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Astrology and metaphysics in the White House
By Cara Schulz | March 10, 2016
While most media outlets and private citizens are remembering former First Lady Nancy Reagan for her political stances, almost forgotten is one of the most controversial revelations of her stint in the White House – that her consultations with an astrologer heavily influenced President Ronald Reagan. In 1988, Reagan's former Chief of Staff Donald Regan included a bombshell in his book For the Record that Nancy consulted Astrologer Joan Quigley. He wrote that, "Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House Chief of Staff was cleared in advance with a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in a favorable alignment for the enterprise." Regan noted that those moves included setting the timing for summit meetings, presidential debates, the timing and date of State of the Union addresses, and every takeoff and landing of Air Force One. Nancy kept Quigley on a $3000 a month retainer and consulted her by phone up to 2 or 3 times a day.
By Jason Pitzl-Waters | January 6, 2014
There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to round them all up. Salon.com has run an excerpt from Mitch Horowitz's new book "One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life," focusing on how former U.S. President Ronald Reagan was influenced by Manly P. Hall. Quote: "Ronald Reagan often spoke of America's divine purpose and of a mysterious plan behind the nation's founding. 'You can call it mysticism if you want to,' he told the Conservative Political Action Conference in 1974, 'but I have always believed that there was some divine plan that placed this great continent between two oceans to be sought out by those who were possessed of an abiding love of freedom and a special kind of courage.'