Twenty-Five Twitter Updates Trying To Make Sense Of His Early Death
Let’s get serious now & analyze the sudden loss, at age 50, of troubled super-star Michael Jackson: His Birthday? Aug 29, 1958, 10 a.m. Gary, INDIANA.
Michael’s Astro Positions: Sun 5.46 Virg, Moon 10 Pisc, Merc 25.36 Leo Rx, Venus 16.35 Leo, Mars 21.51 Taur, Jup 28.28 Lib, Sat 19 Sag….
Ura 13.28 Leo, Nep, 2.34 Scorp, Plu 2 Virg. Hence we see the following, in approximate order of strength: Ven 3 deg. conj. Ura., dazzling creativity...
but love (Venus) for the strange & forbidden (Ura). Many w/ a strong Venus-Uranus aspect are homosexual, & this is his strongest aspect…
Sun 3 deg. conj. Pluto. Incredible intensity & intense perfectionism, w/ a tendency to be hurt as a child & later replay early problems..
Jackson’s Jupiter is in a 4 deg. conj. Neptune… he is truly inspired & has oceans of faith in himself, but enormous delusions & confusion
4th aspect in strength in Jackson’s chart: Mercury 6 deg. conj. Pluto. He studies patiently, he is never satisfied. He grapples w/ evil.
5th, his Jupiter is 8 deg. conj Ascendant, traditionally a Sign of the Highest Rewards & Acclaim, & Great Wealth being poured upon him!
His SUN in Virg opposes MOON in Pisc, his was a Full Moon birth, his emotional nature unbalances his practical side; family, parent problems
His Mercury, wide conj. Venus = Skillful AND Artistic; graceful, singer, dancer, choreographer. Love (Venus) of projecting talent (Merc)
His Mercury 4 deg square Mars. Misunderstandings (Mars) w/siblings (Merc); attacked (Mars) in the press (Mercury). Must think before acting
Saturn 0 deg 29 min. sextile Ascendant . His fame is assisted by older and wiser mentors. Much of his fame will be permanent, not fleeting
He has Libra rising, a sign ruled by Venus, which upholds pleasures & the arts. Jupiter also rising shows maximum desire to achieve BOTH.
Saturn had just transited 5 planets in last 5 years, the most difficult years of his life. He felt lonely. He had few friends at this time.
Saturn transiting 11th House of Friendship & Associations. He had huge task to perform - come-back concerts but 1 or more close friends let him down
Saturn appl 3 deg to sq natal Sat He questions validity of his chosen path in life & feels frustrated, unappreciated. Tense! Troubled!
More on: Saturn transits sq to Saturn: He has lack of optimism, burdened w/ not only seriousness but huge expense of time & energy required
Jackson was asked to embark on hugely difficult “come back trail” at EXACTLY the WRONG time for such a deed — Saturn trans sq Saturn!
For Michael Jackson, question of an EARLY DEATH manifests in SUN, MOON & Mercury being in harmful aspect to PLUTO. Could’ve been killed!
Or Michael could’ve felt SO GLOOMY now, unsupported, unhappy at the huge task ahead of him on his “comeback trail” that he — gave up!
A matter of conscience? Jackson’s Venus conj Uranus & Sun+Moon w/ Pluto aspects must have made him feel REMORSE like Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde.
That is, he consciously KNEW he was “different”. But the strong Venus-Uranus aspect makes it impossible for him to take a normal male role.
Venus = planet of LOVE & Mercury = planet of YOUTH. In afflicted charts (Pluto involvement, etc), Ven-Merc conj can cause a love for boys
Pluto oppresses, darkens, his feelings…not even Jupiter Rising, which gave him so many riches, can sustain him when SUN & MOON are ‘down’
All worn-out after years of hardships, the loss of friends, people demanding money — he was probably being “shaken down” for even MORE money than we ever found out about — the prospect of 50 concerts, in his condition, must have seemed a grueling task.… so…. one way or the other… consciously or unconsciously, actively or passively, he took the ‘easy way out’.
Michael Jackson’s planetary positions, etc., from Astrotheme http://www.astrotheme.com but conclusions were my own.
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Good story, brought up by Guy Kawasaki on Twitter just now… http://trkk.us/?fmK
It made me post this comment to Scientific American:
Nature Boy
This expose’ reminds me of my exposure to spraying of DDT when I was a child in a Santa Clara, California orchard, and of all the deaths of people that had been around at the time: My dad’s employer Bill Lester, who came out to see the DDT mixed and ready for tanker spraying; Mary, his daughter; Manuel the foreman; Little Jimmy a long-time coworker of my Dad’s in the orchard. Both Manuel and Jimmy took turns driving the red tankers through the orchard as I watched from afar, then ran into the house… The company secretary, whose temporary office was just around the corner from the place where they mixed the DDT; my Dad, who shooed me away from the DDT – “Get back! Go home, this stuff is poison!” And my Mom. They all came down with, and died from, cancer, possibly related to being around the mixing and spraying of this deadly poison, DDT. It is an unexplainable cluster of cancer cases unless one considers the DDT exposure.
