Linda Goodman’s star signs : the secret codes of the universe, forgotten rainbows and forgotten melodies of ancient wisdom

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will hear,

before.

And on

Forever off key.

from

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far

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a clear day ... .

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.

and

star

on

.

a world you've never heard that clear

day I

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you can see

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finished, slightly

y his

hands

like a small boy.

"That was beautiful

describes so perfectly the powers possessed by

all

man and woman

it."

... yet they remain

unaware of

!

It

Earthlings, each

closed his eyes for a heartbeat, then .....

"You have missed seeing the motion picture, reason you do not as yet suspect. Self will see

it

together

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.

'simultaneous' sharing of will

.

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He clapped

He

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!

and evermore ..."

.

who when the

you'll see

astound you

every mountain, sea and shore. You

and near ...

and ever

S

!

.

and look around you

a clear day, rise

you are

/

.

more to us than surgeons can remove So much more than we ever knew ... so much more were we born to do Should you draw back the curtain, of this I am certain you'll be impressed with you On prove

as

who would ever guess the powers you and who would not be stunned to see you

Sung: "... and .

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words and melody

the

Spoken: "Why, Daisy You're a bloody miracle anyone among us have an inkling or a clue magic feats of wizardry and voodoo you can do

possess

IV

be the

first

.

and its

I

believe that

On a Clear Day,

that the seeing of this film together, the

seedings about

Time and

experience to open your Third Eyes.

tain certain subliminal

for a

you and your Twin

messages for both of you.

reincarnation,

For

it

will

con-

Hi

*

of

making

PREFACE

"Yes,

I

it is

a

dear day when one

blushed. "I'm sure

mured,

feeling a

finally

Thank you again

miracles.

wave

I

sound

didn't

comprehends the mystery words

for singing those

to

like Barbra Streisand/'

me."

mur-

I

of embarrassment at having spontaneously

burst into song before a stranger.

But his next words erased those

feelings.

"And why should you sound

her

like

and musician, Paul Winter, who plays ocean, and

who

in perfect

I

Your Earthling composer

thank you

"Thank you

in the

D flat, causing them to respond and 'sing' with him

harmony, made a wise observation.

quiet, lonely forest ij

again,

?

whales and dolphins

has played duets with wolves and eagles in the woods,

key of Earth,

in the

to

for singing to

for

It

would be a sad and

And

no bird sang except the nightingale.

so,

once

me."

your message,"

replied.

I

"It's

such a lovely event

some familiar but forgotten melody I'm sure I'll hear in the back of my mind until the meeting with my Twin Self really happens. Yes, lovely ... oh 1 just realized to anticipate, like a

song

in itself

.

.

.

!

that bvely

and

beginning to

words, but with such very

differ-

The Lexigram seeds he had planted were already flower in my consciousness. As I spoke, I was thinking

ent meanings

of

lonely are very similar !"

my own loneliness, my life.

an

affliction I'd

begun

to fear

was

to

be perma-

nent in

"Yes, similar

words, true," he agreed, "with, as you say, quite

different meanings.

What makes them

ing in one of them, that answers heals

all

the

different

is

a third word, hid-

questions, solves

all

problems,

pain."

"What word and

all

is

that ?"

The Lexigram blossoms were unfolding,

fascinating me.

He smiled. "The word love. Notice that the word word love within it. The word lonely does not." He paused. "Love

is all."

lovely contains

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PREFACE tt

I

see,"

And

told him.

I

for the

moment,

I

did.

For a timeless Time, then, we both remained

humming stillness

room

in the

energy force, the kind of

you know

?

know

I

louder, until

this

that

seemed

There was a

silent.

some

to vibrate like

stillness so tangible

liii

sort of

you can almost feel

sounds contradictory, but the

stillness

it,

grew

became aware of a growing sense of uneasiness and

I

apprehension. I

looked

at the clock.

Twenty

p.m.

after.

I

me when

(grandmother) told

was exactly twenty minutes past one

It

remembered something my was

I

with you in Chapter 3 of this book

humming

In the still

staring at

found

my

present time ...

my Twin u

supposed

I

and more of I

it

in

.

.

.

Ill

burning

coals.

8.

I

be destined to

finally

—

when in meet this man who is

hesitantly, "Just exactly

to

share

Chapter

was aware of the stranger

his eyes like

and asked him

— am

.

quiet between us,

me, unblinking,

voice,

.

mother

Irish elf

Something

a child.

Self ?"

written that your reunion shall take place near Christmas, in

lt is

December of 1970. As Time

is

calculated here

on Earth

... at the

end

of this year."

"Reunion I

?"

was confused. "Since well be meeting each

I

assume, for the

first

time,

why do you

"You will not be meeting

This was too

have not yet met have not

make

.

...

sense.

much

for

me

then

why do you logical.

which

I

You have

some kind

lived count-

in this present one."

"But,"

I

persisted, "if

we

am absolutely certain we

say, 'in this present one'

Is it

other,

a reunion ?"

— even

to untangle.

in this incarnation,

It isn't

it

for the first time.

former incarnations

less lives together in

call

?

It

doesn't

of a riddle ?"

One you may solve yourself, with his help, for you many things. And now really must leave you." He rose from his chair, causing me to feel a sharp stab of disappointment, because knew that, this time, he would really leave. "Yes, a riddle.

will teach

each other

I

I

*

liv

PREFACE

Suddenly, the stab of disappointment was replaced by a surge of

me like a fine mist, and felt so who had promised me such a perfectly meeting my own Twin Self. Who hasn't

inexpressible happiness, enveloping

1

grateful to this kind stranger

marvelous Christmas

as

gift

secretly longed for just

such a miracle

?

and

I

He walked toward

the door,

followed; then he stopped in

front of a table at the entrance to the small hallway of the suite.

my

was

miniature

of Assisi

.

.

consisting of an alabaster statue of

altar,

Francesco di

.

Bemadone

animals ... a bowl of fresh daisies

burning

on

dral

when

—

I

for

in

.

.

.

and

several votive candles

ruby-red glass holders, like the ones in

Fifth

Avenue using

travel,

in

it

New York

to

City.

I

it

with his beloved birds and

.

.

.

On

Francis

St.

St. Patrick's

Cathe-

my small altar with me

carry

evoke minor magic and ordain baby miracles

myself and others.

It's

rather like a portable cathedral.

Of

course, one doesn't really need such accoutrement to manifest magic

or miracles.

Higher Self or

one needs

All

—

or, if

They may be

you

— on

is

a direct line of

prefer, to one's

the desert, in the woods,

the shore, or even walking along a for myself,

I

feel

able to spiral

thoughts more purely,

sweetly incited by subtle

My

crowded

on

more

to one's

He, She,

mountaintop, on

a

But, speaking

city street.

the presence of angels with

my

communication

own God, Whoever

certainty,

when my

and

am

senses are thus

ritual.

uninvited but most welcome visitor stood there before the

flickering candles, very

still;

then in a low voice asked

me

to close

my

eyes while he offered a prayer.

1

in the

did as he requested, bowing

my

head, and as

my

I

my Morning Star thoughts drifted,

became aware

had placed

that he

head, like a blessing

.

.

.

his

hand gently on the top of

and then began

to

chant

familiar, musical language, similar to the Latin of the

was,

I

stood beside him

my

"church incense" seemed richer than usual, and until

I

scented dark, the musty, mystical fragrance of

could

tell,

not Latin.

The melodious sound of

blended with the sweet scent of the incense

in the

in a strangely

Mass, yet which his chanting,

black velvet behind

I

*

PREFACE

my closed eyes, after a while hood wooden doors "Silent Night,

of

transported

when

Christmas Eve,

me back into a

lv

magical child-

had slipped through the huge carved

1

Raphael's Convent to hear the nuns singing

St.

Holy Night"

...

in their soft voices, a capella

smell oranges and cinnamon in the

I

could

air.

Suddenly, his chanting stopped, the light pressure of his hand on

my head

lifted,

opening

my "eyes

and

I

reluctantly returned from the past to the present,

slowly, as

if

When

awakening from a dream.

my new

turned to say good-bye to

friend,

he was gone.

I

Simply

disappeared. True,

I

mean

But I

him

to

trancelike state

I

Or would

through

eyes

—

I

be more

it

?

had heard no sound of the door opening or

Shiver-

closing.

took the blue-flowered comforter folded across the bottom of

the bed, sank

down

plump

into the

sofa chair

by the window that

looked out on the small white cross, planted on the

far hill

Graumann's Chinese Theatre across Hollywood Boulevard

my

my

and opened

have had time to slip through the door

have slipped out the door.

to

appropriate

ing,

my

had come out of

slowly enough for

.

tucked

sat in the chair,

snugly

.

.

under, and wrapped the comforter around me.

feet

It

behind

was

a disturbing experience, but as

1

swam memo-

enfolded in the soft clouds of the comforter, an errant thought

through the floods of ries

words.

fear,

my Baptist Sunday New Testament

...

from the come."

my

.

1

.

from childhood's vast ocean of

School teacher mother's voice, quoting "Be not afraid, for thy Comforter shall

.

smiled, then, to myself, at the incongruity of the play on

Cosmic acuity

aside,

I

was on the verge of believing

been a dream from the beginning. But there was the noticed,

on the glass-topped

card the stranger had handed

come

into the

was a business

room. card.

I

1

it

had

And

all

then

I

table beside the chair, the small white

me

only seconds after

hadn't really looked at

Now

tape.

saw

that

it

it

I'd

invited

before,

was blank, except

him

assuming

to it

that printed

*

lvi

PREFACE Expect a

the center in small violet letters were the words:

in

Miracle. There was something card

else

on the

table beside the small white

been given. An unopened box of Goobers peanuts, the kind

I'd

sold in the lobby of every film theatre in America.

had

me, and

definitely not given

I

knew

1

Where could

chocolate-covered peanuts there myself.

come when

from,

1

wondered, unless theturbaned one had

wasn't looking

I

This, the stranger

had not placed the box of they have

them there

left

That must have been what happened,

?

myself.

There was no other explanation. But

done so

?

.

.

.

1

told

why would he have

The Goober's peanuts troubled me more than

a

little,

because

they were, in a complex way, associated with a traumatic relationship

my

in

Back then,

past.

numerology

(I

was

more depth, during quickly scribbled

and o's u

a

my

down

be initiated into

The

as Gooober.

z" instead of an

myself of

verse, taken

wisdom

plural

had

word must be

as in Gooberz.

to the

this

I

difference.

me-of-me, that

two

o's

and

The proper numerdogical

I

Again,

would

I

reminded

learn more,

when

deeply mystical and powerful code of the Uni-

from the Hebrew Kabala, and steeped

in the traditional

of the ancient Chaldeans.

For a long time rize everything that

wouldn't

later forget

his words.

I

sat in the chair

by the window, trying

had occurred during the strangers

Somewhere

as well)

to

memoso

visit,

I

anything important, even the slightest nuance of in

my

metaphysical studies in the past

heard of or read about those Rosicrucian Adepti (called by

names

in

spelled with three

to be spelled with only

words make worlds of

had time, about

and science

the numerical value of the letters in "Goober,"

V—

my promise

this art

predicted retreat in the mountains) ... so

realized that the singular of the

—

vibrations of

1

had studied only the rudiments of basic

I

later to

who were

many

1

had

other

able to disappear then reappear before one's

physical vision by changing their vibratory frequency of ang3trom

|

*

PREFACE units per second

naked

.

.

speeding up the rate to become invisible to the

— and read —

had heard

I

.

and slowing down the

eye,

rate to

see, the

become

physically visible.

of such magic, but that never pre-

pares one for the actual witnessing of

There was, you

lvii

it.

had not hallucinated.

I

box of Goober's peanuts

— and

the small

white card. If

the stranger had not been real, but merely an etheral vision

had invoked, then they could have appeared on the

what

is

called "telaportation,"

an Adept that

I

—

after

and

it

was

easier to accept that

they most assuredly do exist

all,

table only

— than

1

I

through

had met

to believe

had "apported" the chocolate-covered peanuts and the

card.

****** Now know my mind was programmed by the stranger on that New Year's Day to magnetize me toward the geographical location destined as the place for my next step in what he I

mystical, prismed

had called illumination. Back then, however, once the initial shock of the arcane incident, for

I

believed that

A

I

control

my

few weeks after

snowy February

day,

from a vacation

in

I

my own

1

I'd

mind, as we

all

do

return from California to

had lunch with

Colorado.

She was

recovered from

never imagined such a thing,

a friend full

do we not

...

New

York, on a

who had just

of her

trip, as

?

returned

enthusiastic

as a travel agent about this colorful western state, the scene of the tt

Pikes-Peak-or-Bust" gold rush of the 1890s

— and disappointed

that

she'd had to leave there so soon to get back to her job in Manhattan

before she'd had time to

"What "It's

thousand

is

make

a side trip to Cripple Creek.

so special about Cripple Creek ?"

I

asked

her.

a tiny former gold-mining town, high in the mountains, ten feet

above sea

level.

I

believe the population

hundred people, waiting around,

I

is

only a few

guess, for the price of gold to go

.*

lviii

PREFACE

high enough to mine

woods

—

mountain range

Cristo

from the ground again.

it

nestled in a valley, with

all

so beautiful ... no humidity at

The fixed the

resr of her

moment

all in

absolutely breathtaking

it's

the

summer

.

.

pure

.

just like Switzerland ... or Tibet

words faded

and

in

Cristo

"The blood of Christ,

1

mean

?"

I

is

.

in the

.

.

his .

.

.

and

.

and

been transmountains"

asked her.

my

Anyway,

think.

in the area believe that

.

.

air

out, because I'd

she had spoken the words, "high

"What does Sangre de

people

My brother and

the Continental Divide.

wife were there last year, and they say

snow-capped peaks,

Cripple Creek

around, protected by the Sangre de

Cripple Creek

is

brother says most

He

haunted.

told

me

he had the odd feeling himself that he'd been there before ... a kind of .

.

.

what do they

she

knew

call

exactly

... a d£ja

it

about

why she knew her

the* girls" in

.

.

Elaine.

told her she probably

.

But she also

last life.

coln gold mine was before

it

was pointed out

.

.

a familiarity

I

about them that made her

said -nothing to

to her.

my

friend about

—

my

feel

we

West End Avenue through a decision, remembering what

when

would go

the student

to this

months,

While Love Signs

told

teased her

there as "one of

Abraham

the

Lin-

She said Tendershe had seen

felt

I

haunted

flurry of 1

little

.

.

well, strange."

inner thoughts, but by the

to

walk slowly home

snowflakes

had been

was ready

.

she, to return to the ad agency

on Madison Avenue where she works, and me,

pearing

me that

and some of the deserted log cabins on the edge of town

.

time we'd finished lunch and parted

eral

She told

worked

knew where

Mountain and Mount Pisgah were places she

before

had

So did

?

That's the oldest red-light house in the West, so

her.

foot

vu

where the Old Homestead was before anyone

—

1

had made

to

a

told about "the teacher ap-

— high

in the

gold-mining town and

mountains."

1

retreat for sev-

to test the stranger's prediction.

was

there,

I

would complete my next book, somehow, while there, learned the

told myself,

— and assuming

that

I

I

*

PREFACE metaphysical secrets He had promised,

book about

basis for a future

So

I

my

learned

my

would

also

keep a diary as the

experiences.

flew to Colorado in April of 1970, and everything the tur-

baned one had prognosticated came I

I

lix

many

secrets

seeking them.

rado while

I

was

this particular

I

true

.

.

some

of

it

unexpectedly.

who appeared

endured several personal tragedies

also

learning, but these

book.

.

from several teachers

Only

you

will not

without in

Colo-

be reading about in

the magic.

*** CRIPPLE CREEK,

COLORADO for gold miner and poet, Julian Davis

who and who

loved each rock

lingers

still

.

.

.for

and

tree

me

on Bennett Avenue walking through the ghosts of living strangers not one oj them so real as he

****** ten thousand feet above the level of the sea

high-hidden on the sunrise side of the wandering Continental Divide is

a magical

kingdom

where a clean wind blows and the white

star of

Bethlehem glows through the clouds

of winter's snow-veiled skies

a

microcosm Tibet

where the lonely and searching

still

travel

lx

to

*

PREFACE

mine the fools gold of wealth

or Nature's truer treasures

.

.

rooted there

.

as surely as the sturdy Bristlecone pines

haw

those ancient mysteries few

thought

seek

to

beyond the protective purple shadows of the Sangre de Cristo guardian range

where

lies

town

the

called Cripple

Creek

sleeping in a sweedy scented valley

surrounded by the scarred

of man's greed

hills

and the greener woods of meditative solitude a Heaven-sent,

community fighters

and

sometimes hell-bent

of fallen angels writers,

the self-sufficient

.

.

.

and occasional

cowboys and

saints

painters

and the proud ... the tortured and the damned

yet even these infused with the

alchemy

of transmutation into blessed a singing Shangri-la

wearing the mask of a tough, hard-hearted

town

spilling over with yesterday's

and

eight

memories

months pregnant

with tomorrow's not yet shattered dreams

where horses, cows, and velvet-eyed burros

wander

and by paths

the dusty roads

and "mountain canaries" sing the where midnight

is

where raw courage

silent is

.

.

.

restless to sleep

and passions run deep

absorbed

from the mountains' mute strength

snows and

the brilliant turquoise sky

.

.

.

pure white

PREFACE

*

Ixi

Teller County's glittering "Bowl of Gold" of the

new Aquarian Age

discovered by a trembling few, after passing through

Time

the Tunnel of

then hearing echoes of coded whispers in the twilight

zone of neighboring Victor

Goldfield's haunted Bull

Mountain

and Phantom Canyon's chanting Narrows those reflections of Stonehenge

where the watchful Third Eye can see the

faint, still- flickering lights

of the druids' enchanted Twelfth Night

and the weary

spirit learns to

for the eternally certain,

rites

wait

however

late

return of spring's reincarnated promise to the heart

Linda

Goodman

1 LABORS OF LOVE

AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE astrological career guide

.

.

.

and the

achievement of simultaneous financial security

and

financial

*

freedom

*

2

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

he wanted to be a composer, a writer, a doctor

.

.

.

maybe an

artist

peoples bodies, minds and one of the three and the healing of the other two he

to heal, it

said,

spirits

didn't matter which, just

would surely

follow, he believed

but he had become an engineer, and secretly despised the

Highways of the as

to

lift

employed him the Pharaohs employed State

and measure stones

much

the slaves in Egypt

tombs

to build their silent

dusty roads ... are so unlike

nor do ditches

it

•

sterile

medical laboratories

resemble a vaulted concert hall

museum

or the polished ceilings of an art

he did manage to save enough cash to

buy

a typewriter

one-two-three dreams, you're out

and who

is

the

Umpire

!

— Fate

?

****** ow

many engineers dream of being physicians, and how many doctors dream of being engineers ? How many scientists long to be musicians, and how many

mm

musicians long to be scientists

>

?

There are millions

upon millions of men and women who are discontented, depressed, and unhappy square pegs in round holes (or round pegs in square holes), whose talents, abilities, and "daydreams" (in reality, the

wise urgings of the Higher SelO are sadly mismatched with

way they earn their daily bread. manpower and womanpower, it's a

the

and

joy,

which are the

And

so, before

It's

not only a deplorable waste of

tragic

waste of

human

birthright of every individual

on

happiness

Earth.

pondering and perusing the star-sign codes of

ancient wisdoms, you'll find

it

both sensible and practical to

first fol-

*

LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE low the metaphysical paths work, since

it

involves

improve your

to

security

and

to consider

a third of

your time

financial affairs, since a certain

necessary tQ free the

is

contentment and happiness

to

more than

mind

—

in

to learn

amount

3 your

how

of financial

to fly into the higher realms

—

your health, because, of course, your physical well-

being takes priority over everything. This

why

is

I've

decided to

first

present this chapter about Labors

of Love the Money Mystique and then the Apple a

and numerological health guide.

astrological

basic needs of the

body and

Day

the mind, the spirit

is

Note

Gurism.

When

I

to Webster.

moved

first

I

among

on time and

skipping up the mountain

Colorado, where

to Cripple Creek,

manner

I

I'd

been

related in the Preface,

1

sensed that

who had located Tibet or Shangri-la. many secrets and mysteries were hidden

the bristlecone pines dotting the hillsides

had been

right.

(which was

down

My

I

learned

later to

first

air,

I

— and

retreat to the

awoke happily

five

that

"Guru"

mountains

— and wrote

sniffing the cool, clear, to take a

walk through

own

little

Christmas-card town are

kind of magic.

Every time

it

dirt

rains there,

nearly every day (meaning there's a rainbow every day over

funny

little

crooked, slipping-off-the-time-track 1890 house)

people walk around, both tourists and the 600 or so permanent dents, staring at the for spots of

when

it

blocks of a paved street called Bennett Ave-

All the other streets in this

is

my

and immediately decided

roads, but with their

which

during

become my permanent residence) was to become this book.

morning there

town, ^consisting of nue.

much

in the diary that

pure mountain

my

to

truly

like a spiritual pilgrim

felt

Somehow,

all

start

you

just invented that word.

directed by the turbaned Guru, in the I

When

the rent or mortgage

you can

physically fantastic, then

feel

to

when you can pay

mood

not in the

contemplate the deeper waters of esoteric mysteries. love your work,

chapter, your

Without these three

ground

sky blue —

this area

in this very strange

in the

dirt,

.

.

.

resi-

way. They're looking

not above. At the turn of century,

was the thriving gold camp of the West (Pikes Peak or

4

*

bust

!)

carts,

— so

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS folks also

mined

turquoise.

by burrows, much of that today,

when

it fell

off

the rains

As the turquoise was

carried in

and became imbedded

in the dirt

wash

the dirt roads, pieces of tur-

quoise appear suddenly, here and there, like a sudden spring sur-

powerful good

All Indian tribes claim that turquoise carries

prise.

luck vibrations.

my walk

During a lucky

chunk

in a

misty rain that early morning, searching for

of blue stone,

I

bumped

into the least likely Cripple

become my first acquaintance in what was to be my new adopted hometown: the Chief of the C.C. Police Department. His name was and is Dale Simpson. He's a Pisces, with a soft voice, Creeker

to

—

—

a gentle smile, a typical

good

also being a very

We

introduced ourselves, then stopped

room with

its

and

As soon as U

I

I

why a

at the Palace

a talent for

Hotel dining

New York taking time out Me Call You Sweetheart" !)

discovered that he was a Pisces,

A round

U

chidingly.

imagine

in

flapjacks to the tune of "Let

doubtfully.

— and

player piano tinkling away, for a chat and a cup of

(Imagine the Chief of Police

coffee.

coffee

Neptunian love of talking

listener.

peg

mean

don't

in a

to

I

be rude, or

Piscean like yourself

my

shook

square hole, or vice versa." to offend you,

I

would choose a job or a

head

him

told

but

for

can't

I

career as a

police chief."

Like most people ruled by the planet Neptune, he wasn't in the least

offended by "I

don't

candid remark.

He was

curious.

know much about astrology," he admitted

grin, "except that

occupation

my

my

sign

is

Pisces.

Why

with a friendly

are you so surprised at

my

?"

"Well, because

would ever counsel

it's

the last job that any astrologer,

a Pisces to pursue.

You

see,

I

which

happen

1

am,

to believe

employment or career should harmonize with each person's character, personality, and inner that people

should labor with

love,' that the

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LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE

— or dreams — — smiled him —

way

since that's the only

goals

And

."

.

.

at

I

.

happy performing the duties of other Sun Sign people

can't see a

"I

find

be truly happy.

Neptune-ruled Fish being

a police chief

who would

to

5

— although

there are

such an occupation challeng-

ing and stimulating."

and

"That's interesting,

you explain how you know "As

I

such a life.

amazed

reliable

I've

that people don't take

guide to career success

There would be

lots

it

made more

— and

more contented and

who were born

example, those

actors, directors, producers,

to

to

and so

to .

.

They don't

are unfulfilled.

with and challenged by your work

your dreams come

true.

thought what

was

I

said

"Maybe one of

it.

I'm

when

it's

if,

for

forth, didn't settle for, say, the

square holes, or vice versa.

in

a study of seriously,

successful people

frustrated with their lives every year,

them why they

round pegs

will

be associated with the theatre as

instead, pursuing a profession in landscaping

become more

first,

to every other area of

— or those who were born

medical profession

But

it is.

that ?"

an astrologer, and

said, I'm

continually

you why

I'd like to tell all

is

be lawyers weren't, .

and so on.

and

it

They

never occurs

realize that they're

Being completely happy

one of the surest ways

Now, you promised

to tell

to

make

me why you

interesting."

the reasons so

many pegs and

holes don't match,"

Chief Simpson mused with natural Neptunian insight,

"is

because the

parents don't try to help their children find out what they really want to

become

in life,

but instead, intimidate them into preparing for a

profession Mother and Father think

choice until I

own

it's

wondered

parents.

Police Chief,

right,

is

and the child has no

too late." if

But

and

I

this if

so,

had been the case with Dale Simpson and it

his

had probably started long before the job as

didn't feel

"I'm sure not going to

it

would be

make

polite to ask.

that mistake with

continued, staring out through the screen door

my

at the

children," he

entrance to the

*

6

dining it

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS room

comes

as

if

he were

"That's a very Piscean attitude,"

With

children, friends, relatives.

motto of

anyone

live

and

else's life,

let live.

interesting ?"

