Transcript Wendy Stacey: Pearls of Tomorrow Ppt slide show

Pearls of Tomorrow
Wendy Stacey
Kepler Conference
20-22 January 2017
MA Research Findings 2002-2003
Study of 193 Caesarean Births by Time of Birth
Number of
Births
9am – 5pm
Lunchtime
24- Hour Day
Overview
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MA Research Findings
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Further Research Findings (including PhD research)
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What are the links between this research and astrology?
• Changes in the natal chart…
• Relationship between Astrology and Society
• Generational themes linked to astrological cycles
Study of 193 Caesarean Births by Time of Birth
The Sun through the Astrological Houses
The Sun’s Position through
the Houses 8-12
Further Research….Caesarean Section Rates
England
1953 - 2.7%
1990 - 11.3%
1998 - 19.2%
2006 - 23.5%
2008 - 24.6% (47% elected Caesarean section)
2008 Scotland 25.8%, Wales 26.1%
2013 – 25.4% (42% elected Caesarean section)
Northern Ireland has not recorded rates since 2004 (26%)
U.S.A rates 32.7% recorded for 2013. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/14/c-section-raterecommendation_n_7058954.html accessed 2 January 2017) NOTE First time mothers San Francisco General Hospital 10%
(California average 17.1%)
Although method of delivery is not recorded in parts of India, Madras has now reached Caesarean rates of 45%, Shanghai in
China has 32% and, in 2001, Brazil recorded 72% (Kitzenger, 2005, p. 76).
Professor Nick Fisk from Queen Charlottes Hospital, London – which has one
of the highest Caesarean rates in the UK – predicts that Caesarean rates will reach 50% within a couple of
years (Kitzenger, 2005, p. 74).
Philip Steer, obstetrician from the Imperial College School of Medicine is
eager for a 100% Caesarean born society. He views the Caesarean method
of childbirth as an unavoidable part of human evolution. He is eager for the Caesarean procedure to become normalised to
the extent that opting for a Caesarean will no longer be a choice but a matter of course and that spontaneous births are
treated as ‘something to fall back on’ (Steer, 1998, p. 1054).
Previous Research/Literature on Day and Time of Birth
Kaiser and Halberg reviewed over ten published studies on the hourly incidence
of birth in Europe, UK and USA - years 1848-1960 (Did not include interventions)
Findings:
1) Births were more likely to occur between 3am-6am and were less likely to
occur between 3pm-6pm (lesser chance for births to occur between 6am-9am).
2) Births were more likely to occur on Sundays and less likely to occur on
Tuesdays (Kaiser & Halberg, 1962, pp. 1057-1067).
Chamberlain et al., British births from the year 1970 (including interventions)
Findings:
Caesarean births had a significantly higher daytime delivery and, in particular,
occurred in the morning (Chamberlain et al., 1978, p. 148).
Alison Macfarlane’s Birthcount
Findings:
If elected Caesareans continue to increase, so will the rate of weekday births.
There will continue to decrease for weekend births and an even greater decline
of birth rates on public holidays, particularly the Christmas period and other
national holidays (Macfarlane, 2001). Macfarlane’s findings concluded that
births today are more likely to occur on Tuesdays rather than Sundays.
Several factors as to why increase has occurred…
Research Methodology
Mixed Methods
Quantitative Analysis on Day and Time of Birth
Bristol Data Set: 90,115 Anonymised Birth data
Variables include: Date of birth, Day of birth, Place of birth,
Time of birth, Method of delivery, Age of mother, Birth
information (no other demographic data available)
Birth time patterns have changed radically since 1990 whereby babies
are increasingly being born between 9-5 and Monday to Friday.
