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 Copyright 1985 Chicago Tribune Company
 Chicago Tribune
 October 25,                1985 Friday,  SPORTS FINAL EDITION
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 HEADLINE: MANY VARIATIONS IN READING SIGNS
 BYLINE: By Robert Wolf.
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 According to Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary,  "occult"
 means  "1:  not revealed:  SECRET 2: ABSTRUSE, MYSTERIOUS 3: not able to be seen
 or detected: CONCEALED 4: of or relating to supernatural agencies, their
 effects, and knowledge of them."
 Satanism, while it is a small part of the occult,  is not the part we are
 dealing with in these stories.  (None of the occultists interviewed for these
 articles were satanists.) Serious occultists divide into two groups, those who
 follow the left-hand way and those who follow the right-hand way. The left-
 hand way ("left" in Latin is "sinister") use occult powers for bad
 purposes. Those who follow the right-hand way use it for positive self-
 development. Many people, of course, use some of these occult arts for
 harmless entertainment; if you've ever checked your horoscope in the paper,
 you're one of them.
 One more thing must be said. Up until the 17th Century, much occult
 speculation was considered mainline science. A number of the people who
 ushered in the scientific revolution pursued various occult speculations.
 Issac Newton,  for example, spent about as much time investigating alchemy as
 he did celestial mechanics. Obviously, as academicians would say, the
 scientific paradigm since has shifted.
 Occult thought covers a wide territory, including metaphysics,
 reincarnation,  lost civilizations  (Atlantis and the antediluvian age),
 geomancy, numerology, palmistry, phrenology, alchemy, magic, sacred geometry,
 witchcraft and many other subjects.
 Following are some of the most common forms of prognostication practiced
 by occultists. Competent readers in these arts do not want their clients to
 use their readings as a crutch, nor do they pretend to give more than a
 general guide to trends  (clairvoyants excepted). Nevertheless, the following
 is offered without endorsement; let the buyer beware:
 Astrology
 No competent astrologer will pretend to tell you exactly what the future
 will bring you. What astrologers do claim to be able to do is to forecast
 trends. As with most occult divination,  intuition plays a heavy role.
 Astrologers split into two camps, those who follow sideral astrology (an
 astrology based on the fixed positions of the stars) and those who practice
 tropical astrology (an astrology based on the zodiac.) Most astrologers follow
 the latter system.
 To understand it, you must know that the zodiac is based on the apparent
 path of the sun, which describes a great circle--the ecliptic--tilted on an
 angle 24 degrees off the equator. Imagine two other circles, one above and one
 below the ecliptic. Divide the band that these two circles describe into 12
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 equal rectangles and you have the 12 houses of the sun, each with its own
 constellation. Taurus, Libra, Sagittarius, etc., all are sun signs, and the
 sun spends 1/12 of each year in each of them. Thus a person born while the sun
 passes through Capricorn is said to come under Capricorn's influence.
 The laughable simplicity and error in the daily horoscopes published in
 newspapers is due to the fact that they are written by astrologers who are
 taking only sun houses into account. A good astrologer will be able to intuit
 certain facts about his client's character and possible future trends in his
 life based not only on the individual's sun sign but also the relative
 positions of all the planets and the moon at the time of his client's birth.
 The angle formed by any two planets with the Earth is said to exert a
 particular influence. Influence varies with planets and angles.
 What a client might experience at a given time in the future is
 determined by calculating the position of the sun, moon and planets for that
 time and by comparing them to the angles at his time of birth.
 Tarot cards
 Many claim to know the history of tarot cards, and accounts of their
 origins vary. Some say the gypsies brought them out of ancient Egypt and
 introduced them to Europe in the 14th Century. Others say the Knights Templar
 came upon them in the Middle East during the Crusades. Some say they are a
 pictorial encyclopedia of wisdom in which all the secrets of the world are
 hidden. Adherents of this theory say the cards originated in ancient Egypt and
 attribute their creation to the god Thoth.
 The deck consists of three sets of cards. The first is the zero card, the
 Fool. The second is comprised of cards numbered 1 through 21, on each of which
 is depicted a figure. These include the famous Hanged Man, the Emperor, the
 Hermit, etc. This set, along with the Fool,  is known as the major arcana. The
 third set is known as the minor arcana. it is composed of four suits--wands,
 cups, swords and pentacles--each of which has its own attributes. Pentacles,
 for example, are said to represent riches, but not just money. Cups represent
 love. Each of the cards of the major arcana also are given attributes, but
 good readers will intuit their own meanings for each.