I

It's

except to

even then usually only

told him, "a hands-off policy.

a rare Fish

now and

when

I

Like Aquarius, Pisces believes in the

make

then

But

asked.

.

.

who

.

why

in

— and

did you say

was

more than

"Because," he answered slowly, and

me

tries to interfere in

a suggestion it

all

persisted.

"you're absolutely right about what you said. fulfills

own when

"They're on their

lost in thought.

to their future."

any way.

Mostly,

it

a

me and

frustrates

sadly,

little

job

can't say that this

I

drains

me

of

energy." "That's because crime

and punishment, or disciplinary action of

any kind, are not pursuits natural

to

violence essence.

you'd

— shooting and It's

make

a

a

wonder you

haven't

is

understanding, compassionate that allows

other kind of career startling

become

from

ill

answers

However,

it.

As a

people solve their emo-

— sometimes simply by being an

listener.

your imagination

You need full

to

— where you can dream yourself

to things.

be involved

into discovering

Albert Einstein was a Piscean, and he

math

Relativity."

becoming

"You're right about the possibility of "I've already

had one mild heart

attack,

and

I've

always had a strong constitution

.

.

.

ill

too," he

had a

I've

dozen other minor health complaints the past few years before.

in

scope, in an artistic or any

certainly brought imagination to mathematics, with his abstract

and theories of

nodded.

and

your very

that goes against

to help other

and psychological problems

something

all

You're naturally equipped to solve mysteries.

your personal mission

Pisces,

—

You're too

association with guns

good Sherlock Holmes-type detective, without the vio-

lence and arrests.

tional

arrests

your disposition.

An

sympathetic to apprehend 'bad guys.'

I

until recently.

been thinking about retiring and finding something

half-

never had

else to do.

I've

What

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LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE you've said

you

just

me make

help

.

.

.

and helping people

know

I

you

"Junie

is

there.

know

wife's

fits

a Pisces

she's the best

whole

And

the kids in

They're

to.

State.

She's doing

all

crazy

she cares."

Sun Sign

?"

She works

a Scorpio.

"Is that a

"Great.

I

asked.

at the Post Office,

and she enjoys

Scorpio

is

He

for Scorpio ?"

good job

a Fixed Sign,

and Fixed Signs are born Orga-

They're good at what's called watching the store,' experts at

nizers.

pulling the strings together to to hear

sure

think she must be a round peg in a round hole."

I

laughed.

your

.

in the

that.

She makes them want

about her, because they is

.

minute of her work.

no doubt about

for her,

her classes really learn.

"What

.

Ruth Cook, and she

is

He chuckled. "Maybe

say, she loves every

what comes naturally

it

Her name

Everybody around here says

teacher in the County." like

ways

in all those

here in town.

teaches grade school.

And

By the way, everything

the decision.

mentioned about Pisces people ... the sympathetic under-

standing

woman

may

7

make everything go smoothly.

your Scorpio wife handles the mail. Makes

me

I'm glad

feel a lot

more

secure about today's Pony Express."

"The Postmaster, Bud Sanders "Terrific.

I've

tem these days, Express. ator

been losing so

I've

almost

With two Scorpios

Muskie was quoted

that the

in

it;

but they could sure slow

He it

confidence in the postal sys-

sending birthday cards Federal

charge here,

New

to turn

United States Postal Service.

he's a Scorpio too."

much

felt like

The

in

Government ought

—

I

can stop worrying. Sen-

York Times last

month

as saying

over the problem of inflation to the

said "they might not be able to solve

down."

We

both laughed.

who was

"Junie replaced another friend of ours, LaVerne King,

with the Post Office for years before she retired "Fantastic

chaos.

I'll

bet

!

all

LaVerne

is

a Virgo."

Virgos have an innate ability to bring order out of the zip codes were correct

when she was

there.

I'd

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LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

almost think somebody around here uses astrology for hiring your postal people."

Before Chief Simpson climbed back inio his police car after his coffee break with

and professions, type

it

me, he said he'd if

I

had time

know more about astrology him someday, so promised to

like to

to tell

I

out for him.

Here's an

expanded version of the

pared for Chief Simpson, including But

first,

all

astrological career guide

work must be performed with genuine

that

of time and energy; that

you do nothing

until

charity from those

if

you cannot work with

you do

who do

find

their

love,

it's

who

a waste

better that

it's

For, as Gibran expressed

labor with love. is

a

bitter bread, that feeds but

hunger"

There are thousands of singer

love, or

such work, meanwhile accepting

so beautifully, "bread baked without love ha\j man's

pre-

consider the truest words ever expressed on the subject

of working, written by the poet from Lebanon, Kahlil Gibran,

warned

I

twelve of the Sun Signs.

who

wisdom.

parallels to that

hunger

for music.

If

you're a writer

you're a

who would secretly prefer

be an attorney or a doctor, your written words

hunger of your readers, and your books won't

who would

If

hates your audiences, your performance feeds but half

will feed

sell.

If

to

but half the

you're a teacher

rather be an actress, your instruction will satisfy but half

the thirst for

knowledge

in

your students. And so on. The examples

are endless.

The personal unhappiness and round pegs

in

failure to achieve resulting

square holes (and the opposite)

by any means.

But sometimes a truth

meaning, the edge of

its

brilliance

is

becomes

dull,

new

image, or a rediscovery.

Remember

that

you were born There

is

new

repeated so often

sharpening of a

tion, profession, or career.

is

not a

to excel in

and

it

from

discovery it

loses

its

needs the razor

some kind

of occupa-

something you can do better than

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LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE anyone

else in the world,

by bringing

to

your personal touch of

it

magic, based upon the individual character, personality, inner tives,

and dreams of your Sun Sign

—

9

(also

Sun Sign

aspects in your rectified horoscope, but the

mo-

based on certain other is

an excellent

place to begin).

The Sun

one sign and "enters" the next

"leaves"

on each cusp day, depending on on a cusp day

April 20th or

(i.e.:

May

know which

Any

your Sun Sign.

is

if

first

time

you were born

21st or August 23rd,

must know the hour and minute of your to

at a different

Therefore,

the year.

etc.),

you

breath on that cusp day

astrologer can give

you

this

information quickly.

When

you have determined your Sun Sign, use the following

career guide to begin the path toward your personal Labor of Love.

CARDINAL SIGNS are: If

your Sun Sign

bread as a

LEADER

Cancer

Aries

Capricorn

Libra

Cardinal, you were born to earn your daily

is

of thought and action.

You'll

never be truly con-

tent in a subordinate position, carrying out the concepts of others,

unless you're using

merely as a stepladder to the top. To labor with

it

— or be your own one charge — or be

love,

you must

must

either be at the head of things, the

either be the Big Boss

employed as the captain of your own

You

boss.

in

ship, so to speak.

Working

self-

in

an

occupation that prevents you from conceiving and exploiting your

own

and emo-

ideas could result in physical fatigue, mental tension,

tional depression,

which can eventually lead

All four Cardinal signs

were born

to chronic illness.

to lead or to

be self-employed.

However, the kind of work most harmonious with the individual with each of the four Cardinal

Element of the (Aries)

—

sign,

i.e.:

a Cardinal

sign Leader (Libra)

Aries: You'll

is

whether you're a Cardinal FIRE sign Leader

WATER

— or

be successful

Cardinal FIRE nature.

spirit

Sun Signs, depending on the

sign Leader (Cancer)

a Cardinal

in a

EARTH

—

a Cardinal

AIR

sign Leader (Capricorn).

profession that harmonizes with your

Fire translates into anything exciting

and capa-

THE KARM1C WHEEL OF

LIFE

EAST

THE SYMBOLS Aries

T

Libra

—

Mars 6

Taurus 8

Scorpio J[\f

Gemini

II

Sagittarius

Cancer

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Leo

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Virgo TTV

Venus 9

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Jupiter

Mercury 9

Moon D

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Aquarius

Pluto

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Saturn h

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11

SUN SIGN BIRTH PERIODS March 20th

into April 20th

ARIES:

Part of

TAURUS:

Part of April 20th into

GEMINI:

Part of

CANCER:

Part of June 2 1st into July

LEO:

Part of July

VIRGO:

Part of

August 23rd into September 23rd

LIBRA:

Part of

September 23rd into October 23rd

SCORPIO:

Part of

October 23rd into November 22nd

SAGITTARIUS:

Part of

November 22nd

CAPRICORN:

Part of

December 21st

AQUARIUS:

Part of January 20th into February 19th

PISCES:

Part of February 19th into

ble of arousing instant

May

22nd

enthusiasm

loons

have the opportunity

you

any

August 23rd

there's

placed

trust, naivete, generosity,

December 21st

into January 20th

and

March 20th

others.

and successfully

and pink

talent for

in

to

bal-

pen-

any endeavor

you from your often mis-

and rashness

all

You need

and be recognized, preferably

to lovingly protect

and impulsively pioneer

your

You belong

— but not fence you

because you cease to function when you're not

cheerfully

into

to display

issue.

to attract attention

someone

where

yourself

22nd

a white horse," trailing red ribbons

etrating straight to the heart of that allows

into

in yourself

on

to

2 1st

21st into June 21st

"lead the parade

— and

May

kinds of

initiate just

in,

totally free to give of

new

beginnings.

about anything. You're a

You'll great,

even a flawless "opener." But leave the closing of deals and the tying

up of loose ends

to others, please.

Thank you.

Cancer: You'll be content and inspired in a profession that harmonizes

with your Cardinal

WATER

nature.

Water

translates into anything

absorbing, deep, constantly moving, with an aura of mystery

to. stir

the

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imagination.

one of the

In

Arts,

your occupation or

career,

whether

in

education or

you need considerable privacy while you work

move

be able to hide within your, crab shell while you

first

—

to

sideways,

then backward, until you're good and ready to lunge forward, straight

Your profession must leave

ahead.

ination to

changes of scenery, but

room

customers

or

Working

frequently.

way whatsoever

is

you'll

always need a

clients

any

in

field

your vivid imag-

base.

and plans

in

this

you

you sense

a certain

Cardinal AIR nature.

it's

amount

Cancer

time to implement them

to live near

to balance the pros

for

— one

your mother.

harmonizes with your

the intellect.

lets

you keep

You're an excellent ar-

and judge of crime and punishment (but not

need some son of outlet be more

cares.

of public attention (though you'll

Air translates into anything that

moving mentally and involves

You'll

to

very

an endeavor where you can keep most of your dreams

Libra: You'll labor with love in a profession that

bitrator

dinner

associated with food or money in any

— and which allows you

!)

remain

your idea of "heaven." You're also superbly suited

secret until

that will bring

deny

You'll

or

to "mothering," "fathering," or taking care of others.

You belong

with frequent

one requiring you

is

lunch,

breakfast,

to

for

for travel,

home

when your occupation

deliciously contented

take

lots of

expand and provide plenty of time

your innate sense of

violence).

fairness

—

to

You

be able

and cons of everything and everyone around you.

fulfilled

and successful when you work

in partnership

with a compatible and harmonious person (but not another Cardinal

— unless you mutually decide

Sign, please

to be the leader.

decide

!).

disputes

You'll

among

at the outset

which one

two of you

never

be a blessing in any career that allows you to

settle

If it's

others,

pour

oil

over the troubled waters, and hold

periodic discussions and debates, whether you manufacture,

demonstrate cosmetics (Libra

manure on

is

will

another Libra, the

is

the sign of beauty

!)

sell,

or

— or shovel

the farm.

Capricorn: You'll labor with love in a profession that harmonizes with

your Cardinal solid, stable,

EARTH

and

nature.

Earth translates into anything that's

practical, with a firm foundation

and a strong growth

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You're happier leading behind the scenes, in most cases,

but there's always the exception that proves the for (if

13

rule.

You were born

an occupation or a career where you can guide and counsel others you're not self-employed)

house of past experience

to

— where you can use your

vast store-

enhance your unsuspected perception of

—

same Job security (or career or professional security what will always magnetize you toward any occupation. No

the future. thing)

is

pie-in-the-sky gambles for you..

happy only when you're

You're

involved in a gold-embossed sure thing, with the potential of taking

you up

to the very top of the career

mountain, where you've been

headed since you were twelve years

doubt about

FIXED SIGNS If

your Sun Sign

succeed is left

in

Leo

Taurus

are:

ORGANIZER

as an

There's never been any

old.

it.

is

Fixed, you were born to earn your daily bread

of thought and action.

reaching your true goals

To work with

to others.

and

career or profession,

all

whether

of,

when

love, to achieve fulfillment in

it's

it,

own

type-cast, so to speak, in the role

there are lots of those

who

any company or

or someone

when

it's

else's

— and

someone

else's

own. You're completely contented only when you're

others in the astrological zoo

pen,"

your

you must be the one

for the success of

your

surprisingly often, you'll be equally fortunate rather than your

never be happy or

You'll

the organizational structure

that goes with

who's unquestionably responsible venture you're part

Aquarius

Scorpio

!

you play so

who need

well: that of "keeper" to

one, and goodness

You must be the one who "makes

properly delegates authority and pulls

all

it

knows

all

hap-

the loose ends

together everyone else leaves flapping in the wind, causing things to

run smoothly and let

efficiently.

the Mutable Signs

indeed, to be

—

center together. tion that gives

Let the Cardinal Signs lead the parade,

communicate back and

forth,

you need

the rock everyone leans on, the one

who

to feel

—

holds the

Becoming permanently involved with any occupayou no

responsibility for

what goes on around you

could result in physical fatigue, mental tension, and emotional depression,

which -can lead

to chronic illness.

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LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

ir

were born

All four Fixed Signs

the

outcome of whatever

work most harmonious with

the spirit

four Fixed Signs, depending

whether

—

FIRE Sign organizer (Leo)

— or

a Fixed

upon

EARTH

you're, a Fixed

to organize

and be responsible

individual with each of the

is

the Element of the sign,

Sign organizer (Taurus)

a Fixed

for

However, the kind of

they're involved with.

WATER Sign

AIR Sign organizer (Aquarius).

—

i.e.:

a Fixed

organizer (Scorpio)

.

Taurus: You'll labor with love in a profession that harmonizes with

your Fixed

and

ble,

EARTH

practical,

growth. You need to gather •

often stubbornly

Earth translates into anything solid, sta-

nature.

with a firm foundation and a powerful potential for

!)

all

the facts, then

you believe

until

after careful consideration.

sit

on them quietly (and

time to act on them, always

it's

You'll labor

with love in any

field that

allows you to checkmate the impulsive behavior of others, while building a sound future for yourself. large corporate operations for yourself tizes

you and makes

the midnight in a career

oil.

possible for you to

it

You

Structuring huge empires and

— or others —

will

sit

is

what magne-

behind a desk and burn

be deeply depressed unless you're involved

or a profession that gets bigger and better every year,

whether you're into banking, farming,

real estate

— or

the production

of teddy bears. Leo: You'll labor with love in a profession that

Fixed FIRE nature. daring,

harmonizes with your

Fire translates into anything exciting, original,

and capable of constantly inspiring you. Working

tion that doesn't permit

sight will bring

you

to take charge

in a situa-

and organize everything

in

You need

to

on your Lion's roar of angry

frustration.

express yourself openly, creatively, and artistically in

some way

— and

you must be respected and appreciated, or you won't be worth a nickel

—

anyone

to yourself or

else.

You know best how matters

should be handled, and you must never become involved

where you're expected things should be done. are

— and

to follow orders

based on

how

in a position

others believe

You're right nine times out of ten, you really

to be curbed

in

your

efforts to

implement your always

original, always expansive concepts will make you a most unhappy

•

LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE Running the show

person indeed.

and when you

finally settle into

is

an absolute necessity

15

for you,

an occupation or a career where your

superior talents are recognized and respected, the resulting self-esteem

—

Any occupation

guarantee huge success.

will

bring about dramatic results just to be yourself

don't suspect

how

is

that permits

— and prove what you can do

wise you truly

WATER

nature.

to

to

people

who

are.

Scorpio: You'll labor with love in a profession that

your Fixed

you

the answer to your huge need to be free

Water

harmonizes with

translates into anything absorbing,

deep, silently progressing, with an aura of mystery capable of stirring the floods of imagination.

In

be permitted to penetrate

— and

intensely

to gather

tion or profession, so that

whatever career you choose, you need to

its

heights

you can

retain

inner conviction (whether you realize

"knowledge perb

ability to

store

you

power"

is

— and power

"watch the store"

depths, to experience

all facets

of your occupa-

for future use.

You have an

consciously yet or not) that

it

leads to success.

you

What you

eye.

When

really

your su-

watch the

don't actually see,

with your highly developed insight and intuition. You be-

long in any liabilities,

it

its

exercised,

is

Nothing escapes your Eagle

!

sense,

and

knowledge about

field that will

and permits you

allow you to investigate to

work alone

as

much

its

assets

and

as possible, so

can put into practice your inflexible standards of excellence.

its

you

You'll

apply your keen investigative talents to anything you touch, because

you is

problem, or the troubled situation

can't rest until the mystery, the

cleared

up or

solved.

You prefer

to

be

left

to

your

own

devices,

and

you strongly resent your methods being questioned, even by superiors,

whether you're

in acting, politics, or

plumbing.

You're not the type to burn bridges behind you prematurely, be-

cause your strong will and churning emotions are usually checkmated

by your usually

realization of the value of caution

!)

long time.

But

Consequently, you You'll

when you

may

and

practicality.

keep your feelings within, and appear

sense that the time

tion of self-sufficiency, you'll

(I

said

not express your displeasure for a

is

make

right, it

to

go along.

and you've reached

quite clear that

it's

to

a posi-

be done

!

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16

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

your way

— or

Case closed. By the way,

you'll leave.

if

Piscean Police

Chief Dale Simpson had been born under either Capricorn or Scorpio,

he wouldn't have been a round peg in a square hole.

work

police

Sun

harmonious pursuits

aren't the only

Signs, of course, but they are certainly

Detective and

among

for these latter

them.

two

A Capricorn

police chief, however, probably wouldn't be satisfied until he rose to

Commissioner

Police

— and

a Scorpio police chief

would be strongly

inclined to perhaps use the job as a springboard into politics.

Sun Signs would be troubled by exposure

neither of these two

But

to the

necessary scenes of violence connected with such professions as Pisces

would ister

be.

Also, Capricorn

and Scorpio would

appropriate punishment to criminals, in

us, too,

find

it

fact, to

easier to

admin-

punish the

rest of

when we goof

Aquarius: You'll labor with love in a profession that harmonizes with

your Fixed AIR nature.

your case

—

Air translates into anything which

unpredictable, unorthodox, unexpected,

and involves the

intellect.

You need

to

while standing on your head, should the

come up with nius.

You'll

requires

to

conform

strike you, so

you can

to

do

it

in

an occupation that

Yes, you're a peachy-

to a strict schedule.

new methods

cause you to invent

your way. Your curiosity

will

of doing just about anything, and

be impatient with work done the same old way as always. You'll

add your own

pretzel twist to the

way

things are done.

Since your

gregarious nature attracts friends easily, and you like people a typical ers

in

changing —

those astounding lightning flashes of insight and ge-

dandy organizer, but you have you'll

—

be permitted to concentrate

mood

never be either happy or successful

you

is

Water

and your

Bearer), you'll likely

boss.

You'll find

it

become

(if

you're

pals with your co-work-

hard to see the difference between

them, with your broad and normally tolerant brotherhood and terhood charisma.

You'll be

more contented

in a

sis-

job or career that

allows you to answer mainly to yourself, since your flashing streak of originality

needs plenty of space and freedom

innovative

new

ones.

As

and when you're pushed

a Fixed Sign,

to

tum

you won't

to follow orders

old methods into

"suffer fools gladly,"

you believe are outdated and

*

LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE inefficient,

you can become more than a

little

you should seek freedom of expression financial

compensation,

in the

stubborn, which

in

your

beginning at

least.

line of

17

why

is

work above

You belong

in

any

position or career that allows you to sort out the jigsaw pieces of

problems, then abracadabra them into

brilliant solutions

— and

per-

mits you to play marbles with jelly beans on your lunch break.

MUTABLE SIGNS

are:

your Sun Sign

If

bread by being a

Gemini

Virgo

Sagittarius

•

Pisces

Mutable, you were born to earn your daily

is

COMMUNICATOR

of thought

and

action.

You'll

when you're forced to be responsible for the chaos when you're expected to sit behind a desk, or remain in

never be happy

around you,

any one place and take charge. You'd be miserable "leading the parade" like the Cardinal Signs or "watching the store" like the Fixed

You need

Signs.

to constantly circulate, travel,

communicate ideas (and Fixed Organizers.

suming public

ideals)

You'd be equally happy being self-employed, as-

your self-employment allowed you

that

move around, and

between the Cardinal Leaders and the

some new and

to

communicate

to the

different viewpoint of standard ideas, preferably

either abstract or inspiring.

To work with love you must have com-

plete freedom, a variety of activity, periodic change, lots of coffee

breaks, long lunch hours,

job that

ties

you down

and be responsible fatigue,

mental

chronic

illness.

All four

in

and

interesting assignments.

any way, forces you

for the actions of others

stress,

to take

Working

at a

complete charge

could result in physical

and emotional depression, which could lead

Mutable signs were born

to

to

communicate. However, the

work most harmonious with the spirit is individual with each of four Mutable Sun Signs, depending on the Element of the sign, a whether you're a Mutable AIR sign Communicator (Gemini)

kind of the i.e.:

Mutable

EARTH

Communicator

sign

Communicator

(Sagittarius)

— or

(Virgo)

a Mutable

—

—

a Mutable

WATER

sign

FIRE sign

Commu-

nicator (Pisces).

Gemini: You'll labor with love in a profession that harmonizes with

•

18

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

your Mutable AIR nature.

you

dictable, keeps

Although you're so

lect.

Air translates into anything that's unpre-

and challenges your sharp

floating around, versatile,

you could be successful

about any sphere of endeavor imaginable; you'd

have

really

it

intel-

in just

made

if

you published a new dictionary or spent your time making up new crossword puzzles.

would bring you tal

Choosing professional bridge or chess as mind,

certain fulfillment, but never

men-

chess with your co-workers in any occupation lucky enough to pin

you down long enough

to say

you work there

will

allow you to bring to

will

permit you and your Twin (your

it

own

dows

to let in the fresh air of

You need a career

that

for variety

that

!

your great capacity

dusty corners both symbolically and

alter ego) to

where your quick

new thoughts and

intelligence

punch

who

is fine,

he's

benefits.

unhappy ment.

and

as he

to

(It's is,

He should

let

I

know a Gemini man The counseling

EARTH

until

in his job.

he gets his

Cancer Ascendent and Cancer

leave his ever-present

his

start

—

given free rein.

is

Moon

part Yet,

retire-

Sign.)

he won't do anything to lose the security of

do with

Virgo: You'll labor

Mutable

his

You belong

where you're expected

a college.

remain a few more years

Twin

the other

exciting to

ble,

five, at

ideas.

but he's most unhappy with the lack of change

determined

ment

in a position

a time clock, or you'll be miserable.

counsels students, nine to

sweep out the

vivid imagination

and verbal glibness

Never allow yourself to get stuck

— one

and open up the win-

literally

where you can use your considerable charm and

to

a career

you'll play

As

retire-

Twin sitting behind the desk,

looking around for something

new and

life.

with love

nature.

in a profession that

harmonizes with your

Earth translates into anything practical, sta-

well-planned, and capable of paying you what you're worth.

(You'll insist

on the

last.)

But that needn't be synonymous with stuffy

or boring. You need a chance to purify the disorder around you, with

your clear thinking and exquisite sense of discrimination. You belong in

any endeavor

ner, for

that can benefit

you very much need

from your cool head and mild man-

to be needed

— but which

also gives

you

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LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY. MYSTIQUE gobs of time

Your

be alone,

to

far

ability to see mistakes,

else misses

your thing.

19

from the noisy zoos of chattering people. your

talent for spotting the flaws

everyone

make you indispensable wherever you settle down If you work for yourself, say as a doctor or a lawyer,

make fewer errors

in

judgment than others

in the latter case, you'll

opposing attorney's

in these professions

to

do

you'll

— and

be a genius at discovering the faux pas of the In the former,

briefs.

no one would need a

"second medical opinion"* after your diagnosis, since you'll have considered .every detail of every

to find error

President

Lyndon Johnson (who was announced

a square peg in a

he was helping

to solve the

the electric lights in the

all

Kennedy was one a-

times

others lead while ability

when Virgo round hole)

energy problem

White House himself each

Presidents should be Cardinal or Fixed, never Mutable.

night.

led as

that

let

asset, not a liability, as

cheerfully

by turning out

test several

You need a career where your

a tight ship.

an indisputable

is

every

You're ideally equipped to

cess being a leader.

you help them keep

symptom and

You'll never find personal fulfillment or suc-

before giving a verdict.

of those "exceptions that prove the rule."

John

Still,

he

Mutable Communicator, undeniably.

Sagittarius: You'll labor

with love in a profession that harmonizes with

your Mutable FIRE nature.

