Joan Quigley, astrologer who advised Reagans, dies

[n2doc]

Source: SF Gate

Joan Quigley, a San Francisco socialite and writer who became famous as the astrologer who advised President Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan in the 1980s, has died. She was 87.

Mrs. Quigley, who was fashionable and social but had a flinty stare, spent seven years as the White House astrologer, advising the Reagans on everything from when to schedule Air Force One takeoffs to the best time for summit meetings and surgeries. She also took credit for reshaping the president’s views on the Soviet Union, recommending a conciliatory rather than confrontational tone. It was Mrs. Quigley who urged President Reagan to stop using the term “Evil Empire.”

“Sometimes I would talk with Nancy for three hours a day,” Mrs. Quigley said in 1995, living at the time on Nob Hill with her sister, Ruth Quigley. She added, “I was hired in May of 1981 to protect the president. This was after he had been shot. I really timed everything the Reagans did. For seven years I worked with them, sometimes 10 hours a day.

“Reagan was the only Aquarian president who didn’t die in office,” she added.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Joan-Quigley-astrologer-who-advised-the-Reagans-5843140.php

[BlueJazz]

1. I wonder if she saw that coming.

[Politicalboi]

2. LOL!

Can we all imagine if Obama had this kind of voodoo going on in his administration. But yet these kooks the Reagans don't get mocked or looked at as ridiculous from the right.

[n2doc]

6. It is amazing

The fundies had no problem with this Pagan stuff, so long as St. Ronnie was involved.

[hatrack]

27. Damnit - beat me to it!

It's kind of like the Psychic Friends Hotline - why do they need to ask for your credit card number?

[zappaman]

3. Your hororscope for the week

[SoapBox]

7. ROFLMAO

[jtuck004]

9. Thank you for that. Gonna save it.

Summary:

1.Astrology is regarded as a pseudoscience that the belief that the planets’ respective positions in space have some effect on human affairs and natural Earthly phenomena. It is more of a study.
2.Horoscopes are more of a chart or diagram that make use of astrology concepts. They serve as guides for people on how they should act or behave. To some degree, it also serves to foretell some parts of one’s future.
3.Some are skeptical with the use and validity of horoscopes. It is derived from the Greek word “horoskopos,” which means “looking at the hours.”

That last one should start "Not enough are skeptical...". It would be a more interesting world.

Read more: Difference Between Astrology and Horoscope | Difference Between | Astrology vs Horoscope http://www.differencebetween.net/science/difference-between-astrology-and-horoscope/#ixzz3H1O4MiuF

[greyl]

10. (That's funny, but

technically, it's an overstatement)

[KingCharlemagne]

12. That is a fucking instant classic! Hat tip! - nt

[Monk06]

4. A comparison between Reagan and Mackenzie King might have been useful back in the day.

Both were bat shit crazy, were conscious of the fact and hid it from the public. The difference is King, though ruthless and ambitious, actually cared about ordinary people. Ordinary white people that is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King

[dembotoz]

5. i'm sorry-ronnies grave should be a public urinal

just another layer of the evil deceitful time which was his legacy

[calimary]

23. I'd go for that. I'd even make a "shrine" out of it.

Fitting tribute for an individual who initiated and fostered the flushing of the democracy of the United States down the crapper.

Exquisitely fitting.

[appalachiablue]

25. Never knew the extent of their involvment w/ astrologers. Wacked.

Only heard of Nancy's interest (like the Czarina and Rasputin?).
Worst couple I've ever seen in the WH, clear distain for their own kids.
But the End of Reaganomics has to come-
Hi Calimary

[calimary]

32. Hi sweetie! "the end of reaganomics has to come" - from your mouth to God's ears!

Heck, even the POPE is onto you, ronnie, and your foul, selfish, greedy, short-sighted, selfish, cockeyed, pennywise/pound-RIDICULOUSLY-FOOLISH, and did I say SELFISH world view. Mr. Anarchy. Because that's what his agenda really begat. Fucking ANARCHY. Giving the cretinous, thoughtless, willfully - indeed PROUDLY ignorant nutcases the freedom and the sanction to push us into total anarchy - the "nobody tells ME what to do" crowd. They don't really want an "America." What they are actively working toward is turning America into some sort of white people's Somalia: total anarchy, no government, no order, warlords and pirates running amok, power concentrated in the hands of a very few, millions of homeless, starving, disenfranchised refugee masses, and all the guns and ammo you can eat, all over the damn place! Somalia! American-style! They don't even realize it. Reminds me of that remark from the Cross - "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." But in this case, these utterly brainwashed idiots know not - PERIOD.

