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Table of Contents
Angels in Hollywood
Devils in the Details
The Astrologer's Mind
Astrology, Partly . . .
All That Is
Fate, Free Will and Belief Systems
The Stars Are Inside Your Head
A Doctor in the House
The Crusades
Fender-Benders
Fate is Conditioning
Context is Everything
Murder, He Wrote
Nothing "Happens" to Anybody
In Days to Come
About the Author
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Angels in Hollywood

When I moved to Hollywood at 20 I knew everything, as many do by that age. But I

knew nothing about astrology: I came to Hollywood to be an actor.
Fifty years (in 2014) and more than 40,000 astrology clients from 122 countries later, I
know a lot about astrology. Yet, astonishingly, theres so much more to know about life
on planet Earth now than I ever imagined at twenty.
Keeps one humble.
A year after arriving in Hollywood winning a full scholarship at the Pasadena
Playhouse and studying fencing, dance, movement, phonetics, dialects, stage makeup,
diaphragmatic breathing and projecting into the mask I was an actor. A member of
Actors Equity and the Screen Actors Guild, now studying with renowned acting coach
Jeff Corey, shooting my first film and performing in a professional repertory company.
But the two most important lessons I learned at the Pasadena Playhouse had nothing to
do with acting and everything to do with life: "There are two things in Hollywood
nobody wants to know about you," we were warned the first day of orientation: "One is
that youre sick. And two is that you need money."
Thats wisdom.
Thus armed, trained and talented (who isnt in Hollywood?) toting my head shots
around town to casting directors and auditions I was on my way to an Oscar.
And yet . . . I found myself in Pickwick Bookshop on Hollywood Boulevard early one
evening perusing titles in the Astrology section . . . looking for . . . my future?
Behind every actors brio (and every doctors, lawyers and Indian chiefs) lurks the
nagging question: "Whats going to happen to me?" Maybe astrology knew. Maybe one
of these books could tell me.
Actors are a superstitious lot: St. Christopher medallions (though one isnt Catholic),
mezuzahs on doors (though ones not Jewish), four-leaf clovers laminated in plastic keychains (though ones not Irish), carefully wishing fellow thespians 'break-a-leg' instead of
'good luck'. Maybe astrology . . . .
About which I knew nothing.
"Youre a Libra."
A stranger had appeared three feet away, soft-spoken, half-smiling, thin, intense,
unblinking. An Ingmar Bergman stock player? An agent?
"Thats right." (How did he know I was a Libra?)

"Youre an astrologer."
"No, Im an actor."
"Well, you may be an actor but what you really are is an astrologer. The book you want
isnt here. Its not in print. Come with me to the desk and Ill write it down for you."
He borrowed a pencil and scratch paper from the cashier at the front desk, wrote "A-Z
Horoscope Maker and Delineator" and handed it to me.
"You find that book in a used bookstore. Theres Larry Edmunds up the street. Try there.
And good luck to you, Libra."
He smiled, nodded, turned and walked out into the balmy Hollywood night, disappearing
in the sidewalk crowd.
I never saw him again.
But Ive never forgotten him or how two minutes and a chance encounter can change a
life so profoundly.
I found the book a couple of weeks later at Larry Edmunds it was thick and formidable
looking and set up my horoscope like it showed me, then looked up the interpretations.
Its accuracy about my psychology was on the money, amazingly. Then, suddenly, one
short sentence in that old book jolted me. "A mole, mark or scar on the left side of the
head or face."
I had both. A mole on my left cheek and a scar under my left eye from a childhood
injury. Neither was noticeable, thankfully, which might have sidetracked my becoming
the next Marlon Brando (though looking nothing like him and possibly less talented). In
another section of "A-Z Horoscope Maker and Delineator," I learned that the "injury to
the head or face" had occurred at age five. Which it had.
How could an astrology book originally written decades before I was born be so precise
about a physical fact about me?
That was my introduction to astrology 50 years ago.
My acting career was short-lived but brilliant (trust me) and today Im an astrologer, not
an actor. Even I am amazed at the number of clients I've read for, but I worked it out
from my files: 50 years, five days a week (or more), two, three, four or more clients a day
in person, by phone or letter and eventually online. At one time I stuck pins in a framed
world map on my office wall to keep track of their birth countries.
How could that stranger in Pickwick Bookshop know? Friends over the years have said
he was an angel. Maybe he was. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
I never sought astrology; astrology found me. I never sought clients, either. My first
paying client was another acting student from Jeff Coreys workshop who asked one day

in Pickwick Bookshop, ironically, "Would you read my chart? Ill pay you. Is $50 okay?"
(In 1966, $50 was the equivalent of about $470 today, believe it or not.)
$50 was definitely okay. Of course I would read her chart.
I prepared notes for hours beforehand because for $50 I didnt want to read to her from a
book. It went well. Within a week a friend of hers called for an appointment. Then
another friend. Then some friends of those friends. Then more friends of the friends of
those friends. In a month or so I had earned what today would be over $6,000 as an
astrologer.
So long, Oscar.
I soon realized that for every new astrology client who walked through my door, theyd
refer at least three more clients to me within the next twelve months. Fifty years later its
still true. All word of mouth. No advertising or promotional budget.
It took awhile to admit I was pursuing astrology more than acting. There was so much to
learn. So many clients with such interesting lives. So much psychology to study. So much
metaphysics. So much philosophy. So many books. So much living.
Remarkably, I knew vastly more already than at twenty.
Fate? Free Will? Both? I was just beginning to comprehend to what degree I actually
created my own fate, thanks to my growing understanding of astrology and metaphysics
and how things work.
Right on time, another angel appeared. Linda Goodman had written the massive bestseller "Sun Signs" which I hadnt read because I was too good for pop astrology. She was
standing right next to me in Pickwick Bookshop, of all places. In retrospect, I must have
Cosmic Ley-Lines at Hollywood and Highland.
I recognized her from her head shot on her book jacket and she was just as striking in
person. We chatted a bit. She invited me to join her for coffee next door at the SnoWhite. Three hours of electrifying conversation later, she said, "Youre the best
astrologer Ive ever met. Could I send clients to you? I dont have time to do readings
anymore. Im working on my next book. Im staying at the Roosevelt across the street. In
fact . . . would you like to study with me?"
I was honored but also embarrassed. We made arrangements to meet in a couple of days
and I sneaked back into Pickwick to buy "Sun Signs" and find out what her best-seller
was all about. Of course, it was the greatest pop astrology book of its time, perhaps all
time, and deserved its lengthy stay atop the best-seller lists (as well as its then recordsetting advance). An insightful and delightfully written look at the women, men, wives,
husbands, lovers, children, bosses and employees of the zodiac.
Linda Goodman and I became friends and confidants as well as teacher-student. The
following June on the way to Santa Barbara, she gave me some stapled mimeographed
pages (before Xerox) a fan had sent her: a series called "Medical Lectures" given by Dr.
William M. Davidson to a group of homeopaths and nurses in Chicago. Linda wasnt
interested in them but I devoured them. They elevated my understanding of how the

planets and signs function in the physical body (and Life itself) beyond anything Id
encountered so far.
That winter I house-sat for Linda in her first home in Cripple Creek and met her coterie
of admirers who found their way to her door from all over the world, like New Age circus
troupers. I erected charts for her and sat in on her readings for visiting bigwigs in Vail
and Aspen. I learned a lot from Linda.
The first client Linda had sent me in Hollywood was a prominent surgeons wife; a
Scorpio who showed up behind big Jackie-O Sunglasses. She was surprised. "I thought
youd be older." I was twenty-four and anxious for this to be a good reading because I
wanted Linda to be proud and I knew Id get more clients if this surgeons wife was
impressed.
I began as I always do, asking a few factual questions, "To make sure your time of birth
is accurate. If its off by even four minutes, certain projections will be off by a year or
more. Your first child . . . was a girl?"
"Thats right," she said, understandably unimpressed. Well, the odds of astrology being
right were 50-50.
"Your second pregnancy . . . is confusing." I nervously weighed the indications in her
chart and finally stated with calm confidence gleaned from the Pasadena Playhouse, "It
looks like it was twins and you lost one at birth."
She slowly removed her Sunglasses and whispered hoarsely, "I cant believe that,"
clearing her throat. "I wouldnt have known if I hadnt had a hysterectomy last year
where they removed a mass with teeth and hair and said it was an undeveloped fetus from
my second pregnancy."
Inside, I jumped up and down: "It works! It works!" Outwardly, I continued like Id done
this over many lifetimes (Linda was convinced I had), thanks to my stellar acting skills.
The reading went on for over an hour. Her questions were probing. Particularly about her
husbands health.
"Well, it looks serious," I said. "And it involves the glandular system."
"Thats right."
". . . Hodgkins?"
She nodded. "Is he going to die?"
"I cant say that." We talked for another half hour about what astrology had to say about
his treatment, his prognosis, their property and finances, their children. When she left she
asked if I saw clients regularly. She had some friends shed like to send to me.
Though I cant recall the moment I finally abandoned acting for astrology, that was
probably it.