Fire translates into anything exciting,

original, slightly dangerous, or challenging in either a physical or a

mental sense. You need an occupation where you can express yourself enthusiastically,

where your idealism

not stay in one place.

mum

of once a year, and you

circus as a

among first

You need

way

to escape

You simply can-

appreciated.

at the

may even have thought

humdrum monotony.

very mini-

of joining a

There's a saying

astrologers that Sagittarian Archers retire before they get their

job, an exaggeration

for change.

meant

Some Archers

leave

chase "the impossible dream."

to

You'll bring a

convey your restlessness and need

home as Let's

your impossible dreams, because for you.

is

change of scenery

a

life

early as twelve or fourteen to

hope you never

realize quite all

would then begin

touch of magic (and an

Emmet

to lack luster

Kelly, clownlike

*

20

humor) market

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS to

to

any profession with a degree of

mountain climbing. You belong

take chances, to gamble

contribute your triple

whammy of winging optimism,

always intrigued you) or space travel

Dorfman hat ful

The atmosphere

truth.

to

inspiration,

sports, religion

and

(which has

— wherever you can zing those

of the place where you hang your

temporary periods between vacations must be cheer-

for

You

for calling

Who

can't stand "sneaks," but

your boss* one, don't worry,

if

you should get yourself

you'll get a

new job

fired

right away.

wouldn't want a merry, lovable Centaur-racehorse around

You're honest to a is

you

and outgoing, open and completely candid, packed with congenial

people.

*

to,

from the stock

it,

— where you can

on tomorrow's sure win

idealism, including, but not limited

arrows of

risk to

in a field that dares

not a

fault.

and now

fault,

depends on how

It

feelings are sensitive,

people should Pisces: You'll

Mutable

bump

call

"Gee

in the

!.

?

hear you complaining that honesty brutally truthful

you know. An employer

just doesn't like being told, spite of that big

I

you

People's

are.

(or even a co-worker)

You're a really good-looking guy in

middle of your nose. And

you camel-nose." Take

it

easy,

okay

I

don't think

?

labor with love in a profession that harmonizes with your

WATER nature.

moves around,

as water

somewhat mysterious shooter for The terrific Priest in

New

Water

translates into anything that definitely

must do,

—

and

is

many

flexible.

layered or multi-leveled,

You'd be a great trouble

York Times or a department store

— an equally

the Confessional, psychiatrist, psychologist, or mar-

riage counselor.

People are going to be

dumping

their

problems on you anyway,

so you might as well get paid for listening to them, and that's not a materialistic view, just sensible

you

will never

fail

to

— because

the people

be greatly benefited, and your

not be more than they can afford, so

it's

money

who come

fee will

well spent.

With your

nature, however, you'd probably forget or neglect to send a

your

services, so you'd

to

normally

bill for

need a good accountant or business manager.

All things considered, you're

probably better off to just give your

tening ear free of charge, so

it

lis-

doesn't trouble your conscience, and

!

*

LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE some

earn your bread in

field that

urgently needs your sensitive per-

ception and uncanny ability to solve mysteries. ence.

Einstein

vision

and

was a

Piscean,

21

Even

a field like sci-

He brought

you know.

the

Neptune

far-out concepts to mathematics, resulting in the creation

new and thrilling dimension of time and space. Pisceans swimming in artistic and creative waters, where they are undeniably contentedly at home, yet more Fish should dive into the ocean

of a whole

enjoy

of science, where the Neptunian sixth sense, open Third Eye, and innate intuition are qualities desperately needed to bring about a long-

awaited Utopian marriage between science and mysticism. reluctant mates don't

dom become One,

it

marry soon, so

may be

that technology

too late for the

won't be any place to go on the honeymoon, I

mean, which,

You have

if

wedding

these

If

esoteric wis-

— and

there

you comprehend what

you're a psychic Piscean, you will.

little

more

those rare,

if

and

desire to lead

any parade, unless you're one of

aggressive "shark-type" Fish, and you're happiest

when you're

helping others find'the

manner and

subtle

humor

way

Your gentle

to self-discovery.

are an asset to

any kind of business.

You'll

more opportunities to succeed when you choose a profession where you can develop your uncanny ability to dream and make your find

dreams come

Any occupation

true.

your rare capacity

that allows

for listening sympathetically

imagination will bring you self-fulfillment.

you

to

demonstrate

and nurtures your

Both children and adults

sense immediately that you truly care about them, and your very pres-

ence has a healing in a

greenhouse.

whether you labor with love

effect,

Plants

There's no use

know you

making

a

list

love

them too

in a hospital

of specific professions, careers,

occupations for each Sun Sign, because that doesn't matter in

can be any kind of career or employment you can think the kind of nature.

It

or

!

of,

and

itself.

It

as long as

work done within that profession is harmonious with one's make any difference whether a Cardinal sign (Aries,

doesn't

Cancer, Libra, Capricorn)

is

agency, as long as he or she

involved in is

tising firm (or at least, at the

fire

fighting or an advertising

Fire Chief or the President of the adver-

head of

its

major accounts).

It

doesn't

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LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

matter whether a Fixed Sign (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius) ciated with a florist or a dairy, as long as he or she

organizing the productivity involved, and It

makes no

difference

tarius, Pisces)

is

asso-

is

responsible for

in charge of the activity.

is

whether a Mutable Sign (Gemini, Virgo,

Sagit-

has chosen the profession of writing, the law, or Big

Government, as long as he or she can spend the working hours communicating with everyone, and not leading or being responsible for

The same

what's happening.

superb writer, needing very

editing,

would be miserable

who would make

should never

The Virgo who would make

publishing house. cessful lawyer

Virgo, for example, little

try to

a meticulous

much

praise for his well-performed job as Senate Majority Leader

and government

of your

Sun

your

it's

Sign.

own

If

you're a Leo,

farm,

and

okay

it's

a very large

officials) as

high

(commu-

he received

Follow the natural path

criticism for his attempt to lead the country.

sure

and suc-

as head of the Bar Association.

Virgo President Lyndon Johnson, for example, received as

nicating with other Senators

a

run a

to

one

be a farmer,

burmake

!

****** Like everyone else, you have experienced from time to time in

your

life,

images

in

even when you were

your mind

an actor or

in

grade school or high school, flashing

of vivid scenes.

actress, a scientist, a

Chef

Scenes of yourself as a Senator, in a

French restaurant, a news-

paper columnist, an attorney, a Judge, a teacher or professor, a

tele-

phone operator, a secretary, a designer, an architect, a baker or a candlestick maker.

You have

called

these

flashing images "day-

dreams" or "wishes." Wishes are the dreams you dream when you're awake.

Your so-called "daydreams" are urgings from your own Supraconscious, not merely "wishes" to be briefly enjoyed, then wistfully forgotten. Self,

who

These images originate from the wise Angelof your Higher repeatedly urges you, by seeding into your

mind

a picture of

*

LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE what you were born puzzle of

your destined place

to do, to take

jigsaw

in the

Life.

Some

who

of you

are reading this are saying to yourselves, "But

I'm too young to pursue such lofty ambitions"

anything

23

like that to

— or Tm

happen tome." Nonsense. As

too old for

you'll learn in the

chapter on Physical Immortality in this book, chronological age

complete

only

illusion,

made

to appear real

by the

false

no

when you do

relationship to

it.

George Bernard Shaw was 94 when one of duced.

Mozart was seven years old when his

published. first

When

he was 20, Mickey Mantle

became Prime Minister of liam

Pitt

Britain.

II

23 home runs

— and she was

woman

a

— and

was 81.

slammed

at 42,

a

home run

in his

Wil-"

!

in his last official

A woman

I

know named

baked brownies dollars a year.

for friends.

Rachel planned to be a concert

own daydreams

You say you have

must have been a

and

to cook,

Her business now grosses seven million

She didn't think she was too young or too

simply followed her

at the

when he

a framer of the United States Constitution

changed her goal suddenly because she loved

materialize

yet

Benjamin Franklin became a newspaper columnist

age of 16

pianist,

composition was

was only 24 when he became Prime Minister of Great

Ted Williams,

time at bat.

Israel

hit

was pro-

his plays

first

Golda Meir was 71 when she

year in the major leagues.

full

a

What you do has

of the mass collective subconscious for centuries.

absolutely

is

programming

tried to

false lead to

She

old.

with persistence.

pursue your daydream images but they

your destiny because you have

them over and over again

?

You

haven't yet manifested your personal miracle

call that ?

It's

failed to

the reason you

not the reason,

it's

just an excuse.

Once upon

a time there

erty-stricken parents. himself.

He dreamed

He

was

a

young man who was born

to

pov-

wasn't able to go to school, so he taught

of being a lawyer, but no one

would

hire him.

24

*

When

he completed military service, he decided to use his self-admin-

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

law to enter

istered study of the

He was

Senate.

So he temporarily

teen years of his

jobs he could. fell

so he ran for a seat in the

retired

from the law and

politics

and became a

His store went bankrupt, and he spent the next seven-

storekeeper.

He

politics,

defeated by a large majority.

life

paying

off his debts,

picking up whatever odd

But his daydreams continued to urge him on.

in love, married, struggled to

again entered politics

—

support his family, and then

as a candidate for Congress.

by a very narrow margin, but when he ran

He was

elected

he was

for re-election,

humiliatingly defeated.

Next, he tried to get a position with the United States Land Office,

but they refused to hire him.

seemed

It

that

everywhere he went,

he was ridiculed because of his poor background, his lack of education

and

social graces.

and decided

to

He

held up his head, ignored his hurt pride,

run for the United States Senate. Both his friends and

enemies, even his family, laughed

Eventually, he

was nominated

convention of a major party. political

at

him behind

Once

his back.

was defeated.

again, he

unknown.

On

for Vice-President at the political

the final ballot, he lost again

Running again

for the Senate,

—

to a

he waged a cam-

paign which captured the imagination of a nation, but which resulted in

only another defeat. Still,

he never stopped following his "daydreams."

dwell on his

failures.

He continued

the ideals and. principles in

of

fifty,

still

wounded by

which he

to intensely

believed.

heartache and scarred by

clinging fast to his destined

life

path,

and

And

He

fiercely

didn't

pursue

finally, at the

age

repeated defeats, but

Abraham Lincoln became

President of these United States.

More

recently, in the late

1970s and early 1980s, a student

Harvard named William Gates made a courageous decision

to

at

drop

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LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE

His dream was to give

out of college and pursue his personal vision.

computer microchips more power,

how

to

do

it.

a chip telling

young men and formed

a

company

to

do and

three years after he took his big gamble, his

and

several million dollars annually,

million dollars.

He

his

followed his dream.

His daydreams were real to him.

messages from his Higher listened to yours

a couple of bright gecalled Microsoft.

own computers, and

leased his innovation for their

you

them what

After relinquishing the certain future his Harvard degree

would have guaranteed, he got together with nius-type

25

in

company was generating

own shares were worth 540 He believed in his vision.

William Gates heeded the flashing

the true prophecy of his future.

Self,

IBM

1986, about

Have

?

Don't discard your daydreams as impotent wishful thinking. Listen to

them with your inner

wisdom.

who

"Let those

have

ear. See

them with your Third Eye of

ears, hear; let those

who

Follow your "daydreams" energetically, intensely,

see."

courageously, even curity.

piness.

second

when

it

means

them.

star

from the

right

for success

.

and

.

straight

on

and hap-

Then follow

Believe in yourself. .

—

temporarily sacrificing financial se-

Your "daydreams" are your blueprint Believe in

have eyes, fiercely

morning

till

"the

!"

****** money most people never realize. It's more medium of exchange among people all over the world, it possesses an unguessed power of its own, and when the secret of that power is recognized and put into use, money will multiply in several amazing ways. Learning the secret of money is one There's a mystique to

than just paper and coin. As a

thing.

Using your knowledge of

difficult to

grasp for

many

purpose of erasing them true financial security

— which

and

financial

verse expressing the secret of the practical side of

it.

its

secret

reasons we're is

is

another

now going

the only

way

— and

often

to analyze, for the you'll ever achieve

freedom simultaneously. Here's a

money

poetically.

Then

we'll discover

*

26

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

****** .

.

.

and tonight I'm remembering those bubbly

when

moments

of bittersweet

a tapped-out stranger stops us

to ask

you

for a

dime or

on the

street

a quarter

a fellow Earthling, who's lost his or her

you always smile, then give the

lost

one

way

for a while

five dollars

or ten

when

even

and

it's

then,

you

your very

when

call

.

.

.

or twenty

you're broke yourself last five ...

or ten ... or twenty

the Taker looks shocked, as they always

do

back, over your shoulder

you want any more away don't save it for a rainy day rain rhymes with pain give rhymes with

"Listen,

if

just give half of that

.

!

.

.

.

live !"

****** Using the astrological career guide of love" all

is

to lead

helpful knowledge, but there's

linked to success, which to most people

security

— an

you

to

your

no avoiding the

own

"labor

fact that

means money or

it's

financial

association difficult to escape in our present society.

much help to one's self or to others in this day and age by walking barefoot down dirt roads, or preaching and teaching along the

One

can't

#eashore. requires

be

Even a sleeping bag and

money.

In addition to

a

bowl of soup

for the

homeless

your personal necessities and helping

the homeless, there are also those organizations dedicated to saving

*

LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE the planet

on which we

all live

from annihilation.

27

Achieving that

miracle likewise requires money. There's

planet unless

approaching lantis,

it

is

little

chance for the survival of either individuals or the

we all get it together swiftly enough to halt manmade and natural cataclysms. As it once was in and

until

again history's eleventh hour for a multitude of reasons,

from acid rain

to the insanity of the nuclear

Gotterdammerung

is

now

...

we need

this

Time

the green energy of

differently,

enough of

There's

time.

and not hoarded.

money, only

in

how

it's

itself

money

There

The

possible

is

a difference in time if it

were handled

nothing negative in having

who possess it. Greenof money to continue its

spent or used by those

We

and

seals

from cruel slaughter and

urgently need organizations like Green-

peace, the Sierra Club, and

A

make

go around,

to

it

efforts to save the whales, dolphins,

they need money.

race.

has become the Great Dic-

to

peace, for example, needs the green energy

mindless extinction.

arms

being measured by the year instead of by

the century. Therefore, because tator,

the At-

all

other such dedicated groups

brief but powerful verse, written

by

this

— and book's

consulting editor, Robert A. Brewer, a marine biologist, expresses with

consummate

clarity

what I'm trying

to

communicate.

where were you

when

the great whales were crying out for

and the

mercy

fish were disappearing from our poisoned rivers and streams

did you write one

letter

did you sing one song

?

?

or did you just

sit

there

telling yourself

that your letter would not be read your song would not be heard ?

where were you

when

the Earth began to die

?

?

*

28

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

****** Actually, there are only three reasons

The most common reason

(1) to

pay

for

your basic

working

for

why anyone is

to earn

which you need

necessities,

to

necessities,

which you need so you can continue

money tence,

to

pay

to

for

your

.

.

.

and so on.

It's

to

for.

work

your basic

to earn the

called the treadmill. exis-

and aptly named.

To become immensely wealthy

(2)

your daily bread

in order to survive

work, so you can get enough money

and be able

go

works.

— or famous.

Whether

the former or the latter or both, these people

the goal

into the

fall

is

same

category.

To keep one's

(3)

surely

become

if

self

from fading into a nonperson, which you would

you couldn't do the work you're doing, because

an obsession, a dream that consumes you

— you

earn your daily bread

do

it

You would do

money

can't help

because you

Your work

it.

is

a labor of love.

it

doing

devoted

to the

also bushels of

These are the rare ones

(4)

actually

work

at

who

even it.

if

it

do

it

it's

to

provides

you were paid no

Quite simply, you love

Therefore, you're guaranteed to

achieve inner fulfillment, outward success

dream —

don't

for the reason that

"hyacinths for the soul." at all,

— and you

— and

if

you're genuinely

money, und£r Universal Law.

inherit their

money, and who don't

anything but hiring people to make sure their inheri-

tance doesn't disappear, and that their wealth increases through in-

vestment. They're hardly worth considering, since there are so few of

them. The sons of wealthy empire builders seldom inherit, along with the

money, the

sionally, a

grandson does, but

Obviously, what

is

Group

1— and

happily into

Group

all

3.

.

needed

could transmute or convert in

ambition (or dream obsession). Occa-

father's driving

all

.

.

is

some

sort of gigantic miracle that

the bored, weary, and frustrated people

the tense

and hyper people

Don't you agree

?

Of course,

in it

Group 2

—

won't be easy,

•

LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE Groups

since

Money

and 2 share the same blindness

1

29

to the reality of the

Mystique.

think, wouldn't you, that everyone would make an become pan of Group 3 ? It's logical. But it doesn't always happen that way. You see, the people in Group 2 think they don't need to join Group 3, because they believe they already have the

You would

intense effort to

The equally

formula for success, although they're gravely mistaken.

misguided people even when they

in

Group

what

it

they want, and

is

are, the necessity of survival takes priority

ideal labor of love for

the Classified

aren't sure just

1

because the

them individually doesn\always beckon from

Ads during

the

same week the

the endless treadmill of existence.

And

due.

Thus begins

humans

are, unfortu-

rent

since

is

nately, creatures of habit, well ...

Universal

Never mind

all

Law

money

regarding

is

mysteriously contradictory.

those self-help books that purport to

do it. No matter which formula they counsel make money is not how you make money. The immense fortunes

in

is

tell

you how

America (and the same rule applies

other countries) always have been and always shall be built deceptively fragile foundation of a love

and were obsessed by an

for love, to the idea,

it

idea.

became an

to

used, working hard to

upon

to

the

dream by men who labored with

When

they added the letter

ideal that eventually, inevitably,

U

L,"

and

miraculously brought benefit to the world, while simultaneously pro-

ducing a never-ending flow of money. ideal that resulted in

tune

?

time

is

obsessed by an idea-

plagiarize a line

will manifest

from one of

soon enough."

my own poems

(I

guess

it's all

right to

?)

Consider the great wealth accumulated by Group 3 people

Frank

for-

None have been permitted such achievement yet, but their swift approaching, for "women's dreams are made of sterner

and they

stuff,

Women

changing the world and accumulating a

W

original

Woolworth, Andrew

like

Carnegie, George Westinghouse, the

Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller

— and Howard Hughes.

*

30 (I

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS Hughes, Junior, not Senior. The

refer to

— and never mind

Ninety percent of

former.

and

distortions,

latter

belonged to Group 2

the negative things you've been told about the

which

will

it

is

made up

of deliberately planted

soon be exposed

ties

in particular

forthcoming

who

didn't give a

books.)

These incalculable fortunes were ginger snap about making money.

sumed only with adding the

T

metaphysics first

the dream, the idea transmuted into an ideal, by

for love of their

awesome and

work. Then the money materialized in

ever-increasing amounts, under what the science of

calls the

rule of that law

Universal to

is

Law

work with

you into a labor of

until they lead

in

— and

of Magnetic Attraction love

—

to

the

pursue your daydreams

love.

There have been only a rare few mulate wealth, with

ceeded

by men

built

They were single-mindedly con-

money being

in

Group 2 who

permanently achieving that

set

Most

goal.

out to accu-

who

the sole motive,

have sucdismally,

fail

without ever coming close to their images of King Midas and his gold.

The

large majority of the remaining,

who

temporarily appear to have

Because

succeeded, aren't able to retain their wealth.

them

a trace of

causes them to in

it

doesn't bring

genuine happiness, inevitably their inner depression

make some

miscalculated

move

that eventually results

the loss of their wealth in various ways.

Those

rare

few

who don't

fail

to accumulate,

rience the misfortune of losing their wealth, tures,

full

example)

misery,

of abject

like

"poor"

fortune, refused to

kidnappers sliced like these rare

few

J.

the

Paul Getty, who, regardless of his

pay the ransom

off the boy's ear

who manage

certain

future

Scrooge was more than a the Christmas season.

as pathetic crea-

looking and behaving (as only one

to

He

and mailed

it

to him.

To end up it

with

desire of any sane person

who

hang on

to

it

(but can't take

of such avarice.

fictional character to is

enormous

for his grandson's life until the

them when they go) could hardly be the perceived

and who don't expe-

end up

Charles Dickens's

be considered during

a prototype of particular

Group

2 people

*

LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE perhaps somewhat exaggerated

in every society,

31

to get the point

across, but very real.

When

the

Money Mystique

ignored, whether through greed or

is

through ignorance of the Law, the money gained either gradually

dwindles away

— or

who

the spirit of the one

miseries of the fear oj

"Oh, ye of

accumulated

is

hoards

it,

to the level of stagnation within

bringing

all

of the

accompanying

loss.

little

faith

Why

!

you so concerned with your

are

riches ?" shouted Francis of Assisi in the Vatican to the jewel-en-

who

crusted Bishops and Cardinals,

with rage that this ragged, barefoot

blushed with shame and flushed

monk

should dare to

criticize his

"religious superiors."

As

for Francis of Assisi,

remember

that there are

some who

en-

gage in a labor of love, yet do not accumulate bushels of money. "But this is

not a denial of the Laws of the

Money

Mystique.

It

occurs

through personal choice because these few unintentionally discover, along the way, something of equal importance to them individually: that a

modest

financial security permits

from the madness of society and

same modest

them

commune

financial security also allows

their time to relieving the suffering of those

ness of ignorance,

who

i.e.:

fall

—

i.e.:

the Nazarene's

power

devote

much

of

is

simple, as

is.

wisdom

to

be so

Children grasp

of their innocence

is

all

great truths

Golden Rule and Lincoln's Get-

Unfortunately, however, simplicity

causes ancient

Adult humans, that the

to

existing in the dark-

into this category, or leave the profession.)

tysburg Address. ity that

still

voluntary monks, social workers, and teachers

The Universal Law concerning money are simple

them

(Teachers today are so grossly underpaid, they

love to teach.

have to

to periodically retreat

with Nature, while this

difficult for it

is

the very qual-

humans

to master.

quickly and naturally, until

gradually diluted and finally destroyed

by the growing process, through the constant conditioning and pro-

gramming

of their minds with falsehoods by adults

children themselves).

A

vicious circle.

(who were once

*

32

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

In fact, the

struggle hard to

Money Mystique

obey

it

so very simple, you'll have to

is

and practice

its

experiencing a great deal

rules,

of both mental and emotional pain in the attempt

escape the withering clutch of thejear of ing a joyful

member

Mystique requires,

The

first

rule

to find

you

Money

allow you to labor

will

The second

3.

rule

is

giving.

soon be earning money

you'll

first rule,

finally

Becom-

it.

you pay your dues.

what kind of work

with love, thereby entering Group you've followed the

until

of the brotherhood and sisterhood of the

like everything else, that

is

—

and conquer

loss

Once

far

and

above your basic needs. After you've paid your debts and taken care of

all

of your essential needs of living (which include, in addition to

necessities, also vacations, rest, travel,

and "hyacinths

—

for the soul")

then give away half of every remaining surplus dollar you earn

through working with love.

HALF

?!

I

voices and see in

it

your minds. give

it

feel

?

let

go.

each of you reading

The word

Yes, just give

it

is

I

in

away.

After

earns money," (which

whether you give

The giving pan

—

it

is

as

all

I

against Universal Law)

it

it,

opposed

relative to

to letting

sense

it

its

it

for happiness,

know. As long it,

or spend

1

you have also spent

and investing

it

in the

it

not a misprint or a typo. Just

Wales, for

don't concentrate on accumulating

hear

this ... as

your reasonable personal requirements

which may include a cottage

is

Repeat:

your shocked response.

in the faces of

Yes, half.

away

freely to gain

can

Let go.

so that

as

you

"money

doesn't matter

continuing to increase.

go through

freely

spending

—

an additional booster to the continuation of the flow and required

by the Law of Karma

for personal happiness, the

reward of spiritual

enlightenment.

As

I've

already warned you, the law

will

have extreme difficulty

and

(3) practicing

is

so absolutely simple, you

comprehending

it

(2) believing

it

it.

After you've openly it

in (1)

and

freely (not cautiously

and

fearfully) tried

only once, you'll need no further convincing, because this amazing

•

LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE Law

go into

will then

(which "crazily"

—

fourfold

— and

"naively"

return to you,

in a

a shockingly brief period of time

the

money you

away

will not only

factors)

"extravagantly" gave

will return in

it

...

Within

effect.

depending on several

vary,

will

33

an increased amount, often threefold or

completely unexpected manner, from a likewise

completely unexpected source. Don't ever loan money. plied, but (and this

same source where gave.

It

will return

is

Give

—

was given

it

It

it.

rarely

from the Universe

the harmonics of the

Law

which

to

whom

you

synchronized

is

to

of Giving.

The Money Mystique may bring

off,

from the one

itself,

a few

bankers, and insurance companies, but

shock wears

and always multi-

will return,

important) not necessarily or always from the

it

shudders

to stockbrokers,

When

needn't.

the initial

new

stockbrokers will realize that investments in

companies and corporations may not meet the

requirements

spiritual

met by giving, but does meet the Money Mystique requirement of energy into the Universe.

circulating green

What

they do with their

personal funds can then follow the circulation law, plus the booster

law of giving.

As

for insurance

ease their trembles by

and people who

knowing

are too

ill

to

companies and salesmen, they can

that reasonable insurance for families

work

is

certainly acceptable.

large fortunes in insurance that break the laws of the

Money

It's

the

Mystique,

causing relatives to wish for the insured one's death, to fight shamefully

among

themselves

Bankers

than

make up

.

and too often even lead

on unnecessarily for

large Savings

ing

?

ers,

no

All of fruit.

