The actress Selma Blair – Hellboy, Mothers and Daughters, Mom and Dad – has announced she’s suffering from multiple sclerosis. She’s had symptoms for 15 years of falling, dropping things and foggy memory but was only diagnosed recently.
Born 23 June 1972 8.30am (unverified) New York, she has a friendly 11th house Cancer Sun opposition Jupiter in her performing 5th house square Pluto in last degree Virgo – lots of confidence and drive with a tendency to over-control. She has Mars in Cancer in the 12th opposition North Node in the 6th house of health square a Taurus midheaven. Her Mars is also trine a Scorpio Moon, sextile Pluto, so she’s emotionally very intense and given to frustrations and fears. Her Venus in Gemini also squares Pluto, which again will accentuate deeper feelings.
Saturn rules her 6th and tr Saturn is about to join tr Pluto in her 6th house next year opposing her Mars; and tr Uranus is also in 2019 going to conjunct her midheaven which looks like a change of direction. So it looks a tricky time ahead. MS is a condition where symptoms can come and go, often disappearing for stretches of time.
Exactly now her Secondary Progressed Mars is exactly square her Scorpio Moon for a considerable shock though she’s making the best of it. In typical Scorpio Moon fashion not letting on how much she’s affected emotionally.
Jupiter will move into her 5th from early 2019 for a year to give her a confidence lift; and then into her 6th in 2020 which may help.
Her creative 5th harmonic is strong; even more so her victim/healer 12th.
MS is a tricky disease. There is no known cure. Some promising drugs are available which slow down the progression of MS…eventually, however, it does catch up to the individual. Stress, hot weather, overwork will exacerbate the progression and side effects.
There are also different types of MS. Some respond to medicines better than others, but generally speaking life expectancy for patients is now only from 5 to 10 years shorter than the average, and this is a big improvement to the 1980’s. But it’s obviously better if it’s caught early. I come from an area that has one of the highest occurance of MS in The World, everybody in my hometown is related to or knows someone affected, and this is the first thing you get tested for if you start having strange neurological symptoms in your 20’s or 30’s.