CHICAGO TRIBUNE ARTICLE, FROM DATA BASE SEARCH. 'MANY VARIATIONS IN READING SIGNS'

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Copyright 1985 Chicago Tribune Company
Chicago Tribune
October 25, 1985 Friday, SPORTS FINAL EDITION
SECTION: FRIDAY; Pg. 3; ZONE: N
LENGTH: 1746 words
HEADLINE: MANY VARIATIONS IN READING SIGNS
BYLINE: By Robert Wolf.
BODY:
According to Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, "occult"
means "1: not revealed: SECRET 2: ABSTRUSE, MYSTERIOUS 3: not able to be seen
or detected: CONCEALED 4: of or relating to supernatural agencies, their
effects, and knowledge of them."
Satanism, while it is a small part of the occult, is not the part we are
dealing with in these stories. (None of the occultists interviewed for these
articles were satanists.) Serious occultists divide into two groups, those who
follow the left-hand way and those who follow the right-hand way. The left-
hand way ("left" in Latin is "sinister") use occult powers for bad
purposes. Those who follow the right-hand way use it for positive self-
development. Many people, of course, use some of these occult arts for
harmless entertainment; if you've ever checked your horoscope in the paper,
you're one of them.
One more thing must be said. Up until the 17th Century, much occult
speculation was considered mainline science. A number of the people who
ushered in the scientific revolution pursued various occult speculations.
Issac Newton, for example, spent about as much time investigating alchemy as
he did celestial mechanics. Obviously, as academicians would say, the
scientific paradigm since has shifted.
Occult thought covers a wide territory, including metaphysics,
reincarnation, lost civilizations (Atlantis and the antediluvian age),
geomancy, numerology, palmistry, phrenology, alchemy, magic, sacred geometry,
witchcraft and many other subjects.
Following are some of the most common forms of prognostication practiced
by occultists. Competent readers in these arts do not want their clients to
use their readings as a crutch, nor do they pretend to give more than a
general guide to trends (clairvoyants excepted). Nevertheless, the following
is offered without endorsement; let the buyer beware:
Astrology
No competent astrologer will pretend to tell you exactly what the future
will bring you. What astrologers do claim to be able to do is to forecast
trends. As with most occult divination, intuition plays a heavy role.
Astrologers split into two camps, those who follow sideral astrology (an
astrology based on the fixed positions of the stars) and those who practice
tropical astrology (an astrology based on the zodiac.) Most astrologers follow
the latter system.
To understand it, you must know that the zodiac is based on the apparent
path of the sun, which describes a great circle--the ecliptic--tilted on an
angle 24 degrees off the equator. Imagine two other circles, one above and one
below the ecliptic. Divide the band that these two circles describe into 12
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equal rectangles and you have the 12 houses of the sun, each with its own
constellation. Taurus, Libra, Sagittarius, etc., all are sun signs, and the
sun spends 1/12 of each year in each of them. Thus a person born while the sun
passes through Capricorn is said to come under Capricorn's influence.
The laughable simplicity and error in the daily horoscopes published in
newspapers is due to the fact that they are written by astrologers who are
taking only sun houses into account. A good astrologer will be able to intuit
certain facts about his client's character and possible future trends in his
life based not only on the individual's sun sign but also the relative
positions of all the planets and the moon at the time of his client's birth.
The angle formed by any two planets with the Earth is said to exert a
particular influence. Influence varies with planets and angles.
What a client might experience at a given time in the future is
determined by calculating the position of the sun, moon and planets for that
time and by comparing them to the angles at his time of birth.
Tarot cards
Many claim to know the history of tarot cards, and accounts of their
origins vary. Some say the gypsies brought them out of ancient Egypt and
introduced them to Europe in the 14th Century. Others say the Knights Templar
came upon them in the Middle East during the Crusades. Some say they are a
pictorial encyclopedia of wisdom in which all the secrets of the world are
hidden. Adherents of this theory say the cards originated in ancient Egypt and
attribute their creation to the god Thoth.
The deck consists of three sets of cards. The first is the zero card, the
Fool. The second is comprised of cards numbered 1 through 21, on each of which
is depicted a figure. These include the famous Hanged Man, the Emperor, the
Hermit, etc. This set, along with the Fool, is known as the major arcana. The
third set is known as the minor arcana. it is composed of four suits--wands,
cups, swords and pentacles--each of which has its own attributes. Pentacles,
for example, are said to represent riches, but not just money. Cups represent
love. Each of the cards of the major arcana also are given attributes, but
good readers will intuit their own meanings for each.
