For every being, a star

It used to be that in order to prescribe a remedy for illness and disease, the proscribing doctor would not only 'read' the symptoms of the patient, but also the positions and rhythms of the planets and stars. This was known as "medical astrology" and it came from a time when it was believed that every human being comes from a star.
 
I'm Mary Stewart Adams, and this is the "Storyteller's Guide to the Night Sky."
 
Today, we hear astrophysicists say that we are all made of star stuff, but this is really quite a bit different from what the ancients believed. 
 
What an astrophysicist means is that in the life cycle of stars, there comes a moment when it has exhausted its resources and an explosion, or super nova, can occur. When this happens, then all the elements that were the star are cast into space, and overtime, albeit over long periods of time, these elements can reconfigure as organic, living matter, like us! So you could say, we are made up of the same elements as the stars.
 
What the ancients believed is that every human being has a soul, and every soul comes from a star. Further, after the allotted time here on Earth, every human soul would return to its star. 
 
So, rather than everyone of us being made up of stuff that was cast off from an exploded star that is now gone, it was believed that every human soul comes from a star to which it returns after death. 
 
Out of this idea that we each come from a star, it made sense, then, to read the positions of planets and stars to determine how to live a healthy life. 
 
This week, you can take the waxing crescent moonlight as your prescription for good health, and as it approaches the golden planet Saturn on Friday, ask yourself, of all the stars out there, which one is mine, and how do I find it?
 
And after having thus framed the universe, the creator being allotted to it souls equal in number to the stars, inserting each in each...And creator being declared also, that after living well for the time appointed to him, each one should once more return to the habitation of his associate star, and spend a blessed and suitable existence.~Plato "Timaeus" c. 360 BC