!

What do

freely,

To tune

trees.

returns a thousandfold,

apple tree doesn't say,

mean by

I

Nature gives

No

What

Accounts

is

"I'll

to

Bankers have

the harmonics of the

or there

they will

they'll

would be no

more

new checking

through the increased flow of the

accounts resulting from spending and giving. bets covered

murder.

to

They needn't be overly concerned.

?

lose in interest

.

.

all

Law

grass,

no flow-

in to this all-embracing Giving,

become one with Nature

give only to the deserving."

their

of Giv-

which

Herself.

Nor does

The the

*

34 gentle,

brown-eyed cow, with her milk.

the apple tree

would

— shines upon

giving energy.

The

money

magnetic

— and back

ously, without end.

You

energy, the catalyst for

will

its

and life-

.

.

to exist.

that the green energy of

is

it,

and

infallibly

you and outward

multiplied, flowing through

of warmth

giving-.

go of

Let

pure and powerful energy,

boomerang mystery)

alike,

depends upon

circle.

—

with the same

also a Giver

and ungodly

Money Mystique

secret of the

invisible circle of

the

The Sun,

ill.

the godly

All of existence

travels in a

For, without giving freely,

cow's milk Gike hoarded money) would

die; the

dry up and cause her to be light

"

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

in

its

follows that

circular path (like

Over and

again.

it

returning to you

over, continu-

have become, then, the center

flow

— and

for this

never stop returning to

will

it

Bread cast upon the waters does return, as

you, each time increased.

the carpenter taught, including the daily bread you earn from working

with love. circle

It

will cease

only

when you

The Law

short-circuited.

is

ple of electromagnetic energy,

cease to give.

much

—

circulate

If

you have only twenty

sum

princi-

money cause you

of

dollars,

The key word

ten dollars.

the magic

on the

Nikola Tesla's alternating

like

Don't allow a temporary small

current.

cease to give.

Then

operates, remember,

spend or give away

that

is

your small

to

—

sum

is

temporary.

To suddenly literally

let

go,

obtain wealth,

grammed

and discover the miracle of how

is

since childhood to be "frugal, cautious

and economical

be practical and hang on to your money." Consequently, for

you

to believe that

hope you giving

don't.

what I'm writing here

You may think

— or even spending

which, as long as you toss large)

is

a ridiculous

you only possess, to

buy or even

way

dollars of the four

it

1

in

is

utter nonsense.

some manner back

hundred

to

—

to

natural

But

I

—

pointed out, the Universe doesn't care

dollars,

buy

a special

If

into the

you were

and therefore

house of your dreams,

hundred

it's

that the counsel of "letting go"

of obtaining money.

say, four

rent the

(as

to thereby

You've been conditioned and pro-

hard.

to

it,

at

when

can't afford

spend two hundred

lamp or

the house to guarantee you'll soon be living in

world

told,

quilt or chair for

you'd probably ask:

,

*

LABORS OF LOVE AND THE MONEY MYSTIQUE

"How It's

can

I

get

money by

not logical.

It's

decide to try

All

it.

You'll

elf.

can

I

I

said, I'm sure

tell

you're

If

do

that

still

?

you

will

soon be-

Speak

?

what happens

at

has never failed me.

But

I

suffering from the grip of the for the elf of

your

own

s-

to the you-of-you.

could make everyone understand

I

have

Money Mystique the first time you you from my own experience is that

Money Mystique

don't you

be surprised

wish

1

As

like.

can speak only for myself.

why

I

of the truth of the

following the law of the

fear of loss,

little

extravagant."

Think whatever you

come convinced

away or spending what

giving

35

how

exciting

is

it

to

synchronize yourself with the harmony of the Universe pulsing

around you, and tune phoria that comes

bound you prehend

—

paper called money

!

no longer

that you're

and surest way

You'll be pleasantly

paper

And

gum

dirty,

wrapper.

ence

it

yourself.

shocked

wrinkled paper

There

You must

words.

finally

to get

tied to the desperate

money. !

realize you're free of the chains that

— when you An overwhelming and sudden awareness —

to the green

that the swiftest

FREEDOM

There's such a wild sense of eu-

in to giving.

when you

is

is

to give

to fear

at that.

comIt's

it.

a knowing

and worship

to realize, at last, that

no possible way

risk the initial

need

it

it's

only

Like a discarded chewing

to express

such a feeling

in

sharp pain of letting go, and experi-

Follow the law of the Money Mystique, and watch

what happens within

a "self"

— your own

s-elf

— you only thought

you knew. Wealthy people

like the Rockefellers, the Fords, the

and so on, have always given, and stops.

Granted, the motive

with corporate tax write

has", for

offs.

about the Money Mystique.

once the magnetic energy

their

But Its

circle

Kennedys,

accumulation of money never

the most part, been one concerned that's

one of the strangest things

laws aren't concerned with motive has been spun into motion

— only

with the circulation of green energy back into the Universe from

where

it

came.

The motive

for giving

advancement of the heart and

spirit,

does matter, of course, to the

but the motive doesn't affect the

*

36

boomerang action Perhaps ... the

go

letting

GOODMANS

LINDA

itself

STAR SIGNS

of money's circular route

Law

isn't

creates so

much

intense energy

tives into

good. Whether or not you use

money

up

is

The I've

astrological

soon begin

own magic

alchemy

When

already given.

you'll

Free Will

to you.

judge

I've

rary.

It

is

a precious

act of

mo-

all

mystery of

gift.

making the big leap

for

The time

for

Self.

into

Group 3

Mantra for I've

the

I

nor anyone

start

else

growing-knowing

is

your

can force

individual,

That's always the best way.

fattens the intuition

been broke, but

Being poor

neutralizes

to penetrate the

it

But neither

by your own Higher

A

it

accumulate enough green energy to

to

for yourself.

is

return.

you've found your personal labor of love,

circle of giving.

you into illumination. dictated

and multiplied

by motive because the very

affected

and makes

it

To

grow.

Money Mystique

never been poor.

a state of mind.

******

Being broke

is

tempo-

— Mike Todd

2 AN APPLE A DAY an astrological and numerological health guide including vegetarianism

—

and other current problems and

v.

their esoteric, holistic solutions

*

*

38

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

AN APPLE A DAY .

... the

when

started to talk

I

the recollection

.

.

of everyone fearing

I

after I'd learned to

.

before that,

rain

crawled out into

I

they were forever warning

.

.

to for years

"you'll catch I

I

it

pure

bliss

to catch

pneumonia"

u pronouncing the p" and a double

"e"

make me laugh called

it

that

.

pee-nee-monia

would shake

in

it,

.

"you are sure and certain only they said

walk

would catch pneumonia

from running out into the

and

keeps the doctor away

.

most persistent memory fragment

of the time is

.

my

finger

.

.

pee-nee-monia

for sure

and

my

tell

and

certain"

dolls

****** hat little

girl

and her

were the victims of a

dolls

highly contagious epidemic of medical

ogy teaches with absolute ple),

if

at birth there

was no

one exam-

affliction related to the

Ascendent and/or the sixth house of health

or Gemini

— and no planet

afflicted

by

Astrol-

fear.

verity that (for

in Pisces

a malefic in Pisces or

Gemini

(Gemini ruling the lungs, and Pisces associated through the mutable

ever going to

succumb

mind how much trological

to

you are Never

the foregoing sentence

With none of

no way

that

layman, you can depend on

you could sleep

—

pee-nee-monia, or^ven pneumonia.

cross of sympathetic parts of the body)

it

there

is

sounds

like

Greek

to the as-

being true, with no exceptions.

these Pisces-Gemini afflictions in the birth chart,

in the rain

overnight or be caught in a snowstorm and

*

AN APPLE A DAY not contract pneumonia. afflictions in

room

this will drive the

— whatever your

Society into a frenzy of fury)

smoking

none of these Pisces-Gemini

Likewise, with

your birth chart (and

you

called "passive

smoking" can

Some

tobacco unpleasant.

personally offensive, but

do,

it's

smog,

is

deadly to

some

you

is if

don't.

lies

is

That so

and unfounded claim

hypnotize or program the

to

to

develop

carbon

to the

industrial

of us, but that person lighting a cigarette at a

all

believe such a ridiculous it

me

and buses, compounded by

cars

what

odor of alcohol

your lungs

of.

warn-

that

find the smell of

find the

I

nearby table will not give you lung cancer.

easy

you

certainly not going to cause

The exposure

the disease of alcoholism.

monoxide emissions of

affect

latest dire

The only way

ing from the white-coated gods of the ACS). is

someone

smoking across the

develop lung cancer (the

to

American Cancer

birth aspects,

a cigarette near you, or several people

will not cause

39

human

is

many

actually

an example of

how

brain with repetitious

of any kind.

Granted, smoking will certainly not benefit your lungs or any

may be

other organs which

the

weak

your body chain

links in

— and

not smoking or smoking low-tar cigarettes in moderation, and not inhaling,

you

is

the best choice for your general health

will not get,

out the

latter

assuming the aforementioned

you

will not

room, any more or

flesh

if

its

flaws

— and

no exception, although

us to believe otherwise.

been "above reproach"

was not always

black sheep.

The medi-

image makers would

Like Caesar's wife,

thus.

War and through

large ads in

its

its

like

modern medicine has

for the past half century or longer.

the medical professions

bought

in the

you are a vegetarian, by the stench of butchered

Every profession has

of the Civil

Even with-

any way affected by a smoker

cooking nearby.

cal profession is

It

in

than you're affected (or offended) by the reek

less

of alcohol fumes or,

animal

be

— but lung cancer

birth chart.

The pendulum swings. During

the time

the turn of the century, the credibility of

was questionable,

to say the least.

Physicians

newspapers and tacked up flamboyant posters

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LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

(which you've probably seen reproduced on wallpaper

rooms of

would simultaneously cure your sore nosebleeds, cause luxuriant hati to constipation, banish hives

and

resolve your marital problems.

did

that,

all

happier

would

it

and chronic backaches, stop relieve

bad breath and snoring

— and

boils, It

toe

grow on your bald head,

must be admitted

that, if

make anyone's marriage

surely

one

elixir

substantially

!

were "bled" by Dracula-like leeches attached

Patients to

in the rest

certain restaurants) offering medical panaceas they claimed

remove impurities from

their bodies

— and when

to their skin

a lone

and dedi-

cated physician, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, dared to suggest (and proved it)

that fewer

women would

"childbed fever"

wash

hands

their

die from the puerperal infection called

the attending doctors

if

in a

and midwives would simply

chlorinated lime solution before delivering the

laboring mothers of their infants, he immediately became a pariah in

community.

the medical

His death in an insane asylum was the

ward bestowed upon him by contribution to

Then washed

the

their

re-

his professional peers for his stunning

life.

AMA was conceived and born

—

hands)

the powerful

whose members soon aligned

(I

trust

by those

who

first

American Medical Association

in spirit

—

with the FDA, the Federal Drug

Administration, in a mutual mission to clean up shabby medical and

drug

practices, with the goal of

pounded strict ics

changing the carnival sideshow image

and the pharmaceutical alchemists who com-

of both the healers

the chemicals the former prescribed.

Medical schools with

academic requirements were established, high standards of eth-

were imposed

.

.

.

and abracadabra

!

The

tackiness disappeared,

replaced by hygenic medical practices and dogma, further glamorized

by the

sterile

chrome

laboratories

emerging and exciting surely,

field

and operating rooms of the newly

of medical research.

medicine grew into the status of almost a

by congregations of patients in awe of

who would

its

Slowly, but very religion,

supported

white-coated high priests,

not tolerate the slightest criticism of themselves or their

profession, and,

in

fact,

demanded

a kind of respect that nearly

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AN APPLE A DAY amounted

Who

to worship.

would dare

began a conversation with, "Well,

to contradict

my doctor told me

that

41

anyone who .._."? Very

few.

Now

the

There are

still

pendulum

is

swinging

those sincere medical

inely devoted to their healing work. rise,

and are duly reported

ally

becoming aware

in the

that the

in a new and different men and women who

direction.

are genu-

But as malpractice suits steadily

media, the general public

is

gradu-

warmly remembered family doctor of

Norman

Rockwell's paintings has gone the

living in

an age of

way

of the dinosaur. We're

specialists.

Medical people

who

set

broken bones, replace limbs amputated

In accidents, repair scarred and disfigured faces, treat severe burns,

remove

bullets

and dangerously diseased or ruptured organs and

start

hearts beating again after they have stopped, deserve our respect

and

support, even our affection.

Such professional and compassionate ones who perform miracles of healing Dr.

do

still

exist,

Raymond Wong,

here and there, like Dr. James Huperich and

of Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, a

healing haven with caring ones like

Carmen

Sosa, under the en-

lightened guidance of hospital personnel such as Sy Schneider.

mention only those medical people

though there

was

literally

are, naturally, a

number

I've

I

personally experienced,

of others.

My son

Michael's

allife

saved by these people and this particular medical center.

Nevertheless,

it's

growing undeniably more

difficult

every year to lo-

cate a sincerely dedicated physician.

We've been made only too knowledgeable of the many deaths

and deformities caused by both the medical and the pharmaceutical professions to priests of

feel

comfortable in continuing to genuflect to the high

medicine with the same degree of awe they expected of us

in

the past.

As

a result, a

growing number of people are turning

to

homeo-

pathy and holistic medicine, a revolution seeded by the popularity of

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books about the "sleeping prophet," Edgar Cayce, and further

fruited

by the flower children and the back-to-Nature movement of the ties,

which

hasn't faded into oblivion, but

is

Six-

gathering more apostles

every year.

We

don't want to lose our

good doctors, and we don't want the

swinging pendulum to swing us

historic

all

the

and leeches of the nineteenth century. We'd possible

—

a

change

in the direction of

way back

like a

to the elixirs

happy medium,

if

medicine able to give us what

medicine has always promised and never delivered: permanent good health,

by giving

and treatment,

priority to the practice of prevention over diagnosis

as does

homeopathy and medical

(We

astrology.

wouldn't even have the medical profession's current semi-approval of

acupuncture

when he

if

former President Richard Nixon hadn't been ailing

visited China,

and became convinced of

No, we don't want

to

swing back

its

effectiveness.)

to the nineteenth century's

medical practices, but swinging back to even before then, to ancient China, might not be so bad.

There were three types of doctors

in ancient

kind merely cured your disease, and was the

second was an expert

in

diagnosing an

peared, but earlier, shortly before

it

China.

The

first

The

least of the three.

illness,

appeared.

not only after

He was

it

ap-

higher on the

medical ladder. The most skilled, most venerable, and most respected physician was the one

who

kept his patients so healthy that they never

manifested any form of sickness in the

medical "caste system" was nothing

A

And

it

went

the clock

!)

was paid only when

— and

doctor

first

place, a Taoist ideal.

This

not logical.

in ancient

China (oh, turn back

his patients got well,

when he had

some districts the doctor was under strict oblimake economic amends or restitution should a patient be-

healed them gation to

further.

if

come worse considered

in

or continue to be

that,

if

ill

under

his care, because

it

was

he had not kept his patients healthy, then their

diseases were fully his responsibility.

"

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43

Every time a patient died, a lantern of a certain shape was hung outside the attending doctor's office, and a doctor with too

many

of

these lanterns swinging at the front door could be assured of a slow

who complain

Physicians

business.

today about the high insurance

caused by malpractice suits should be glad they weren't practicing in

when

ancient China,

the doctors were

and the patients given no

justly)

blamed

Why

attitudes causing their illnesses to linger.

one extreme or the other

?

A

If

I

may be

own

would be

responsibility for

mental

must everything be

good

nice,

with physi-

health.

permitted a respectful suggestion to the medical pro-

fession, physicians

tion to the

of each

little

and patients taking equal

cians

for everything (un-

responsibility for their

and surgeons would

benefit

founding father of their profession

by paying more atten-

— Hippocrates, who

Every doctor, upon being pre-

based his knowledge on astrology.

sented with his or her medical degree in whatever specialty, before taking over the authoritative role of dictating to us about our

bodies (surely a precious and privately "Hippocratic Oath.

n

Therefore,

too

is it

own

owned possession) takes the much to ask that the wisdom

of this founding father's counsel be respected and followed in the practice of medicine ?

Consider some of that wisdom from Hippocrates. u

his diaries that

movement

He who

of the stars and planets

is

a fool."

legal

adage that "he

has a fool for a lawyer.") ing:

"Touch not with

Moon

is

who

(Much

like the well-

represents himself in a court of law

Hippocrates further stated firmly

irorv that

pan

of the

this

warn-

body ruled by the sign the

transiting.

His counsel

who

in

No pussyfooting around

with innuendos or Greek double-talk there.

known

He wrote

practices medicine without the benefit of the

may need some

interpretation for the medical people

have ignored the astrological wisdom of their founding father for

so long they haven't a clue as to

It

means

this:

One does

how

to translate his

words.

not perform a surgical procedure with a

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knife (iron)

of the patient's

body which

ated with) the astrological sign through which the

The Moon remains

the time.

and

days,

this

According this

infection

—

is

moving

one sign approximately two and

in

— or

to Hippocrates,

law

at

a half

(2)

and proven repeatedly one of three

wrong

in surgery, dis-

any

failures of

time: (1) complications, including

unusually slow and painful healing and recuperation

The

(3) fatality.

ence of the law

a Farmer's Almanac.

will inevitably result in

surgery performed at the

— and

ruled by (associ-

information can be easily obtained from an Ephemeris,

calculated by astronomers

obeying

is

Moon

is

last

of the three possible results of disobedi-

behind the too frequent and well-known medical

explanation that: "The operation was a success, but the patient died." In the case of (3), death can result

more

frequent,

and

result (3)

warning of Hippocrates

is

is

throat,

is

results of (1)

rare.

and

by

(2) are

far

Nevertheless, observing the

clearly the wisest course.

Some examples: When and

from any number of causes, includ-

The

ing the anesthetic administered.

Moon

the

one should not perform

is

in Taurus, ruling the

a tonsillectomy.

When

the

neck

Moon

passing through Scorpio, ruler of the reproductive organs, a prostate

operation or a hysterectomy (removal of the tubes, ovaries, or uterus)

When

should not be performed. the former ruling the teeth general,

pan

the

Moon

and bones, the

no dental surgery or other surgery

in

Capricorn or Aries,

related to the

And

of the head should be performed.

is

latter ruling the

so on.

head

in

bones or any

Later in this chap-

various parts of the body ruled by each of the twelve

ter is a list of the

signs.

Personally, first

I

investigating

of Hippocrates. the stars

and

never accept anything counseled by anyone without its

validity,

and

that includes the astrological advice

But, unlike the medical profession's attitude toward

planets, neither

to a satisfactory degree.

1

do

I

disbelieve

cerning this particular law, and found

only a few examples here,

it

until I've

checked into

it

investigated the counsel of Hippocrates con-

among

the

it

to

be valid each time.

many

I'll

give

instances I've checked.

•

AN APPLE A DAY Jeff

Chandler, a film star of the

undergo spinal surgery

Fifties,

for a slipped disc.

It

45

entered the hospital to

was

a

common and com-

paratively simple surgical procedure, requiring only a few days of hospitalization.

He

That day the

Moon was

died on the operating table from

"unknown

causes."

transitting the sign of Leo, ruler of the heart,

and the spinal column.

the back,

Bertha Todd,

first

Days, Michael Todd,

wife of the producer of Around the World

who was

later

The next day she decided

her finger on a broken glass.

in

80

married to Elizabeth Taylor, cut to

go

to the

emergency room of a Los Angeles hospital and have the cut closed with a few stitches by the intern on duty, a minor

On

tion.

the

way

to the hospital, Bertha

coffee at a Beverly Hills drugstore.

bit

of surgical atten-

and her attorney stopped

When

for

they arrived at the emer-

gency room, Bertha was afraid the stitching might be painful, so she requested an anesthetic. She was given two, but they weren't effective.

The

third

one took Bertha out of the realm of all pain. She died within

minutes.

That day the

Moon was

transitting the sign of

of the shoulders, arms, hands, and fingers.

Gemini, ruler

With Bertha Todd and Jeff

Chandler, "the operations were a success, but the patient died."

A

close friend of

mine

in Pittsburgh sent

both of her children to

the hospital at her doctor's suggestion that they have simultaneous tonsillectomies.

One was

the other less severe.

It

suffering from a severe tonsil inflammation,

was during

the time, not so long ago,

when

physicians advised wholesale surgery of this kind (which they've only recently counseled against). stuff

them

all

time.

Those who didn't need

ally."

Only

to

perform

lent cause.

was more

you had four children, might

If

into green nightshirts

later

in the

it

and yank out

as well

their tonsils at

then "were sure to need

it

one

eventu-

did the medical people decide that tonsils have a job

body and should never be removed except

for excel-

Back then, the wholesale removal was recommended.

efficient

and

practical.

And

there

was

It

also the advantage of

a cut rate of the surgeon's fee for multiple removal, as opposed to the

expense of a single tonsillectomy.

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The day

the

two children entered the hospital the Moon was

transiting the sign of Taurus, which

neck and

ruler of the

One

throat.

as a complication of surgery,

as I've already mentioned,

is,

child developed a severe infection

which was touch and go

child, a girl,

endured a long recuperation

— during which time and had

to

it

be removed

was discovered in a

—

five

all

weeks

The other

in the hospital

remained

that a piece of tonsil

second surgical procedure

The medical community openly confesses cent of

but

for a while,

he eventually responded to treatment with antibiotics.

later.

that at least five per-

deaths in hospitals are "unexplainable."

Could the

astro-

them ? They will never know make an attempt to find out. Doctors needn't suddenly leap practicing the wisdom of Hippocrates by becoming astrologers.

logical counsel of Hippocrates explain until they

into

That's expecting too

much.

plied by their Hippocratic

But the very

im-

least of the obligations

Oath would be a

carefully controlled obser-

vation of past patient case histories and current surgical operations, to

check the

and

results.

a few brief

Since the

All they

words of

Moon,

need

an Ephemeris or an Almanac

is

instruction from

any competent

as I've said, remains in

only about two and a half days, a necessary

—

astrologer.

any particular sign

(many of them

for

are not)

operation need not be postponed for a great length of time by those

who

respect Hippocrates.

patients, they can

If

the medical profession won't protect

perhaps protect themselves by scheduling

some

operations, giving the doctor don't take year.

It

my

vacation this week,

postpones the surgery

more convenient

for

for

me — and

I

its

own

plausible excuse, such as: "If

won't be able to take

it

only three days, doctor"

for

their

my

family

—

to

have

I

at all this

— or

my

"It's

surgery

next Friday instead of next Tuesday." All any patient needs to beat the

system

is

an imaginative excuse, an Ephemeris or Almanac

healthy respect for his or her

own

body, a realization that

— plus it

belong to the medical trust to do with as they please, but to one's

own

wouldn't be wise to request a rescheduling of surgery by say-

self.

It

ing,

"You

isn't

a

doesn't

see, doctor,

my astrologer says

quite that enlightened yet,

..."

The medical community

on the whole. Maybe soon.

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AN APPLE A DAY Assuming you partially

and

get lucky

who

find a doctor

will

be

47

at least

sympathetic to your views about the no-no dates for surgery,

he or she

may

ask you

why

Here

should be.

this

the foundation

is

behind the counsel of Hippocrates concerning "Touch not with iron

body ruled by the

that part of the

astrological sign the

Moon

is

transitting."

Even the

Moon

stuffiest scientists

now

recognize and realize that the

controls the ocean's tides as well as the timing of the opening

and closing of

ment dreads

oysters.

Any

police chief can

the nights of the Full

"tide" of criminal activity, filling triple the

number

of crimes

up

since

it's

of the

it's

compared

it

that the depart-

human body to a

on

brings

to other times.

a great

The Moon

a recognized fact that the

fact that

also

women.

Moon

has the power to

the great bodies of water in the oceans

an equally recognized

and emotions

you

the police blotters with double or

controls the monthly menstrual cycles of

Now, since move around all

tell

Moon, because

more than

consists of water, the

Moon

on

and

Earth,

eighty- five percent

controls your

body

degree most people don't suspect. the

body

by the unnatural process of opening up the body and allowing

air to

Surgery interrupts the as yet undiscovered

tidal flows in

Consequently, those parts of the body which are ruled by

enter.

whatever astrological sign the cially sensitive

Moon

and vulnerable.

is

transitting at the time are espe-

That should explain the counsel of

Hippocrates sufficiently to even the most closed medical minds,

let

alone to an open-minded physician or surgeon.

Medicine has always treated the disease the patient has. Medical astrology

and

and homeopathy

there's a vast

(nativity or life

on

why

and

treat the patient

vital difference.

horoscope) indicated

this Earth the

weak

medical astrology

is

at the

who

has the disease

—

Your individual birth chart

moment of your

first

breath of

links in your body's chain reactions. That's

more concerned with

prevention of disease than with treatment.

If it's

the diagnosis

known

and

at birth that a

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LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

baby's nativity indicates a strong predisposition to diabetes, for examthis small human early enough become from ever developing dia-

can control the diet of

ple, the parents

to prevent the adult the child will

"An ounce of prevention

betes.

worth a pound of cure"

is

is

a true

adage.