Cards are shuffled before a reading and 13 are dealt out in a peculiar
pattern. A preponderance of any one suit indicates to some readers that the
attributes of that suit are currently active in the person's life. The
presence of particular members of the major arcana indicate other influences
or energies. What is difficult to understand, of course, is how so many
divergent interpretations of individual cards could result in an accurate
reading. At least one modern critic has invoked the Jungian notion of the
collective unconscious to explain the cards' efficacy, but that notion rests
upon a fixed meaning for each of the major arcana.
Modern-day playing cards are descendants of the tarot deck.
The I Ching
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, originated in China. Confucius, who
lived approximately 2,500 years ago, valued the book highly and placed its
origins in antiquity. It is an extremely difficult work to use, relying
heavily upon the inquirer's intuition.
The work is based upon the two polar, but not contradictory, principles
governing all manifestation--yin and yang. Yin is the feminine principle,
dark, earthy, passive. Yang is the masculine principle, light, active,
heavenly. The I Ching represents yin with a broken line, yang with an unbroken
line. Varying combinations of these lines in groups of six are called
hexagrams. There are a total of 64 hexagrams, including one whose lines are
all yin and one whose lines are all yang. These hexagrams are taken to
represent all possible given situations. Consulting the I Ching is a matter of
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throwing yarrow stalks or coins to determine which hexagram pertains to your
current situation. To complicate matters, there are what are known as changing
lines. These can be either yin or yang lines which must be changed to their
opposite. The more changing lines that appear in your hexagram, the more
change is indicated in your situation.
As indicated above, the difficulty in consulting the I Ching lies in the
difficulty in interpreting the hexagrams, which are couched in language
unfamiliar to Westerners. The mathematical aspects of the I Ching greatly
intrigued the German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, for they
coincided with his own binary system of mathematics. In our time, the Swiss
psychologist Carl Jung attested to its divinatory powers.
Clairvoyance
Psychic Wayne St. John says that "to learn psychic ability you have to
go into deep meditation, into silence, and let the spirit come through. The
spirit will come through with a small inner voice inside your inner mind
saying things like names, giving feelings about things that will happen and
occur unexpectedly and suddenly. The spirit will talk about the future, past,
and present. Names will just come out of your mouth and you have to try to put
this puzzle together that the spirit is trying to say. Sometimes its mumbo
jumbo and sometimes the spirit comes stronger within you and you get the
message right.
"Let's say someone has an accident. They would see in their mind and in
their soul a vehicle. They would see a color, or they would see an hour, or a
time, which would represent a number. The gift, a feeling and buzzing in your
ear. These are signs of how you develop your psychic ability. Now myself, I
was born a natural psychic.
The mediumship is very, very difficult. A lot of psychics go through a
lot of very heavy karma, bad and good. Your true psychic, true reader, will
suffer a lot and tell nobody of it. It's just like St. Bernadette, the one who
saw the appearance of the Blessed Mother. She suffered, told nobody of it, and
then at the end when she was going to die, she said she had the tumor in the
leg. She had the leukemia in the leg, okay? Mediums, clairvoyants, things of
this nature, they suffer in their own way. Everyone has a cross on this Earth
to carry. Mediumship is very special. God uses us as his veins to help the
people. You can learn to develop this psychic ability, but it takes a while.
This practice is very, very deep.
"Listen to your dreams. Your dreams can be significant. . .Some people
fear (their own psychic ability). This fear has to leave because it is
negative. If they allow the positive and the Word of God and Jesus to come
into their soul and mind, it (psychic ability) will come through with them."
HALLOWEEN'S ORIGINS
Halloween had its beginning in the world of the occult. For the ancient
Celts, the year ended Oct. 31. According to pagan tradition, that is the day
when the veil between this world and the spirit world is thinnest. Perhaps it
is for that reason that pagans say the 31st--All Hallows Eve--is the best time
of year for divination and that on that night all spirits walk abroad.
Jack-o'-lanterns were carved with hideous expressions in hopes of
frightening the evil spirits. The habit of wearing Halloween costumes arose
because people wanted to confuse these spirits. A rich man, for example, might
dress in rags. Also on that night, pagans remember dead relatives and friends
who died that year by setting out food for them at meals.
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