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...same cannot be said, though, for the newspaper and magazine columns that have proved so popular. Righter's is the Leo's share of that questionable market, but it is only a share. He has some 17 rival newsprint astrologers. Outstanding among the competition is Sydney Omarr (225 papers), a highly intelligent younger astrologer who has given up most of his private practice to devote
...himself to writing and promoting the cause. Omarr, 42, a former news editor for CBS radio and the most skillful and sober public protagonist astrology has, is interested in aligning the antique art with the modern disciplines of psychology and space science. Then there is Constella (100 papers), a cheerful, overweight 72-year-old New Englander (Shirley Spencer) who started writing a graphology column for the Daily News in 1935, but switched to the stars nearly 20 years ago. She feels that many of astrology's new converts are refugees from religion: "We're afraid...
Chicago's Irene Hughes saw an improved stock market and a continued war in Viet Nam. California's Sydney Omarr saw a good year for Johnson, but Omarr's principal Los Angeles rival, Carroll Righter, disagreed. Lyndon Johnson is a Virgo, noted Righter, and so his prospect will remain precarious, with the planets of Uranus and Pluto still exercising a malign influence. Said Righter, in the kind of prediction that any astrologer would agree was a wise one: "Virgos could be catapulted to the top-or to the bottom...
...premise that the earth is the center of the universe, and contemporary astrologers, like their ancient predecessors, take refuge in generalities so broad as to be totally unedifying. "Good lunar aspect today encourages romance, change, travel, salesmanship on highest level," read a recent and all encompassing bulletin from Sidney Omarr who does not apologize for such ambiguities. Says he: "Astrology deals not with facts, but with profundities...
...claim is indisputable, but often the profundities can be confusing. On the same day, while Omarr urged his readers to "act on convictions, " a competitive occultist, Clay R. Pollan, told his readers to "heed good advice." Before the 1956 presidential campaign, Constella-the nom de plume for a sometime poet named Shirley Spencer - rashly predicted that Eisenhower would not be a candidate for re-election and that the election would go to a Democrat, and then named him: Averell Harriman...