On several other astrological sites there is a method that is often touted as THE ONE that can time conception. Dr Jonas did a study and that alleges that a woman is fertile each and every month when the phase angle of the moon and the sun are the same as in a woman’s natal chart. For instance, he says that if you were born on a new moon then every new moon you are fertile, every month, even if the new moon occurs during your menstrual cycle.
I have a problem with this. For the simple reason – no one has ever been able to pinpoint the moment of conception – not even in high tech fertility treatments such as IVF, Gift and Zift. A fertilised embryo can be fertilised in a dish and then returned to the uterus, but conception happens when the embryo is accepted by the uterus and implants in the inner lining of it. To date, no doctor has “seen” this moment. Conception can happen 5-6 days after fertilisation. The angle or phase of the moon can change within one day, and the moon moves in the heavens approximately 2 degrees a day, so that 5 days represents a nearly a quarter change in the angle of the moon to the sun.
Robert Winston points out in his book ,Infertility – A Sympathetic Approach, that a healthy couple in their early twenties has a 15% percent chance of falling pregnant each month. Dr Jonas suggests you have a chance every month. As a practitioner of fertility astrology it has not been my experience that the Jonas method works at all satisfactorily, and to my mind there has to be more to fertility astrology than the phase of the moon.
I also would love to know how he determined when these women he studied actually conceived, and how he used this data in his study to support his theory.
I am not being overly aggressive in my criticism, just careful not to raise hope and expectation in clients who are not informed as to the basis of this study.
best wishes
Nicola
