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Astral Projection For An Infant

The New York Times ran an editorial in their magazine section on April 14 which told the story of a man whose parents ran his horoscope when he was three months old and now, 40+ years later, he refers back to it.

While I do horoscopes for babies and children, my approach to analysing them are very different from the analysis I do for adults. Children are pure potential so nothing is carved in stone. Care must be taken to provide a spectrum of options for aspects and positions perceived as challenges. And opportunities cannot be guaranteed. In fact, a very easy chart is not my most favorite to see for a child. Everything may be too easy and self discipline may not be achieved. In a child's chart, challenges can often be the best for future opportunities.

The article is called Astral Projection and is a fun read. Here is a short excerpt of it:

The black folder had a cardboard, cartoon fish stapled to the front cover, indicating the birth sign: Pisces. Inside was an eight-page, all-italics work-up on me — the planets, my innate strengths and weaknesses. Cora Sitrusis of Cora Sitrusis’ School of Astrology Inc. had included instructions that were at times underlined (impress upon him the reason he must master such things as multiplication tables); in all caps (the horoscope shows TENDENCIES); and, very rarely, underlined and in all caps (ONCE HE LEARNS, HE NEVER FORGETS!). The horoscope was dated June 9, 1969. I was nearly 3 months old.

 

 

“Fiery Aries is positioned in this VIIth House. Cameron will want to take the lead in all partnerships, and he should be able to do so, without much trouble, as long as he does not rush headlong into projects without thinking them through.”

 

As an adult, I quit a job at a well-known magazine to rush headlong to a not-well-known but promising start-up that published 12 issues before folding.

The horoscope started as just another off-the-wall relic of my parents’ past — like the stories about naked gardening and the icky poison-ivy cautionary tale — but I saw too much of myself in its pages to continue to classify it as such. I suppose that makes me a believer, if not a BELIEVER. But then again, it could just be the Fiery Aries in me, rushing headlong into things before thinking them through.

Read the full article here. Cameron Morfit is a senior writer at Golf magazine and golf.com.

 

 

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Rumpology?

Okay, I admit that I find this sort of strange but if we think that feeling the bumps on ones head (called phrenology) can be predictive,then why not other parts of the body? However I will NOT be going in for a rump reading any time soon!

This from the NY Post:

Sylvester Stallone may be a famous actor, but his mom, Jackie, can read butts. Technically, Ms. Stallone studies rumpology, the supposedly ancient practice of reading the lines, crevices and folds to divine an individual’s character and reveal his future. Her services range from a total rumpology report ($ 300 per cheek) to a gluteal cleft, or ‘‘crack,’’ report ($ 250). ‘‘It is more than an advertising sign for plumbers, teens and nonconformists,’’ she says of the cleft. ‘‘It has real significance.’’

Using Aromatherapy to Make You Buy More Stuff

I suppose we should not be surprised but there is a company that is in the business of developing scents that they then infuse into the air of stores and shopping places.

The scents they create are designed to impel you to do things like buy more products and heighten your attention to items for sale.

One company is called SmartFrangrances and it is based in Ramsey, New Jersey.

Aromatherapy, when used for non-mercenary purposes has great personal benficial impact. By the use of carefully crafted oil essences, one can reduce their stress, or feel uplifted or relax or maybe even recuperate from ailments. Aromatherapy when used for mercenary purposes uses the tenets of aroma characteristics to encourage you to spend money on things that you may not really need or want. It is a perversion of the craft ... and it happens every day!

How often do you wander by a bakery and catch a whiff of delicious baked goods that draw you into the store? Or the lovely scent of brewing coffee that compells you to have a cup? That is a type of aromatherapy at work.

But SmartFragrances does it one step "better".Dan Offerman of SmartFragrances was interviewed by BusinessWeek and was asked questions like:

Can scent control behavior?
Offerman answer: In general, you want to improve the customer experience: Either to get them to stay longer or to buy more. And now it’s another way of branding, tapping an additional sense to help you promote the company or a product.

And it seems impossible for a shopper to avoid these created scents....

So once you figure out the scent, how do you get it into the environment?
Offerman answer: Nanodiffusion. A machine is tapped into the HVAC system of a building, which sends fragrance oil floating in the air, and takes a dozen minutes before it dissipates. A typical machine goes through about a kilo of oil a month.

If you want to learn more about aromatherapy and do it yourself, try this Aromatherapy starter set

 

 

 

The End of The World on December 21, 2012?

Back in October, I wrote about the Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world on December 21, 2012 - tomorrow.

I am not worried about it, but many people are. Read my previous post (linked here) and see how the Mayan's never really predicted anything dramatic and if they did, couldn't they have also predicted their own demise... which they did not.

Pearson Archetypes - Just Another Zodiac

You know that astrology forms the basis of marketing and business when you see something like the Pearson Archetypal System which is used by marketers to help in branding. But a quick look at this "break through" system will begin to reveal something quite ancient and established -- the twelve archetypes in this system correspnd nicely to the 12 Astrological signs.

Their website tells of how Swiss psychologist Carl S. Jung's work on archetypes led Dr. Carol S. Pearson to conclude that these narratives formed the structure of the human psyche. Jung coined the term “archetype” to define the underlying psychological patterns that recur in these stories and are frequently found in the symbols, images, and themes of art, mythology, sacred texts, and popular entertainment.

Building on Jung’s work, Dr. Pearson has created a system for working with these archetypes that enables us to understand individual and group development and motivation. Her 12-archetype system includes the archetypes or storylines that her research found to be most correlated with success and fulfillment in contemporary society.

Of course Jung was a devotee of astrology and tarot. But they don't say that....

The 12 Pearson Archetypes, and the individual and organization best represented by these archetypes are as follows:

Archetype	Individual	Organization
Innocent	Dolly Parton	Disney
Everyperson	Jimmy Carter	Gap
Hero	Lone Ranger	Nike
Caregiver	Mother Teresa	Campbell’s Soup
Explorer	Amelia Earhart	Starbucks
Lover	Rudolph Valentino	Victoria's Secret
Revolutionary	Che Guevara	Apple
Creator	Martha Stewart	Crayola
Magician	Martin Luther King	Calgon
Ruler	Alan Greenspan	Microsoft
Sage	Carl Jung	Discovery
Jester	Tina Fey	Ben & Jerry’s

So here is how I matched them to the zodiac signs:

Innocent -- Pisces

EveryPerson -- Taurus

Hero --- Aries

Caregiver --- Virgo

Explorer -- Sagittarius

Lover -- Scorpio

Revolutionary --- Aquarius

Creator --- Cancer

Magician -- Libra

Ruler --- Leo

Sage -- Capricorn

Jester -- Gemini

If you have a hankering to learn more about these marketing prototypes, read Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World .

What do you think?