Joan Quigley served as the official White House astrologer during the Reagan administration, directly influencing the scheduling of press conferences, presidential debates, and…

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Joan Quigley served as the official White House astrologer during the Reagan administration, directly influencing the scheduling of press conferences, presidential debates, and Air Force One departures based on astrological alignments. After the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, his wife Nancy became fiercely reliant on star charts to guarantee his safety, meaning the leader of the free world was essentially having his calendar managed by planetary transits. It is incredibly reassuring to realize that one of the most powerful geopolitical figures of the Cold War era was secretly navigating nuclear tensions and global diplomacy according to whether or not Saturn was making a problematic aspect to Uranus

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Joan Quigley served as the official White House astrologer during the Reagan administration, directly influencing the scheduling of press conferences, presidential debates, and…

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First lady Nancy Reagan heavily obscured her use of an astrologer to protect her husband's image

Renaissance magicians wore solid lead amulets to protect themselves from the bad vibes of the planet Saturn

Queen Victoria kept a personal astrologer on her payroll

Romans repeatedly banned astrologers, then known as Chaldeans, from the city of Rome, specifically because emperors were terrified that citizens would cast charts to predict the exact date of their assassinations.

Mercury retrograde is blamed for literally every late text

Astrologers in the sixteenth century were frequently hired to cast horoscopes for sick horses

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