It killed everything else in the orchard — the silence, the lack of birdsong the morning after the spraying was incredible — all the big white moths and golden-eyed lacewings died, of course, and the butterflies were gone. This was shocking from a child’s perspective, a child that loved the world around him.
Home! Prettier, safer, without DDT
WHY did scientists ever believe humans were safe? How presumptuous of people who didn’t have relatives and friends killed on account of a lethal pesticide to “pooh pooh!” the warnings now that both ample scientific evidence, plus anecdotal evidence like this, has long since emerged.
Now, as to this “Roundup” — we devise a chemical that kills everything it touches — why do we feel we’re magically immune, as we touch it or inhale it? Or, as our children or pets do, days, weeks later? —–Ed Augusts
Here’s a Funny follow-up story (we need some humor about now!) with element of panic and stupidity: I tried to post a comment, then had to go through registering with Scientific American, at which point I didn’t see my comment on the comment list… I assumed I would have to re-submit it now that I was an official member. So, I did re-submit the comment, with some edits and additions, which I did, in the form you see above. Only THEN, I noticed there was a 2nd, hidden page of comments... and there, were BOTH my comments, back-to-back… So I panicked and hit the “REPORT ABUSE!” button on my 1st comment, hoping the admin would remove it, and then I posted a 3rd comment asking that my 1st comment be removed! At this point I broke into a cold sweat amazed at how stupid we big, clumsy Latvian-Americans can be sometimes. I am left more confused than anybody. OH, WELL! Nobody’s perfect! Best, —-Ed
THE MONEY IS OUT THERE — RECESSION OR NOT!
Even I Like Money!
For the next few paragraphs I will discuss types of systems of money-making popularized over the Internet which are NOT likely to work at all for the great majority of people, often not at all, or only for PENNIES and NICKELS, not from the very start nor in the long run, thus making them poor models for anyone else to use. They are bad examples of ways to spend time trying to go after Internet money. Yet these defunct, vacuous, often enticing yet basically barren and misleading systems have come up again and again lately on Twitter. Twitter is a cool place! I’m not here to knock Twitter! I am enjoying myself enormously there, and lately I’ve been developing a bigger ‘footprint’ than I ever thought to have on other social networking sites. A few days ago, I was 37th in number of followers in the Tucson Metro area — that’s about 1,003,000 people at last estimate… and my numbers are going up… I am forging ahead, I’m developing quite a following, mainly for my thoughtful comments, often containing an astro-insight or two, as well as the diversity and number of my frequent updates… which are often humorous… after all, I’ve always had “something for everybody” on my sites, and Twitter is no exception. But what concerns me right now is the frequent, oft deceptive money-making schemes that new followers are touting. I think I have a superior system which will yield higher profits for much less time and effort invested! Read on, and I’ll tell you what it is.
NOT PAY-PER-CLICK!
First, let me dispel the idea that one is likely to obtain wealth anytime soon by getting paid on a ‘pay-per-click’ basis for every person that visit one’s site and happens to ‘click’ onto ads that are placed by Google or other outfits. You and I know by personal experience that when we’re surfing the Internet and visit someone’s site, first of all, we’re often mostly looking for information, not a product at all, and not likely a service, either. So the idea that people will ‘click’ an ad on a site and generate 2c, 5c or even 10c in revenue for you is not very likely. Think about how many people REALLY surf YOUR site or sites, and multiply this by the PERCENTILE CHANCE any one of them are likely to ‘click’ obvious ads scattered on your sites, and you will find that your paycheck from AdWords, AdSense, etc., is likely to be in the high pennies or the low dollars, at best. Not talking about Google now, but I’ve heard that several of these ‘pay-per-click’ schemes have thresholds of income below which they won’t send you any check at all. It may be $100.00, or as low as $20.00, but — Surprise! — it may take months & months to reach those barriers, and until then — people can click all they want (which isn’t likely to be much) but no money is coming into your hands! JEEPERS! Some of these systems have YOU PAYING “per click” to SELL YOUR STUFF! Is that a reasonable method of trying to make money?
NOT AFFILIATE MARKETING!
