatever name you use—mind-body medicine, integrative medicine, or
CAM—the underlying principle of this discipline is a holistic approach to
medicine and health care that focuses on the whole person. These include
the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual/ energetic aspects of the
individual. This approach is distinct from what has come to be identified as
Western or allopathic medicine, which is primarily focused on the
individual parts of the body such as organs, tissues, and cells, and which has
viewed the mind as separate from the body. Jennifer provides us with a way
to think about mind-body medicine and to more deeply understand the
influences of the cosmos on human health. She defines this new perspective
on health and healing as authentic medicine.
Several concepts explored by Jennifer are also employed in Acutonics
and in some practices of Oriental medicine, which include the five phase, or
five element, theory, built on the assumption that the forces that exist in the
cycles of nature and that occur in the outside world are duplicated within
our bodies at every level. Five phase theories are built on correspondences
in which the person is seen as a small universe reflecting the greater
universe. When elements coexist in balance and harmony the person is in
good health, however, when physiological and psychological processes are
out of balance, they must be readjusted or illness sets in. Moving with the
cycles of nature results in a full and harmonious life; if there is imbalance,
mental and physical health suffers. Jennifer provides us with a depth of
knowledge and understanding that invites us to explore the value inherent in
these healing traditions and to recognize their place in the future practice of
medicine.
The Science of Planetary Signatures in Medicine is an invitation to
healing and hope. This book opens a door into how we might embrace
ancient wisdom with the best of modern science and truly return art and
spirit to medicine. It helps rediscover the spirit of our ancient teachers and
the artistic and creative approach that many early physicians employed—
one that many contemporary medical practitioners are beginning to
