How Our Bodies Are Formed By Nature

How Our Bodies Are Formed by Nature1 Understanding how our bodies are formed by Nature is a crucial piece to understanding the proper purposes of astrology and many other important subtle connections. In my journey of awakening, this was another important revelation. What is true for everything in Nature is also true for our bodies. The complicated way to describe our unique body type is through our genetic code. The simple way to describe that same reality is by observing the mix of the five elements which are present in each body. That is something we can see with our unaided senses if we are trained to do so. On the way to combining the five elements, a funny thing happens. It appears that Nature likes to do things in threes. The five elements form three distinct groups when they combine to make a body. Space and air blend into a substance called vata. Fire, which is called pitta, stands by itself, though it always needs air and earth as fuel to burn. Water and earth form a kind of mud or clay, which is called kapha. These three are called doshas, which means an imperfect or faulty thing. Because they are formed of five separate elements that keep separating and are difficult to hold together, the doshas are unstable. Our bodies are an unsteady alliance of the five elements. Every body has vata, pitta and kapha or space/air (movement and communication), fire (digestion or transformation) and water/earth (cohesion, substance, lubrication). To exist, a body must have all three, but every body has them in varying proportions. If someone is thin, cold, nervous, dry, unsteady and light, they are predominantly vata. If someone is of medium build, hot, intense, muscular, with sharp appetite, acidic, red-faced and aggressive, then they are predominantly pitta. And if someone is heavy, moist, oily, stable, nurturing and solid, they are predominantly kapha. Perhaps you have heard of a similar description of three body types: ectomorph, mesomorph and endomorph. Morph means body, ecto means skin, meso means muscle and bone and endo means gut or lymphatics. The three types are centered on a predominant natural process. The vata, or ectomorph, is focused on communication and the nervous system, represented externally by the skin. The pitta, or mesomorph, is focused on the bones, muscles and strength. The kapha, or endomorph, is focused upon the gut and lymphatic processes. To apply this to yourself: first decide which one of the three you have been most like throughout your life. Are you slender, nervous, refined, high-strung, a light sleeper and often cold in the extremities? If so, you are a vata. Are you of medium build, muscular, forceful, hot, impatient, with very strong digestion? If so, you are a pitta. Are you heavy, slow, steady, nurturing, sluggish, moist and inactive? If so, you are a kapha.

God the Astrologer: Soul, Karma and Reencarnation. How we continually create our own destiny. Jeffrey Armstrong. Torchlight Publishing, Barger, 2001. pags. 82-84. 1