Physicians wives started calling for appointments along with my regular clientele. Some
invited me to their homes to give readings at parties. For a short while I willingly became
a performing seal, reading for ten or twenty people one-by-one in a guest room. I never
minded. It paid well, drew more clients, and Ive never avoided exposing people to
metaphysics and astrology. Once you know something you cant un-know it. Maybe
some party guests would get curious and explore astrology on their own.
"I thought this was going to be fortune-telling," was a common reaction. "I had no idea
you could go so deep or be so specific with astrology."
There are charlatans in any profession, including medicine, unfortunately. Anybody can
buy a few books, hang out their shingle and declare themselves a 'famous' 'renowned'
'professional' astrologer. I have to laugh. If youre famous and renowned, reminding
people is redundant. "The famous Stephen Hawking." "The renowned Bill Gates." If you
arent, claiming you are is pretentious. Redundancy and pretension are both amateurish.
Yet Ive never resented quacks. Theyre easy enough to spot, and quickly. People who
truly believe that paying somebody $1,000 to light a red candle will bring back their
errant husband will inevitably find a way any way to victimize themselves. If their
curiosity about 'fortune telling' or metaphysics is ultimately aroused enough, maybe they
will buy a book and investigate for themselves. Maybe they will grow up and become
knowledgeable about why they keep setting themselves up as victims.

Devils in the Details

From all those doctors wives, I began reading for their physician husbands too, at the
husbands' requests. In the years since, Ive worked with numerous surgeons,
chemotherapists, general and family practitioners, nurses, psychiatrists and psychologists.
Medical astrology is a branch that interested me from the outset: How could an old book
know I had a scar on my left cheek from an injury at age five? Was everything in life so
indelibly written in the stars?
The short answer is "No." (Though as youll later see the answer in retrospect is "Yes.")
Yet despite working with open-minded and curious physicians for decades, and being
invited to speak for medical groups, the reaction to astrology by many scientific minds
Ive met continues to be, "Are you nuts? Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy?"
My response, evolved through the years, generally falls along lines of, "Im surprised!
Have you actually studied astrology? Youre one in a million!"
"Of course not. Its rubbish."
"Interesting, as a scientist. Are you always in the habit of rejecting things you know
nothing about? Do you just take other peoples word for things? Interesting."

At which point I used to politely excuse myself to hunt the mens room, leaving them
sputtering. Now I pretend my cell phones vibrated and excuse myself to take the
imaginary call, giving them time to ruminate on what they just said about astrology and
what they revealed about themselves.
I dont care whether anybody 'believes in' astrology. I do care whether Im wasting time
with people whose opinions are based on willful ignorance and not facts.
One scientist who did study astrology was psychiatrist Carl Jung, founder of analytical
psychology. His principle of 'synchronicity' (concurrent events unrelated through cause
and effect) is much loved by astrologers. Jung called astrology (paraphrasing) the oldest
recorded data base of human observation in mankinds history.
"Since you want to know my opinion about astrology, I can tell you that I've been
interested in this particular activity of the human mind since more than 30 years. In cases
of difficult psychological diagnosis I usually get a horoscope in order to have a further
point of view from an entirely different angle. I must say that I very often found that the
astrological data elucidated certain points which I otherwise would have been unable to
understand." Carl Jung
Agree or disagree with Jungs studies and observations (Freud warned him about being
ridiculed), he exhibited a truly scientific mind unafraid of research and impervious to
blind prejudice from peers.
A much older scientist than Jung but equally oft-cited by astrologers is Hippocrates,
Father of Modern Medicine, whose oath (at least, attributed to him) still hangs in
physicians waiting rooms. "He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a
fool," is Hippocrates statement in his attributed writings, so adored by astrologers.
Astronomy as a science in fact arose from attempts by ancient astrologers to improve the
accuracy of their starry observations. It is correct to say that mathematics and astronomy
originally developed and evolved from mans earliest efforts to comprehend life on Earth
by imaginatively projecting archetypal figures and myths into the heavens and noting the
effects of the seasons of the Sun, solstices and equinoxes, movements of planets, and
precession of the equinoxes. For reasons revealing more about contemporary scientists
than about astrology, theyre still embarrassed that early astronomers practiced astrology
and refined astronomy attempting to perfect their horoscopes.
The story of astrologys banishment and denunciation by the Church is also revealing and
ongoing. In addition to the Churchs determined attempts to suppress the origins of
religious stories and myths in ancient astrotheosophy, astrology is slandered as 'the work
of the devil' and forbidden: something to be dismissed or feared.
But the global history of astrotheosophy and religions is as fascinating as the stained
glass windows in cathedrals across Europe that gloriously depict signs of the zodiac, as
this window from Chartres (1193 CE) showing Pisces, sign of the Fishes and symbol of
Christianity and the Piscean Age.

Another symbol, far older than Christianity, that represents the Suns solstice and
equinox points, is familiar. It marks the seasons of the Sun's vernal and autumnal
equinoxes (when day and night are equal) and the Sun's summer and winters solstice
points in the northern hemisphere (when the Sun reaches its highest and lowest points in
the sky). These dates were vital for planting and harvesting; venerated because they
brought life and sustenance, signaling universally acknowledged collective passages of
life.
Ancient holidays, rituals and celebrations honored these annual solar-terrestrial cycles of
fertility, birth, harvesting, nourishment and death. Today they're carried forward from
'pagan' times and still worshiped as Christmas, Easter and other holy days. But their
ancient astrotheological origins are plainly depicted in this symbol, recognized around the
world, of the Sun's four cardinal points in the tropical year:

Exhaustive ongoing research into the ancient connections between astrology and the
Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) is increasingly disseminated
worldwide through the internet by scholars like D. M. Murdoch, today reaching millions
who were unaware of these origins merely twenty years ago.

Prior to the advent of the web, such works were extremely difficult to find, so effectively
had millennia of repression buried the facts. But that door has opened ever wider in the
past two decades. In the early 90s, the BBC produced "The Naked Truth," a two hour
documentary on the astrotheosophical origins of Christianity. It remains available despite
repeated attempts to have it removed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LTmw9BMzWo&feature=gv
"The Naked Truths" production values are rudimentary, but its facts are accurate and, to
those unfamiliar with them, astounding. No wonder astrology has been so viciously
attacked: religions' origins in ancient Egyptian (and even older Sumerian) astrotheosophy
undermine the presumptive universal ('catholic') authority of the Church since Emperor
Constantine and the Edict of Milan ultimately led to the Edict of Thessalonica, when
Emperor Theodosius I made Christianity the Roman Empires official religion in 380 CE.
Astrology is hardly alone in being denounced by the Church. So fearful that any kind of
general knowledge and education would ultimately expose the murky origins of religious
authority, the Church systematically fought all attempts to spread learning to broad
populations. (These secret origins, though embedded in the architecture, masonry and
stained-glass windows of cathedrals across Europe, were revealed only to prelates and
initiates.)
The death knell for the Churchs suppression of widespread literacy and education was
sounded by Gutenbergs printing press, around 1450, also fought by the Church in an
ultimately losing battle that continues today with the 'dangerous' internet making
information more readily and freely available than ever, and the slow but irrevocable
decline of Christianity witnessed in empty cathedral pews across Europe (now primarily
populated by tourists and aging parishioners).
Religious battles against knowledge and education still rage around the world primarily
from desperation to prevent discovery of their actual origins. In the United States,
fundamentalists are determined to control Boards of Education, ban books, denigrate
science in general especially relating to evolution, climate change, womens rights,
sexuality and reproduction and replace genuine education with 'Creation science,' fearbased indoctrination and 'abstinence-only' sex education and misinformation.
In that context its easy to understand formal academias reluctance to introduce
astrology even as 'history' or 'philosophy.' The astrotheosophical underpinnings of the
three Abrahamic religions are too unavoidable for such information to be sanctioned or
universally taught. The threat to religious authorities posed by widespread knowledge of
astrologys ancient role in founding and establishing the 'Word of God' is too great, given
'revealed' religions role as the greatest motivator and manipulator of masses yet devised;
beginning to be eclipsed, perhaps, by mass advertising psychology in the 20th Century.
The British documentary "The Century of the Self" portrays Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud
and particularly the remarkable Edward Bernays developing methods for governments
and corporations to control masses. German Nazi propaganda is the most horrific
example from the first half of the 20th Century.

Much has been written of the correlation of religions rises and falls with the Great Ages
derived from the Precession of the Equinoxes (whatever happened to Zeus? To Thor?)
and their zodiacal symbolism: the Age of Taurus (the Golden Calf or bull); the Age of
Aries (the Ram, the rams horn or shofar and the establishment of Judaism); the Age of
Pisces (the Fish and Christianity); and the approaching Age of Aquarius (the Man, the
Water Bearer).
The history and development of religions continues to be explored by scholars and
scientists for a larger audience than ever. But religions astrological origins yet remain
too subversive to be accepted in established academia except to be derided and attacked
with 'demonic' straw men.
Scientists and professional skeptics like "The Amazing Randi" (James Randi, who began
as a magician) state that astrology claims to be something it isnt, then ridicule it for not
fulfilling requirements of their misrepresentations. Thats the opposite of the scientific
method. It is identical to machinations employed by religions and by Bernays to
manipulate mass culture and belief.
But here investigation by rigorous scientific methods astrology meets what may well
be an insurmountable barrier. If in fact astrology is a philosophy, how does one
scientifically measure a philosophys 'truth'? If astrology is a hard science, why dont
specific configurations always and invariably produce identical results?
Recall the physicians wife Linda Goodman originally sent to me, whose second
pregnancy would have been twins had not one failed to develop in the womb? It is one
thing to be able to 'read' that from her horoscope. But how is it possible to 'read' her
husbands Hodgkins lymphoma from her chart? Remarkable enough that such a
condition would show in his horoscope (which I did not have). But in hers?
The implications are staggering and profound. Far easier to dismiss them by asserting
that I am psychic (which I am not) than to admit astrological techniques alone are
sufficient to identify such specific conditions.
Was she predisposed at birth to marry a surgeon who would develop Hodgkins
lymphoma? That is what astrology seems to say, and what skeptics claim it says. But its
not at all what astrology actually says. Look closer at the facts and the context of that
situation.
First, the client the surgeons wife brought up the subject of her husbands health,
which tells an astrologer shes concerned about it. That cues an astrologer to seriously
examine her husbands health from her perspective (its her horoscope, not his). Namely,
does this womans horoscope show any probabilities of her losing her husband to death
any time soon? If so, in how many ways is that probability reinforced in the chart? In her
case, there were several. (I like to see things at least three ways, or more.)
Second, her horoscope indeed showed from birth that she was predisposed (for reasons
every bit as profound and disturbing to skeptics as their presumed fortune-teller-fatalistic
view of astrology) to marry a man who would likely develop (at some point) either
serious occupational and professional problems or serious health problems or both. But

