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...Pacific atoll where France plans to test nuclear bombs. Light wind. Half-moon. Waves from a far-off storm swell under La Rebaude, a broken-engined, radio-dead ketch owned by Greenpeace. The crew hands two black-painted sea kayaks over the rail. They are then tethered to a Zodiac inflatable boat already pitching in the water...
Many are the ways of coping with the world's vicissitudes. Some people fear and propitiate evil spirits. Others order their schedules according to the display of the planets across the zodiac. There are those who assume that they carry, somewhere inside of them, a thing called the unconscious. It is mostly invisible, although it can furtively be glimpsed in dreams and heard in slips of the tongue. But the unconscious is not a passive stowaway on the voyage of life; it has the power to make its hosts feel very sad or behave in strange, self-destructive ways. When...
...original science of astrology was based on the rotation of the sun around the earth, Newman says. The sun was supposed to travel an elliptic path around the planet, and the zodiac is simply a band along that elliptic divided into 12 parts. The zones at that time were named for the 12 different constellations in the zodiac...
...person's destiny and character was supposed to be set by the movements of the planets, sun and moon through the 12 zones of the zodiac and the position of the heavenly bodies at the moment of birth...
...These images [of the zodiac] speak to all peoples at all times," she says. "Most people know a lot about astrology without being taught...