Stars Were Never in Alignment for This Astrologer

     

Some of us will remember that Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy consulted astrologer Joan Quigley before any major presidential decision. Reagan’s “official astrologer” claimed that she was responsible for setting the time of press conferences, trips abroad, surgery, speeches, the takeoff and landing of the president’s airplane, and so on. To believe her account, her forecasting was influential in momentous foreign policy decisions. She was not the only astrologer the Reagans consulted. They also sought the advice of Carroll Righter, renowned author of several books on astrology and a syndicated advice column for hundreds of newspapers across the world. That the celestial bodies are not always reliable became evident when no astrologer was able to predict that on March 30, 1981, at 2:27 p.m., EST, President Reagan would be shot in the chest during an assassination attempt. Quigley peremptorily affirmed that she could have predicted the regrettable episode, because it was “very obvious,” if only she had drawn up his charts. Unfortunately, her occupations had precluded her from doing this.