Remember that

means

that

do not compel.

that the stars incline, they

accidents to which parts of your personal suffer.

become

will

in the

ill

But

inclination.

your body

will

and what were There is

if

manner

you do

is

such preventive measures

own

originally only possibilities will then fatalistic

about astrology.

would prevent

in the

become

the occurrence of

it)

all

negative events

of certain organs in each individual's body.

and emotional

is

itself

they would

Every physical

the result of the

attitudes.

As

ample, the emotional seeding that causes

express

(if

with the true original cause of the break-

ness, without a single exception,

and

their

to take the astro-

Medical astrology provides the medical profession

terness,

of hu-

—

horoscope, not just those concerning health.

only accept and recognize

certain mental

then

realities.

The behavior

for predictive tragedy lies

heed the warnings of the birth chart or

logical advice that

down

(for the

nativity's warnings),

be inclined to respond to the electromagnetic "pulls,"

nothing

foreshadowed

astrological

indicated in the horoscope as the body's

not take

where the responsibility

refusal to

are inclined to

have accomplished their purpose, and you need

reason that you're ignorant of your

mans

body you

you take the proper preventive measures, these

warnings

birth not

If

Translated,

your nativity or horoscope shows which diseases and

just

initial

two of

arthritis is

these, for ex-

resentment,

Be

bit-

— and not allowed — or honest, say what you

frustration held inside, controlled

outwardly.

ill-

cause of

feel

to

get a

punching bag. Heart disease and heart attacks are caused by

(a)

the lonely long-

ing resulting from not being loved (b) the inability to give or return love the

— or

(c) the inability to love

human organ

ones

self.

The emotion of

of the heart are inseparable.

love

and

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really

AN APPLE A DAY

-

Anger

deadly and swift in

is

violently angry with

raging fury, whether or not

or allowed to

spill

out

it's

—

it

its effect.

—

someone

or about something

justified,

—

and whether or not

nevertheless creates bile,

mean

I

it's

a

held in

and the

bile

buildup triggered by the anger seldom takes more than a few months,

The

sometimes only weeks.

An

result ?

excruciatingly painful gall-

bladder attack and the manifestation of gallstones. painful price to pay for anger. itual, If

since

it

Forgiveness

is

not only strengthens the soul,

it

you've ever suffered a gallbladder attack,

stones, ask yourself with

a few to

It's

it

is spir-

keeps the body healthy. if

you've ever had

gall-

whom or with what you were furiously angry

weeks or a few months prior

to the attack.

It

shouldn't be hard

remember. The memory of anger or rage strong enough

bile

and

a dreadful

as practical as

to create

(whether suppressed or expressed) stays with you awhile. Think

hard about

it.

It

will surprise you,

lesson about uncontrollable rage.

you think

"bile"

particular diseases links in

and

you an important

also teach

also affects the spleen.

and "spleen" are used

Your birth chart

weak

It

infallibly reveals

and accidents, not

to describe violent

Why

do

emotions

?

not just your susceptibility to just the organs

composing the

your body's chain reactions, but also the mental and

emotional attitudes responsible for causing specified parts of your

"body

to attract accident or infection.

Beyond

this,

the birth chart

contains the knowledge of the timing of illness and possible accident, indicating when you'll be the most vulnerable to one or the other, so that they can be prevented or circumvented through

change to

in

an advance

your individual mental and/or emotional behavior indicated

be the initiatory cause. If

cate

accident or disease has already occurred, the nativity will indiattitudes must be changed to reverse promote swifter healing of the body parts

which mental or emotional

the progress of the illness or

which have undergone accident.

Sometimes your own

cause such a reversal, producing what doctors mission," the medical term used

can be found.

when no apparent

instincts can

"spontaneous

call

re-

cause for recovery

Astrology accurately analyzes character, personality,

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physical strengths and weaknesses,-

and much more

— but

is

equally

helpful as a timing device.

****** Never. forget that what you eat and what you think

The food taken

are.

surely

.

.

.

into

your body

health or lack of

It's

become ing

all

fruit is

good

to

a fruitarian

is .

what you

slowly but

thoughts, both

become .

.

.

a vegetarian, but the ultimate goal

air these

days feet

becoming

no longer needing

so-called food chain (destroying

air

life

with pure, clean

and permanent good health

life

to

in places like Cripple

level,

a full-time fruitarian to kill

is

breathtarian, gain-

you breathe (assuming one

— except

above sea

striving for perfect

nally graduates into

well keep the doctor

and eventually a part-time

Creek, Colorado, ten thousand

The person

may

the food most beneficial to your body's well-

your body needs from the very

breathtarian,

.

it.

can find any smog-free

air).

And your

.

absolute control of your body's

in

apple a day, as the old adage goes,

away, because being.

what gradually

forms your thought patterns.

conscious and subconscious, are

An

is

in

order to sustain

to maintain life)

is

fi-

and pan-time

The

life.

not as holy and

—

Nature-endorsed a pattern as you've been programmed to believe

nor as necessary as you've been taught.

Reaching that ultimate overnight.

It

in well-being

takes at least fifteen years

thought patterns.

cannot be accomplished

— and

a

change of attitude or

Deciding to become an instant vegetarian,

ample, after eating meat for

many

years, can

for ex-

shock the body into

se-

vere illness, as happens only too often, causing people to mistakenly believe that vegetarianism

is

"bad

for you."

Before beginning the course of becoming a vegetarian,

necessary to desire to do so for the correct reasons. The

genuine compassion if

1

for

our animal brothers.

quote here from an interview

in

The

New

It

first

it's

first

reason

is

will save a lot of time

York Times with an un-

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51

enlightened rancher, feeling perhaps the beginning sensations of compassion but not yet illuminated to the truth of the cruelty of butchery

and ranching. In the interview, the rancher

He

reporter.

was discussing

his

cows with the

how small calves are raised in terms of how much you need to get for their dead

talked about

expenses, profit and loss;

bodies and the dead bodies of cows and steers (calves

ham-

liver,

burger, steak, and roast beef) in order to earn a living for yourself as a

Everything he said in the interview applies also to mother

rancher.

and baby sheep and pigs (lamb chops, pork chops, ham, and bacon). "You know," the rancher said

to the reporter,

"you can almost get

Do you know," he continued, "that the mother cows can tell their own calves in a herd of a thousand or more ? And didja know that when we separate them calves into sentimental about these

little

fellers.

the shipping corrals, the mothers stand there outside by the fence just

shrieking and bellowing in sounds you ain't never heard no

As

make.

if

they

know

Sometimes

what's happening.

cow

they'll just

stand there for a week or more after the calves are gone, without eatin' nothin' at

Some

all.

of them, their throats get raw from

Time comes you have

lowing, and they can't swallow.

mother cows away from there or (More

loss,

no

profit

—

they'll starve

all

that bel-

to drive those

themselves to death."

can't allow that)

You've been taught that your body must have protein (meat) to

be healthy. You've been taught a myth. In plain language, a

lie

— on

a par wjth the nineteenth-century leeches.

No

matter what you've been raised to believe, chopping off the

head of a turkey or a chicken also brings pain and Fish die

more

slowly, after their tender

sharp point of the tackle, agony, gasping for "air"

or, if

suffering.

mouths

are torn by the

caught in a net, thrashing around in

— water

to

them.

Fish are an important part

of Nature's ecology; they perform vital functions

swimming

streams, lakes, and oceans during their brief lifespan.

in rivers,

And by

the

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way, Jesus was not a fisherman. Instead, he magnetized certain of his apostles

away from

killing sea life

by promising

to

make them

"fishers

of men." There's no record of his eating flesh of any kind himself.

As other

not

for the fish,

fish.

Many

all

of them are carnivorous cannibals, eating

on

are vegetarians, existing

other kinds of plant growth in the ocean.

algae, seaweed,

Whales

and

eat tons of

plankton, which also provides more than seventy percent of the oxy-

gen humans breathe, and which

is

rapidly disappearing from our

man-poisoned waters. It's

worth noting that the percentage of carnivorous opposed

to

vegetarian fish closely matches the current percentage of carnivorous

opposed

to vegetarian

humans.

There are other meaningful

between animal and human

tions latter,

not the other

inclination

way around.

I

reflec-

imitate the

don't have the time, space, or

debate the evolutionists here, but

fully

.to

and the former

habits,

that's the

way

it is.

Gorillas, for instance, are vegetarians

and very gentle

creatures, as

primate expert Diane Fossey discovered by observing them closely for

many years. So are chimps, yet, when one chimpanzee, mood spontaneously and unnaturally happens to kill a and toys around with eating

make him quickly

ill),

he

is

it

in a perverse flesh animal,

(though his surprised stomach

may

immediately glorified by the other chimps

(even though they remain basically vegetarians), feared, respected,

and made the dominant male of the group

chimp

takes a

whim

A

dominant male.

to

until

do the same. Then the new

clear mirror reflection of

many examples

There are

—

in the fish

another male

killer

human

becomes the

behavior.

and animal world proving

that the carnivorous aspect of the "food chain," so holy to biologists,

not a necessity jor healthy survival Jungle animals

other animals win's theory,

?

who

is

eat the flesh of

Regardless of what you learned in school about Dar-

men

taught animals to be carnivorous.

blood shed in Eden, when

this Earth

There was no

was an "Eden Heaven," many

•

AN APPLE A DAY millions of years before the Atlantean, Lemurian,

which more

ods, about

lambs,

mama and

Chapter

9.

If

in

good health

tigers, leopards,

and

cows and

papa and baby monkeys and

hippos can survive

why lions,

in

paleolithic peri-

sheep and

calves,

can't

do

and

gorillas, giraffes

no reason

as vegetarians, there's

and others

53

the same, given

time to restore their digestive organs back to their original

enough

state.

Have you ever wondered why the Catholic Church counsels

its

followers to celebrate Lent by forgoing red meat, as a holy thing to

do

?

Ask

a Jesuit priest the reason behind this edict of

will, at the

Since this

book,

very I've it

least,

given the Catholic Church a few slaps of criticism in

deserves a pat on

its

ancient back

when

1987 stand taken by the Roman Church against tion, surrogate

Rome, and you

hear some absolutely fascinating double-talk.

it's

The

right.

insemina-

artificial

mothers, and test-tube babies demonstrates that

garding these moral questions, the Church

with Universal Law.

Creating

new

life

vibrating in

is

re-

harmony

without the positive-negative,

electromagnetic energy force exchanged in a male-female union constitutes definite

be the

Law

disobedience to Nature's Law, which happens to also

and could have unsuspected and serious

of our Creators,

repercussions.

This

is

not the place to go into great detail about

— such a discussion belongs

in future

books

might ordain swift enlightenment so that these practices

may

spiritually

dangerous

halt.

The Roman Church netic engineering

and fauna,

why

— but meanwhile, one

is

likewise right in

our "mad

scientists" are

its

now

stand against the ge-

performing on

certain to disrupt Nature's balances, as

it

flora

causes great suf-

fering to helpless animals.

Sometimes the healing treatments of particular medical people if we aren't living in what will someday be called

cause one to wonder

the "dark ages of medicine."

A

friend of

mine from Colorado

several years ago with a persistent virus she •

Orient.

had picked up

fell ill

in the

She grew progressively weaker, and pain consumed her entire

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For a time she considered the homeopathic treatment recom-

body.

mended by

a holistic medical person

told her about, but she finally

I

decided instead to seek help in a series of expensive sician at the last clinic placed her

nothing but raw meat. outrage

when she

I

felt

on

clinics.

The phy-

a thirty-day diet consisting of

a combination of deep sorrow and intense

died a few months

later.

It

was some time before

I

could pass a hospital without feeling a flame of anger within myself. Fresh

ments

air, fruit

body

for the

and

vegetables,

and

lots of sleep are the require-

So what happens when

to heal itself of illness.

you're in the hospital for the purpose of becoming well

dows

The win-

?

are locked tighdy with a key, permitting not a single breath of

fresh air, as the patient lies there, breathing in the very unhealthy

carbon monoxide from his or her

Your hospital

diet,

own

with very few exceptions, consists of red meat,

undercooked and bloody, and often ally,

even

der

if

breath.

in the tuna fish salad in

cold.

many

White sugar

hospitals.

It

is

used

liber-

makes one won-

the dieticians graduated from a speed course at a fast-food

chain.

Sleep

can begin

its

?

It's difficult, if

healing process

not impossible, to sleep so your body

when

you're periodically

temperature-taking (the schedule designed to

and the loudspeakers

nience, not yours)

in

fit

awakened by

the hospital's conve-

each room for calling

nurses and doctors jerk you awake, causing the astral to plunge back into the

body with

a spasm.

****** When

your feeling

for

our

fish, fowl,

and animal brothers and

dawns within your heart and soul, and your mind begins to realize the intense harm done to your body through eating traumatized flesh of all kinds, you can't suddenly become a vegetarian. As sisters

I

mentioned before,

system.

As

the cycle.

I

also

Here

this

can be dangerous to your already poisoned

mentioned is

the

earlier,

it

takes fifteen years to complete

path recommended by one

of

my

personal

AN APPLE A DAY (The number of years

Avatars, a Hatha Yoga.

numerology and

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55

important, related to

is

related spiritual matters as well as to the physical

body's needs.)

The

beef, steak,

During fruit

—

way

ideal

'years of eating

your body temple of the impurity of

to cleanse

animal

begin by eliminating

flesh is to

hamburger, pork ham, and bacon y

both

this five-year period, eat

breads, cereals,

and

all

one day each week of these

body but

become gradually accustomed

all

"fed meat"

—

for a five-year period.

and fowl

—

vegetables

and

dairy foods (eggs, milk, cheese).

For

years, take nothing into

your

first five

and/or natural

fruits

fish

—

This allows your body to

fruit juices.

to fruit,

avoiding the negative result of

your surprised bowels responding with diarrhea.

During the second

five-year period, eliminate fish

all

kinds of vegetables and

of milk and cheese.

body only

fruits

fruit

—

week

during

fruit juices

to eat

and the dairy foods

breads, cereals,

Again, choose one day a

and/or

and fowl and

— but continue

eggs (unfertilized chicken embryos, of course)

this

to take into

your

second five-year

period.

During the all

third five-year period,

vegetables which

grow under

the

you

be ready to eliminate

will

ground

— along with red meat,

fish, fowl, and eggs. Your diet now consists of only vegetables which grow above the ground, fruit, breads, cereals, milk, and cheese. As with each of the three five-year periods, again choose one day a' week

to take into

your body only

You have now spent to sustain itself

foods

— and

on

fruits- and fruit juices.

fifteen years

fruit alone,

eating breads

now

and

preparing your physical system

eliminating

them. You have become a fruitarian.

must include plenty of tomatoes and nuts of other

fruits.

all

vegetables, all dairy

when you feel the need for Remember that a fruitarian diet

cereals only

Some people have claimed

all

that fruit

is

kinds, along with the food placed

on

this

Earth from the beginning, and the only "food" the body needs.

But,

you

see, fruit is

not simply a food.

It's

not part of the "food chain"

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in its usual definition.

Essentially, fruit

Your body can take care of

body.

and so

tissue,

known

a

and they

But

forth.

number are

all

it

is

a cleanser

own

its

needs the cleansing that

who

of people (mostly Gurus)

—

a purifier of the

needs involving blood, fruit supplies.

I've

are pure fruitarians,

amazingly strong and healthy individuals.

(I'm hot

quite there myself; I'm only in the second five-year period.)

When

you've

become

a fruitarian slowly

and urine have no odor, the skin

mind

is

more

tarianism and

alert.

The important thing

becoming

to

remember

and gently over a

Then you can become

Force energy)

cleanse your

You may but

it

— and

body of believe

and the

that vege-

safe fifteen-year period of

air

all

that

and Prana

(the

occasionally or periodically eating fruit to

impurities, such as

it's

is

a breathtarian, gaining

your body needs from the proper breathing of fresh Life

safely, the stools

a fruitarian can be harmful to your health

unless achieved gradually purification.

and

the eyes sparkle,

is clear,

one week each month.

impossible to survive on the air you breathe,

can be done, under the proper conditions.

Therese Neuman, of Bavaria,

who was

A woman named

carefully observed

respected physicians, lived for 20 years without food

by several

— drinking only

pure water and eating one thin communion wafer per day. Her death

was

accident-related, not from disease.

sisi, is

known

90 days

at a

to

Francesco Bernadone, of As-

have frequently fasted (been a breathtarian) for 30 to

time with no negative health

results.

It

was

after these

long fasting or breathtarian periods that he was seen levitating by his

monks. Unfortunately, pure water and pure

air are

both in short sup-

ply on our planet these days, so becoming a complete breathtarian

may have

to wait until a miracle of reversal in the

Meanwhile, becoming a

fruitarian is a giant step

Aquarian Age.

forward for body,

mind, and soul. All of these paths to

permanent good

health, please

remember,

must be approached with caution and common sense. There are some health addicts who become so obsessed with the concept of

AN APPLE A DAY vegetarianism, they want to turn their

beginning with their

infants into vege-

extremely dangerous.

infant has inherited "the sins of the flesh"

from the parents and

ancestors,

three stage course

Hatha Yoga Avatar, with

form

two

of:

infants

six-year periods

same food regimen

and

is

the

at birth,

program

and children,

first

six years

from whatever age the child

is

Should the purification program begin

is initiated.

then the infant should be fed

meat during the

should take the

it

as given in the three five-year periods for adults,

bread and cereals, plus

fruit,

an

diet than

except that, according to

safe,

a final seven-year period, with the

totaling nineteen years of preparation,

when

This

food.

first

and can no more endure a sudden vegetarian

The same

adult.

my

57

is

tarians,

The

newborn

*

fish .

.

.

dairy products,

all

and fowl

all

vegetables,

— eliminating only red

and so on

.

.

.

with the second

six-

year period following the food intake of the second jive-year adult period,

and the

final

seven-year period matching the final adult five-

year period.

Meat-eating races have always been warlike and aggressive,

all

through history, whereas non-meat-eating races have been passive and peaceful.

As

for hunting,

being an Aries. Too

many

I

rarely enter into discussions with hunters,

many Mars

fireworks might explode.

hunters give to justify murdering wildlife

"clearing out the excess population

enough food, and the animals

die

— otherwise

is

The excuse

that they are

there wouldn't be

anyway" makes

me

feel that their

thought patterns are only a fraction removed from finding murder a likewise "practical areas of China

and humane" way

to "clear out"

and India and America's slums.

In a

overpopulated

worldwide sense,

mankind (and here the chauvinistic term is appropriate) has always found war to be an "ideal" solution to "clear out" population. Nature herself

is

fully

capable of solving her

"helpfulness," comprised of

Own

murder and

problems, without man's

killing.

My

Cherokee Chief

bumper sticker that reads: Join the Army. See the world. Visit exotic pieces and meet interesting people then kill THEM. has a

—

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58

know

personally

I

tle,

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS several hunters

who

are otherwise kind, gen-

generous, and truly good people, possessing only this one blindNevertheless, as

ness.

my hometown

much

York during hunting season

My

as

I

of Cripple Creek,

favorite

deeply and dearly love Colorado and I

manage

to

go

to California or

New

there.

Cherokee Indian legend, which

is

really a true story

down through many generations, is about the vegetarian called Snow Foot, who would kill no living creature. When

passed

In-

dian

the

deer in the forest near his tent grew older and sensed their death was to Snow Foot, knelt down before him, gazed at him moment with their gentle brown eyes then died. It

near, they

came

for a long,

still

was

way

their

.

of offering

clothes to protect

him

him

their

against the cold,

in gratitude for not participating in

them and

dead bodies

and moccasins

hunting them

their families to live out their

.

life

.

making

for use in

for his feet

down and

.

.

.

allowing

spans in the wilderness in

peace.

****** The Aquarian Age cine, Nature's

are

will bring

new

miracles to the field of medi-

unsuspected secrets of well-being and healing.

hundreds of

these, but 111

There

mention only one of them here: the

magic of carrots. In 1985 John and Margaret Blamford, she approaching the chronological illusionary

"number age" of 40, and he ap-

proaching the chronological illusionary "number age" of 50, had despaired of ever being able to have the baby they longed

had been

told

by the medical people

bear a child without risk,

that Margaret

for.

They

was "too old"

and John's sperm count was too low

to

to ever

allow him to become a father. Margaret, with her instinct,

terns.

woman's

intuition

and inexplicable feminine

thought about rabbits and their amazing reproductive pat-

She knew

that all domesticated rabbits eat carrots, so she put

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59

her husband on a carrot diet for several months. Every single day the

hungry man gobbled carrots

and cooked only

in every

and raw

in casseroles,

form

—

grated in salads, diced

A strict carrots-

between meals.

in

diet.

Magic

!

The

worked

rabbit recipe

a charm, as carrot-

like

crunching John and his esoterically inclined wife, Margaret, of Trent, England, became the proud parents of a beautiful, healthy baby

— she had simply tuned

Margaret wasn't "pixilated"

and one of Mother Nature's

Self,

mind.

Dr.

Andrew Stanway,

secrets

in his

book,

in to her

girl.

Higher

dawned

in her conscious

Why

(a

Us?

commonsense

guide for childless couples) explains that carrots contain an abundant

supply of zinc, which

count

in males.

in the

woods,

known

is

to

pep up and increase the sperm

Nondomesticated rabbits and hares,

eat few,

any, carrots

if

— and they

anywhere near as frequently as the domesticated

The Blamfords, nally realized their

after

dream by

who want

fi-

imitating the bunnies, but astrobiology

who are childless

for reasons latter.

As-

equally as reliable and helpful for cou-

is

to conceive as

safe'birth control.

freely

carrot-nibblers.

from low sperm count, though not excluding the

trobiology (see Afterword) ples

run

being told there was no hope for them,

could create the same miracle for couples different

who

don't reproduce

for those

it is

There are "many roads

who to

use

it

for dependable,

Rome," as the old adage

goes.

****** Hair

you

may

not be closely related to health, but

this helpful astrological hint.

female)

and you'd

like to

keep

barber or beautician, have Full

Moon any month.

fore

need

the

money

less

It

it

it

!

that

your hair

is

I

can't resist giving

cut short (male or

way without so many

trips to the

cut each time at the apex or the day of the

will

grow noticeably.more

frequent cutting.

you'll save

If

slowly,

and

there-

Cappies, Bulls, and Virgos, think of

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woman who

you're a

has cut her hair and regretted

it,

and are

impatient to have long tresses again, trim the ends of your hair your-

smidgin, at the apex of the

self ever so slightly, just a

will

grow

visibly

much

Farmer's Almanac for lots of reasons

you can order

can't help you,

New

York

If

!

— or

All Farmer's

City.

one of your

either or both

Bookstore in Los Angeles, California store in

New Moon, and

it

You're going to need that Ephemeris or

faster.

the

local bookstores

from the Bodhi Tree

Samuel Weiser book-

Almanacs are the same, but

regarding the Ephemeris, you need only the ten-year Ephemeris, not

The former

the thousand-year edition.

is less

expensive.

****** Now, here

are

some very

helpful astrological

guides for your general health.

When calculated

you read the following, remember

and

(the exact

rectified

and numerological

the astrological guide.

First,

that

your individually

hour and minute of your

breath) nativity contains your complete personal health picture,

strong and

weak

first

all

the

your body's chain reactions. These Sun Sign

links in

Nevertheless, in approximately eighty

indications are only general.

percent or more cases, the problem areas will center in the parts of the

body ruled by your Sun believe

it's

the

whole

a carefully rectified

Sign.

professional physician

be simply ideal cine

man

who

Just don't

in

for you.

if

that

competent person could be a

has also studied astrology

?

Wouldn't that

There's small chance of your locating such a medi-

?

because only a few

dream, can't we

it

be a blessing

it

usually.

horoscope and a competent person trained

medical astrology to interpret

Wouldn't

Not always, but

For a complete health analysis you'll need

story.

?

And

manifesting wishes into

exist, as rare as the

dodo

bird, but

dreams, don't ever forget, are the reality.

******

first

we can step in

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61

SUN SIGN RULERSHIPS OF THE BODY

V

ARIES:

head, face (except nose), the cerebral

hemispheres of the brain

V

TA[7Rl/5:

neck, throat, larynx, tonsils, carotid

and jugular vein

arteries,

&

GEMINI:

shoulders, arms, fingers, lungs, thymus,

and upper

®

CANCER:

ribs

stomach, diaphragm, breasts and thoracic duct,

SI

LEO:

lymph system

heart, aorta, the back,

and the spinal

cord ftp

VIRGO:

large

and small

intestines

and the

pancreas

^

LIBRA:

kidneys, equilibrium and balance sometimes skin by association

fT],

SCORPIO:

nose, genitals, descending colon,

—

rectum, the blood, urethra, sometimes the back, v*

SAGITTARIUS:

hips, thighs, liver, veins,

and

5

CAPRICORN:

by association femur bone,

sacral region

teeth,

bones

—

the kneecaps

and the

skin

™

AQUARIUS:

lower legs and ankles, varicose veins,

and 00

PISCES:

circulatory system

the feet

and

and

toes,

sometimes the lungs

—

and, in by association reality, the entire body system related to "leaks" and the draining of fluids intestines

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What medicine directly

pathetic parts of the in

sympathetic parts of the body" came

calls "the

from the astrological computations of Hippocrates. The sym-

body mean

that

one part of the body, your doctor

when

particular

will look to

may have

"sympathetic" parts to see where the trouble

can comprehend

You

initiated.

by studying the drawings of the three

this easily

astrological "crosses"

symptoms occur

one of the other three

on page 63.

