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Why
Millions
Are Starstruck
Over Astrology
A STROLOGY
is staging a remarkablc
.fl.
reviva!, nor on ly in che Unircd
Srares, bur in Europeas well.
Dcspirc rhe facr thar modern
scicncc long ago scc aside che claims
of asrrologers concerning che impacr
of rhc srars and planers upon human
life, rnarriage. business, happiness, che
stock market, or what have rou, mil–
lions rodav are becoming fascinatcd
by asrrology.
The followers of asrrology include
busincssmcn, movic acrors and ac–
rresscs. members of Parliarnem, scna–
rors. cvcn presidents of nations. Sales
of asrrological pockerbooks havc
soarcd into rhc m illions.
.Jcanc Dixon, a famous seer in
Washington, D.C., rcmarkcd. "1 bc–
lieve in asrrology. To
me,
ir is a
sciencc so complete - ro a poinr -
thar 1 mighr cven advocare it be
caughr in our schools." She has her
own ascrological column in che ncws–
papcrs.
To a poinr, her suggesrion is al–
ready a realiry. Classes in ascrology
have alrcady been insrituted in sorne
U. S. colleges!
Bur on rhe orhcr hand, wcll-
42
by
Williom F. Donkenbring
known American astronomer Harlow
Shapley charged, ' 'Srar reading is
plain bunkum. The stars have as lirrle
inAuence on our daily lives as tea
leaves."
A modcrn Asrrologcr's View
Just whar is ir like ro be an astrolo–
ger?
Onc asrrologer from Pordand.
Oregon answers rhis in rhe srory of
her lifc. Shc has been writing astro–
logical charrs for over rcn \'ears and
has bcen doing ir for rnonev for rhe
pase rhree
yeus.
Her main job is in a
paint shop, where the work is very ex–
citing. Shc derives grcat sarisfacrion
from her work as an asrrologer. She
charges abour $20 for drawing up a
person's horoscope.
According ro her, therc is a "crying
necd" for more astrologers. Inreresr in
asrrologv. cspecially among young
people and college smdcnrs. is in–
creasing. The young people are
brighrer rhan ever. she remarks. and
are takíng ro astrology wirh avidity.
What does ir rake ro draw up an
asrrological charr? Says rhi5 panicular
asrrologcr, all one necds is a few
books which give che positions of the
planees and cclcsrial bodies for rhe
differenr rimes. days. rnonrhs and
ycars. Thcn. once he is given rhe date,
place and time of birrh for an individ–
ual. he is on his way. He looks up in
rhe cables of these books thc pos irions
of the planees, che sun ami rhc moon
ar the
prcci~c
moment of a pcrson's
birrh (if suth knowledge is available).
Having dccermined all the aspccrs and
rclarionships bcrween rhe planees, he
thcn forccasrs an individual's fare,
whar his difliculties and problt:rns will
be. what pcriods of his lifc will be
filled wirh rrouble, when or wherher
he or shc should ger rnarricd, drive a
car or buv a house.
This parcicular astrologer insisred
rhat asrrological magazines are verr
poor since rhcv gcnerally provide only
solar charts ( those showing rhe posi–
rion of the sun) and don'r show
where rhe moon and planees are at
che rime of onc's birrh. '·Magazines
and books." she said, "oftcn don't
have che planets in rhe righr place for
rhe parricular time a person was
born."
''AII che books are nor righr," she
PLAIN TRUTH December 1972