his potential health problems (shown in her chart) could have been heart myocardium
problems or brain meninges problems or stomach problems or testicular problems or skin
or glandular problems all of which are potentials of an 'afflicted' Pluto in Cancer
('afflicted' being the term astrologers used for hard aspects before the word became
politically incorrect).
In fact, she confirmed, he did have previous non-fatal health issues afflicting his stomach,
heart and skin. The key words here are 'predisposed,' 'likely' and 'could'. At no point does
astrology say he 'will' as skeptics claim. The difference is enormous and similar to
genetic predispositions for certain diseases that may or may not eventuate in the lives of
every person with those genetic predispositions.
Third, the astrologer is told to focus on her husbands health because she brought it up. In
a glance, the chart showed not only her predisposition to lose a husband through an early
death (which potential was indicated within a year or so) but reflected potentials for
serious conditions affecting her husbands health in several ways (for metaphysical
reasons vastly greater and more disturbing to science than fortune telling) that could lead
to that death. Cancer immediately came to mind rather than, say, an atrophied testicle or
stomach ulcer. Melanoma, even in those days, was not necessarily fatal if caught early
and treated. Astrology can also rather quickly rule out fatality from heart or brain
disorders or from skin cancer because serious and chronic conditions afflicting those
would also have to be indicated in other ways (which they were not) to supplement the
critical Pluto. Which essentially leaves something serious, potentially fatal, and chronic
involving the glandular system. The glandular system was implicated in several ways, so
Hodgkins became an obvious question.
But all that happens in the astrologers mind in what is called "the art of synthesis" (see
below), through a logical process of tallying indicators that either rule out or reinforce
this or that potential to arrive at a conclusion. There is nothing 'psychic' about it: the
indicators in astrology are based on millennia of observation and correlation. They may
be studied by scientists and skeptics, who are as capable of learning astrology as well as
(or better than) anybody. But that takes time and an open mind. Easier to study
astrologers instead, then debunk fortune telling amateurs and claim astrology itself has
been debunked. Far easier than grappling with the implications of why a husbands
death, much less from a specific condition, is potentially reflected in the wifes horoscope
at birth.
Another favorite tactic of would-be astrology debunkers is the 'blind test'. They present
astrologers with the chart of a highly unusual person and demand the astrologer tell the
skeptic what the unusual fact is, from the horoscope. Perhaps its the horoscope of
somebody born with dwarfism. Or a premature baby who died in infancy. Or a child who
was abducted, sexually abused and murdered at age eight. Or somebody struck by
lightning.
The fallacy in these supposed 'tests' of astrology is the presumption that astrology claims
to do any such thing. Astrologers might make such claims in which cases it may be
legitimate to test their abilities to substantiate their claims, or not. But that is again a test
of an astrologer, not of astrology.

Astrology itself may suggest some unusual birth circumstance or condition, or some
unusual death. Through further examination using Derivative Houses and so on, more
details can often be elicited. But they always remain probabilities as far as astrology itself
is concerned; not inevitabilities.
Dwarfism, deaths of infants less than a month old, and childhood abductions / homicides
range from statistically rare to unlikely (though the last often gain wide coverage because
of their tragic sensationalism and seem to be more 'usual' than in fact they are).
The most common form of child abuse, for instance, is neglect comprising some 60%
of all forms of child abuse. Child sexual abuse represents some 15% of all forms of child
abuse. Of that 15%, some 95% is heterosexual males assaulting female children. Less
than 5% of that 15% that is child sexual abuse is homosexual though the tabloids, rightwing religious organizations (and the tragic assaults perpetrated by the globally reported
Catholic Church scandals) falsely imply that homosexuals in general are especially likely
to assault youths. Child homicides (from all causes, not just abduction and sexual abuse)
are equally rare, though still horrific. In 2008, 1,494 children under 18 years were victims
of homicides in the United States.
Also in the United States in 2006, about 19,000 babies died in their first month.
Dwarfism is found in about 1 in 10,000 births. Some classical astrological traditions
attempt to correlate physical conditions such as height with less success than analyzing
probable organic functioning or even accidents. But to say a person is likely to be taller
or shorter than average is not the same as denoting giantism or dwarfism. Both conditions
are rare enough to have warranted no known astrological studies throughout millennia.
Astrology may indicate predisposition to pituitary problems. But whether those occur
during childhood, producing giantism through excessive growth hormone, or in
adulthood (producing acromegaly rather than giantism) isnt generally practical through
astrology alone: few astrologers have the necessary backgrounds in either medical
knowledge or astrological indicators of such rare conditions to identify them from
horoscopes. There are only about 100 cases of giantism in the United States, for instance.
In over 40,000 clients in 50 years, I have never encountered dwarfism, giantism or
acromegaly. Would my 'failure' to spot it in a horoscope mean Im a bad astrologer? No.
These fallacious 'blind tests' of astrology are like handing an astrologer the horoscope of
an unidentified Power Ball lottery winner and insisting the horoscope demonstrably and
clearly determine that this one horoscope out of 12 million or more walked away with
$500 million after taxes. It cant be done, though these are precisely the misleading
demands that skeptics and debunkers impose on astrology.
When clients ask, "Will I win the Power Ball?" I pretend to study their charts intently,
then finally declare, "No. That will be $150. Thank you." Ive never collected nor sued
for fees for my uncannily accurate prediction.
The demand that astrology meet unrealistic conditions is specious because astrology
makes no such claims, though a given astrologer might. Such astrologers indeed merit

exposure: or, if genuine and capable of replicating their success in a series of similarly
anomalous situations awarded a Nobel Prize for divination.
A related (and equally fallacious) taunt of astrologers is, "If you know so much, why
arent you rich?" It sounds a valid question until one grasps its superficiality. Any good
astrologer who genuinely wishes to become rich can and will use astrology to attain lofty
financial goals. But the question ignores the reality that most people, though swearing
otherwise, dont realistically care about being 'rich' (what, exactly is 'rich'?). They may
childishly hope for a lucky break or some fluke (like winning lotteries or inheriting huge
windfalls from their peculiar Uncle Ernie) to 'make' them rich. But thats a horse of a
different color from the intense continuing research and education (self-taught or formal)
in economics, business, the stock market, investments, etc.; cultivating the interpersonal
skills required for developing effective networks in business and banking; and possessing
or acquiring the competitive drive to become a Warren Buffett or Alisher Usmanov.
Despite bemoaning, "Why arent I rich?" in reality most people arent equipped nor do
they truly want to consistently make the effort. Theyre content just being comfortable
and having enough in the bank for a rainy day, or living lives within limits of manageable
debts.
The corollary question might be asked of artists: "If youre so great, why arent you
rich?" Tell it to Van Gogh. Great talent doesnt a priori generate material wealth.
Or demanded of physicians: "If you know so much, why are you sick?"
That ad hominem approach to anything is finally silly. It reveals far more about the
questioner than the subject.
How, then, to conduct scientific studies of why such a thing as seeing a husbands
Hodgkins lymphoma in the wifes horoscope is possible? A large element of successful
astrology is contextual. There are only twelve signs, twelve houses, ten planets
(including, for simplicitys sake, the Sun and Moon), and five or seven primary 'aspects'
(or angles of degrees between planets and points) in basic astrology. Even so, as shown in
"Using Degrees" in this series, there are over 944,775,597,567,335 followed by 92 zeros
possible combinations (not permutations) from the Developmental Arc alone, and still not
close to the total number of possibilities. That's why the art of synthesis always trumps
cookbook astrology.
Though the ephemeris used to calculate horoscopes is astronomical (the positions and
sidereal times are from Pasadenas Jet Propulsion Laboratory), their meanings are not.
Astrologys archetypes are, as Jung explained, accumulated from the oldest data base of
recorded human observations known to mankind, which he called the Collective
Unconscious. Each symbol can have several or many meanings.