Notice that two of each of the four signs in each Cross are opposite

each other (180 degrees apart in the horoscope

circle)

— and

all

four

signs in each Cross are square to each other (90 degrees apart in the

horoscopic

See the astrological wheel drawn on Page 10.

circle).

It

defines the sympathetic parts of the body.

Now Sun

go back

to

page 61 and study the body rulerships of each

how

Here are only a few examples of

Sign.

Look

Then study

it

works.

First, the

the parts of the

body

Aries rules the head, Libra rules the kidneys and bladder.

The

Cardinal Cross.

at

it

again.

ruled by these particular four Cardinal Signs.

symptoms

of Libra kidney or bladder problems often begin with se-

vere headaches (Aries).

skin

(among other

Cancer rules the stomach. Capricorn rules the

things).

which disagrees with you or

When to

you take into your stomach food

which you're

A

skin breaks out in a rash (Capricorn).

teeth) gives

you pain

in the

head and

allergic (Cancer)

— your

toothache (Capricorn rules the

face (Aries).

corn are square to each other, just as Aries

Aries

and Capri-

and Libra are opposed

to

(opposite) each other.

Now the

the Fixed Cross.

body ruled by

Look

Aquarius rules the lower things). legs.

One

at

it

again.

Then study

the parts of

these particular four Fixed Signs.

of the

first

Leo rules the heart (among other

legs.

symptoms

of heart trouble

Leo and Aquarius are opposed

to (opposite)

is

pain in the lower

each other.

Taurus

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AN APPLE A DAY The Cardinal Cross

The Fixed Cross

Capricorn

Aquarius

63

T Scorpio

Taurus

Libra

Aries

The Mutable Cross Leo

Cancer

?

Pisces

n Sagittarius

Gemini

Virgo

IT*

rules the throat neck, >

(among other

and vocal

things).

When

a

cords.

Scorpio rules the sex organs

boy goes through puberty

(a

Scorpio

sexual change), his vocal cords (Taurus) also undergo a change, and his voice deepens. other.

Leo also rules the spine.

meningitis other.

Cross.

is

a sore throat (Taurus).

Likewise, Leo

One

of the

first

signs of spinal

Taurus and Leo are square to each

and Scorpio are square

to

each other in the Fixed

Scorpio rules the colon (among other things).

back and spine. colon are often

Now of the

Taurus and Scorpio are opposed to (opposite) each

The symptoms

felt first

as pains in the lower back area.

the Mutable Cross.

body ruled by

Leo rules the

of severe colitis or infection of the

Look

at

it

again.

Then study

these particular four Mutable Signs.

the parts

*

64

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS Gemini

Pisces rules the feet.

Lungs (among other

rules the

you've walked in the rain for hours and soaked your feet

things).

If

(Pisces),

you may come down with

monia (Gemini-lungs).

which could lead

flu,

depends, as

It

mentioned

I

to

earlier,

pneu-

on the

planetary positions and aspects in the birth chart. Sagittarius rules the

and

liver, first

square to Virgo, ruling the intestines.

is

manifested through intestinal problems.

Liver ailments are

And

These are

so on.

only a few examples of the sympathetic parts of the body.

Now

the physical effect of the Elements to

belongs: Fire, Earth, Air,

know Fire

it

and Water. (Find your Sun

already, in Chapter

Signs:

the

Aries,

which each Sun Sign

Ram

1,

Sign,

if

you don't

page 11.)

—

Leo,

the

Lion

—

the

Sagittarius,

Archer Fire Signs are

more

likely to suffer

from fulminating

illnesses,

high fevers, and maladies which strike suddenly in the parts of the

body ruled by the cuperative ability Lionesses,

is

particular

Sun Sign of

usually strong

and

swift.

and Archers experience chronic or

Earth Signs: Taurus, the Bull

—

the Fire Element.

Rarely

do Rams,

Re-

Lions,

long-lasting illnesses.

Virgo, the Virgin

—

Capricorn, the

Goat Earth Signs are

more

likely to suffer

ailments, taking years to develop,

periods of time. ities

from deep-rooted physical

and often becoming chronic

Also emotional depression.

The recuperative

for

abil-

of Bulls, Virgins, and Goats are powerful, but often slow.

Air Signs: Gemini, the Twins

—

Libra, the Scales

—

Aquarius, the

Water Bearer Air Signs tend to suffer from mental stress and psychological disturbances, nervous breakdowns, breathing difficulties, and circulatory

problems.

Recuperative powers are unpredictable.

AN APPLE A DAY Water

—

Crab

Signs: Cancer, the

—

Scorpio, the Eagle

•

65

Pisces, the

Fish

Water Signs are prone

and lingering abilities are

to peculiar illnesses, difficult to diagnose

Also severe melancholia.

in nature.

The recuperative

completely self-controlled, whether or not this

on a conscious

is

realized

level.

Remember that your individually calculated and rectified (the moment of the first breath) nativity contains your complete health analysis, all of the strong and weak links in your body's chain

exact

The foregoing Sun Sign and Element

reactions.

general, although

more than

indications are only

seventy-five percent of the time, the

most

recurrent problem areas and types of illnesses will occur in the parts of the

body ruled by the Sun

the

Sun

Sign.

Sign,

and be of the nature of the Element of

you

Just be sure

realize that

it's

not the whole story.

Meanwhile, combining these Sun Sign and Element indications with the numerological health analysis of the single

number

birth in the following interpretations will be

prisingly reliable guide, as

you

most

of your day of

helpful, a sur-

will see.

****** The ter 5,

true systerti of numerology

and

relate to

Chapter

this is only.a small

is

defined and explained in Chap-

preview of the magic of numbers, as they

your health only, involving your day of 5's full

birth, rather than

explanation of the numbers of your date of birth and

the numerological revelations of your name.

You

are a

Number

1 if

you were born on the

1st,

10th, 19th, or

28th day of any month.

You

are a

Number

2

if

you were born on the 2nd, 11th, 20th,

or 29th day of any month.

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LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

You are a Number 3 if you were born on the 3rd, 30th day of any month. You are a Number 4 if you were born on the or 3 1st day of any month.

You are a Number 5 day of any month. You

are a

Number 6

12th, 21st, or

4th, 13th, 22nd,

if

you were born on the

5th, 14th, or

if

you were born on the

6th, 15th, or 24th

if

you were born on the

7th, 16th, or 25th

if

you were born on the

8th, "17th, or 26th

if

you were born on the

9th, 18th, or 27th

23rd

day of any month.

You are a Number 7 day of any month.

You are a Number 8 day of any month. You are a Number 9 day of any month.

The Number

The

1

colors that harmonize with the

Number

1

vibration are:

all

shades of sunny or golden yellow, bright orange, and royal purple.

Number

1

people will notice a subtle beneficial change in their

general well-being and can increase their positive essence by wearing

topaz or

in

amber next

to the skin.

The 1 vibration brings a tendency some form, such as palpitation and

back pain, accidents

to the spine,

to suffer

from heart problems

irregular circulation

— lower

sometimes high blood pressure and

astigmatism, and should have their eyes tested frequently.

Their

— and

physical weaknesses will be intensified by negative emotions diluted or even negated by positive emotions, forgiveness,

cheerful attitude. frigidity in

Sometimes sexual disorders may

women and

impotency

in

men.

But these problems are

temporary and can be reversed by the right mental control. can bring on

illness

and a

such as

surface,

1

people

through their exaggerated seose of pride and ego.

*

AN APPLE A DAY When

they learn to

become more

marked improvement

more

tolerant,

67

flexible, they'll see a

in the general health.

October, November, and December of every year are the months

when most

accident —

symptoms

ill-health

— mental or

Number

will strike the

emotional attitudes, depression,

1

makes

perfect,

stress,

and

even negate the tendency toward

The

or overwork.

1

illness or

which

will

accident at these times.

a^month before each

camomile, eye bright,

The

lemons, and dates.

St.

prin-

health for a

Number

person

1

are: saffron,

John's wort, cloves, nutmeg, sorrel, borage,

musk

gentian root, lavender, bay leaves, thyme,

When

a 1 person are:

go a very long way toward the eventual achieve-

ment of permanent good

1st,

After

given.

raisins, barley bread, barley, oranges,

the

people should

be able to greatly dilute or

they'll

The foods which should be eaten frequently by cipal herbs

sickness or

months approach.

practice of serenity should begin at least

month just

—

person, brought on by negative

practice remaining serene each year as these

a while, practice

physical

vervain,

and myrrh.

these herbs are taken in a liquid form by a person born

10th, 19th, or 28th day of

Nature's tranquilizer and tonic.

A

any month, any

on

year, they act as

remarkable and swift change will

be noticed when three or four teaspoons are taken to relieve anxiety, tension,

bances.

depression, anger, or other mental or 'emotional distur-

The

liquid should be taken (one tablespoon) twice a

a regular basis, and more .

the

How

when

can you obtain your herbs in liquid form

Herb Products Company

meopathic business

for

number, from

1

through

them your number magic

for you.

the size bottle they'll

9, so all

tell

My

?

friends at

have been in the ho-

a quarter of a century, will

They have

(in this case

They'll

who

in California,

more than

the herbal liquid for you.

week on

necessary under stress.

a

list

of

you need do

Number

1)

all

make up

the herbs for each

is call

and

them and

they'll

give

blend the

you over the phone the cost (minimal) of

you want. Then you send

mail your herbal tonic.

a

check

in that

amount, and

1

*

68

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

The telephone numbers The address

are (213)

877-3104 or (818) 984-3141.

is:

John W. DuVallJr. Herb Products Co. 11012 Magnolia Blvd. North Hollywood, California 91601

The Number 2

The

colors that harmonize with the

Light green, pale yellow, silver, violet,

Number

Number

2 vibration are: |

and lavender.

2 people will observe a subtle beneficial change in their

general well-being and can increase their positive essence by wearing,

emeralds, pearls, or moonstones next to the skin.

The 2

vibration brings a tendency to suffer from stomach prob-

lems and digestive disorders. They're susceptible to ptomaine poisoning,

and should be

careful of the foods they eat

drink in a foreign country.

(usually benign) are possibilities.

nerable to problems.

The

breasts

and the water they

and

Gastric troubles

internal growths'!

and chest area

are vul--

Most complaints of 2 people are lingering and jj

chronic, caused by their refusal to learn to

do

this,

let

recuperation will be

go of anxiety, and when they

much

j

swifter.

January, February, and July of every year are the months when;

most dent

ill

—

health

symptoms

will strike the

— mental or

Number

physical

— sickness or

acci-

2 person, brought on by negative*

emotional attitudes, depression, tension, anxiety, or overwork. 2 people should practice remaining serene each year as these

months ar> |

proach.

After a while, practice

makes

perfect,

and

they'll

be able

to;]

greatly dilute or even negate the tendency toward illness or accident at

these times.

before each

The practice of serenity should begin month just given.

at least a

The foods which should be eaten frequently by

month

li

a 2 person are: j

*

AN APPLE A DAY

will

The

cucumber, melon.

lettuce, cabbages, turnips,

which

69

principal herbs

go a very long way toward the eventual achievement of

permanent good health

for a

Number

2 person

are: chicory, endive,

and ash of

rapeseed, colewort, moonwort, linseed, water plantain, willow.

When the 2nd,

these herbs are taken in liquid form by a person born

1 1th,

Nature's tranquilizer and tonic.

noticed

when

remarkable and swift change

is

or other mental or emotional disturbances.

liquid should be taken (one tablespoon) twice a

— and more

basis

if

necessary under tension.

Number

herbal liquid for

ber

A

three or four teaspoons are taken to relieve anxiety,

stress, depression, anger,

The

on

20th, or 29th day of any month, any year, they act as

2 people

is

week on

The way

a regular

to obtain the

explained at the end of the Num-.

analysis.

1

The Number 3

The

autumn

colors that harmonize with the

colors,

Number

3 vibration

such as yellow and burnt orange, rust

quoise and sky blue.

.

.

.

are: all

also, tur-

3 people often share a love of purple with the

1

people.

Number 3 people

will notice a subtle beneficial

change

in their

general well-being and can increase their positive essence by wearing

turquoise next to the skin.

The 3

vibration brings a tendency to suffer from overstrain of the

nervous system, usually brought on by overwork and lack of sleep. They're inclined to have severe attacks of sciatica and neuritis, various,

forms of skin troubles

— and

are vulnerable to accidents to the hips.

There may be complaints concerned with the

liver

and aches

in the

thigh or hip area.

December, February, June, and September of every year are the

months when most ness or accident

—

ill

health

symptoms

will strike the

— mental

Number

or physical

—

sick-

3 person, brought on by

negative emotional attitudes, depression, stress, or overwork.

3 peo-

1 1

*

70

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

pie should practice remaining serene each year as these

proach.

makes

After a while, practice

perfect,

and

months ap-

they'll

be able to

greatly dilute or even negate the tendency toward illness or accident at

these times.

before each

The practice of serenity should begin month just given.

at least a

The foods which should be eaten frequently by

month

i

a 3 person are:

beets, bilberries, asparagus, cherries, barberries, strawberries, apples,

mulberries, peaches, olives, rhubarb, gooseberries, pomegranates, endive, pineapples, grapes,

almonds,

wheat products. The herbs which

hazelnuts,

figs,

will

and wheat and

all-

go a very long way toward the

achievement of permanent good health

for a

Number 3 person

are: l

borage, dandelion, ewerwort, lungwort, sage, mint, saffron, nutmeg, cloves, sweet

When

Marjoram, and

St.

j

John's wort.

on

these herbs are taken in liquid form by a person born

1

the 3rd, 12th, 21st, or 30th of any month, any year, they act as Nature's tranquilizer

when

ticed

and

tonic.

A

remarkable and swift change

is

no^

tension, depression, anger, or other mental or emotional disturbances.

The

liquid should be taken (one tablespoon) twice a

basis

and more

liquid for

|

three or four teaspoons are taken to relieve anxiety,

if

necessary under

Number

3 people

is

stress.

The way

week on

J

a regular

to obtain the herbal

given at the end of the

Number

analysis.

The Number 4

The

colors that harmonize with the 4 vibration are: electric blue

and cobalt blue

—

silver-gray

Number 4 people

and ocean green.

will notice a subtle beneficial

change

in their

general well-being and can increase their positive essence by wearing, sapphire, quartz, or a stone containing a blend of azurite and malachite next to the skin.

The 4 ments

vibration brings a tendency to suffer from mysterious

difficult

1

1

ail-

to diagnose, mental disorders, melancholy, anemia;

J

*

AN APPLE A DAY poor

circulation, pains in the

head and back, accidents from

benefits

from

are strongly

warned

to avoid taking or

— and although everyone would be

drugs tarian, less

electrical treatment of all kinds, hypnosis,

They

Number 4 people

in particular will

they avoid highly seasoned foods and

electricity

4 people can derive great

or lightning, and injuries to the lower legs.

suggestion.

healthier being a vege-

become

all

and mental being given

chronically

diluted or even negated by positive emotions, a calm

There

is

un-

spirit,

— and

and pa-

a possibility of problems with the reproductive

organs, occasional impotence in latter

ill

forms of red meat. Their

physical weaknesses will be intensified by negative emotions

tience.

71

men and

frigidity in

women, but

the

can be banished with mental concentration and the realization

that the complaint

is

psychological, not physical.

January, February, July, August, and September of every year are the

months when most

sickness or accident

—

by negative emotional

ill

health

symptoms

will strike the

— mental or

Number 4

physical

—

person, brought on

attitudes, depression, stress, or

overwork

4

People should practice remaining serene each year as these months

approach. After a while, practice makes perfect, and

they'll

be able to

greatly dilute or even negate the tendency toward illness or accident at

these times.

before each

The practice of serenity should begin month just given.

at least a

month

The foods which should be eaten frequently by a 4 person is The principal herbs which will go a very long way toward the eventual achievement of permanent good health for a 4 person are:

spinach.

sage, pilewort, wintergreen, medlars, Iceland-moss,

and Solomon's

Seal.

When

these herbs are taken in liquid form by a person born

on

the 4th, 13th, 22nd, or 31st day of any month, any year, they act as

Nature's tranquilizer and tonic.

noticed

when

A

remarkable and swift change

is

three or four teaspoons are taken to relieve anxiety,

stress, depression, anger, or

other mental or emotional disturbances.

*

72 The

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

liquid should be .taken (one tablespoon) twice a

basis

— and more

herbal liquid

is

if

necessary under tension.

explained at the end of the

week on

The way

Number

a regular

to obtain the

1 analysis.

The Number 5 Just as 5 people can usually harmonize with people born under all

kinds of numbers, they can normally wear

which harmonize best with the 5 aura They should not wear dark

silver.

the colors of their

Number

Sun

all

colors, but those

are: pearl gray, light green,

and

even when they are given as

colors,

Signs.

5 people will notice a subtle beneficial change in their

general well-being and can increase their positive essence by wearing

aquamarine gems, platinum, or

The 5

much

vibration brings a tendency to attempt too

to deplete the energies,

people

silver next to the skin.

live

too

much on

which can lead their nerves,

to

mentally;

nervous breakdowns.

and may

suffer

5

from insomnia,

twitching in the face or eyes, and "phantom pains" in the shoulders,

arms, and hands. Even under minor mental tension they can become irritable

and nervous. They're advised

sure, to try to stressful.

to practice grace

under pres-

remain calm and patient when events around them are

Sleep and rest and quiet surroundings will have a noticeable

healing effect.

June, September, and December of every year are the months

when most accident

—

ill

health

—

—

sickness or mental or physical symptoms number 5 person, brought on by negative

will strike the

emotional attitudes, depression,

stress,

or overwork.

practice remaining serene each year as these

a while, in this

way

tendency toward

they'll

5 people should

months approach.

be able to greatly dilute or even negate the

illness or accident at these times.

serenity should begin at least a

month

before each

month

The foods which should be eaten frequently by carrots, parsnips, sea kale, oatmeal,

The

:

After

practice of

i

I

given.

a 5 person are:

oatmeal breads, parsley, and nuts j

of

all

kinds, especially hazelnuts

and walnuts

The

principal herbs

I

*

AN APPLE A DAY which

73

go a very long way toward the eventual achievement of

will

permanent good health

Number

for a

5 person are: sweet marjoram,

champignons, caraway seeds, and thyme.

When

these herbs are taken in liquid form by a person born

on

the 5th, 14th, or 23rd day of any month, any year, they act as Nature's tranquilizer

when

and

A

tonic.

remarkable- and swift change

is

noticed

three or four teaspoons are taken to relieve anxiety., stress, de-

pression, anger, or other mental or emotional disturbances.

The

liq-

week on a regular basis The way to obtain the herbal

uid should be taken (one tablespoon) twice a

— and more liquid for

if

necessary under tension.

Number

5 people

is

explained at the end of the

Number

1

analysis.

The Number 6

The

colors that harmonize with the

Number 6

pastel shades of every color, especially pink

earth tones, such as chocolate

secondary to the

vibration are: the

— sometimes

and blue

brown and deep

green, but these are

pastels.

Number 6 people

wilt observe a subtle beneficial

change

in their

general well-being and can increase their positive essence by wearing

opals next to the skin

The 6

.

and sometimes, copper.

and upper part of the lungs

Women

—

also the chest

and

breast

influenced by the 6 are prone to breast problems and

sometimes "milk fever" plaints,

.

vibration brings a tendency to suffer from infections of the

throat, nose, area.

.

which lead

in childbirth.

There are often mild heart com-

to irregular circulation of the blood.

The bladder

and kidneys are vulnerable, and 6 people should avoid foods with sugar.

when

As a general

rule,

6 people have a strong, robust constitution

they either live in the country

where they can have plenty of fresh city,

they should

and vacations

make

air

— or

and

a serious effort to

visit

frequently a place

exercise.

If

they Hve in the

spend frequent weekends

in the country.

May, October, and November of every year are the months when

*

74 most

ill

—

dent

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS health

symptoms

will strike the

— mental or

Number

physical

— sickness or

acci-

6 person, brought on by negative

emotional attitudes, depression, tension, anxiety, or overwork. 6 people should practice remaining serene each year as these

proach.

After a while, practice

makes

perfect,

and

months ap-

they'll

be able to

greatly dilute or even negate the tendency toward illness or accident at

these times.

before each

The practice of serenity should begin month just given.

The foods which should be eaten

at least a

month

frequently by a 6 person are:

all

kinds of beans, parsnips, spinach, melons, apples, peaches, apricots, figs,

walnuts and almonds

which

will

—

especially almonds.

permanent good health

for a

Number 6 person

motherwart, pomegranates, juice of maidenhair,

thyme, musk, bination

?

When

The

principal herbs

go a very long way toward the eventual achievement of

violets, vervain,

Lucky 6 people

and rose

leaves.

are:

mint, marrows,

fern, daffodils,

wild

Isn't that a lovely

com-

!

these*herbs are taken in liquid form by a person born on

the 6th, 15th, or 24th day of any month, any year, they act as Nature's tranquilizer

when

and

tonic.

A

remarkable and swift change

is

noticed

three or four teaspoons are taken to relieve anxiety, stress, de-

pression, anger, or other mental or emotional disturbances.

uid should be taken (one tablespoon) twice a

— and more

if

necessary under stress or tension.

the herbal liquid for

Number

week on

Number 6

people

is

The

liq-

a regular basis

The way

to obtain

explained at the end of the

1 analysis.

The Number 7

The

colors that harmonize with the

Number 7

green, light yellow, aqua, pink, and white.

wearing black or dark

colors,

vibration are: sea

7 people should avoid

even when these are indicated by the Sun

Sign.

Number

7 people will observe a subtle beneficial change in their

general well-being

and can increase

their positive essence

by wearing

*

AN APPLE A DAY an amethyst or emerald next

soms

will curiously

lift

Water

to the skin.

when

their spirits

and

lilies

the heart

75

lotus blos-

sad, lonely, or

is

longing.

The Number 7 brings

a tendency to suffer from anxiety.

These

people are more easily affected by worry, annoyance, and frustration than others. As long as their personal and business

affairs are

running

smoothly, they're capable of producing amazing amounts of work, at

home

or in the office.

stances around to

But

when

they

become worried by circum-

them or the behavior of other people,

imagine that things are worse than they

which

choly, ble

to

results in

extreme physical

their surroundings,

they soak

are,

fatigue.

up

and

they're inclined fall

into melan-

Unusually suscepti-

negative situations

and

attitudes like a sponge.

When

they

feel they're

genuinely needed

— and

appreciated, 7

people will cheerfully take on any responsibility, and are unusually conscientious in carrying out their work.

It's

difficult for

them

to

realize that they're not as strong physically as they are mentally; often

the

body

own

is frail,

strength, a

and the 7 person attempts too much major cause of

all

for his or her

their health problems.

inclined to have extremely delicate skin, sensitive to the sun

perhaps some peculiarity regarding perspiration

tion,

They're

and

fric-

— and eating

things that disagree with the digestive system frequently results in boils,

pimples, and rashes.

January, February, July, and August of every year are the months

.

when most

ill

accident

will strike the

—

health

—

—

symptoms mental or physical sickness or Number^7 person, brought on by negative

emotional attitudes, depression, tension, anxiety, or overwork. 7 people should practice remaining serene each year as these

proach.

After a while, practice

makes

perfect,

and

months ap-

they'll

be able

to

greatly dilute or even negate the tendency toward illness or accident at

these times.

before each

The practice month given.

of serenity should begin at least a

The foods which should be eaten frequently by

month v -

a 7 person are:

*

76

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS cucumbers, mushrooms, apples, cranberries,

lettuce, cabbage, endive,

and the

juices of

way toward

long

for a 7

person

When

The

all fruits.

principal herbs

the eventual achievement of

which

will

go a very

permanent good health

are: chicory, colewort, linseed, ceps,

and

sorrel.

these herbs are taken in liquid form by a person

bom on

the 7th, 16th, or 25th day of any month, in any year, they act as

A

Nature's tranquilizer and tonic.

when

noticed

stress, depression, anger, or

The

remarkable and swift change

other mental or emotional disturbances.

liquid should be taken (one tablespoon) twice a

— and more

basis

if

number

1

week on a regular The way to

necessary under tension and stress.

Number

obtain the herbal liquid for of the

is

three or four teaspoons are taken to relieve anxiety,

7 people

is

explained at the end

analysis.

The Number 8

The digo,

all

colors that harmonize with the

Number 8

vibration are: in-

shades of brown, dark green, and navy blue.

Number 8

people will observe a subtle and beneficial change in

their general well-being

and can increase

wearing a diamond or onyx next

8 people are more

liable

the liver, bile, intestines,

their positive essence

by

to the skin.

than others to suffer from troubles with

and excretory part of the system. They have

a tendency to develop migraine headaches, diseases of the blood,

rheumatism and autopoisoning. They are advised

to avoid

meat of all

kinds, since they are especially allergic to animal food.

January, February, July, and December of every year are the

months when most ness or accident

—

ill

health

symptoms

will strike the

— mental or

Number 8

physical

—

sick-

person, brought on by

negative emotional attitudes, depression, tension, anxiety, or over-

work.

