Managing High Anxiety (or not).

Among Noel Tyl's articles, available at his website, I noticed this one: Managing Anxiety. I'd just returned from a follow-up appointment with our doctor, after a bi-annual routine blood test a few days ago. I'd suffered my own routine spurt of BP and heart-rate raising anxiety, if anything it seemed even more pronounced than usual this time. It's totally daft of me, but has always been thus, since childhood. I'm not scared of needles, or much of anything they could do to me, per se - it's just...well, daft of me! I've been told my type of anxiety is known as "white coat syndrome". There was nothing whatsoever to worry about this time, I didn't expect there to be, not really. But still the feelings of anxiety arose. I suspect my being out of control of results figures into this discomfort - a serious dislike of having my independence threatened.

I'd love to be able to manage that nervous silliness of mine. At my age though, it's unlikely to happen. I found the linked article interesting even so. Astrologically I blame First House natal Pluto opposite natal Sun, and maybe Chiron (the Wounded Healer) inconjunct Sun (but trine Jupiter) for my nervousness when facing a white coat.

I particularly liked Mr Tyl's last words regarding astrologers who counsel - though I've never actually been counselled personally by an astrologer, he makes it sound like rather a nice experience, if done properly.

Our job is not to read a planetary riot-act and pronounce gloom and doom; rather, our mission it is to support and free up our clients; to help with efficiency, helping to cast off extra, useless baggage, and illuminate the individual’s light as never before within the human condition.

Postscript: Before scheduling this I noticed an article on yesterday's Huffington Post about White Coat Syndrome. I'm not overly impressed by that kind of survey/study, but found the comments more interesting and informative than the piece itself.