Without an O.K. from the astrologer, he said, Air Force One did not take off.

[kpete]

Quigley died Tuesday at the age of 87 in San Francisco.

Here is how the former chief of staff described Quigley's role in the Reagan White House, via the Times:

He said an astrologer had set the time for summit meetings, presidential debates, Reagan’s 1985 cancer surgery, State of the Union addresses and much more. Without an O.K. from the astrologer, he said, Air Force One did not take off.

She was kept on a $3,000 a month retainer and spoke with Mrs. Reagan two or three times a day, according to the Times. Private phone lines were set up for her at the White House and Camp David.

Read the whole remarkable account, written by the Times's Douglas Martin, here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/us/joan-quigley-astrologer-to-a-first-lady-is-dead-at-87.html?_r=1


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joan-quigley-nancy-reagan-astrologer-obituary



http://www.presidentialufo.com/old_site/reagan_cartoons7.htm

[BlueJazz]

1. Astrology: When you don't know your refrigerator has more of an effect on your life than Saturn.

[Logical]

9. LOL, good one! n-t

[Segami]

2. Hmm....I wonder what kind of outrage...

would be coming from teabag, wingnut reTHUGS if President Obama had on payroll and consulting with an astrologer to set & schedule the best times to have meetings, surgeries and political functions as well as Michelle conferring with the same astrologer 3 times daily???

The MSM would have been roasting the Obamas on a spit!!

[Zambero]

3. Oh well, all that stuff was in the past y'know

This here is the present, with all that real life marriage equality happening which will cause our own marriages to crumble, according to the good folks at the Family Research Council . So listen up all you righteous God-fearing homophobes out there -- Get together, secede your red state from the union, and call whatever comes out as "Reagan" or better yet "Reagan Land". The next big steps would be to name an Astrology Czar and nominate Louie Gohmert for our Prez , but first things first!

[Avalux]

4. I am not an astrology naysayer and it's not really about that.

To desperately need the advice of one person *in the name of astrology* before making a decision is addictive behavior. Nancy talked with the astrologer 3 times a day? Definitely pathological.

There's nothing wrong if astrology is used as a general tool for reflection and insight.

[FrodosPet]

6. There's only one thing to say about astrology, I Ching, palm reading, phrenology, numerology, etc

[Logical]

11. Nothing wrong as long as you know it is 100% pure BS. nt

[joeybee12]

5. Ronnie was an idiot, Nancy was (and I assume still is) nuts...

And people think the 80's were a good time for this country? Idiots.

[Logical]

12. + 1000 nt

[NickB79]

7. Will the Christians that LOOOOOVED Reagan turn on him now?

After all, he used ASTROLOGERS! GASP! Witches, devil worshippers, Satan's spawn!

[Bluenorthwest]

8. Current politicians who voted for Reagan because of 'the markets' were also voting for this.

And of course all the other right wing, bigoted, sexist, ignorant crap Reagan did. When some former loyal Reagan voter asks for your vote, ask them how they rationalized Reagan's AIDS non policy, ask them if they consulted their astrologer about that.

[Logical]

10. So many people are really so unbelievably clueless. Astrology, ESP, UFOs, Feng Shui, Etc. nt

[NightWatcher]

13. My Numerologist says Astrology is full of shit

Brb, gotta go make a sandwich for my altar to Aqua Buddha in the basement.

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. The Reagan astrologer role is as Woo as things can get. And frightening!

[moonbeam23]

15. Don't know why you all are laughing so hard

Ronnie was extraordinarily successful with his diabolical agenda...his timing must have been impeccable...

Democrats could surely use some astrological help...i could write a book on astrology and politics...have been following it for years...it is frustrating to say the least to watch things unfold at bad times...for instance, Howard Dean was doomed from the start and i really really wanted him but nobody asked me to set the time for his announcement...lol...

i would suggest that before all you guys start sniggering at things you don't understand that you maybe take a few hours to study them...i got into astrology to prove that it doesn't work...joke's on me...

You don't have to believe in astrology and other metaphysical things to have them work...just like you don't have to believe in gravity...all you got to do is jump off a building...

[Thirties Child]

17. Absolutely.

Nay-sayers get their ideas about astrology from atrological forecasts in the newspaper. They have no idea what it's really all about.

[MisterP]

16. he also didn't go to any DC church because, he said, the Libyans would blow him up

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in downtown Washington (why, yes, the WH does have a chapel)--just a little reminder for the overindulged Marguerite Perrin types who think that because they worship Ronnie he agrees with them on everything

heck, Quigley manipulated Ronnie into meeting with Gorby over and over (a "short, light stranger"?)--what a Renaissance man!



here's Cardano historian Anthony Grafton http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118702/anthony-grafton-left-behind-and-apocalyptic-thinking

(and just wait 'til all the good little technocrats trying to cite gravitation learn where Newton and Kepler got the idea from...)