To suggest to a Scorpio that something means nothing is as inflammatory as a red rag to a bull, its opposite sign, and I could not accept this interpretation. Upon asking, however, I was told it meant nothing, and to disregard it in natal astrology. At some point in the evening retrograde motion was mentioned and I had every hope that the mysterious ‘R’ was finally to be explained. Nowhere did I read or hear about that ‘R’ until a few years later, in 1968, I attended a Theosophical gathering in Los Angeles to hear a lecture by Manly Palmer Hall. I was always intrigued by the apparent backward motion of the planets, signified by the mysterious ‘R’ in the columns of figures. My true companions were the Rosicrucian decade ephemerides, which I pored over incessantly, teaching myself to cast horoscopes and studying planetary motion. Carter's Aspects and numerous pamphlets, tomes and motley reading, so you can see it was a strange and disconnected beginning. My foray into astrology in 1964 had been induced by Dane Rudhyar's The Lunation Cycle, followed by C. To this small coterie, in 1973, I presented ideas on retrograde planets. The first talk I ever gave on astrology was to a group of about eight associates who were the unwitting core of what was to become the British Columbia Astrological Society. And there shall be a great confusion about things, what those things are, and where all those little things lieth.
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