(Spells of

deep depression are more

common

than with those influenced by any other number.) practice remaining serene each year as these

with 8 people

8 people should

months approach.

After

.

*

AN APPLE A DAY a while, practice

makes

and

perfect,

even negate the tendency toward

they'll

illness

77

be able to greatly dilute or

or accident at these times.

The foods which should be eaten frequently by an 8 person are: The principal

spinach, carrots and wild carrots, broccoli, and celery.

herbs which will go a very long of

permanent good health

way toward

for a

the eventual achievement

Number 8 person

are:

wintergreen,

angelica, sage, plantain, pileworth, ragwort, shepherd's purse, Sol-

omon's

seal, vervain, elder flowers, gravel root,

When

and mandrake

root.

these herbs are taken in liquid form by a person born

on

the 8th, 17th, or 26th day of any month, any year, they act as Nature's tranquilizer

when

and

tonic.

A

remarkable and swift change

is

noticed

three or four teaspoons are taken to relieve anxiety, stress, de-

The liqweek on a regular basis or stress. The way to obtain

pression, anger, or other mental or emotional disturbances.

uid should be taken (one tablespoon) twice a

— and more

if

necessary under tension

the herbal liquid for

Number

1

Number 8 people

explained at the end of the

is

analysis.

The Number 9

The

colors that harmonize with the

Number 9

vibration are:

crimson or ruby red (with no orange tones), true blue, and pure white.

Number 9 people

observe a subtle beneficial change in their

will

general well-being, and can increase their positive essence by wearing a ruby next to the skin.

The 9 aches,

vibration brings a strong tendency to suffer from head-

extremely high fevers,

fulminating,

that

illnesses

and usually disappear

strike

suddenly, are

as quickly as they appeared.

very rare for a 9 person to develop an illness that lingers or

and should

this occur,

rectly diagnosed, since

sence.

it's

most important

it's

opposed

The recuperative powers

to

is

have such sickness cor-

to the very nature of the

are vital

and

It's

chronic,

swift.

9

es-

9 people seldom

avoid chicken pox, smallpox, scarlet fever, or scarletina and such.

9

*

78

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

people should be careful not to take chances during sports or other

such

activities, since they're

There

burns.

quent

may be more

trips to the dentist

warned

prone

to accidents to the head, cuts,

and

than the average tooth problems and

fre-

(which they

hate).

to avoid rich foods, alcoholic drinks,

months when most

sickness or accident

—

by negative emotional work.

health

ill

and wines of

all

kinds.

November of every year are symptoms mental or physical

February, April, May, October, and the

9 people are especially

will strike the

—

—

Number 9

person, brought on

attitudes, depression, tension, anxiety, or over-

9 people should practice remaining serene each year as these

months approach.

After a while, practice

makes

perfect,

and

they'll

be

able to greatly dilute or even negate the tendency toward illness or

accident at these times.

The foods which should be eaten frequently by

a 9 person are:

onions, garlic, rhubarb, horseradish and tomatoes (unless there's an

from some planetary aspect

allergy to these initiating

scope).

The

principal herbs

which

will

eventual achievement of permanent good health for a

son

are:

mustard

wormwood,

seed,

hellebore, ginger, pepper,

in the' horo-

go a very long way toward the betony,

Number 9

per-

white

spearwort,

broom, rape, madder, hops, danewort, and

juice of nettles.

When

on

these herbs are taken in liquid form by a person born

the 9th, 18th, or 27th day of any month, any year, they act as Nature's tranquilizer

when

and

tonic.

A

remarkable and swift change

is

noticed

three or four teaspoons are taken to relieve anxiety, stress, de-

pression, anger, or other mental

One

and emotional disturbances.

tablespoon of the liquid should be taken twice a week on a regular basis,

and more

if

necessary under tension or stress.

tain the herbal liquid for

the

Number

1

Number 9

people

is

The way

to

ob-

explained at the end of

analysis.

****** You'll notice that particular colors

and gems were given

at the

.

*

AN APPLE A DAY beginning of each Single

Number

in the foregoing health analysis.

The colors constitute, a portion of your aura balanced, as related to the day you were

Another portion of your aura when

composed of the

colors of your

79

when

it's

harmoniously

bom. it's

Sun Sign

harmoniously balanced

— another portion

is

com-

is

posed of the colors of the Ascendent or Rising Sign of your Nativity or Birth Chart (Horoscope).

Completing your personal rainbow (your

aura) are the colors representing birth: the astrological signs in

all

of your planetary positions at

which the planets and Luminaries (Sun

and Moon) were located when you drew your

first

breath.

However, the predominating auric colors having an

upon

effect

your tranquility and well-being are those colors representing the day

you were born

— your Sun Sign — and Ascendent or — and gems — Here the

of your Horoscope.

12 Sun Signs.

ARIES:

are the colors

Study them, and then

(Mars)

-

9

Rising Sign

of eachr^f the

we'll discuss

how

to use

them.

ruby or crimson red, true and white

blue,

TAURUS:

(Venus)

6

Pan-Horus

GEM1M:

(Mercury)

rose pink,

all

shades of blue,

brown, and deep-green 5

pearl gray, light green,

and

silver

CANCER:

(Moon)

2

light green, pale yellow, silver, violet,

and lavender

LEO:

(Sun)

1

sunny yellow, orange, sometimes purple

VIRGO:

(Mercury)

5

and silver (as in Gemini 5) but also forest green and white

Vulcan

pearl gray

—

80

*

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS (Venus)

LIBRA:

6

rose pink (as in Taurus 6)

—

but also pastel shades of every color, especially light blue

SCORPIO:

black, blood red, burgundy,

(Pluto)

maroon

wine, and

SAGITTARIUS:

(J

u P iter)

3

autumn

such as

colors,

yellow, bright orange and

—

rust

also turquoise.

sometimes shares

Sagittarius

the love of purple with Leo

CAPRICORN:

8

(Saturn)

indigo, navy blue,

of brown,

AQUARIUS:

4

(Uranus)

(Neptune)

7

shades

and cobalt blue, and ocean green

electric blue

silver gray,

PISCES:

all

and dark green

emerald green,

light yellow,

pink, and white

****** ARIES:

ruby

SCORPIO:

bloodstones

TAURUS:

sapphire

SAGITTARIUS:

turquoise

GEMINI:

aquamarine

CAPRICORN:

diamond

CANCER:

moonstone and

LEO:

topaz

(and onyx)J

pearls

AQUARIUS:

mixed azurite/

VIRGO:

green or white jade

LIBRA:

opal

malachite PISCES:

I

emerald anl amethyst

*

*

AN APPLE A DAY A later chapter,

81

Forgotten Rainbows, will define your aura in

more

Here we're concerned only with the colors and gems you can

detail.

use to benefit your health and general well-being because of their influence over your emotions.

How

to

Use Your Personal Colors and Gems

For the moment, ignore the numbers just given for each of the 12

Sun

Signs.

Now read again Number gems

the

first

that vibrate to the day of

Memorize

you how

tell

your

(See Page

1 1

you don't know your own Sun

if

and

to use the colors

birth.

and gems of the

the colors

your individual Sun Sign. birth

two paragraphs of your individual Single

health analysis/which

astrological sign

for the

which

Sign.)

you know the Ascendent or Rising Sign of your Nativity or

If

Horoscope, memorize also the colors and gems of that particular trological sign

— but make sure

rectly rectified, so

to forget

you can be

that

as-

your birth chart has been cor-

certain of

it.

If

you're not sure,

it's

safer

your Ascendent and use only the colors and gems of your day

of birth (given under each Single colors

is

Sun Signs periods of

and gems of your Sun

Number

health analysis)

— and

the

Sign.

The combination or blending of the

colors

and gems of your day

— your Sun Sign — and your Ascendent Sign (only — be absolutely sure of helping you of birth

if

it)

will

you're

surprisingly helpful in

to

achieve the emotional tranquility necessary as a foundation for good health.

Some Examples If

birth

you're a Leo, born

number.

Single

on August

(See page 66.)

Number 4

health analysis

13th, the single

number 4

Use the colors and gems given

— and combine them with

is

your

in the

the colors

.

*

82

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

and gems given

for the astrological sign of Leo,

— then add

(see pages 79, 80)

the colors

sign of your Horoscope's Ascendent, assuming not, as

I

said, disregard it)

colors in your clothing

Wear

and

in

you're an Aries, born

If

the

you

gems next

to

your Sun Sign

birth).

astrological

it. Of your skin and use the

on March 27th, the

Number 9

is

are certain of

your surroundings as

your birth number (the day of your given in the Single

which

and gems of the

much

as possible.

number 9

single

is

Use the colors and gems

— and combine them

health analysis

with the colors and gems that vibrate to the astrological sign of your

Horoscope's Ascendent, assuming you are certain of regard

the single

number

number 9

not, dis-

(If

it.

same

as

of the day of your birth (March 27th: 2 plus 7

=

Notice that the

it.)

of your Sun Sign

is 9,

the

Therefore, you're under a double 9 influence, and everything

9).

Number 9

stated in the Single

birth

is

health analysis relating to your day of

intensified.

IMPORTANT Remember

you must not use the number of your Sun Sign

that

Number

read any particular Single

—

unless

it

happens

to be the

The numbers

birth.

for

health analysis, as

same as

the single

it

will not

to*

apply

number of your day of to guide you

each Sun Sign are given only

should you happen to have the double influence of a single number,

such as the Aries example

in the foregoing paragraph.

Some Additional Examples If

you're a Taurus

the single

number

Sun Sign of Taurus

Sun

Sign, born

is

given as

analysis given in this chapter

you're a Taurus single

number

combine the

Sun

7,

Sign,

6.

Do

7th, 16th or April 25th,

is 7.

— because

it

mil not apply

and gems given

for the astrological sign of it.

to

you.

If

born on any of the above days equaling the

Number

7 health analysis

in the Single

analysis with those given for the Taurus Sun Sign

certain of

The number of the Number 6 health

not read the Single

read only the Single

colors

on May

of the day of your birth

Number

— and

your Horoscope's Ascendent,

— but

7 health

those given if

you are

Otherwise, disregard the Ascendent and use only the

.

*

AN APPLE A DAY and gems of the

colors

number

single

your skin, and use the colors ings as

much

in

Wear

In

all

your clothing and

to

your surround-

your Element

cases, study the type of illness related to

— and

in

gems next

Reminder

Water)

—

the parts of the

finally,

the colors

analysis for the day of your

and gems given

your Sun Sign and your Ascendent

(if

(Fire,

body ruled by your Sun Sign

— then study the Single Number health birth

the

as possible.

A Air, Earth or

combined

of your birth day,

with the colors and gems of your Sun Sign.

83

your day of

for

you know what

it is)

birth,

and com-

bine these.

****** Before leaving the subject of your health, ease or the physical, mental,

In 1984, a Los Angeles hospital tried

or so children

doomed

to

let's

consider the dis-

and emotional disharmony

called cancer.

an experiment with a dozen

die from "terminal illness/^mostly cancer.

None were over the age of twelve, I've been told, and this is important, as well see shortly. The dying youngsters were told to close their eyes tightly, then imagine (image or visualize) a brilliant white light. One of the children, a small boy,

was photographed

show while he was imaging. ecstatically as his eyes

sure other viewers also

"I

see

it,

I

See

were squeezed shut.

—

The boy recovered.

for a television

it,

It

I

see

it

moved me

!"

news

he cried

— and

I'm

to tears.

Nearly

all

of the children involved in the

white light experiment displayed spontaneous remission of their

al-

legedly "terminal" illnesses.

The important ingredient

in this particular

the chronological age of the patients.

gland

is

group of miracles was

None over

the Third Eye of mystical teaching.

It's

twelve.

The pineal

been medically

dis-

covered that in children under the age of twelve, the pineal gland

is

*

84 soft

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

and malleable,

the pineal gland

is

spirits

— they

bed

last

dead

you must stop talking

—

— and to her

there are

always wondered, once

which

is

me

stories."

by

adults;

as druids

and

'Peggy' does not exist, so

aloud as you do.

People will think you

become hard and impotent, blind

I

decided to dive into the deep waters of

and caves of numerology),

why

Pisces,

people couldn't imitate the ma-

When the

a new humans ? Are lizards and crabs more evolved than can grow a new tail if the original one is cut off or lost in in

some manner,

it

will swiftly

grow

not

we ? A lizard some manner. So

told

the symbol of the sign Cancer, the Crab.

marine crab loses a claw

new

with small

"Uncle Charlie

meditate on the astrological symbols of the twelve

from Aries through

Why

and

talk

Sometimes spankings accompany the scoldings.

after I'd started to

one.

and

no such things

astrology (and later explore the caverns

rine crab,

The

Uncle Charlie could not possibly have

lying.

that their Third Eyes

to real truth.

signs,

see

night

and imaginary playmates. Your friend

are crazy"

I

— they

their parents that

until they are so repeatedly chastized

"You simply must stop

faeries

tell

my

(dead for several years) sat on

They do these things visited you. He's

what young people

in their heads."

wisdom. Children have imaginary

are actually very real

and nature

fairies

the age of twelve (adults)

most adults "have rocks

the seat of spiritual

who

playmates,

humans past

as hard as a rock, proving

secretly believe, that

pineal gland

In

like clay.

is

now we know that a human body can lose a finger and grow a Do you believe, then, that one could also grow a new arm

finger.

or leg after having lost either

your answer

is

?

Or perhaps even

"yes," congratulations

!

"druid" (Nature Spirit), and well on your of enlightenment.

If

your answer

is

"no,"

you.

Why

not?

******

a

new kidney

?

If

You're already an honorary

way I

to the

enchanted world

have a second question for

AN APPLE A One terflies

*

DAY"

85

"terminal" two-year-old boy with cancer kept drawing but-

with a black crayon in

St.

his doctor, Bernie Siegal, tried to

A

Raphael's Hospital. tell

clear picture,

the boy's parents, of the despair

around him (from concerned and negative-thinking parents and

all

The

relatives).

butterflies

were the small

child's

attempt to believe in

tomorrow; the black crayons he always chose revealed that the

fearful

thoughts of others were overpowering what could have been the kind of miracle so easily manifested by the

wisdom

faith,

innocence, and profound

of childhood, a situation which should also be familiar to the

The sad

readers of this chapter by now. relatives, like

most

part of

it

relatives of allegedly "terminally

that the boy's

is

ill"

children, are

not aware that their genuine concern and nondeliberate negativism

is

so damaging to the natural healing process. In Dr. Siegal's book, Love, Medicine

1986 by Harper and Row, he to

master meditation and imagery;

One

cessfully fighting cancer.

and Miracles, published

of his attempt to teach patients

tells

how

to picture their bodies suc-

of his true stories

stopped treating him; his family was waiting

boy opened image

his Third Eye, as adults

for

him

Now

Dr. Siegal

John

tic

healing methods

Perry, of

But this

seldom do. He began

to regularly

is

one of

my

medical heroes, along with

It

just

often, "I always treat

my

how

As

naturally to him.

he's said to

patients as complete individuals.

When

his patients

!"

I

charisma he»possesses in

the

way with

have a good day, he invariably ex-

claims with genuine pleasure, "Isn't that just wonderful

now

They

— because

very same disease or infection will act in a totally different

stretch

my own

wonderfully he practices the holis-

comes

are the priority, not the disease or infection they have

each person."

ships.

Hollywood, California.

Dr. Perry doesn't realize,

home

and had

to die.

bombarded by video-game rocket brain tumor and the cancer disappeared.

Dr.

me

about a small boy

his cancer cells being

In a short time, the

.

is

Several of his doctors had given up,

with a brain tumor.

in

how

can personally

You're in the

!

attest to the rare

somehow making each patient

and unique

feel that

what-

*

86

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

ever might be the problem,

most

certainly curable

makes

feigned) that

a

it

reversible.

and even

if it is, it is

an attitude

It's

not

(real,

whole universe of difference. Dr. Perry expertly

and professionally employs treatment,

isn't all that serious,

and

all

modern methods

and

of diagnosis

the benefits medicine has to offer, then mixes these with

all

genuine caring and an optimistic sort of knowing that a healing take place, as long as the patient believes

compassion

is

part of his very nature.

California Special Olympics.

A

This

will.

In 1968, he

Olympics

ten founders of the Western Special

capped youngsters (covering seven

it

states)

is

a doctor

will

whose

became one of

the

for physically handi-

which, in 1972, became the

large slice of his free time

cheerfully

is

given to this project which has brought such happiness to these chil1|

dren,

and has made impressively

positive changes in their mental

|

one of the

]

«,

conditions.

He

loves to play golf (most doctors do, because golf

most relaxing of pastimes), but he seldom has time traveling, but very rarely has

and

far

(Yes, a

between

house

To him,

being

Some

doctors

all illness,

— not

is

do

There

so.

is

the other

still

including cancer,

is

|

health a normal

way around,

as

and natural

state of

many medical people

see

tagious.

it

it.

normal and ex-

as

easy to drift into such an attitude, but Dr. John Perry

no danger of

that

No one

!

His powerful drive and energy

can avoid "catching

it"

from him.

It

is

is

in

highly con-

infects

everyone

around him.

A book

that will

have a strong influence on your thinking, make

the deepest impression

J.

an unnatural condition,

so much, they subconsciously begin to think of It's

1 $e

to

Too many physicians become so hypnotized by being around sickness pected.

d>

J

always |*

able to almost will his patients to re-

— and good

enemy

his personal

to

A

make an urgent house call, jp make them.) It's easy to see why ]

engagements

social

call.

an opportunity

He adores

to play.

needs him, and he continually cancels his few

Scorpio healer

this intense

cover.

who

two

a patient or

is

on you, and perhaps be responsible

for

chang-

A

*

AN APPLE A DAY ing your attitude toward cancer,

Therapy

— 50

Cases.

most of them can order

not,

is

by Dr. Max Gerson, called

available at

It's still

it,

because

most health food

it's still

A

87 Cancer

stores, or

if

in print.

made sense, emphasizing the metawrong in anything you do if you follow

His research was logical, and physical rule that you can't go the natural patterns of Nature. Dr. Gerson's

methods were simple and

and when he put them

into practice, they

basic, as

was

his theory,

proved themselves time and

time again.

He was convinced quickly reverse

And

the

way

itself if

to

do

that cancer could not spread,

the body's

this,

immune system

and would

could be restored.

he believed (and repeatedly proved), was to

eliminate from the cancer patient's diet

all

liquids

and foods except

those heavy in fiber content: certain cereals, and fresh raw fruits and vegetables, eating these exclusively, along with a substantial intake of several vitamins, chiefly

C and E

(D-alpha tocopherol E, not mixed

tocopherols) for periods ranging from ninety days to six

Most of

his patients

months or

so.

were cured within the 90-day period. The

"terminal" ones, instead of eating fresh raw fruits and vegetables, drank the juices of fresh raw fruits and vegetables, took the prescribed amount of vitamins, and ate or drank nothing else. It took somewhat longer for them to restore their bodies' immune system, but the result of reversal of the disease was the same as with the swifter healings. Those in the first group also drank the juices of the fresh fruits and vegetables as well as eating them raw for their fiber content Both

groups received pure water tives

who

lots of sunlight, lots of rest

— and

large doses of confidence

believed in Dr. Gerson's treatments.

contagious, and.

provement

was

also a

major factor

sleep, lots of fresh

Confidence

in the visible

in the condition of the patients

Although the medical profession tive

and

and optimism from is

and rapid im-

under Dr. Gerson's

at the

rela-

highly

time shrugged

shoulders regarding Dr. Gerson's discoveries, today,

its

care.

collec-

finally, these

*

88

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

same physicians

are

recommending

the eating of high fiber-conteni

foods for the "prevention" of cancer.

Max Gerson was no him behind

called

professional,

"health fad nut,"

back (and some

his

careful,

1

which some of

his enemii

was

Rather, he

do).

still

and accredited physician, who permanen

cured Dr. Albert Schweitzer's wife of tuberculosis doctors had failed to do so.

Dr.

after several oth«

Gerson possessed the vision a

inspired determination of a pioneer in any

did vitamin

field, as

proponent, Dr. Linus Pauling, and one of vitamin

E's

proponents,

Shute of Canada.

****** Everything give

it

body's

I

have said about cancer applies to

capital letters.)

immune

system.

Aids need not

Now

kill

aids.

refuse

(I

tojfi

through paralyzing thdl

that does deserve capital letters.

Aidsfl

NEED NOT KILL

****** When

I

began

to write this chapter,

I

happened

to see a televisions

special about aids.

aM

Near the close of the program, a man who was diagnosed suffering from "advanced aids"

on camera

it

was a

certainty that he

didn't believe them.

He

wept

And face

if

he was

for him. I

would be dead within a

truly did not.

he stated firmly that he expected

know

told

him™

year.

Hcd

was interviewed. His doctors You could see

to heal himself

in his eyes ad|

it

— and and

gay or heterosexual or bisexual,

Not tears of sorrow and compassion.

I

live.

I

don'tH El

don't care.

Tears of joy

!||

couldn't resist saying aloud to his bright, brave, and confidents

on the

television screen,* "Right

on

!

******

And

.

.

.

expect a miracle

!

A

3 GURUS, GHOSTS,

AND AVATARS the

Rocky Mountain "highs" of magnetic power points and

astral vibratory frequencies,

including clairaudience and clairvoyance at ten

thousand

feet

•

above sea

level

90

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was it a mystical chill I felt that night ? it was odd to shake so uncontrollably in

when

a public dining plac

such an icy shiver

to feel I

was

sitting within three feet

of a roaring fireplace I saw him look at you and you look back at him .

.

.

and ... what did he say then

.

.

that strange

.

man

?

"when an astral entity," he said, "from any level of awarene whether it be the astral of one who has died a space traveler ... or merely the astral of someone somewhere, asleei: when such an entity, out of body in whatever form, from whatever dimension approaches comes near one's vicinity that entity is vibrating at such a higher rate of angstrom units per second than the vibratory frequency of most humans that it causes a marked drop in temperature as the air currents are suddenly cooled and the change is so sharp and unexpected feel a draft 7* shall we say that one might .

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

everyone laughed then you whispered "Darling, did you see a ghost and offered me your sweater

******

?"

GURUS, GHOSTS, r you've sume you

my

read

Preface to this book,

have, you

know

91

which

I

that the star sign codes

me

be writing about were revealed to

in the

asI'll

Rocky

me would be going

Mountains, where the Guru told

on

*

AND AVATARS

I

As

a sort of retreat, to be instructed.

I

men-

also

my Introduction, kept a diary while was there, planning to later use my notes to write a book about my experiences. Since Star Signs is, therefore, based on my diary notes, it seems appropriate to tioned in

I

I

share with you the haunted setting of the place where

"when

the student

Actually,

I

was

told,

ready, the teacher will appear."

is

more than one "teacher" appeared during my mountain Colorado, which I later decided to make my

retreat in Cripple Creek,

permanent residence.

some of which that those

will

who

macrocosm

I

experienced several arcane meetings there,

form the basis

Legend claims

for future books.

possess a knowledge of the deeper mysteries of the

Heaven and the microcosm of Nature often

of

nestle

themselves in the quiet forests of the Earth's highest altitudes, and as I've

to

mentioned, Cripple Creek

is

power points and ghosts which,

my arrival

until

10,000

feet

above sea

level.

I'd like

you what these Avatars or Gurus taught me about magnetic

tell

A

in this

magnetic power point

repeatedly .occurred,

manner the air."

No one

must

confess,

I

never believed in

is

a place

where intense emotions have

making the surrounding area

of vibrations.

You can,

where

several

sensitive to all

as people have often said, "feel

haunted houses abound

Stories about

usually in places

I

former gold-mining town in the Rockies.

murders or other

all

it

in

over the world,

evil events occurred.

can walk near the concentration camps in Germany without

sensing the heavy clouds of depression and tragedy.

That's on the power points also exist, like churches centuries of years old, or shrines, where millions of candles have flickered over hundreds of years, and millions of

negative side.

Gn

the positive side, other magnetic

prayers have been spoken, leaving their unmistakable impressions

upon

the ethers.

places, just as

One

one

feels

feels

calm and peaceful and tranquil

in these

vaguely disturbed and sad in other places

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92

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

heavily charged with the electromagnetic intense emotions of past events.

Cripple Creek intense vibrations

thus highly charged and

is

—

of a mixed sort.

fairly

quivering with

During the gold rush of the

1880s and 1890s, emotions ran high

in this

mountain town

dreams multiplied themselves. There were major

fires,

.

.

late

and

.

murders,

fer-

vent religious teachings and preachings, houses of prostitution, greed, lust,

and

man

hearts.

all

shimmering

the

fantasies gold has always stirred in hu-

power

Definitely a magnetic

point.

Cripple Creek was called the Bowl of Gold by gold-mining kin

Winfield Scott Stratton. chronicity of blood (grandmother's),

The area

is

now

mere coincidence, or a deeper Stratton

The

as

town of

District,

deserted but once

— and

Stratton

is

tween Cripple Creek and Victor

is

and many

The at the

District

others.

called

The Abraham

mine

called

Lincoln.

is

is

.

.

