My health journey started innocently. At the end of July, I was sitting in my favorite green chair reading a history book. I had a slight cramp in the top of my stomach and said, “Hmm, that feels like menstrual cramps!?” A day later some blood appeared ~ day 4 or 5 for those of you in the know. Not normal for a 69 year old woman!
One Saturn cycle ago, in the mid-1990s, with Saturn in my Pisces moon, I was diagnosed with a submucosal (in the wall) uterine fibroid. The treatment options were hysterectomy or some bizarre beads fed into the blood vessels of the fibroid to cut off its blood supply so it would rot inside me. Neither appealed to this Virgo.
Instead, I chose to treat my fibroid with my wonderful acupuncturist Shane Hoffman. Needles and herbs worked!! Now that Saturn is on my moon again, 29 years later, it seemed like the fibroid wanted my attention!
Quite a bit has changed in women’s medicine in the past 29 years!! Several of my students were successfully treated at NYU Langone’s world-renowned fibroid unit. I called and got the first available appointment, September 28 at 11am, with Dr. Kelsey Kossl.
Dr. Kossl is a Virgo with Venus in Scorpio and the Moon in Aries – great planet positions for someone who operates with skill and talent on problematic Venusian areas.
After I saw Dr. Kossl, I ended up in Cancellation Appointment Wild Ride, kind of like Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride! I went for a diagnostic ultrasound of the uterus on October 9. The results of the ultrasound recommended an MRI and a uterine biopsy. The MRI, another cancellation, took place on October 14, the same day of the New Moon eclipse! The eclipse MRI showed cancer in the left ovary. The uterine biopsy with Dr. Kossl, another cancellation, occurred on October 24 and was benign. Dr. Kossl referred me to my gynecological surgeon, Dr. Whitfield Growdon.
I had a meeting with Dr. Growdon on Monday 30 October. Another cancellation offered a surgery date that Thursday. A quick pre-operative clearance from my GP, as well as an echocardiogram and EKG, were completed on Tuesday. The surgery was Thursday, November 2, 2023. Cancellations galore!!
Dr. Growdon has a great chart compared to mine ~ a late Libra with Venus in Virgo on my Sun, trine his Taurus Moon with an out-of-bounds Mars in Cancer opposite my OOB Mars in Capricorn on my nodes of destiny. A fateful meeting indeed! His Uranus in Scorpio was in my Venus in Scorpio, so he was literally the embodiment of Uranus when he castrated me ~ can’t make up the astrology! He even knew his birth time!
My surgery was a total hysterectomy. The uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, cervix and omentum were removed. Everything was benign except the left ovary. The tumor was encapsulated, small, stage 1a (low is good) and extremely rare. There are 21,000 cases of ovarian cancer in the US each year. My type of cancer affects 4 to 10 of us a year!! It was NOT epithelial (the kind that spreads cancer cells everywhere), so no nodes were involved.
I had asked people to pray for a clean and clear operation. It was clean and bright!! Because the cancer is so rare, there is no standard follow-up treatment protocol. My doctor is going to meet with his colleagues to discuss possible options and contact me.
I had a Sertoli-Leydig stromal tumor in my left ovary. It secretes both testosterone and estrogen. When I was in male-dominated fields like sales and computer programming, people often told me I had a bunch of brass balls. I invariably replied, “No, I have a set of copper ovaries.” Well, I found out I literally had a copper ovary!
My doctor recommended that I take four to six weeks off after surgery. I’m a good, docile Virgo!! It’s pretty weird not working though. My energy levels are returning and getting stronger every day. This Sunday, a month after surgery, I will do the Weekly Weather again. From January I will receive customers again. I normally take the last two weeks of December as vacation time while my family is visiting Florida, so the six weeks bumped into the planned vacation time.
The astrology of my cancer diagnosis is also quite interesting. The new moon eclipse at 22 Libra and the South Node at 24 Libra on October 14 was in my T-square and on my Neptune at 24 Libra ~ the MRI that eclipse day revealed cancer! The full moon eclipse on October 28 occurred right on my Venus in Scorpio, which is on the degree of ovaries/testes and Saturn in the fallopian tubes of Scorpio.
I want to thank you all for your prayers, well wishes, reiki, cards, emails and flowers. I really appreciate them. I felt very, very, very loved and cared for. I will send out thank you notes and respond to you in December!
On to further adventures in astrology together!
Blessings all around,
Anne
PS There is one Sagittarius New Moon Manifestation Webinar TOMORROW, Monday, December 11, 2023 at 7:30 PM Eastern. Join us!