 Cards are shuffled before a reading and 13 are dealt out in a peculiar
 pattern. A preponderance of any one suit indicates to some readers that the
 attributes of that suit are currently active in the person's life. The
 presence of particular members of the major arcana indicate other influences
 or energies. What is difficult to understand, of course,  is how so many
 divergent interpretations of individual cards could result in an accurate
 reading. At least one modern critic has invoked the Jungian notion of the
 collective unconscious to explain the cards' efficacy, but that notion rests
 upon a fixed meaning for each of the major arcana.
 Modern-day playing cards are descendants of the tarot deck.
 The I Ching
 The I Ching, or Book of Changes, originated in China. Confucius, who
 lived approximately 2,500 years ago, valued the book highly and placed its
 origins in antiquity. It is an extremely difficult work to use, relying
 heavily upon the inquirer's intuition.
 The work is based upon the two polar, but not contradictory, principles
 governing all manifestation--yin and yang. Yin is the feminine principle,
 dark, earthy, passive. Yang is the masculine principle,  light, active,
 heavenly. The I Ching represents yin with a broken line, yang with an unbroken
 line. Varying combinations of these lines in groups of six are called
 hexagrams. There are a total of 64 hexagrams, including one whose lines are
 all yin and one whose lines are all yang. These hexagrams are taken to
 represent all possible given situations. Consulting the I Ching is a matter of
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 throwing yarrow stalks or coins to determine which hexagram pertains to your
 current situation. To complicate matters, there are what are known as changing
 lines. These can be either yin or yang lines which must be changed to their
 opposite. The more changing lines that appear in your hexagram, the more
 change is indicated in your situation.
 As indicated above, the difficulty in consulting the I Ching lies in the
 difficulty in interpreting the hexagrams, which are couched in language
 unfamiliar to Westerners. The mathematical aspects of the I Ching greatly
 intrigued the German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz,  for they
 coincided with his own binary system of mathematics. In our time, the Swiss
 psychologist Carl Jung attested to its divinatory powers.
 Clairvoyance
 Psychic Wayne St. John says that "to learn psychic ability you have to
 go into deep meditation,  into silence, and let the spirit come through. The
 spirit will come through with a small inner voice inside your inner mind
 saying things like names, giving feelings about things that will happen and
 occur unexpectedly and suddenly. The spirit will talk about the future, past,
 and present. Names will just come out of your mouth and you have to try to put
 this puzzle together that the spirit is trying to say. Sometimes its mumbo
 jumbo and sometimes the spirit comes stronger within you and you get the
 message right.
 "Let's say someone has an accident. They would see in their mind and in
 their soul a vehicle. They would see a color, or they would see an hour, or a
 time, which would represent a number. The gift, a feeling and buzzing in your
 ear. These are signs of how you develop your psychic ability. Now myself, I
 was born a natural psychic.
 The mediumship is very, very difficult. A lot of psychics go through a
 lot of very heavy karma, bad and good. Your true psychic, true reader, will
 suffer a lot and tell nobody of it. It's just like St. Bernadette, the one who
 saw the appearance of the Blessed Mother. She suffered, told nobody of it, and
 then at the end when she was going to die, she said she had the tumor in the
 leg. She had the leukemia in the leg, okay?  Mediums, clairvoyants, things of
 this nature, they suffer in their own way. Everyone has a cross on this Earth
 to carry. Mediumship is very special. God uses us as his veins to help the
 people. You can learn to develop this psychic ability, but it takes a while.
 This practice is very, very deep.
 "Listen to your dreams. Your dreams can be significant.  .  .Some people
 fear (their own psychic ability). This fear has to leave because it is
 negative. If they allow the positive and the Word of God and Jesus to come
 into their soul and mind,  it  (psychic ability) will come through with them."
 HALLOWEEN'S ORIGINS
 Halloween had its beginning in the world of the occult. For the ancient
 Celts, the year ended Oct. 31. According to pagan tradition, that is the day
 when the veil between this world and the spirit world is thinnest. Perhaps it
 is for that reason that pagans say the 31st--All Hallows Eve--is the best time
 of year for divination and that on that night all spirits walk abroad.
 Jack-o'-lanterns were carved with hideous expressions in hopes of
 frightening the evil spirits. The habit of wearing Halloween costumes arose
 because people wanted to confuse these spirits. A rich man,  for example, might
 dress in rags. Also on that night, pagans remember dead relatives and friends
 who died that year by setting out food for them at meals.
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