DIETING--WINNING AT LOSING

DIETS: WINNING AT LOSING

When natal Saturn is in Cancer or Saturn in the 4th house (or cadent in the 3rd but having the same sign as the 4th house cusp), there's almost always food restriction with reasons ranging from diet-for-health to food imbalance (too much or too little) which often begins or becomes appearance related. People born in the Saturn in Cancer generations: Linda Ronstadt, Sally Struthers, Dolly Parton and the younger generation Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Kate Winslet, Drew Barrymore. These young celebrities been gainers and losers with the exception of Jolie, who just becomes thinner.

Jupiter transits are often accompanied by weight gain; Saturn transits and Pluto transits occasionally mark a period of weight loss.   One of the most common planetary combinations for dieting is Ceres/Admetos.   Ceres is the asteroid most specifically associated with food and Admetos is the TNP which symbolizes abbreviation, narrowing or reduction.  It's found the natal horoscopes of many serial dieters as well as people like Gandhi (Ceres square Admetos/3' orb) whose lengthy fasts effected political change.  Ceres/Admetos will mark a dietary change when it appears by transit, progression, solar arc or in a solar return. 

Another picture for food restriction, diets and weight loss is Saturn/Ceres although there is some incidence of dietary restriction due to health issues with Saturn/Ceres.

Dolly Parton--natal Saturn in Cancer--has won at losing and maintaining her weight loss after years of unsuccessful attempts. Her 1983 SR contained a Ceres/Admetos aspect as well as a square of transiting Pluto to natal sun. Her 50 pound weight loss is cited in a July 1984 magazine article "Here She Comes Again..Dolly Gets Slimmed Down and Fired up".

Carrie Fisher had transiting Admetos forming a tight semi-square to natal Ceres in 2011 when she first appeared in a Jenny Craig commercial and went on to lose 50 prounds.  Beyonce lost 20 pounds to play Diana Ross in Dreamgirls, when Ceres was opposite Admetos in her 2005 SR.

Kirstie Alley and Rush Limbaugh ("I've lost 90 pounds three times in my life") were born on the same day and year.  Both have natal  Aries=Ceres/Admetos (no TOB for Alley but neither Ceres nor Admetos travel quickly, so the orb is no greater than 15 minutes).  Between 2009 and 2011, transiting Admetos trined natal Ceres in both charts.  Limbaugh lost 90 pounds in 2009 and Alley lost 100 pounds and launched a line of organic diet food between 2010 and 2011.

Oprah--possibly more than anyone ever--embodies pre-occupation with diet and weight loss. She's got natal Ceres//Admetos (less than 1 degree orb). In 1988--when she famously wore her size 10 Calvin Klein jeans pulling a cart of fat equivalent to the 70 pounds she had lost--her SR Ceres was square to Admetos (1 degree 8 minute orb) and MC. In the previous year, progressed Ceres had made a contact with natal and progressed Admetos.  Although the progressions were probably less successful attempts, they were part of the momentum of the weight loss.

Carnie Wilson (natal MC=Ceres/Admetos) had transiting Admetos=natal Ceres (135 degrees) in 1999 when she had gastric bypass surgery and lost (and alas went on to regain) 150 pounds.   When progressed Ceres stationed on her Saturn/Ceres midpoint she appeared on Celebrity Fit Club and shortly thereafter  progressed Saturn joined progressed Ceres--both were on the Saturn/Ceres midpoint--and she lost another 50 pounds.  A client lost 100 pounds in three months while transiting Saturn stationed on natal Ceres.   Jonah Hill had T. Admetos square natal Ceres when he had his weight loss.  Aretha lost close to 100 pounds when Saturn was opposite Ceres.

Here are some personal instances:

P. Saturn=P.Ceres (64H)
Friend got sick after eating in a restaurant and changed her diet as a result.

I began a fast when Sun SA Saturn/Ceres.  I have both Ceres/Admetos=Aries as well as Saturn conjunct the IC (like Saturn in Cancer).   I've been yo-yo dieting since age 11 and have lost (conservatively) 200 pounds in the 53 years since then.

P. Venus=Saturn/Ceres
A friend asked me to help her with diet.