Th

.

a long-shuttered silen

happen

Stratton claimed that Cripple Creek,

siti

the center of a "bowl of gold" created by the Ion

was taken, even during all

In Victor

The

The Mollie Kath

was the scene of the "Pikes-Peak-or-Bust" gold

ago eruption of a volcano

could

— and

all

that only a fraction of the gold ther

the frenzied mining activity of the 189

again, they say,

if

the Old-Timers' persistent

dictions that the price of gold will rise to an all-time high by the

1980s or early 1990s, making the mining of once again it's

more.

—

is

lik

Isis.

turn of the century.

ated in a valley,

.

towns with names

little

on Tenderfoot Mountain, looking down on the town

film theatre called the

i

of the deserted gold mines

there's the still-open-for- tourists gold

leen,

also

which includes Cripple Creek

booming

One

Stratton mine,

sy

maternal elf-mother

Victor, about five miles or so south

Independence and Goldfield.

It

my

?

known

the neighboring several

it

maiden name was

middle name

father's

Is

harmonics that

tie

more than just wishful

it

pr< lati

economically feasibk

thinking.

I

have a hunch

th

*

GURUS, GHOSTS, AND AVATARS Miners are unexpectedly psychic. don't understand

how

Miners know things.

they know, they just know.

After

all,

93 They

they're

who discovered and recognized the elusive Tommyknockers, folk who play mischievous tricks yet who also sometimes miraculously protect the men who labor deep within the bowels of the the ones

wee

those

Earth.

The

If

should become, during the approaching 1990s,

District

the stage for an encore of the gold mystique drama, there will be a regrettable difference.

back ros,

The

lead players won't be riding out

to stake their claims, followed

by

their

on horse-

stubborn but patient bur-

back : packed with bundles of colorful dreams. They'll be riding

to their conglomerate-controlled

domains

in jeeps

and pickup

trucks.

Meanwhile, both Cripple Creek and neighboring Victor (where

Thomas was

Lowell

born, raised, and ran the local newspaper, and

where Jack Dempsey trained

more ghosts than people at the

for his fights) are currently inhabited

— more

The population of Victor

end of the rainbow.

around two or three hundred, give or take a few

and Cripple Creek's population

is

by

potbellied stoves than pots of gold is

restless

said to be

roamers

—

between seven and nine hundred,

depending on whether you believe the census takers or the OldTimers,

who

count more accurately, they

insist,

because they include

the lively ghosts overlooked by uninitiated' outsiders, the ghosts there.

It's

and

only wish

a considerable

souls,

sleepers.

I

if

I

could overlook

drop from

them

I

don't overlook

!

New York's ten million or so bodies

you count the suburbs and the subway car and sidewalk

Manhattan doesn't have many ghosts.

Since ghosts are

composed of a finer etheric substance than flesh, they would probably melt away in the polluted air. Los Angeles is different. Hollywood attracts a hardier

do

breed of phantoms, able to breathe the smog and

a respectable night's

Most occult tomes

still

work haunting. tell

you

that ghosts,

phantoms, and such, be-

long to the astral world of dreams, and are not at

home on

the material

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plane in the third dimensional

more whether no

there's

is

—

one

It

doesn't

seem

— dreams and

them

difference between

that these

level.

to matter any-

or not, because I'm about to conclude that

that's true

reality.

in actuality, the other

is,

When

you

fall

how hard you try,

away

fade

Conversely,

into oblivion

when you awake for the

in the

away

into oblivion in exactly the

sounds of "reality" fade when you're

have you likewise

reality,

as you're

try,

waking up,

same manner

which

How

is

the "dream,"

do you

dream, and

and which

know

really

last night's

is

—

as the sights

indisputably.

the "reality"

that this very

dream the

?

Who is

.

.

.

and

but an imitation of

art is

waking moment

true reality

is

in

"This

the world of illusion

is

bygone

I

not the

.

.

me

crowded now.

a

cities

dreams.

reality of

this is the

beard,

world of

since

it

It

was

that's

The Tibetan

who

still

illusion."

image God as a

first

things

I

noticed

was a sign proclaiming

the hint of exclusivity that both-

insinuates that

anymore, and

an

would view such an interchange

Speaking of Divinity, one of the

little,

is

reality; therefore, life is-s|

they prayed, chanted repeatedly,

arrived in Colorado's glorious Rockies

the state as "God's Country."

just

.

man with a snow-white

as sacrilegious.

ered

The

when

suppose the Bible Fundamentalists,

I

kindly

when

centuries,

And

The ancient wise ones

?

an imitation of

reality."

monks

and

to say ?

taught that "dreams are the true reality." Aristotle wrote: "Life imitation of art

to

— they

falling asleep ?

Polarized points of view, interchangeable so,

to

morning, leaving behind the

world of

hold on to the sights and sounds of the "dream" you just had fade

on

or the dog snoring

traffic,

?

— no matter how hard you

noticed that

— no mat-

as you're drifting off to slumberland, to hold

"dream world"

so-called

just

asleep at night, leaving behind the so-called world

the "reality" of the sounds of the television,

— they

it

?

of "reality" for the world of dreams, have you noticed that ter

Or is

two concepts are mirror-reversed, and what people believe

He

isn't

concerned with

obviously where He's most needed

1

GURUS, GHOSTS, Maybe She

is

Who art

in

Mother

As you can

see, I'm

watching over the

whether

.

.

.

Father

95

mean my

I

Who art

there.

takes a

It

male-female ... to create anything

Any

flesh infants or solar systems.

When you

other concept

is

a

both physics and metaphysics.

begin the drive up to Cripple Creek, just before you

to the twisting, serpentine,

the Ute Indians

Manitou

my

not a follower of the patriarch concept.

direct denial of the laws of

come

Him.

cities for

Heaven, right alongside

positive-negative energy force at all,

*

AND AVATARS

who once

winding road named Ute Pass

lived in the area,

— Manitou meaning "Great

you pass a town

Spirit" or

after

called

God, which should be

spelled properly "Mannitou," according to numerology.

(You'll

un-

why the Great Spirit's name should contain two n's instead of one when you've studied Chapter 5, Numerology.) derstand

As you drive by Mannitou name), on your right called the

is

don't misspell the Great Spirit's

(let's

something the Utes dreamed into

Garden of the Gods.

It's

a stirring

mute power and grandeur, even from

and awesome

a distance.

The Utes allowed no members of any Indian other tribe to enter there, and walk along those red

(and

men

(and

women) who were

were permitted

sisters)

teric initiation

.

.

But no one really

.

Nowhere

.

.

as reddish in

hue as

knows

There are several theories

stir

me

and red

clay,

for certain.

violent thunderstorms

me, and

Scarlett

else in. the vicinity is the earth

Phantom Canyon.

—

or electrical storms

frequently in the mountains have never arate

peace with their brothers

geologists concerning the cause of the red rock

The

Only

sacred ground.

except for a place a few miles beyond Cripple Creek,

called, appropriately,

among

war with any

within that haunted, hushed sanctuary of sunrise-dyed,

O'Hara's "red clay of Tara." .

at

its

tribe at

to participate in the mystic rites of eso-

strangely shaped red rock formations

red colored

reality,

sight of

profoundly.

— occurring

made me gloomy. They

exhil-

Thunder and lightning seem

evoke some deep and long-buried sense of power

in

to

me, as though

I

.

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could stop

it

or start

do

if

they remembered

too,

it,

As though

chose.

how

.

to project

everyone else could

.

.

such power.

energy force everyone long ago possessed, then

invisible

only thing

whether

I'm not sure whether

is,

it's

my

back of

it if I

a positive or a negative

The

good or bad about

feel

I

Like an

lost.

memory

bell

I

—

it

hear chiming in the

mind.

i

Until

I

learned about vibratory frequencies,

tional reason to believe in ghosts, although

plete sceptic, since the entire

won me

subjects had

went

to Colorado.

was aware

—

in

certainly not a

.

were usually seen

.

.

well,

something

— or more

I

first

else again.

I

frequently reported

"haunted" magnetic power point areas of both high spiritual

crime and

And

evil

so

it

and so

forth)

(mass murders, satanic

was

my own

heard in

that

I

and the lower vibrations of

rites,

and so

I

didn't even "believe" in the ghosts seen

mentioned explained

but uneasily, because First, there

forth).

"haunted" house there on Carr Avenue

they were seen and heard by myself or others

I

it

to

me.

couldn't explain

was the

"party."

—

Before then,

until I

actually noise.

had

to stuff cotton in

The house was

filled

tinkling of glasses,

enough

to

my

and

— whether one of the

laughed

it

off,

away what kept happening.

Nearly every night after

rived (and less frequently during later weeks, months,

the

ra-

com-

spectrum of mystical and metaphysical

ghosts were

vibrations (churches, shrines,

Gurus

could find no

I

was

to the side of the "invisible" long before

Still,

that they

I

I

first ar-

and

years) 1

ears to be able to sleep through the

with the sounds of a gala party, including

muffled conversation and laughter (loud

hear clearly, but too indistinct to

make out

the words)

and the music of a piano, accompanied by a man and a woman a duet at intervals (again, clearly heard, but too indistinct to

—

singing-

make

out

the lyrics).

The

first

night

I

slept there

it

happened.

My

initial

response was

.

man from whom

I

rented the house

on somewhere. So

I

rose from the

that the

radio

slept the

few nights, being

first

the upstairs bedrooms) to I

*

AND AVATARS

GURUS, GHOSTS,

later

I

couch

97

fought had

in the

left

a

den (where

I

too apprehensive to sleep in one of

still

— and walked

into the kitchen,

which seemed

be the room from where the party sounds were coming. As soon as

entered the kitchen, the party seemed to be coming from the base-

ment.

down

Gingerly,

opened the basement door, and cautiously peeked

1

Then

into the darkness.

sounds seemed

the

to

be coming from

the front porch.

Annoyed,

thought that perhaps

I

my

neighbors,

whom

I

hadn't

were having a party, and were being quite inconsiderate

yet met,

allow the noise to be so loud

opened the

So

I

on

either side of

front

when

door and walked out on the porch. The houses

me were dark and silent, Then

across the street.

to

other people were trying to sleep.

were

as

the houses visible

all

the party noise stopped as suddenly as

couldn't have

gan, proving

it

the landlord

somewhere

come from

a radio accidentally

left

be-

it

on by

in the house.

Standing on the porch at that moment, looking up at the midnight blue sky, sparkling with every single star in the heavens (a sight

had never seen through the smog

sounded distinct

like a

in

New York)

must confess

I

that

rhythms of my

The sounds of

silence.

stood in the night at any time in a curious

and

call

I

own

blood

to

it !"

I

faint

was

but

thor-

realized, with a sud-

—

Since

I

had never

my life surrounded by total silence,

.

I

.

it

noisy until

you

listened to the roars

and

"Silence

thought, as

my own body. Then

them mountain

I

I

It

my own pulse and in my veins in my

Utter silence.

fascinating experience.

become accustomed pulsing rhythms of

reflection,

was hearing the sound of

I

heartbeat, the flowing

was

new noise.

that for a few seconds

oughly frightened. After a moment's

inner ear.

heard a

rushing brook or stream, punctuated by a

drumbeat.

den shock,

1

is

.the bray of a burro (they

canaries) split the air for a second.

Afterward,

silence again.

I

must have remained on the

front

porch

for nearly a half hour,

;

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98

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pondering "the sounds of

silence."

Finally,

I

walked back inside the

house, closed the door, climbed back on the couch, pulled the

my

grandma

quilt

time.

couldn't have been .more than a few minutes until

It

up under

awakened again by

and

had been turned on it

was no use

my side, back

full

volume next

to the couch.

my exposed

if

When later),

Realizing

sounds,

ear with a pillow ...

I

now

that

turned on

and eventually

fell

related the incident (which occurred periodically over a

I

I

was

.

.

.

and

still

does on infrequent occasions,

told that "everyone

who's ever lived

fifteen years

house has

in that

heard the same wild party." Neighbors and others informed

to

and

a television set

to sleep.

period of time

my

was

I

rose in pitch louder

It

as unable to sleep as

to search for the source of the party

covered

For a very short

asleep.

fell

singing.

and turned,

tossed

I

and

the "wild party," the tinkling glasses, conversation,

laughter, piano playing,

louder as

chin,

house had once,

for a

The Old Homestead

house

in the West."

noises were

made by

It

(still

standing)

was evident

—

L

that

called the "oldest red-light

that they all believed the party

the ghosts (or astrals) of the "ladies of the eve-

ning" of long ago, and their male customers.

although

me

couple of years, been used as a sort of annex

had no more

logical

hearing every few nights,

I

an explanation

somehow

still

I

smiled politely, and

for

what

I

knew

I

was

couldn't fully accept ghosts

as the cause.

Nor was the house

I

overly impressed to hear that

had shared

of this, since

my experience.

After

none of them were around

all

all,

However,

relatives

it

wasn't long until

to time, in

my

from out of town.

I

began

wasalways

few exceptions, were wide-eyed

to

—

careful never to

me

so

it

visit

me,

and

mention the

my guests,

at breakfast, following their

to tell

proof

it,

friends

have guests

Yet, nearly all of

and could hardly wait

real

gullible.

red brick "haunted" house

"Old Homestead Party Ghosts."

in the house,

I

was no

to attest to the truth of

could have been merely rumors, spread by the

from time

the former residents of there

with very first

night

about the "loud party"

my neighbors must have matched what

tions

I

"I'll

Take You

A

to the smallest detail.

able to identify

never been able to do) as

my

99

been having the night before. Their descrip-

had been hearing

them were even

ple of

*

AND AVATARS

GURUS, GHOSTS,

cou-

one of the duets (which Fd

Home Again,

Kathleen." All of

guests believed firmly in the "ghost theory," once they'd been

told.

I

was the only holdout, but

have never, to

I

separate guests

who

this day,

was gradually weakening.

I

heard a baby cry in

my house.

spent a week or more with

me

But four

over the years

could barely sleep at night because of being awakened every couple of

hours by the sound of a baby crying and sobbing loudly, sometimes

from the foot of the

As

I

pondered

A

sound.

occasionally in the old-fashioned bathroom.

stairs,

all this,

I

ethers, never ceases to exist.

It

just keeps rising

dog whistle humans cannot

(like the

average

remembered what

human

out there

I'd

been taught about

sound, spoken or musical or otherwise, once sent into the

.

.

.

ear can

on higher frequencies

—

hear, but dogs can)

until the

no longer detect the sounds. But they are

somewhere.

A book

still

called Breakthrough, published

Richard Taplinger of Taplinger Publishing in print, unfortunately (but possibly available

New

now

York,

through the used book-

conducted by major

store circuit), details experiments

by

out of

universities,

using blank tapes and specific, complex methods, to "pull out of the

They were

ethers" such long-ago-spoken words.

up many

successful, as the

book

reports, in picking

tions,

mostly in foreign languages, but could not, of course, pinpoint

voices

and considerable conversa-

originally spoken.

The book

concludes by quoting these scientists as saying that "we

now know

the source or the time the

that sic,

we can

mumany years until much more exper-

record from the ethers the higher frequency sounds,

and words

we can do

words were

initiated

long ago, but

this selectively."

Meaning

it

will likely

that

it

be

will take

imentation to be able to successfully retrieve the spoken words of

Abraham

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, even though they are indis-

putably

still

ethers.

Nevertheless, such magic

vibrating, as clear as ever, is

somewhere out

not only possible,

there in the it's

probable

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100

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS

under the influence of the curious, questing, unpredictable Uranus (ruler of Aquarius). .

feel

I

strongly that such a breakthrough

certain to occur during

is

|

Age of Aquarius, but remember

the Golden

be around for about 2,000 years.

have to

rely

that the Aquarian

Age

will

Until such a miracle occurs, we'll J

on those who possess an unusual degree of what

is

called

"clairaudience" (sensitivity of the inner ear) to pull long-ago sounds

from

attributed still

reality of the

them

had much

all this,

voices.

was

I

made

It all

— not

con-

finally

sense.

But

I

to actual ghosts.

I

to learn.

my

night, the

cast of the

sounds and

to the "higher frequencies"

The wild party and hauntings" in

One

After pondering

their hiding places.

vinced of the

first

the crying baby were not the only "ghost"

Carr Avenue, slipping-off-the-rime-track house. year

I

lived there,

I

held a party at

my house for the

famous melodrama staged every summer

at the

charming

old Imperial Hotel in Cripple Creek. At the height of the party, while the guests were wandering

seum,

slightly

over the house

all

musty smelling,

filled

(it's

mu-

rather like a

with antiques of yesteryear)

.

.

.

drinking punch and carrying on dozens of separate conversations, as

people do

at

such gatherings, a loud gasp and a

stifled

scream were

heard from the young couple seated on the old fainting couch in the parlor.

Both of them were visibly frightened nearly out of their wits;

their

eyes were opened wide, and they were staring at the corner of the

room beyond

the old Ben Franklin

unmoving, staring hypnotically

wood

stove.

at the spot,

They

not blinking, for several

minutes, while everyone was asking insistently, "What

wrong

?

What do you

see ?"

—

since

>\

sat there stiffly,

none of the

is it ?

rest of

i

What's

us could see

anything unusual in the corner.

The

girl

spoke

first.

"It's

.

.

.

it's

a

man, with

straight black hair

and a black mustache, wearing a black, formal frock

coat.

He

.

.

.

looks so sad." Then she spoke louder, clearly agitated, "Can't you see

,

GURUS, GHOSTS,

him?

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AND AVATARS

He's standing right there. Just look!" She

101

was trembling, and

obviously disturbed.

"Do you

see

someone asked her husBand.

too, Paul ?"

it

He

didn't answer, just gulped hard a few times, and nodded his head up

and down. Eventually, he found his voice. "The guy is there. He's standing there. Can't any of you see him ?" he asked,' agitated, glancing from one person to another.

Again, everyone answered that they

Then someone suggested that Paul walk over to the corner and touch the man ... see what he felt like. At this point, his wife stood up abruptly from the couch, grabbed her husband's arm, and said, "Paul, let's get out of here. Now. Please take me home." She was so upset that there were tears in her eyes. Her husband nodded, and they both walked out the door, ran down the steps, got into their car and drove off, without even saying "Good-bye" or "Good night" to the rest of the startled guests— or to me. could see nothing!

Ever since that incident I

— not always, but nearly always — when

or anyone else happens to go to that corner of the parlor, perhaps to

take a

when

book from the antique bookcase

the rest of the

room

is

the old Ben Franklin stove. geration.

unexpectedly chilly

knowing

longest time later learned

I

I

I

icy cold.

is

it

wood

fire is

Even

blazing in

say icy cold, that's not an exag-

air

and the admittedly apprehensive and uneasy

that this

is

where a "ghost" was seen.

For the

didn't understand the coldness in that corner, not until

1

about "higher vibratory frequencies" causing a change in

the air currents entity of

When

a

cold enough to cause involuntary shivers, from both the

It's

feeling of

there,

warm, and

toasty

and

any kind

is

a

sudden drop

in temperature

.

.

.

when an

astral

near.

could explain the

phenomenon

of the sounds heard through

dairaudience, but the sight of a human, whether transparent or solid, still

troubled and mystified me.

nomena

I

wasn't to

comprehend such phe-

until several other "ghost sightings," as well as sounds,

came

— or anyone.

my attention. Personally, I've never "seen" anything My only, personal experience in Cripple Creek has been to

the equally

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102

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trembling one of clairaudience

— hearing sounds through

ear" from a higher frequency than the physical

As

for other "ghost" hauntings.

Or

There was Maggie.

.

.

Parlor

is

Maggie, the

among

jor newspapers

live-in,

mis-

Cream

astral) of the Sarsaparilla Ice

on Bennett Avenue. Maggie has gained quite a

the years,

the "inner

ear can hear.

.

rather, there

chievous and lovable ghost (or

human

fame over

bit of

the town's residents, reporters from Colorado's

— and thousands

ma-

of tourists.

Because ghost sightings are growing more commonplace

some

nearly everyone has

or astral

— and because

basic metaphysical laws

heard by so it's

sort of experience with

some type

the explanation for such sightings

—

many people

pan

of

Maggie has been seen and

also because

of unquestionable credibility

important for you to learn about her in some

story of Maggie, of course, but

of ghost

is

and

detail.

I

integrity,

know

the

can't always recall the finer points of

I

her eccentric manifestations over the years.

And

so, while writing this

book,

I

called

Ken and Katherine

Hartz, the owners of the building that houses the Sarsaparilla Ice

Cream

Parlor,

and asked them

they could ... so manifestations. cassette in

her

own

my

Ken and Kathy

and sending

we'll see

to write

could help

I

me.

down as much about Maggie as

readers

think

it's

words, rather than try to

tell

what

it

to

my Gurus

Please keep in

mind

I

offered

that

comprehend her amazing

obliged, by telling the story best

if I

on a tape

simply quote Kathy,

the story myself. Afterward,

J

by way of explanation.

Kathy

(a

Virgo)

is

extremely

critical

of

the slightest distortion of the facts, the kind of person called "the soul

of honesty," and although she

average person, she

is still

is

more

sensitive

and

intuitive than the

a Virgo, inclined to subject people

and

things to her microscopic scrutiny, to suspect and question, not j

blindly accept.

In fact, Katherine Hartz

would expect might

"see ghosts"

nature Practical with a capital

"P."

—

is

the very last person anyone

*or even hear them.

She

is

by

GURUS, GHOSTS, From Kathehne (Kathy) Hartz

—

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103

Cripple Creek, Colorado

now

As you know, Linda, the old Farley Lampton building we

own

on the comer of Bennett Avenue and Third

in Cripple Creek,

had been vacant

Street,

the huge

first

Shop.

was the

It

for

many

when we bought it and turned Cream Parlor and Gift

years

floor into the Sarsaparilla Ice first

structure built after the big

burned down nearly the whole town.

and the building materials were

cleared,

1895

fire in

that

The land had already been piled in sidecars

all

up on

Tenderfoot Mountain, so they began building the next morning. Cripple Creekers recover from their tragedies pretty quickly. of sitting around crying and complaining about the everything, they just began to rebuild the

why

That's

all

carved in them

the brick buildings

—

the year of the

fire

town

fire

Instead

that destroyed

as fast as they could.

on Bennett Avenue have 1895

— and

the year of the rebuilding

of Cripple Creek.

Of course, our and

building

is

could never understand

I

been able

to

buy

was the most

it,

and

when you

that

to the post office,

saparilla,

here.

I

loved

I

it

from the

beautiful, beautiful building

remember

I

down

want

it

all

those

we wouldn't have moment I saw it. It And so steeped in the

first

moved

you kept walking

it's

lived here, Linda,

years between 1895

back

and 1910.

same mistake, so maybe they

When we

here,

everyone noticed

it.

planned

Lots of

was

it

to live

don't

I

know

walk

know why it

isn't."

I'm

You

another

a post office for several

woman had

didn't frighten

on the

to

newcomers here make

were strange "energies" But

"I

in the gold rush days, in

bought the building, a

told us there

and wanted

straight toward. the Sar-

the

lived here before too.

"energies" were always heard or I

!

the post office, but

incarnation, because the building actually

and she

first

then came inside, confused, and said,

keep thinking

must have

since

to

But I'm glad they didn't, because otherwise

years.

past.

Ken

also the largest in Teller County.

why nobody seemed

first

felt

me

upstairs

floor while

a rock shop in

in the building.

it,

She said

because she said these

on the

we were

third floor,

and

building the

gift

.

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104

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shop and the

Cream

Sarsaparilla Ice

Parlor, there

be concerned about "ghosts" on the third

seemed no reason

Anyway,

floor.

found

I

it

to

to

be more intriguing than frightening. Before

we moved

night they

all

floor, in the

1

They

friends lived in the building.

simply scared them to pieces.

it

They were

girls

would

parked on the

stay inside the building after that; they

Charlie then asked me, "Aren't you

street.

when Ken

afraid to stay here alone

really

— but they

never did get the details of what happened

none of the

said

artist,

decided to have a sort of seance on the third

—

slept in cars

Charlie Frizzell, a well-known local

me that one

ballroom, and frightened

in,

told

and a group of his

gies in this building are real.

in

is

The

?"

Denver, Kathy

ener-

Too many people have experienced

them, including myself, for them to be imaginary. (Kathy

My

me.

a very precise Virgo.) "Of course I'm not frightened,"

is

Why should

"No way.

told Charlie.

Guardian Angel

(she

I

be

After a few days, Charlie

Nothing

meant her Higher

and wouldn't allow anything bad

time,

?

and

alone, living in the back of the

his friends

all

first floor,

taking care of our business and our

home

me

shop there had an

the rock

and

his friends

sincere,

moved

out,

and

there,

last

day

I

it

down

I

there alone

thought

sure

all

should be before

the second floor,

checked

was

—

make

third floors,

thing was as

halfway

Noth-

woman who had all,

and Charlie

— although he seemed so

and everyone knew him as a serious and earnest young

The

I

me

I

I

was going

to join

would go up and check

the I

—

windows were

left for

was

planning to come to

decided that the

to tease

1

while Ken was in Denver

active imagination, that's

were just trying

Denver the next day

and

I

the

all

me."

to

Cripple Creek on weekends to help supervise our remodeling. ing happened for several days, and

1

going to harm

with

Self) is

happen

to

is

Denver.

artist.

Ken

in

the second

closed and every-

So

I

climbed up to

i

and walked down the huge, long hallway.

all

and windows, and when

the doors

the hallway,

I

I

got

more than

heard the distinct sound of high-heeled

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