Qualitative Analysis with both Mothers and Midwifes
1) A small set of mothers interviewed to understand how
the Caesarean procedure unfolded
2) A small set of midwives interviewed on views on Risk
and changes within the birth process
Method of Delivery by Time of Birth for 90,115 Births, for the Years 1990-2008
Number
of Births
24-Hour Day
Elective Caesarean Section Births by Day of the Week Births by Ratio BDS 1990-2008
Elected Caesareans – Working Week Days and Hours for 7,479 Births, for the Years 1990-2008
Changes in the Natal Chart…
1) Increasingly babies born between 9-5 and Monday to Friday,
hence the increase of people in society being born with Sun
(and Mercury and Venus) in the top half of the chart.
2) Gauquelin considerations
* personality character traits
* specific occupations
* hereditary factors
3) Sun-Ascendant combinations decline
Gauquelin Plus Zones/Eminated Sectors
• Planets much
stronger when rising
or culminating in
plus zones
• Planets with
psychological
temperaments and
subsequently certain
occupation; Moon,
Venus, Mars, Jupiter
and Saturn
(although Venus not
linked to occupation)
Summary of Gauquelin’s Findings
Gauquelin has a lot to offer on the research of Caesarean births from many different perspectives. From his
research astrologers could arrive at six conclusions:
1. Those born by Caesarean birth will not possess or have any correlation with the same psychological
temperaments as their parents, since all hereditary effects are absent in all medically intervened births.
Babies born by Caesarean have no correlation or association with their parents’ or siblings psychological
temperaments, thus there are less common personality traits between members of a family.
2. Those born by a scheduled birth (which take place mainly in daylight hours) will have a higher probability of
having Venus placed in the top part of the diurnal circle. Subsequently Venus will have a higher probability of
being placed in the ‘plus zones’ of the circle whereby the planetary effect of Venus will be more distinct.
3. With the increasing amount of elected Caesarean births, increasing numbers within any population will have
birth charts with a Venus planetary affect, which means a larger number of people sharing a common bond or
personality trait, not initiated by heredity but by a pre-determined timing of birth. So, for astrologers this would
mean that potentially a large proportion of society could possess these Venus personality qualities.
Conversely, for a society born by scheduled birth times there would be an increasing absence of the opposite or
weakened traits, as there would be a lower probability of Venus being placed in the ‘minus zones’.
4. The increasing number of daylight births contravene the normal physiological rhythm of birth times.
5. Caesarean births have reduced the natural procedure of childbirth to a clinical one. Although Gauquelin was
unable to witness large numbers of the population being born by elected Caesarean, it would be expected that
he would strongly oppose them.
6. As the Sun and Mercury are also placed in the top half of the diurnal circle for scheduled births there will be
an increasing number of people within populations who possess the Sun and Mercury within the ‘plus zones’ of
the diurnal circle. Although Gauquelin found no correlation with the Sun and Mercury, with such an increasing
population and with the potential for the change in psychological temperaments (and profiles) these two
astronomical bodies may be worthy of further research. However, this commonality will not derive from genetic
factors, but the comparable timing of births. There tends to be some form of ‘designer creation’, which extends
to a population that will have both the common presence of astrological factors and the common absence of
astrological factors.
Sun and Ascendant Combinations Which Will Decline
Relationship between Astrology and Society
1) Large populations born with similar astrological factors. (E.g
Sun/ASC combinations, rulerships, outer-planetary house
placements for long periods, Nocturnal/Diurnal considerations
and several other astrological factors).
2) Mothers age initially a factor for increase in Caesarean Section
rates. The majority of mothers are located within the
medicalization model (as are the majority of health professionals
associated with birth, i.e.. midwives/obstetricians etc..) although
some mothers have exercised agency. Where mothers who have
exercised agency they are of the similar generation.
3) There is currently no sociological research conducted on
generations in terms of cycles or particular periods in time
pertaining to birth patterns.
