Eileen Nauman writes fondly,

"I met Robert (we all called him Bob) Jansky back in the mid-70's. I had gotten his book on vitamin and mineral assignments and began to correspond with him. And then, as Fate would have it, I was going out to California, to a SWAC conference to speak and that is when we met. Bob and I began a very long friendship from that point until he died. We worked as collegues and collaborators on many medical astrology applications.

"I had been doing a lot of work with vitamins and minerals and had used his knowledge and basis in his book as a jump-off point to investigate if they were accurate or not. I was in the midst of developing a system, The Med-Scan System, and applied it to that model. We had a lot of phone calls discussing the implications of the biochemistry of vitamin and minerals. Eventually, I changed some of his previous assignments, planet-wise to them.

"One of the many things I liked about Bob was his humility, his curiosity, his openness to accept changes based upon observation, without Ego or taking an "I'm right--you're wrong" attitude. It made him a joy to work with, to toss ideas off from, and hear his returning experience and observation. He was a great role model because he was never professionally jealous or envious of anyone. He had great humility and his Ego was in good shape without being obnoxious.

"His greatest pain was his family, because he was gay, and his family wouldn't accept him--at least during that time frame he told me about his pain. This was the only area of contention that really bothered him. He was glad to quit the corporate rat race, strike out on his own, start his own book publishing efforts and remain in astrology. He was far happier.

"When I came to California to speak, I would always visit Bob and Harry in Van Nuys, California, where they lived. We had a lot of fun, a lot of laughs and Bob was always the best of hosts. When he came to visit me in Ohio, at our farm, he spent a week and it was wonderful.

"One of the things he asked me to do was to look at his progressed chart. I explained to him that I didn't do regular secondary progressions; rather, I used the 90-degree Cosmobiology dial, along with the Uranian planets thrown in and average solar arc. Well! Bob's eyes brightened and he was all ears to hear and learn as much as he could about the progressed technique I used in my medical astrology. We spent a number of hours in the training mode.

"What I saw coming up three years in the future for him was a "window". In medical astrology speak, that is a crisis in a person's life where they decide if they want to leave or die. "I told him about it, and we discussed his smoking and his diet. I urged him to stop smoking and to get his cholesterol down.

He said he would think about it. In my heart, I knew he wasn't going to do anything about it. But, there it was: it indicated a window and it showed cardiovascular implications.

"We talked about all these things at length. Bob took the information very easily and without reaction or even concern. Three years later, almost to the day, he died of a heart attack. He decided to opt out and take this window as an opportunity to leave his physical body, to move on to other things in the other dimensions.

"He supported my research, my observations into medical astrology. He was my greatest and most avid supporter of what I was doing with medical astrology. The book I wrote in 1980, Medical Astrology, probably wouldn't be as great a seller as it is if not for Bob Jansky in the background.

"When you are blazing a new trail, as I was doing, and he had already done, having a friend in the corner who keeps telling you: "You can do this....we need what you know....what you see and how you see it..." it is easy to keep slogging through a decade of effort to write such a reference book. I had Bob. Boy, was I lucky!

"But the real winners here are people who pick up his books and read them. They are a treasure house of information even now. They always will be. And he was a treasure to all of us lucky enough to know him--as a friend, teacher or role model."

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CREDITS: The photo of Bob is from Edie Custer's collection. The background came from Honey's Graphics. The animations are from Clipart Connection. The book cartoon is from an educational collection by Susan.