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Okay.

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That's in Chicago.

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What I've done is I took your birth date ahead of time.

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So let's add your name in here.

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And you were born September 5th, 1952 at 524 a.m.

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And this is central daylight time.

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We've got your chart out.

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Now let me show you.

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Basically, we're imagining you born right in the middle.

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And this is what the solar system looked like at the exact moment you were born.

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This is the east, the south, the west, and the north.

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So as we're seated right now, the chart would actually be positioned like this.

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Okay.

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If you would have looked directly at the eastern horizon at the exact moment you were born,

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you would have found the constellation of Virgo coming up off this eastern horizon.

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Now you were born at 524 a.m. in September.

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So it's logical that the sun should have been below the eastern horizon.

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Jupiter, the planet Jupiter, was straight overhead and visible.

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The moon was starting to go down on the western horizon.

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So that was starting to set.

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It was still about an hour and a half from setting, but it was starting to move down

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toward the west.

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Most people know what their sun signs are.

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And we equate it with the 12 signs of the zodiac.

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And this is what we see in the newspapers every day.

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That's not astrology.

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Basically, what it's saying is it's entertainment at best.

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It's basically saying one-twelfth of the world is going to have this happen to them today.

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And it's garbage.

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Oh, hello.

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I didn't realize I had company.

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I'm just sitting here waiting for my beau.

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He should be here any minute now.

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I've got this romantic candlelight dinner planned for tonight.

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We'll have lobster and angel hair pasta and champagne, of course.

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Oh, and then for dessert, chocolate and raspberry truffles.

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I think that a lot of people then are misinformed about astrology and the depth that it can really

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go to in terms of understanding human psyche and human personality.

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So it's real hard for me to say, well, what about a Taurus?

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What about a Gemini?

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I mean, I can tell you something about those qualities, but it doesn't relate to any one

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of our charts because we've all got a sun sign, a moon sign, Mercury, Venus, and Mars.

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We all have 10 planets.

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Each planet represents a different aspect of our unconscious.

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And most of all, what a horoscope is, is the relationship of those planets one to each other.

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To tell you the truth, I didn't actually cook the dinner.

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I picked it up at this wonderful little gourmet shop down the street.

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Cooking's such a hassle, you know, all those pots and pans to clean up.

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And besides, I just got a manicure today.

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I'm going to be one to ruin my nails.

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I've been interested in the idea of astrology and theater for a number of years.

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If we go back in history, basically the origins of Greek theater was this idea of using the

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astrological archetypes in a theatrical setting.

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So I've been really turned on to the idea of trying to bring Greek myth or the mythology

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of Greeks back into a theater setting.

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And I started last year, I've had like 10 years of theater experiences in terms of directing

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little performance pieces, but I started with a group and our group is called the Rising Stars.

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We started last May and it was a group of actors, astrologers, and therapists.

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And what we did was basically we went through the 12 signs of the zodiac.

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So we got a little performance piece for Aries, Taurus, Gemini, for each of the pieces.

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And what we did was we would just say Aries and we brainstormed themes.

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So what the pieces actually are is the result of the actors actually, it's their creativity.

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It's not my creativity.

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So we put together these little vignettes.

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Some of them are very, very funny.

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And so we've got now a performance piece of the 12 signs that group can hire us.

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You know, like meeting planners can hire us to come in and do these little

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12 vignettes for groups or women's luncheons or spouse programs.

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And then I've also done phase two of Rising Stars, which is the planets.

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And what we had them do was for an eight-week time period, each of them identified a planet

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that they wanted to work with.

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I got them in touch with that planet in their lives right now.

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What was going on?

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Venus, what was going on with her love relationships right now?

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In case you haven't guessed already, I'm Venus, Aphrodite, goddess of love.

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I am the feminine power of attraction.

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But I know that you work so hard sometimes that you forget about me.

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And so every once in a while, I feel the need to remind you that I'm still around.

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I really think integrity is really important.

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I think there's a lot of people getting into astrology, i.e. 900 numbers, and I've called

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some of them myself that basically either don't have the tools to really give you a good

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astrological consultation or people that are strictly in it for the money.

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My advice is certainly for people getting into the field, it's really important that

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you do your homework on your own chart, that you really know who you are, that you really

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understand the dynamics of your full personality.

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Get into therapy, do some kind of intensive inner work as a means of really getting to

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know yourself because through getting to know yourself and learning how to relate to yourself,

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you'll be learning how to relate to clients.

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You probably take the same bus to work every day or ride the same elevator up to your office.

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People come and go and no one makes any impression on you really until one day you're on the

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elevator and you realize that you're standing next to the person of your dreams and your

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heart starts to beat a little faster and your breath starts to get very shallow and all of a

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sudden you realize that you've gotten very, very hot and somehow you get up enough courage to look

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in their direction and you make eye contact and for one very brief moment you look deeply into one

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another's eyes and your heart's really pounding now and inside you're thinking, I'm in love.

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You know what I mean, don't you?

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An astrologer's role, a good role, is that you are, you try to elucidate a person's situation as

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clearly as you can for them and to give them options as to courses of action. My job is not

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to decide for people, should I do this, should I do that. That's their job and their responsibility.

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So what a good astrologer does is to give you the information to try to frame what things look like

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right now to help you understand your life and then to give you options that you make the choice

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then which way you need to go. Fellow psychologist Carl Jung probably had a really good influence on

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my life. He was probably, besides Freud, the most eminent psychologist of the century and he very

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much got into astrology. He called astrology the map of the psyche. So it was interesting to me that

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here was this psychologist who also used astrology and saw the validity of astrology. So I started

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studying Carl Jung also about 10 years ago. I do an average of four to five clients a day and many

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of my clients I have a history with. They're people that I've done work for for eight to nine,

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ten years, some of them. So I know their life story and it's really nice to be able to touch

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base with people once every couple months or once every six months and have them share their life

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with me and then we look at it from the astrological perspective in terms of what's going on right now

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in their life and what can we imagine might be coming up in terms of how the symbols are reading

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out in the next six months or the next year of their life. But that's not the only time I'm in

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your life. I'm there whenever you decide to volunteer to help the elderly or to serve dinner

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to the homeless on Christmas Day and I'm there in that very special love that a mother feels

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for her newborn child and I've been there all along at the Middle East Peace Talks although

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I'm never really quite sure anyone's listening to me there. Oh there's the doorbell. I really

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should be going but before I do I just want to remind you of one thing and that is that I am

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always with you even at those times when you feel that you're all alone in the world or when you

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feel that your heart is breaking. I'm there and all you need to do to feel my love is to allow me

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into your heart. Allow me to touch you and to love you. Oh there's the bell again. I really should go

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now. I don't want to keep him waiting too long. To love.