The Astrologers Mind

Most of what happens in astrology happens within the astrologers mind and cannot be
linearly formulated as equations in physics. Reinhold Ebertin and the cosmobiologists
come closest to anything approaching formulae for planetary meanings in combinations
of angles to each other, but they can never hope to be as specific as formulae in Albert
Einsteins Theory of Relativity. Human lives and behavior contain too many variables
from individual to individual.
Astrologers call what happens "the art of synthesis," meaning their minds synthesize the
myriad meanings of everything they see in the charts symbols to arrive at the most
probable indications, then test those against the reality experienced by the client.
But if the art of synthesis is far more specific than random hit-or-miss or lucky guesses
(and it is), it remains completely dependent on the astrologers knowledge, background
and human experience.
Return momentarily to the surgeons wife whose husband had Hodgkins lymphoma.
Consider what actually occurred in my mind at that moment.
I have a rapid mind that's highly observant and sensitive to external clues (verbal,
auditory, visual) to begin with (Pisces on my Third house of the mind and mentality,
Moon in Aries in my third, for starters). I have an analytical health-and-medicallyoriented mind and interests (Mercury and Jupiter in Virgo). As mentioned, she introduced
the question about her husbands health, placing it in my minds immediate foreground.
So I instantly noted that the specific house ruling her spouses health had Pisces (the
glandular and immune system) on its cusp. Then I simultaneously assessed Jupiter and
Neptune (co-rulers of Pisces) and saw a seriously troubling aspect from transiting Saturn
(ruler of her husbands Fourth house "end of life").
So in three or four seconds I knew that whatever affected her husbands glandular and
immune system was much more than a cold or problematic infection: it was potentially
life-threatening. What glandular condition most immediately comes to mind that is lifethreatening? Hodgkins lymphoma leaped into mine. All that took maybe five seconds.
Twelve years later (with different Piscean significators in her chart) I might have
delicately and obliquely inquired about AIDS in response to her question, a condition yet
unknown at the time I read for her, because that might have been an equally valid
possibility.
Before some astrologer says, "Yes, but Pisces also rules the feet. How did you know it
wasnt that?" Again, most of what happens in astrology happens in the astrologers mind
in the art of synthesis. There may be a foot condition thats life-threatening to a
prominent Los Angeles surgeon who is likely to stay apprised of his own health, as
opposed to an undiagnosed diabetic aborigine in a remote village. But even a foot

amputation in the doctors case would not have presented sufficient potentials for fatality
except under extraordinary and unlikely circumstances.
What seemed to the surgeons wife, and to me whose mind operates so quickly that
astrology 'predicted' his Hodgkins lymphoma isnt true. Astrology only indicated her
husband might have a glandular / immune system condition that might be quite serious
and might be life-threatening. The resulting instant deductive logic in my mind? He
might have Hodgkins. Accurate but hardly psychic.
Among many remarkable faculties that can develop over time in astrologers minds is
what appears to be heightened psychic sensitivity. It may in fact become actual psychic
development. But whats often dubbed psychic ability is merely an expanded conscious
awareness of visual, auditory and physical clues ever present and available to anybody.
Good police detectives have it. So do good physicians. A chemotherapist I read for once
told me he knew when he first saw patients, even before examining them, which were
likely to survive cancer and which wouldnt.
Genuine psychic ability involves broader and deeper awareness of clues that are greater
than the five physical senses. Metaphysical clues. Astrology can provide a gateway to
such clues and developing such awareness can be highly advantageous. But it is not
necessary for compelling results from astrology alone.
The example of the surgeon husband with Hodgkins lymphoma isnt psychic in the
usual definition so much as an illustration of a rapid mind responding to visual clues
(symbols in a horoscope) long associated with a catalog of potential meanings compiled
by astrologers from ancient civilizations to the present day.
With practice and experience many astrologers become adept at reading people
spontaneously when asked at parties, say. I explain techniques for performing these
feats (and gaining new clients) in another book in this series, "Sun Sign Secrets."
Some astrologers are amazingly skilled at 'guessing' a persons Sun sign and even the
date of the month when they were born! I am not. Nor will I play "Guess My Sign."
Why? Because Im as likely to guess their Ascendant (Rising Sign) or Moon sign as their
Sun sign and non-astrologers dont know those or understand why theyre often more
obvious than their Sun sign. Result? They think I dont know what Im doing, which isnt
true. If I correctly guess their Sun sign they think Im a warlock or psychic, which also
isnt true. Either way, Lose-Lose.
What I will sometimes do in some situations, if I feel like it, is 'read' somebody, usually
lightly and humorously but occasionally (privately) in great depth, without knowing
anything about them including their birthday. Though the stunt appears psychic, it isnt.
Its that aforementioned heightened sensitivity and awareness of readily available clues
that naturally develop with astrological practice.
At a Christmas party last year in the crowded kitchen, the hostess mentioned I was an
astrologer. Immediate fascination and interest: either a benefit or detriment for
astrologers depending your ego, attitude and mood. A man standing next to me said,
"Really? What can you tell me about me?"

Six people around us were suddenly all ears.

"Well," I began, "you have incredible powers of critical thinking and are constantly
analyzing and categorizing everything and everyone, including me. You label people and
things and put them in compartments. Youre highly skeptical. You love to argue and
dont suffer fools gladly. Which doesnt make you the easiest-going guy in
relationships."
He was smiling.
"You also work in a technical field, maybe associated with hospitals or health care or
computers or technology of some kind or possibly sales-related to those fields, and
maybe involving some travel. Youre extremely health conscious about exercise and
nutrition and so on. Maybe a cyclist. In fact, are you having trouble with your right leg or
knee?"
His eyes bugged and his jaw dropped. Bingo!
"And there are some transitions going on at work changes at the top or in
administration. You may be thinking about changing jobs or taking a second job or
starting a sideline business with a partner or small group. And are you moving or just
moved?"
He just stared at me, mouth open.
"Merry Christmas," I smiled.
Turned out he sold medical equipment to hospitals in a tri-state area, was a health fanatic
and cyclist with a semi-serious injury to his right femur and knee when a car nearly ran
him off a steep narrow road where he was cycling. His company had been bought and
was installing a new CEO. He and another salesman were developing new software
technology in conjunction with a medical group and were forming a company to market it
nationwide.
He and a few others asked for my card.
Thats astrology plus heightened awareness in action.
First, he was short and wiry. Even in a sport coat he looked obviously physically fit. He
wore glasses with a protective strap hanging loosely around his neck like a cyclist might
wear. But this was a party, not a bike run, so it was an obvious unconscious or deliberate
statement as much as a habit, as were his running shoes.
Easy observations. So far no astrology.
His dark moss green wool-blend jacket was segmented with brown plaid squares.
Compartmentalized. Mutable sign. Earth tones. Mutable Earth. Theres only one Mutable
Earth sign: Virgo. Virgo rules health care fields. Arriving at that took less than two
seconds. I had all I needed from mere observation.
Was he a Virgo? I've no idea, nor does it matter in this context. People constantly and
daily reveal much about themselves through unconscious displays of archetypes. Their

choices in style of clothing and colors, worn over which body parts; their jewelry and
accessories (or lack of them); their physiognomy and hair style; the timbre of their voice;
their posture all those and more are archetypal visual and auditory clues that may be
read symbolically. People do it all the time. "Redheads have fiery tempers." Whether the
symbolic meanings are true on average or not depends on objective knowledge and
experience.
Shamans and philosophers since the dawn of time have taught that 'real' life (waking life)
is a dream. Australian aborigines call their animist spirituality and stories of the origins of
life the 'Dreamtime'.
Without irony, everyday symbols abounding throughout our external lives may be read
exactly as symbols in a dream are read. The exercise is fascinating (as at this Christmas
party) when knowledgeable astrologers link horoscopic symbolism and meanings with all
those sensory clues to 'read' people spontaneously.
I knew transiting Mars had recently left Sagittarius (legs) and entered Capricorn (knees)
in a Fourth house opening square to Virgo. Mars of accidents and injuries in an even
house (right side of the body in a male chart). Mars of action and activity in the Fourth
house of the home. A potential move. I knew transiting Jupiter was retrograde in Gemini
in the tenth house of career and employers, in a closing square to Virgo. Jupiter of travel
in Sagittarius of travel (also of medicine). Another Mutable sign, a transitional sign, a
bridging sign. More than one job and job transitions at the top. Nothing psychic about it.
Pure astrology.
Very occasionally I will get into in-depth private discussions at a party with someone
whos serious about astrology, without so much as an ephemeris. By then theyll have
told me their Sun sign so I can be much more detailed and specific, knowing the transits
and the techniques I outline in "Sun Sign Secrets" in this series going far beyond
cookbook astrology.
There neednt be anything psychic about recognizing Hodgkins lymphoma, or
miscarriage, or homosexuality or anything else in horoscopes.
What seems startling and unacceptable and dead-ends those who insist astrology
withstand scrutiny under controlled scientific methods is that identical conditions (like
Hodgkins) can be indicated in astrology in different ways. If that seems to point to many
different 'kinds' of Hodgkins or miscarriages, so be it. Though the medical diagnosis of a
disease may be consistent across individuals, any one individuals actual experience of it
and perspective on it are unique. That is why individuals prognoses and outcomes from
identical treatment can vary so widely and, absent astrology, unpredictably.
Though the commonly used term 'read' a horoscope is scattered throughout these books,
it isn't particularly accurate. Astrology's ancient glyphs for signs, planets and aspects are
often compared metaphorically to an alphabet. In a sense, they're similar. Yet each glyph
in astrology actually symbolizes a constellation of meanings, objects, energies, functions
and ideas accumulated across thousands of years.

The sign of Cancer, for example, represents the principle of 'containingness,' among
other concepts. Cancer 'rules' the stomach in the physical body, and the skin; both being
containers. It rules the mouth and gums, which contain the teeth. It rules the scrotum,
testes, ovaries, uterus, eggs, glands, cheeks, eyeballs, palms of the hands, pants pockets,
purses, chests of drawers, closets, boxes, luggage, cases, jars, bottles, bowls, cups, river
beds, oceanic trenches, valleys, food troughs, sinks, houses, land and property, parents
and family, roots and ancestors, the cradle, the casket and the grave for starters.
The term 'reading' implies an alphabet whose letters may be arranged to form words with
specific meanings. But astrology's glyphs operate more like ancient pictographs and
ideographs than letters.
It is more accurate to 'translate' a horoscope: more accurate still to 'interpret' it. 'Interpret'
most accurately describes what occurs in an astrologer's mind when 'reading' charts.
There is not just one indicator of Hodgkins, or miscarriage, in horoscopes. There are
several. Not just one predictor of treatment outcome, but several. How, then, to devise
strict tests of astrology adhering to established scientific methods? How to structure such
tests to take into account the several or many variables indicative of just one diagnosis?
Theres the rub.

