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I found this article<\/a> from April 1969 when I was looking for statistics on how many astrologers there are in the world today (according to Time Magazine, in 1969 there were 10,000 full time and 175,000 part-time astrologers in the US alone. \u00a0I\u2019m fairly certain right now we number in the millions). \u00a0Remember in the late 1960s the hippie mystique was just going mainstream, with \u201cflower child\u201d boutiques and head shops springing up all over America and Europe.\n
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Preposterous as it may be, the astrology cult suggests a deep longing for some order in the universe\u2013an order denied by modern science and philosophy. This is expressed by Danny Weiss, a 24-year-old partner in an astrologically hip music-recording outfit called Apostolic Studios, which is guided by top-ranking Astrologer Al Morrison, president of the Astrologers\u2019 Guild of America. Danny Weiss believes that the uptrend in astrology is a result of \u201can awakening of religious consciousness. People have lost faith in their old beliefs,\u201d he says. But \u201cif you believe in the order of the universe, then you\u2019ll believe in astrology because the order of the stars expresses that universal order.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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There is indeed a comfort in understanding that when we\u2019re going through a difficult time there is an associated planetary event happening at the same time. \u00a0It helps us to see the underlying purpose of the challenge, and it helps us to see when we will move through the challenge and end up on the other side.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The article spends quite a bit of time on Carroll Righter, who wrote syndicated newspaper horoscopes which was a burgeoning new field for astrologers. \u00a0Righter was known as the \u201castrologer to the stars,\u201d \u00a0and advised President Ronald Reagan as well as many other actors and Hollywood illuminati.<\/div>\n
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The article makes the point that \u201c[a]strologers who publish mere sun-sign generalities earn the scorn of their less commercial (or less successful) brethren, who limit themselves to charting and interpreting individual horoscopes.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The article ends with this conclusion:<\/div>\n
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Sensitivity, intuition and maybe even clairvoyance make the difference between such tomfoolery and \u201cgood\u201d astrology. The good astrologer senses the mood of his client, perceives his problems and finds the most positive way of fitting them into the context of the horoscope. Then he looks ahead, shaping predictions so that they amount to constructive counsel. The client might have been better advised to consult a psychiatrist, marriage counselor, physician, lawyer or employment agency. But there are many troubled people who refuse to accept personal responsibility for their lives, insisting that some outer force is in control. For these, a first-class astrologer can seem a necessity\u2013and perhaps he is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s unfortunate, because the article is pretty well-balanced until this point. \u00a0But the idea that troubled people seek the counsel of astrologers because they are unwilling to accept personal responsibility and instead seek to blame their troubles on the stars is a very poor generalization. \u00a0In fact, when you understand the nature of your birthchart you MUST take responsibility for your life. \u00a0You can see that yes, your mother was mean to you but you have Pluto, planet of fear, on the Moon, representing mother, so you came here with a predisposition to see your mother as cruel. \u00a0Or yes, you have never been married but Uranus, planet of absolute liberation, is in your seventh house of marriage and as a result you have fleed from commitment.<\/div>\n
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Still, it\u2019s an interesting rea<\/a>d and has held up well over the last 40 years!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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