[sakabatou]

8. Wonder if she tried going here

[KingCharlemagne]

13. Between you and Zappaman, I've met my quota for nightly laughs. My

sincerest thanks for this little piece of post-hipster irony.

[sakabatou]

15. There's such a thing as post-hipster?

God, I'm behind the times.

[MisterP]

11. turns out enslaving Ronnie to the stars stopped WWIII

Jeane Dixon also did good in the weirdest way possible (warning, not actually a nice story)

[yuiyoshida]

14. Isn't it amazing how one of the most widely loved

and nearly worshiped President by the Conservatives, was allowed to have an Astrologer? The right wingers Conservative Christians of today, would have that woman up on "witchcraft" charges today or she would have been kept a back room secret.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Some of THEM got into it with hotlines....

Remember the 900 number craze?

Conservatives were racking up minutes as they popped jelly beans.

[LibertyLover]

20. They get around the problem by pinning the blame

on Nancy. You know, the whole "weak and evil woman, rebelling against Gawd" and "if the President had known where Nancy's information came from he would have rebuked her in the name of Gawd and stopped her from consorting with Satan's minion" response.

[Kath1]

26. Yes!

Amazing indeed!

Reagan scared the hell out of me when he was President!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. “Reagan was the only Aquarian president who didn’t die in office,”

Brain dead COUNTS.

[trusty elf]

19. You beat me to it.

[oberliner]

30. Can you name all the US presidents who died in office?

Without looking it up?

I was only able to come up with six (There were 8).

[Spitfire of ATJ]

33. A better question is how many were dead from the neck up?

[oberliner]

34. Who is the dumbest president we've had in your opinion?

Sticking to the modern era - say since WWII.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

36. Dubya,....no contest.

[oberliner]

37. Ronnie doesn't give him a run for his money?

Especially in the later years?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

38. Ronnie wasn't dumb, he was senile....

Unlike "too stupid to be president".

[oberliner]

39. Fair enough

GWB it is!

[reddread]

21. good cover for the reality of Bush familia control

she was well utilized for that.

[calimary]

22. And before Joan Quigley, it was Carroll Righter.

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I had a friend who did astrological charts for people (he was actually quite skilled). He followed Carroll Righter, as a fan and then eventually as a friend - this "Astrologer to the Stars" in the golden age of Hollywood. Carroll Righter was still alive during the reagan era - he died April 30, 1988. reagan was in office til January 1989.

In the early 80s, my friend gave me a reading with Carroll Righter as a birthday present. I went to his home in the Hollywood Hills and noticed immediately - the photo of him with ronnie and nancy back in the movie star phase of reagan's career. It was on prominent display in Righter's living room, on a table easily within view of where he had you sit, in front of his desk, while he read his chart for you. You couldn't miss it.

I remembered that later on when this scandal broke and I managed to get an interview with Carroll Righter about that. And I went back up to his house for my interview appointment - wherein I was seated in the same chair in front of his desk. And guess what? That photo was GONE. It had been removed. I glanced around the room when I first entered, just to check for it and it was nowhere to be found. CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT.

[mopinko]

28. i clicked on this thread for the jokes.

i love this place.

[oberliner]

29. George W Bush is a Cancer

Just in case anyone was wondering what his astrological sign is.

[niyad]

31. in more ways than astrologically!

[oberliner]

35. Clinton and Obama are both Leo

For what that is worth.

(Bill Clinton, that is)