Astrology, Partly . . .
Nevertheless, since astrology cannot yet be tested in ways experiments in physics can be
replicated and verified, that doesnt mean astrology is invalid or superstitious or
deserving of rejection.
Astrology is partly a physical science or it couldnt produce the results it does to the
extent that it does. One either has a mole, mark or scar on the left side of ones face or
doesnt. One either carried twins and lost one at birth or didnt. One either has Hodgkins
lymphoma or does not.
Astrology is also partly a psychological science. Jungs analytical approach his
Intuitive, Sensing, Thinking and Feeling types; his Shadow and Anima and Animus and
so on are particularly useful to astrologers. One either comes from a family background
where the parents were incapable of readily showing emotion or one doesnt. One either
has an eating disorder arising from parental control issues or not. Ones parents either
supported ones identity and ambitions or resisted them. Ones background either affects
ones beliefs about vocation, love, marriage, career, money and health or it doesnt. All
those correlations and many more are evident in horoscopes. But who, in the final
analysis, says? The client.
I am the first to explain to clients that I can be wrong. I suggest they listen to what the
horoscope says and if it sounds wrong or doesnt make sense, put it aside. Revisit it later,
perhaps. Maybe it ultimately will resonate with a truth about them that helps their selfunderstanding of situations as they progress through life. Maybe not. All astrologers have

tales of clients calling weeks, months or years later to say, "Remember when you told me
. . . ? Well, you were right."
An actress I regularly read for phoned to ask if I would read for her eighty year old
mother visiting Hollywood from Florida. I agreed, but thought, "What will I have to say
to an eighty year old?"
Plenty, as it turned out. That feisty octogenarian and I had a delightful session, at the end
of which I said, "Look. I have to call em as I see em. Your chart says youre going to
meet a man around October who will make you feel like youre in high school again. Im
not saying youll get married probably for financial or tax reasons. But you two will
feel like teenagers, youll be so in love."
She hooted! "You are so full of crap!"
One evening a year later, my phone rang. "Hello. This is so-and-so. You wont remember
me, but "
"Oh, yes I do!" The moment I heard her name I knew what was coming and was already
grinning from ear to ear, happy for her.
"You remember telling me I would meet a man in October?"
"Yes . . . ."
"Well, he moved into the retirement community where I live in October. We started
dating and weve been inseparable ever since. I cant believe it! Ive never been this
happy in my life! And so is he! I had to call and tell you."
Astrology is also partly a metaphysical science. That is to say that its deepest
practitioners delve into levels hard sciences will not and cannot touch: the meanings and
roles of Soul and God in ones life, for lack of better terms.
Actually there is a better term: The "All That Is."

All That Is
I first read the phrase "The All That Is" in what is still the most important single book of
the thousands I have read. (My lifes only true regret, though I ought to have more, was
once selling over 1,000 books. I was moving, again, and tired of schlepping them. They
were a chore to box and weighed a ton. I miss them still.)
The most significant book Ive ever read is not an astrology book. Its "The Nature of
Personal Reality," by Jane Roberts. One of her "Seth" books. Id resisted them for
superficial reasons: the jacket of "Seth Speaks," in 1972, looked too much like the jacket
of "The Exorcist." And my opinion of 'channelers' generally was and is low.

But "The Nature of Personal Reality" remains a singular metaphysical work thats
withstood the test of Time for its lucidity, warmth and experiential truth. Simple
exercises scattered throughout let anybody validate its principles for themselves.
The most 'significant' book I've ever read? It's the only book I've ever read that references
and requires nothing outside oneself not another book or teacher, guru, channeler,
minister, priest, rabbi, imam, authority, psychic guide, crystal, breathing technique, yogic
posture or ritual to realize immediate, ongoing, ever expanding enlightenment, truth
and connectedness for self-realization and creation. You're born with everything you
need. Everybody who tells you different, no matter how well-intentioned, is a thief.
"The Present is Your Point of Power" and "You Create Your Own Reality" are the
takeaways from "The Nature of Personal Reality." The explorations of consciousness and
the "All That Is" confirmed my own experience of how astrology worked. By now I knew
that what astrology showed in synchronicity with the Earth, Sun, moon and planets
against the backdrop of the zodiac, were a persons belief systems about themselves and
every area of their lives.
I already understood that peoples belief systems arose from early conditioning and
experiences that, amazingly, could be identified through using the degrees of the planets
and the number of degrees separating planets 'aspects' conjunctions, semisextiles,
semisquares, sextiles, squares, trines, inconjuncts and oppositions acting synchronously
with more or less specific thematic milestones at peoples chronological ages.
Through "The Nature of Personal Reality," finally, I clearly understood how belief
systems function to "create your own reality" and appear as facts, predisposing even
physical conditions. Most importantly, I now understood how beliefs seeming facts
can be changed. Astonishingly, because it had never occurred to me, I learned how the
Past can be changed, as the probable Future can be.
I identified a forgotten but, it turned out, hugely important episode from my own Past
through astrology, and changed it through a simple but profoundly moving exercise
(covered in "Using Degrees" in this series). Result? Because my Past was now altered, so
was my Present, and my Future arising from it.
Ive repeated that same exercise with clients and psychiatrists and psychologists:
astrologically identifying the ramifications of past events, then changing them.
Here at last was the answer to the man made conundrum of Fate versus Free Will: they
are one in the same. I had realized astrology 'works' because we and the solar system and
the All That Is are metaphysically, simultaneously the same thing.

Fate, Free Will and Belief Systems

For the unaware, incurious and unconscious, horoscopes can be used quite successfully
to predict futures. But thats a sad, even childish use of astrology and a damning

indictment of astrologers who feed such stunted beliefs instead of counseling clients to
use astrology to fully and happily change and create their Fates.
"Tell me whats going to happen to me." Its what many if not most clients want, or think
they want. Its what unknowledgeable skeptics deride: "You cant tell me whats going to
happen to me," they assert. (They retreat into miffed silence when confronted with
astrologys ability to be specific about the past again from ignorance and false fears
about what they erroneously assume are the implications.)
I do my best to explain that even though astrology can be specific about past events and
situations when rectifying a horoscope to use the Midheaven and Ascendant confidently
(inaccuracy of birth time can throw off past events and future projections by a year or
more) . . . that doesnt imply I will make flat predictions about their futures. I may, with
the caveat "unless you do something about it," but I may not. Far richer and more
productive to explore the real depths and meanings of a clients early experiences and
background and events at specific ages to show how those have built their belief systems
about themselves and their lives, and how their belief systems affect their educational
choices, vocational choices, romantic choices, financial choices, dietary and exercise
habits and even their physical health.
Since medical science says we all carry cancer cells in our bodies and those are usually
successfully fought off by our immune systems, one natural question becomes why some
people 'get' cancer while most others do not?
Why can astrology so specifically identify past events and situations yet other times seem
to fail at predicting future events with equal accuracy (though in fact it often can,
unfortunately, depending on the individuals level of developed awareness)?
Fundamentally its through misunderstanding the truth about Fate / Free Will on both the
astrologers and clients parts.
"When people go to a psychiatrist or psychologist, or an astrologer," I tell clients,
"whether they know it or not, internally theyve made a choice to stop letting life live
them and to starting living life instead." Theyve begun to focus on their own Free Will,
in other words. Within that framework astrology offers specific ranges of future trends
and possibilities thematically linked to the archetypes, coupled with specific timing that is
unavailable with any other system of prognosis.
Each of astrologys archetypes, astrologers know, yields positive and negative meanings.
Conscious awareness of what those are in an individuals life during a given cycle is
astrologys real value. Studying all possibilities with an astrologer beforehand, a client is
consciously aware of when situations will arise and develop, sees them coming and is
prepared to take actions and make choices that avoid the negatives and strengthen the
positives.
The last thing astrology is about is Fatalism, properly understood. Astrology is a tool for
conscious understanding of oneself and ones direct role in "what will happen to me"
experienced through ones position and actions in natural cycles within Time.

That is one reason astrology combined with medical diagnosis and treatment and / or
psychological counseling can be so enormously beneficial. No other technique as clearly
and immediately identifies underlying dynamics of specific organic and psychological
strengths and weaknesses inherent in people and situations, and their origins in preestablished belief systems, for individuals eager to understand themselves and improve
their lives. No other system affords equally specific advance timing and cycles of growth
and becoming. Coupled with capable physicians, psychologists and psychiatrists, results
from the combined disciplines can be astonishing.

The Stars Are Inside Your Head

I learned something remarkable from a client in 1970, an Episcopalian minister. Wed
covered lots of territory in two hours (a typical session in those days). Early in our
session I asked if he had a hearing problem with his left ear. He confirmed he was deaf in
that ear. Those sorts of questions serve two purposes: they let me know how accurately a
horoscope can be read for that person (namely, how accurate is their birth time), and they
validate astrology for the person without my having to perform a lot of magic tricks.
He and I had an unusually deep and productive two hours during which hed intelligently
probed my philosophy about astrology. Now he said, "You know, what youre saying
about astrology is something we studied at Fordham."
"You studied astrology at Fordham?"
"No. But we studied the original Aramaic that Christ spoke. And you know the phrase,
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you?"
"Yes . . . ."
"In the original Aramaic the literal translation is, The sky is inside your head."
I didnt and dont know if thats true. But I pointed out thats exactly what Plato and
other philosophers have said. Its the almost holy feeling I get from working with
astrology and people the realization that somehow, through synchronicity or whatever
else its called we and the solar system and the universe are the same thing. We are a
pin-point of consciousness in the All That Is with the freedom to make of our lives what
we will. If we will. Its the difference between living passively or actively.

