We professional astrologers live in a peculiar, symbiotic relationship to the
newspaper and magazine columnists who write daily and monthly
horoscopes. Many of us decry their superficiality while steadily
accepting clients and students who are drawn to us by the exposure
astrology gains from their work.
Astrology would not have the wide-spread acceptance it does today were it not for the ground-breaking PR work of people like Evangeline Adams, Carroll Righter, and Sydney Omarr. While recogizing the limitations of Sun Sign astrology, let us embrace and be grateful for what they have given us, for most of us would not be earning a living as astrologers had they not paved the way.
EVANGELINE ADAMS:
The Mother of All Twentieth Century astrologers has
her own, more fitting memorial
elsewhere on this web site, but
let us not forget that her years of daily newspaper columns are part of what brought her to the public
eye and kept her there. Like several of the columnists profiled here, she
was an Aquarian.
MARGUERITE CARTER:
Marguerite Carter was an American astrologer and columnist. Her full-page ads, prominently featuring her photograph, appeared in all the newsstand astrology magazines for decades. Many clients proudly mention that in the family archives is a hand-drawn, typewritten chart and interpretation by Marguerite.
AstroDatabank
gives the following birth information, rated A, from her grandson to Frances McEvoy. She was
born on January 31, 1899, at 1:30 PM PST, in Seattle, WA, 122W20;
47N36. Evelyn Herbertz of Indianapolis, where Marguerite lived, researched her death
and sent the following information, "The Indianapolis Star Newspaper sent me a copy of Marguerite Carter
McConnell's obituary which states she died Tues. Nov. 22, 1988, at
the age of 89."
Fred Davies began as an actor, director, and producer.
A charming and witty fellow, he became famous as an astrologer, psychic, and medium after starting a newspaper column and radio
show in London. He had a noted clientele for 20 years of show business and public personalities.
He specialized in astronumerology and was often featured in the National Enquirer with his
predictions. In 1987, Prentice Hall published his book, Signs of the Stars. AstroDatabank
gives the following birth information, rated A, from his memory. He was born September 1, 1936, at 3:35 AM GMT in
East Croydon, England, 51N32; 00W06. He died of lung cancer in London, on October 26, 1988.
JEANNE DIXON:
Jeanne Dixon was also well-known as
a psychic and seer. According to AstroDatabank,
though she concealed her real age for years, Steinbrecher has her birth record in hand, so the data is
now ranked AA. She was born on January 5, 1904, at 2:00 PM CST, in Medford, WI, 90W20; 45N09.
She died of a heart attack on January 26, 1997, at 2:30 PM, in Washington,
DC.
ROGER ELLIOT:
AstroDatabank notes that Elliot was a British astrologer for 27 years whose
weekly column in News of the World was read by 20% of the British population.
His annual zodiac books sold nearly a half million copies world wide, and he
was also popular as a lecturer internationally. D.David Fisher quotes him on his
birth information, rated A, as June 25, 1937, at 3:15 AM GDT, in Torquay,
England, 3W30; 50N28. He died during heart surgery at 56 on September, 29, 1993, at
6:36 PM, in Bristol, England. He founded Starlife,
which continues his work and which supplied this photo.
CARROLL RIGHTER:
Still another Aquarian, Carroll
Righter brought more glamour to astrology than anyone in recent history.
This celebrated Hollywood figure was President Reagan's long-time astrologer
and friend, as well as consultant to a vast number of film stars and other
notables. For his birth data and more about him, go to the more detailed
memorial on this site.
From Lois Rodden's Astrodatabank:
"Patric Walker's urbane and intelligent horoscopes
graced the pages of The Post since the mid-80s, died of
complications arising from salmonella poisoning on
October 8, 1995, 11:45 AM at his home in South
Kensington, west London. He was born on September 25,
1931, 12:18 PM EDT, Hackensack, NJ, 74 W.03, 40 N.53.
SourceNotes: B.C. in hand, LMR (In June 2005, PT changed the time from
12:15 to 12:18 PM on closer look at birth certificate. The time is
hand-written and while the last digit could be a 5 it really looks more like
an 8).
(Formerly, Shelley von Strunckel quoted him, via Robert Curry, for
9:30 AM.
However, he told different people different data or said he did not
know the
time. Frank Clifford wrote 10/1998 that he rarely cast horoscopes
with
times at all.)
"Walker loathed the idea of "destiny", emphasizing that people are capable of taking action to direct their own lives. He entered the field of astrology in the '60s with rigorous training, and at the end of the decade began a column in Nova magazine. He took over the column of "Celeste" in 1974 and was syndicated in the '80s, beloved by his fans around the world. An early riser, he wrote in the mornings by longhand, living a reclusive life style.
Other astrologers on this site who did columns for substantial periods of time include Hollywood Astrologer, Joyce Jillson, Charles Jayne, who with his wife Vivia, had a column in the New York Daily News for nine years, and Don "Moby Dick" Jacobs, whose column "Future News" circulated in 38 newspapers, Lloyd Cope, who wrote for Dell Horoscope, Robert Cole, Sidney Bennett (a.ka. Wynn) and Carl Payne Tobey. Ed Wagner's columns, which began in 1936, were so outstanding that Walter Winchell listed him among the ten top columnists of the United States. And, finally, according to Anthony Pena, Dane Rhudyar himself was American Astrology's first Sun sign columnist.
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