Are you ready for medical astrology?

vol. 3 issue 20

Renaissance schematic of humoral medicine.

Greetings,

On this episode, I talk with botanist and medical astrologer, Lee Lehman, PhD.

A medical astrologer can’t diagnose, can’t prescribe, and most likely does not have a medical degree, although more modern-day physicians have studied this ancient pillar of traditional Western medicine than you might expect. So, why bother to learn, much less use, this antiquated approach to helping patients?

These are the kinds of questions I put to Dr. Lehman. In that way, this interview is an adjunct to the conversation I had with award-winning author and Guggenheim scholar, Dr. Victoria Sweet, about her successful experiences with what she termed “slow medicine”. Inspired by the Medieval German abbess, Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179 AD; I give the wrong dates in this interview with Dr. Lehman — sorry), and until the hospital where she worked was overrun by consultants, Dr. Sweet practiced a kind of medicine that took its time, viewed pe…