A Doctor in the House

Reactions to astrology by open-minded scientists and physicians with whom Ive worked
through the years have been uniformly surprised and fascinated, generating intense and
riveting discussions about the nature of reality and how astrology does what it does.
A year or so after I read for that minister, another physicians wife Id previously read for
called to say her husband wanted a reading. Would I be willing to come to their home in
Pacific Palisades?
This leading UCLA doctor enjoyed an international reputation in his specialty. I set up
his chart beforehand and drove out to their home wondering what I could possibly say,
because his chart indicated he was homosexual. I wasnt about to bring that up in front of
his wife.
I arrived and met their children, who then went upstairs to play. The doctor took the chair
at the far end of the sofa. His wife sat in the middle of the sofa while I sat in the chair at
the other end, his chart and my ephemeris on my lap.
"I just want to ask a few questions to see if your birth time is right," I began. "When you
were ten, did your father have an accident or injury to his head?"
The doctor stiffened and frowned at me. "My God. Yes! We were ice skating on a lake in
Michigan and he fell and had a brain concussion! But thats impossible. Youre psychic."
"No, Im really not. Its all mathematics. Let me show you."
I moved to the sofa beside his chair and began showing him his chart to explain how the
Midheaven moves one degree every four minutes of birth time.
"Look. Your Midheaven which is the point directly overhead where you were born is
in Libra, ten degrees from exactly opposite Mars here. And one degree in astrology
symbolizes one year. If your time of birth is correct, that gives me ten years old. And
Mars, even though you dont know anything about astrology, is the old God of War. Like
Venus is the Goddess of Love. Everybody knows that because its so ancient. So in
astrology Mars symbolizes war, violence, accidents, injuries, cuts, blows, even surgery,
which involves cutting. Mars is in your Fourth House, which symbolizes the father,
among other things. And Aries is the sign of the head. Like Pisces which you are is
the sign of the feet. And the glandular system."
I noticed he froze slightly, still staring at his chart. I returned to my seat at the other end
of the sofa (catching a smile from his wife).
"Were you ten, or were you nine, or eleven?"
He thought a moment. "I was ten."

I asked one or two more questions and was satisfied his birth time was indeed accurate.
Thats the last occasion I read for a couple together. No matter how close or how long
two people have lived together or been married, theyre still individuals with privacies to
respect. Its impossible and unethical to go into real depth about potentially private issues
like this mans homosexuality in front of a spouse. At least initially. If they later wish
joint counseling, fine.
"You mentioned the glandular system," he said after half an hour of my reading his chart.
"Can you see anything about my health?"
One neednt a medical degree to have noticed his expression earlier when I mentioned
Pisces ruling the glandular system. And any astrologer would know from his chart that
his health was a serious issue for him.
"Well . . . yes. It looks like something serious and involving the glandular system, as I
mentioned, so I would have to ask about Hodgkins lymphoma." (Exactly the same
condition as the surgeon husband of the first client Linda Goodman sent me.)
He nodded.
"Let me ask you: did you have surgery last year on this part of the body?" (indicating my
abdomen).
"Yes."
"Are you aware you may have to have another surgery?"
"Its already scheduled," he said, finally smiling and looking at his wife, then back to me.
"Does it look good?"
"Is it scheduled in about six weeks?" He nodded again. "It looks great. You couldnt have
picked a better time if you had used astrology. Youll recover quite well from it."
Their children got restless and came downstairs and that concluded our reading.
"Would you like a drink?" he offered.
"Sure."
I joined him in the kitchen while his wife talked to the children then sent them back
upstairs. Alone with him, I said quietly . . . .
"Your chart indicates you might be homosexual. Is that true?"
He handed me my drink with a smile and yelled into the living room, "Hey, Martha he
knows!"
A week later he called to make a private appointment. He was in love with a young male
nurse. And he wanted to know if he was going to die from his Hodgkins. I was able to
tell him his treatments looked successful and he actually had a long life. When he died he
would go like his father.

"How is that?"
"Heart," I said simply.
"Thats right."
So I was invited to speak to my first medical group at 26. Ive worked intermittently with
physicians, psychiatrists and psychologists ever since.
I soon learned to warn medical professionals against telling patients they were consulting
an astrologer. It never occurred to me that they would. But one psychologist played my
tape-recorded reading for his clients horoscope when their months of sessions ended. I
remember saying on tape, "I dont know if this client is an only child or not, but he may
well be," and outlined some potential characteristics and patterns. The psychologist told
me his client was indeed an only child and was furious when he heard the tape. "If I had
known you were using astrology I would have stopped seeing you instantly."
Why furious? It's understandable, considering centuries of indoctrination against
astrology. Reactions to astrology are near-universally scornful from those who know
nothing about it except what theyve been told, secondhand, to believe.
Perhaps its because, more subtly and common even among the most determined
skeptics, there's a hidden dread that astrology may, in fact, actually tell them "whats
going to happen to me" that theyre afraid of hearing.
My own sister, a psychologist, is a shining example. Shes always dismissed astrology.
When she called me in Los Angeles years ago to tell me she had uterine cancer and was
going into surgery next morning, I commiserated and reassured her. When we hung up I
opened her horoscope on my computer monitor and studied it a few moments.
I was 45 now, confident from experience that I knew what I was doing. More
importantly, I knew now what I could not do, or wasnt comfortable doing, with
astrology. As far as I could see, she did not have uterine cancer: she had fibroids. I was
surprised at her physicians misdiagnosis. If I had seen bad news, I wouldnt have called
my sister back. But I had good news, so I did.
"Honey, for what its worth, I looked at your horoscope."
"Did you really?" she blurted out the desperation and hope consistent with skeptics
confronted by something serious and an astrologer willing to talk about it.
"Your chart says you dont have cancer: you have fibroids. But more than that, youll
recover amazingly well from this surgery. You have the kind of physical body that heals
rapidly and thoroughly. You wont believe how well you do with this."
Next morning her partner called me. "You were right. It was fibroids. And shes doing
great."
Five weeks later my sister called. "Do you remember telling me how well I would heal
from that surgery? Well, I saw my doctor this morning and she couldnt believe we did

the surgery just five weeks ago. She said it looked like we had done it two or three
months back, Ive healed so well."
I congratulated her and then she asked, "What would you have said if you had seen
cancer?"
"Oh, thats completely different. You never tell somebody they have cancer. What you
do is ask questions. Your chart indicates there might be some history of cancer in your
family. Is there? Maybe on your mothers side? Or something like that. You use words
like might and maybe. Theyll say yes, and then you tell them it doesnt mean theyll
ever have cancer, but since they know that history it would be good for them to always
stay in touch with their doctor and get checkups, so if anything ever develops they can
catch it quickly. In fact, it looks like you havent been to your doctor in awhile. Have
you? Theyll say no, and you tell them it would be good just to get a general checkup at
least once a year, to stay in shape. So theyll go to their doctor, and thats how you handle
it."
That episode, tellingly, never changed my sisters opinion about astrology. She blocked
or buried it. A few years ago, among company, something about astrology came up and
she dismissed it.
I smiled and recalled our story of her fibroids. "Oh, thats right. Id forgotten about that,"
she said. Forgotten? The others in the group were fascinated. My sister was embarrassed
and changed the subject.
Thats a classic example of how, even faced with direct evidence of astrologys validity,
certain mind-sets have to refuse to acknowledge it. The idea that astrology isnt mere
superstition or fortune-telling is too threatening to some belief systems and authoritative
personalities. No matter what demonstrations of astrologys effectiveness are offered,
they will be rejected by those with a vested interest in protecting their own beliefs.

The Crusades
Thats completely understandable and fine with me. Ive never been on a crusade to
prove astrology.
But many astrologers are. Ive nothing but respect for them. Michel Gauquelins
statistical research into planetary placements and vocations is one such body of revealing
work in astrology. The cosmobiologists efforts are another especially rewarding data
base of research and information.
Reinhold Ebertins "Combinations of Stellar Influences" and his use of the 90 Dial are
an impressive example of (largely German) cosmobiology. I still have my original copy,
obtained in 1969 and protected in a three-ring binder for 45 years. Its another book that
greatly expanded my understanding of astrology, and life.

Yet implicit in much astrological research is an assumption that is troubling. Is the effort
to improve astronomical 'accuracy' and develop more precise two-dimensional
horoscopes of three-dimensional skies hoping to increase the accuracy and specificity of
predictions? Yes, though astrologers often go to great lengths to qualify it.
Is all of an individuals life predictable from the moment of birth, then? Every event? Or
just major ones? Or any events or outcomes? What is the ultimate goal of all that research
when so much is already possible with astrology? More fatalism? Most researchers would
say not. But if not, then what, exactly?
Are health and vocation and bankruptcy and marriage and divorce, et al., predetermined
at birth by Fate?
If not, why can astrology be so astoundingly accurate? If so, how can astrology seem to
fall so short on other occasions?
The question of Fate and Free Will often stymies astrologers, scientists and laypeople,
though Im uncertain why. Its clear to me that both always co-exist. Both, paradoxically,
are the same thing. Reading "The Nature of Personal Reality" made the both-and process
clearer still. Yet within the given framework of physical birth (and, say, birth
disabilities), Free Will still predominates if consciously exercised.
You may not be a professional basketball star if youre 5' 4" tall. But there are other
athletic careers at which you may excel or even achieve Olympic status.
Free Will predominates when consciously exercised. But only if the origins of ones Fate
(largely in one's belief systems) are recognized and fully understood. That, after 50 years,
is what I know to be astrologys true gift: conscious awareness of ones Fate in order
not to escape or avoid it, but to embrace and recreate and maximize it.

