In 1956 a Czechoslovakian Psychiatrist and Astrologer, Dr Eugene Jonas rediscovered what is known as the Lunar Fertility Method from an ancient Babylonian text that stated ‘A woman was fertile according to the shape of the Moon’.

The average length of a pregnancy is 10 lunar months (40 weeks) and the growing changes of a woman’s body during pregnancy in ancient times were considered to be a symbol of the Great Goddess herself. Her cycle of 28 days is connected to that of a woman’s menstrual cycle and it is still more common for women to experience their periods at the New or the Full Moon. She is the Great Mother Goddess and is considered the divine nourisher of life, motherhood and childbirth.

She is the ruler of fertility, reproduction, growth, cycles and menstruation. The Moon represents all that is feminine. So what does astrology still have to teach us about fertility, conception and birth? The influences learned in the past still apply but in modern times they just have slightly different definitions and more positive outcomes. In our modern age with the incredible advances in surgery and medicine, we can overcome many obstacles of the past with fertility treatments, surgery, herbal medicine and our knowledge of prenatal nutrition. In years gone by this type of medical astrology was used to determine if someone would ever have children, if their child would live a long and healthy life, which sex it would be, and how many children one would have. Medical astrology can also be used to look at fertility and all that surrounds the journey of having children. Astrology has long been used to predict events, explain personality traits and in medical astrology to show its influence over our health issues.

Zodiac chart with degrees