Average Age of Mothers at First Birth
40
Office of National
Statistics
All UK births
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
1971
1990
1999
Mothers Age
2007
2013
Births by Mother’s Age at Delivery BDS 1990-2008
Average Age of Mothers at First Birth
Office of National
Statistics
All UK births
40
35
30
25
20
24.9 years old
15
10
5
0
1971
1990
1999
Mothers Age
2007
2013
Timeline
1960
Uranus-Pluto
Conjunction
Virgo
1970
1980
1990
24.9 years average age
of mothers for first
birth
Saturn – Neptune
Conjunction
Capricon (Uranus in Cap
also)
Qualitative Findings
Control or Organization?
There is a difference between having control over a birth as opposed to ensuring that it is
properly organized. Control for mothers is about autonomy and the ability to make decisions
without being influenced or coerced by the medical professionals who attempt to exert their
expertise as a higher knowledge. Control is about taking charge of a situation and where the
process unfolds exactly how a mother wishes for it to be. Organization however is ensuring that
things run efficiently, as smoothly as possible; it is about ensuring that people are competent and
able to get the job done. There were several references that arose in the narrative of the
interviewees that implied giving birth was a job that had to be done; those assisting with it had a
certain role to play in the process, but that is what it was – a process. These were interesting to
hear as they perhaps link with mothers wanting to organize childbirth rather than necessarily
control it.
Qualitative Findings cont…
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Olivia: Because I wanted to, them to get on with it. I wanted them to do their job for the
child and then get on with it with me.
Nicola: I was conscious, I knew what was happening, I knew who was there, I knew the
different people had different jobs and everyone was getting on and doing their job.
Claire: there was loads [of people], yeah, there was just everyone doing different jobs.
Karen: Just the whole feeling of not, not feeling like you’ve done your job properly I think,
more like mentally.
Heather: they did mention that they did have a job getting her out.
Victoria: if you have the choice not to have any other student whatever with you, so you
know who is who. To maybe insist on staff introducing themselves, to ask who are you and
what’s your role, not to just presume who they are because afterwards if something does go
wrong it’s better to know who looked after you and who was involved.
Mothers who referred to ‘getting the job done’ and ‘sterile labour wards’ and who were
concerned about the timing, routine, preparation and practice and those wanting to know about
the ‘process’ of the Caesarean Section procedure tended to be of a generation that were born in
the mid – late 1960’s. Although several of these mothers exercised agency, it was not to exert
control, or to ever make demands, but more to point out ‘what they didn’t want’ and to be sure
the procedure was done properly.
Generational Themes Linked to Astrological Cycles
* 1965 – 1966+ Uranus-Pluto in Virgo generation
(average age of mother correlates to years 1990 – approx. 2010)
- Medicalization model Organised birth, Efficient Processes, Designer/Perfect baby,
Virgin Maiden
* 1988-1993 Saturn-Uranus-Neptune Capricorn generation
(average age of mother correlates to years 2023 - ?)
- New model of childbirth? Timing, Parental factors, Extended Age,
Assessment/extended Risk..
* 2020 – 2024+ Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in Aquarius, Pluto ingress
into Aquarius
(average age of mother ?)
- Further changes? Shadow of Leo…
30 November2016
• CONTROVERSIAL “threeparent baby” treatments
could be introduced in the
UK as early as next spring.
• Scientists cleared away
remaining safety hurdles to
recommend “cautious
adoption” of mitochondrial
replacement therapy for
devastating inherited
diseases.
• Babies born after the
treatment would effectively
have three genetic parents.
• A tiny proportion of their
DNA would come from their
mother, father and a third
person, an egg donor.
• In theory mitochondrial
replacement can not only
prevent a child developing
inherited diseases, but also
protect future generations.
Step forward to a dinner party in 2025.
Somebody mentions the amount that
the Smiths have paid to make sure their
next daughter has blue eyes.
Wouldn’t it have been better spent on
making her musical?
(Editorial, Economist 14 April 2005)
Step forward to a dinner party in 2025.
Somebody mentions the amount that
the Smiths have paid to make sure their
next daughter has blue eyes.
Wouldn’t it have been better spent on
making her [musical idealistic]?
(Editorial, Economist 14 April 2005)
Thank you!
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Kepler Conference
20-22 January 2017