Fender-Benders
An astrologer sees transiting Mars about to conjoin Uranus in a client's birth chart.
"Youre under accident-prone tendencies for the next ten days. Be careful driving, using
knives in the kitchen, lifting things, crossing streets and so on." Sure enough: the person
suffers a fender-bender and tells friends what a great astrologer she knows. Those friends
call to book appointments to find out "whats going to happen to me."
That astrologer has failed the client and failed astrology.
A knowledgeable astrologer explains the potentials for accident proneness, but also
discusses the psychological energies symbolized by those Mars-Uranus archetypes in
relation to the areas of life associated with those planets in that clients horoscope.
"Youre operating at a mile a minute over the next ten days. On the phone, on the
computer, running around town, excited about this new online business youre getting off
the ground. There are tons of details youre handling. Your minds racing. But your

tendencys going to be to get distracted or in a rush and let unexpected demands or minor
emergencies sidetrack you. Your best bet is to stay especially organized and leave plenty
of time to make it to appointments so youre not hurrying to get there. Excitement and
impatience are your enemies right now. Youre constantly coming up with new lastminute ideas and wanting to get them down. If youre driving, pull off the road and
record them on your cell phone instead of trying to keep one hand on the wheel, one eye
on the road, and another eye on your phone. Heres a big hint: every time you hear a siren
or see a police car or ambulance or fire truck and youll notice lots of them over the
next ten days slow down and pay attention to traffic.
"And remember this Mars-Uranus transit is one of astrologys classic old birth aspects.
Metaphorically, youre giving birth to this business and this ten day period is like the
delivery at the hospital. So its natural to go crazy. But you dont have to. As long as
youre organized and keep the details in place and stay on top of things, this isnt a literal
baby: its your business baby. It will wait on you and you alone. Dont let anybody else
push or pull you. And dont fly off the handle at objections or questions or delays.
Theyre actually improvements in disguise. This thing is going to be born and take off
beautifully. You can use anybodys questions or delays to remind you to slow down and
keep refining things during the launch."
Result? No fender-bender and a gangbuster business launch.
Thats good astrology.
Thats taking natural energies and cycles and timing that are active in his horoscope (his
Fate) and making him consciously aware of everything they mean in his particular
situation, rather than parroting old malefic cookbook astrology for accidents and injuries
and confrontations. If those do occur, hell remember and understand how hes creating
them by ignoring astrology and his own psychology instead of marveling at what a
good astrologer he knows who predicted an accident.

Fate Is Conditioning
Fate can be considered ones genetic DNA. Fate may also be considered ones
conditioning by parents, relatives, community, culture and early circumstances. All these
build and establish belief-systems about oneself and ones life. Over time, those beliefs
are taken for granted as facts. But theyre beliefs. They can be changed with reasonable
efforts, if desired and consciously understood. Fate can and should be changed. Or rather,
exalted to its highest potentials. Thats one of the noblest lessons in living and in
astrology.
Paramahansa Yogananda in "Autobiography of a Yogi" said (paraphrasing), "Choose the
worst possible day astrologically, and I will begin an enterprise that will succeed."
Anybody who thoroughly understands astrologys archetypes can do the same. People

who dont can be more or less predicted even by non-astrologers. Its used disparagingly
every day: "She or he is so predictable."
For years I had a Japanese client who understood and used astrology extremely well.
"Ive never let astrology stop me from doing something I wanted to do in business," he
told me. "I have let it delay my timing, because you made the reasons for delaying so
clear."
Thats why its so frustrating to watch astrologers try to perfect their predictive skills at
the expense of educating clients about metaphysics and belief systems. Theyre selling
themselves and their clients short if all they do is reinforce beliefs that Fate is indelibly
written in the stars and life must be passively lived in acceptance or worse, fear of it.
Fear of Fate is identical to fearing yourself. That not true astrology is rubbish. Those
astrologers and their clients entirely ignore the metaphysical science and consciousness
of energies and actions and timing and choices implied by astrology.

Context Is Everything
It is Fate to be born to alcoholic parents, for instance. A background and tendency
toward alcoholism can show in horoscopes, as can many other things. Does that predict a
given individual will develop alcoholism or die from the disease? Is that their Fate? Is
alcoholism a disease? A belief system? Or both?
A couple in Cripple Creek asked me to look at their 11 year old sons chart. The first
thing I said was, "Keep him away from knives and guns. Or teach him to use them
responsibly. Because hes got a violent temper and can get in trouble if he doesnt learn
to deal with it. In fact, the past two weeks have been especially prone to some of this." As
it happened, he had just been suspended from school for assaulting and stabbing a
classmate with a ball-point pen.
Fate? The boys belief-system from his conditioning? Genetics (same thing as Fate)?
Both reinforcing each other? Would he grow up to be a wife-abuser or an Adam Lanza
who murdered his mother, 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School
in Newton, Massachusetts before committing suicide? Could the boy be helped? Some
conditions can, some cannot. Context is everything. Some conditions are solely or
primarily psychological; some biological and genetic. Astrology can indicate both.
Beginning astrologers (and many professionals) are astonished by apparent astrological
feats published by astrologers since at least Victorian England and earlier, delineating a
horoscope that shows the 'natives' (clients) brother died in an accident while bicycling
on a mountain road in a foreign country.
But the only astonishing thing about such astrological examples is their demonstration
that many astrologers lack critical thinking. Anybody can delineate anything from a
horoscope in retrospect. Its one of the dilemmas of the archetypes rich catalog of
meanings that makes astrology so vaporous under scrutiny by traditional scientific

methods. Still, thats not the same as informing a client of the specifics of her unfortunate
brothers demise on that Alpine mountain beforehand.
It can be done . . . . Ive done it. But only within the context of the client and the session,
reiterating that most of what takes place in astrology occurs in the astrologers mind.
That is what is so resistant to testing and replicating astrological experiments with the
scientific method.

Murder, He Wrote
Midway through our session the first murderer I read for told me he was a murderer. It
didnt cross my mind. I didnt know any murderers. What had crossed my mind was to
point out that his chart carried strong warnings about avoiding actions that might place
him in jails or prisons. He smiled and asked if I could see why. "For any number of
reasons," I began.
"I murdered a man in self-defense," he volunteered.
I continued his reading hoping it had been self-defense and not something a careless
astrologer had said that ticked him off. But I never again forgot to explore further in my
own mind when I again saw indicators of jail or prisons in charts.
If astrologers fail to make similar mental inquiries of charts on their own, which is
unlikely for situations completely outside the astrologers experience, many vagaries of
human experience go unrecognized in charts though in retrospect they are clear.
Another astrologer in the early '80s asked me to look at the chart of Lee Orsini, an
Arkansas woman in prison for a convoluted murder case. This astrologer had been
contacted by Orsini, who wanted to know if and when she would be released. "Do you
think she did it?" the astrologer asked me.
Looking at Lee Orsinis horoscope I said, "Well, if she didnt pull the trigger herself, she
may as well have." She was eventually convicted of hiring the killers and ultimately died
in prison. A decade later I read all about her in "Widows Web," by Gene Lyons.
Would I could I, ethically make similar predictions about that eleven year old boy in
Cripple Creek? No.
So much for astrologys being used by law enforcement to assess a given individuals
specific involvement in criminal activities before the fact. (Which is a completely
different matter from predicting mass violence on a certain date at a given locality, or
even assassinations of public figures.)

Nothing 'Happens' to Anybody

Ive mentioned to medical audiences that if they consider psychology a science (most at
least consider it a soft science) they have to consider astrology a science in the same way.
Because an astrologer can look at a horoscope and see in seconds that someone may be
manic-depressive (bipolar) even before medical testing and diagnosis. But astrology goes
a step further: it can predict when theyre likely to be manic and when theyre likely to be
depressive.
Note that word, 'likely'.
Astrology is about probabilities, not inevitabilities.
Fate and Free Will.
When somebody asks an astrologer to tell them, "Whats going to happen to me?" its
first necessary to talk about what astrology and Life are really about.
Nothing 'happens' to anybody. There are no 'senseless' killings. Every event makes sense
when you know the back-story that precedes it: genetic, psychological, behavioral,
environmental, metaphysical. Our genes and DNA, our race, where and how we are
raised, by whom, what we are fed, the climate and weather, the religion and politics, our
education, economic background, opportunities, our language and the sum of our culture
these and more shape our beliefs about ourselves and reality, thus affecting our choices
and actions.
The more knowledgeable and aware we are about all these contributing factors the more
that probable life events and results can be predicted but also shaped and overcome,
elevated or transformed. Thats astrologys real purpose.
Encoded in all humanity, whether born in the remote Hindu Kush Mountains surrounding
Daste Riwat, or amidst Manhattans Park Avenue skyscrapers, genetic archetypes are the
same in varying emphases. There are archetypes for breathing, suckling, swallowing,
grasping, eating, speaking, hearing, walking, dressing, learning, working, loving, mating,
raising families, worshiping, governing, rewarding, punishing, on and on.
All I can do all Ive ever done with astrology is go back in the past, 'rectify' the chart
by asking about specific events to ensure Im working with an accurate birth time (if not,
the events will be accurate but the years will be off and I ignore the degrees on the
Ascendant and Midheaven in projections, using the rest of the chart as usual more of
this in detail in "The Practice of Astrology"), then go into depth about parents, childhood,
early conditioning and experiences, how those shape the clients belief systems about
their lives, how their belief systems create events that appear to be their Fate, how those
belief systems can be consciously changed once understood, then examine their trends
and timing for the months or years ahead. Their probabilities, not inevitabilities.

