The former studies an abstract diagram on a piece of paper and the latter studies the living, breathing human body. Both must exercise the faculty of analysis, of symbols or of bodily parts and faculties, which is the basis of diagnostic art. In the experience of the astrologer, the concentrated exercise of intuition, through meditation, is also a most important factor. Thus it is seen that the work of analysis is counterparted and completed by the work of synthesis. Both of these forms of inquiry contain the same kind of exercise of consciousness.
Health is, as one way of manifesting and identifying the unity of spirit.
This, in essence, comprises the service of both the astrologer and the therapist. Astrology is, first and foremost, a study in symbols of the evolving consciousness of humanity. Therefore, the astrological reader who aspires to fulfill a service of therapy must acquaint himself with the subject of epigenesis. In its occult or esoteric application, it refers to the faculty of humans to build the quality of their vehicles upon the quality of their consciousness. From incarnation to incarnation, on the spiral of unfoldments of consciousness, human vehicles are formulated on the etheric planes, as matrices of the physical, by conditioning of the individual consciousness and karmic necessity.