Planetary Configuration That Cause Depression - How to Cope With Depression Astrologically?

Depression: Causes and Remedies in Astrology

What is Depression?

According to MediLexicon's Medical Dictionary, depression is: 

"a mental state or chronic mental disorder characterized by feelings of sadness, loneliness, despair, low self-esteem, and self-reproach; accompanying signs include psychomotor retardation (or less frequently agitation), withdrawal from social contact, and vegetative states such as loss of appetite and insomnia."

Common Symptoms of Depression:

• In a layman's language, depression is caused when we don’t get the things we want. 
• They also feel like they must be responsible for everything essentially feeling as though they hold the world on their shoulders.
•  When they don't live up to their own expectations, the guilt sets in, this makes the situation worse. 

Depression is a universal experience. Most of us experience depression up to some degree or another during the course of our life. If a person is strong-willed, they will come over it easily if not, it can be fatal, can give birth to suicidal tendency also. 

One may wonder why some people have the ability to meet challenges and transition while others become bitter and hopeless as if it was destined by the planets in the birth chart. In this respect, astrology can really help as there are several indicators that strongly suggest the timing and onset for depression. 

Main Planets & Houses that cause depression

Saturn signifies limitations, restrictions, structure, authority, discipline, boundary, striving, responsibilities, depression, and stability in astrology. 

Depression is mostly a psychological phenomenon. Moon is the psyche planet. It deals with our emotions, our desires and our expectations.

Saturn is known as the great malefic planet. It is a planet which gives you results of your karma, for good karma it rewards and for bad karma it punish. 

When it connects with Moon through its sign, conjunction, and aspect or through nakshatra it causes depression during its transit and dasha. 

Moon is a watery planet. It represents our emotions, attitude towards life, relationship with the mother or nature of mother, application of thoughts and ideas, presentation skills and ability to enjoy things. 

Anxiety, over emotional nature, inability to enjoy life, lack of confidence, insecurity and over-possessiveness are some of the indications of bad condition of Moon in ones horoscope. 

Badly placed Moon can cause a lot of mental and emotional problems that go a long way in weakening our body. If your mind is unhealthy then you're bound to have lots of physical problems sooner or later. 

Headaches, migraines, palpitations, pain in the neck, body and joints are some of the most common ailments that a bad moon causes. It causes deficiency of calcium. Psychiatrists and astrologers will both generally agree that a major factor in depression is the feeling of powerlessness. For the psychological approach, getting the sense of empowerment can only help the person to come over from the situation of depression.

If proper remedies are performed, a person can get relief from depression and stressful life.

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