And more. Sometimes much more, including past lives and reincarnation if theyre
inclined to explore another level of Fate and how to change the Past (and its effects on
the Present).

In Days to Come
People began suggesting I write a book back in the 70s. I considered it because for years
I published over 250,000 words a year for American Astrology Magazine in addition to
seeing clients in person and counseling them by letter and phone. It was a heyday for
astrology books. The Bodhi Tree bookstore in West Hollywood was New Age Central.
There were books on astrology and your pets, your child, your career, your money, your
health, your hobbies, your love life, your wardrobe, your feng shui . . . astrology classes,
lectures, conferences (I taught and attended many and still do) . . .till it seemed not much
new was being written in the field; just rewritten. I was too busy with clients and wasnt a
technical researcher.
Jim Lewis was both, and a wonderful friend who created and launched
"Astro*Carto*Graphy," ultimately selling his hugely successful business years later
before developing a brain tumor and dying. Youd never have guessed he was a
multimillionaire by then. He still drove the same VW Bug held together with wire
hangers and chewing gum that he had when I first met him in a mens psychology group.
He still wore jeans and sandals without socks. And a short pony tail. He was a terrific
writer and lecturer as well as a gifted astrologer.
"You ought to write a book," he advised me more than once while staying with me in Los
Angeles.
"If I can ever come up with something that hasnt been done before, maybe I will," I
promised.
I know so much more now than I knew at 20, when I moved to Hollywood knowing
everything.
Some techniques that I know may be original. Most are adaptations and extensions of
others long-ago work, as are most astrological techniques. All of what I know is clientbased and tested from 50 years, over 40,000 clients born in 122 countries.
Computers made astrology easier starting with Marc Pottengers CCRS astrology
program for CP/M computers in the early 80s. Before that I prided myself on being
blazing fast: erecting accurate horoscopes in just under ten minutes with a hand calculator
and an ephemeris, a book of longitudes and latitudes, another book for Time Changes
in the United States, another for Time Changes in the World, and a Tables of Houses.
I wouldnt know where to begin to manually erect a horoscope today. I havent done it in
30-odd years.

I use the iPhemeris app on my iPhone to instantly show a wheel for the moment. Its "Sky
Now" feature gives me a clear wheel with the planets for my location in less than one
second. Plus an aspectarian and an ephemeris. All in my pocket. Horary astrology is a
snap, now. I use it all the time.
Driving to a friends home this past Christmas Eve eve, my car died. Power-steering,
engine, everything. (No, I hadnt seen it in advance.) Fortunately I had enough
momentum to coast around a corner and park near a curbside hedge to call the towing
company. It could have been worse: I could have been on the freeway. While waiting, I
pulled out my iPhone, tapped the iPhemeris icon and instantly had a chart for the
breakdown.
Reading a broken-down car is exactly like reading health in the human body. Basically,
the car is ruled by the Third House. Its health or dis-ease (whats broken) is shown at its
Sixth, or the original Eighth. It looked like a fuel line or fuel pump (Neptune): not
electrical or battery (Uranus), not transmission (Mercury-Mars). And it wouldnt break
the bank (the original Second House and/or the Second from the Eighth of the cars disease). So why, I wondered, did it appear I wouldnt have the car back for ten days?
The driver towed my car to my mechanics shop, which was closed. I called Danny to tell
him I was leaving the car at his shop, wished him a merry Christmas, and friends picked
me up.
Christmas day a storm dropped eleven inches of snow, delighting kids and dogs,
knocking out electricity all across the city. The mechanics couldnt work for five days.
Nobody could. Add three more days for the holiday and weekend.
When Danny finally called to tell me I needed a new fuel pump he complimented me for
being so understanding. Many customers were angry at the delay and his backlog. Not
me. I was snowed in at my friends for two freezing nights and on the third day she
loaned me one of her cars for the duration to go back home, empty my fridge of spoiled
food, and get fresh clothes. I spent the next two nights at my nephews, who had power. I
really hadnt been inconvenienced at all, though I didnt get my car back for ten days.
I use astrology every day for myself and for clients, in ways large and small, important
and trivial.
Astrology has been my life, pointed the way to everything else Ive wanted to achieve,
and saved my life. Its helped reliably on practical levels and opened a rich inner life of
existential understanding that connects me with humanity's ancient reverence for our
place in the heavens and tomorrows medical, scientific and technological advances.
Teaching online seminars to hundreds of astrology students and other professionals
around the world is among the most gratifying experiences in my life. I love teaching and
sharing what Ive learned in 50 years of professional practice. Students feedback is
invaluable.
"You ought to write a book," keeps coming up as it first did decades ago.

Hence, Notes on Essentials of Astrology, based on my private notes, files, readings,

sessions, lectures, classes, observations and experiences across 50 years and more than
40,000 clients some of whom you'll meet in these pages.
Not one large book but a book for each topic, self-contained and affordable as possible.
Anybody can buy and download topics they like without purchasing them all. They can
archive and use Notes on Essentials of Astrology to study and apply in their own lives
and astrological practices, passing them on in time as have teachers since Sumeria.
"Where did you learn that?" astrologers have asked me for 50 years. I couldn't say, at this
point, after so many books from so many disciplines; so many teachers, including every
one of my clients, from whom I learn something new with each horoscope; every
astrologer I've ever met, known and befriended some still living, many not through
Joyce Jillson and Lois Rodden and Jim Lewis and Linda Goodman wonderful teachers
and characters all; and that stranger . . . an angel, maybe . . . who materialized next to me
in Pickwick Bookshop in Hollywood one night so long ago and said, "You're a Libra.
You're an astrologer."
These books contain techniques, approaches and above all a philosophy and way of
thinking about astrology that Ive found essential in my own practice, as have my
students for over forty years in classes and workshops that helped refine my methods and
approach.
They're all yours, now. They can be verified in anybodys horoscope. There are
illustrations and links. Though each book is complete in itself and they may be read in
any order, I suggest beginning with "The Practice of Astrology," "Using Degrees" and
"The Sixth House: Psychology of Self-Integration."
I tell students, "Make something out of everything you see," in charts.
There is a wealth of information in horoscopes, compiled and recorded over millennia, on
everything from analyzing a car breakdown to exploring your Souls purpose for living,
and blueprints for how to do it. "Notes on Essentials of Astrology" will, I hope, help you
see everything in horoscopes in new ways . . . and make something out of everything you
see.
"The stars are inside your head."

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About the Author

For 50 years and over 40,000 clients, Robert Glasscock has been a Los Angeles-based
astrologer consulting with clients from 122 countries. For many years he authored over
250,000 words annually in "American Astrology Magazines" monthly and Annual
Yearbook issues for Publisher Joanne Clancy. His writings for newspaper columns,
magazines and anthologies have been cited by Liz Greene, among others.
Having begun to build his own clientele, Bob was invited to study with Linda Goodman
in the 60s. Since she no longer saw clients (intently writing her second book), she
referred her new clients to Bob. He became an early member of Joan McEvers and
Marion Marchs "Aquarius Workshops," lecturing there as well as national conferences
and conventions. Hes been invited to address a variety of forums from the Bank of
Beverly Hills after-work seminars to medical associations to political, professional,
media, civic and religious organizations. He is an adjunct instructor for Kepler College.

Online:
Site: http://rglasscock4sight.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobertGlasscock

Other Titles:

The Practice of Astrology (22,566 words - $3.99) Complete analysis of everything

you need to know for professional astrology practice, including: What kind of astrologer
are you? How to work with every kind of client. Why and How of on-the-spot
rectification with clients: youre only as accurate as their chart. Everybody has four
charts. A good astrologer is a good psychologist. Your horoscope guides your
professional practice. Advertising. Fees. Venues. Success and Failure. Example
charts and diagrams.

The Sixth House: Psychology of Self-Integration (67,061 words - $3.99) .

Understand and help clients understand all that is actually revealed through one of the
most important (in many ways the most important) houses in the horoscope, on which all
adult development is based. Practical, experiential (not theoretical) astrology.
Developmental responses to innate predispositions and external conditioning that
determine psychological self-integration or disintegration; lifelong mental and
physical health; occupational choices; success or failure; belief systems and the
nature of Fate. Jungian Types and astrology. Detailed analyses of example charts.
Tables and diagrams.

Using Degrees A Lifetime at a Glance (28,854 words - $3.99) Everything you

need to read an entire lifetime is already right in front of you in horoscopes. You can
refine readings with additional techniques, but not for this book. Close your ephemeris
and "make something out of everything you see" Robert Glasscock's keynote in classes,
workshops and seminars. Degrees of planets, angular distances, their multiples and
divisions yield specific cycles and ages for important themes and events, easily
calculated in your head. The Developmental Arc. Ten Techniques for Reading "A
Lifetime in a Glance." Angles and Life Cycles. Decanates, Duads and Turning
Points. Birthdates of Significant Others in Your Life.