Affiliate programs are next on my debunking agenda! Affiliation does NOT work as well as affiliate promoters and new affiliates may THINK they’re going to work! For one thing, just because someone is willing to sell a certain product that someone has on their site, doesn’t mean they WILL be able to actually get buyers for that product! A close friend was using a well-known affiliate marketing company and turned-up 200 affiliates who seemed interested in selling her product. They all signed up. Everyone seems eager to go out there and “Sell! sell! sell!” In fact, only 1 could actually sell the product. And that person only sold ONE, which means he or she earned $10 or $12 only. Whoopie! Would you call that a successful salesman? Yet her or she was a thousand times luckier than others who sold nothing. One successful seller out of Two Hundred sellers is not a very high average! It looks like 199 out of 200 were wasting their time pretending to be affiliate marketers. I affiliated so others could sell my “Get Rich Buying at Yard Sales”, which is now on Amazon. We put the price of an e-book version at $20.00, and gave the affiliate $12.00, the lion’s share of income, if he or she could sell a copy. This resulted in… I believe… two sales by two affiliates on what I think is a VERY good money-making “success story” book. This wasn’t any good to me, personally, either, because the affiliate marketing program ‘middleman’ got a couple of bucks, the affiliate got $12.00 and I got only about $6.00 for myself out of the deal. Some deal, huh? And even when making 60% of the money in the sale of the product, what Affiliate marketer is going to get rich off one sale at $12.00?
Hey. Either a person can SELL or NOT sell. Not everyone can! Sometimes only 1 out of 200 people is prepared well enough, has enough will power, enough experience, gets out enough, and has good enough connections and marketing skills to actually sell a product. Sometimes having all of those is STILL no guarantee, because of the enormous difficulties of selling these days, with e-mails going straight to the SPAM box and phone calls being blocked by “Do Not Call” systems… The sum total of the above problems is why I would discourage anyone from affiliate marketing or getting affiliates to market for you.
NOT PYRAMID SCHEMES, i.e., MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING
I would even more STRONGLY discourage Multi-Level Marketing because, just as the textbook “Ponzi scheme” shows us, these “levels” of marketing which depend on a bigger and bigger pool of new marketers who buy-into the scheme soon runs out of people. Because of the geometric growth rate, as people reach out to more and more possible clients, there are just not enough people in the world to keep one of these schemes going very long. As I discovered when my friend Carl got into a Ponzi scheme with Koscot Interplanetary (purveyors of mink oil based products on an MLM basis), back in the late ’70’s. Plain and simple: When one of these pyramids becomes popular, soon just about everyone has heard about the scheme, they turn up in classified after classified, the subject of desperate phone calls to friends and family, and no new investors are forthcoming, so the MLM scheme collapses and God Help anyone who bought $5,000 worth of products to entitle them to go out and flog the product, and the MLM opportunity, to friends, family or strangers.
So, those are the methods which DON’T work, and I’ve never known anyone crooked enough to be in on the very first rungs of the ladder where maybe the MLM method WOULD work and make some cash before the whole thing collapses. I wouldn’t want to know anyone who messes with people’s hopes like that. But I have a NEW method, which is NON Multi-Level Marketing, and which is NOT Affiliate Marketing, and NON “pay-per-click” marketing. I believe it is going to be a tremendous money maker, and although it might not make a person rich, it will definitely help anyone who has any friends, family or business contacts, bring in EXTRA $$$ on a monthly or weekly basis. PayOuts are immediate, and in cash.
BE MY ‘JUNIOR PARTNER!‘
This is not affiliation. This is not multi-level marketing. It is more like a partnership. Not a legal partnership, per se… we don’t become co-responsible for assets and liabilities, we don’t draw-up partnership agreements with lawyers on hand, no, don’t worry about that! And yet, the closest thing I can think to call it is Partnership! HOW OFTEN HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THAT MENTIONED ON TWITTER? I can show you how you can make extra money for yourself on a weekly or monthly basis by being in a partnership with me!
Here is the way in which you could make $100 to $200 or more in the coming days and weeks, and that’s when you partner with me, and begin to make extra money for yourself on a regular basis. That’s when you get a group of friends or family or associates from work, and get a “Party” going in which your guests get a personal one-on-one chart analysis and psychic reading with me
*either in PERSON, here in Arizona, (definitely here in Tucson AND possibly the Phoenix Metro area for an event big enough to justify visiting in person), or
*over the PHONE, (one after the other! Give ‘em the back bedroom for privacy!), or
*on the INTERNET using Yahoo Chat or Yahoo Messenger, possibly together with Skype, and/or
*a web cam, so we have the complete audio and video package to make the experience really enjoyable.
Here’s what you get! YOU as the HOST, the person who brings together a “Party”, gets 40% of the revenue generated at the Party. Each person pays $10, $20, or $30 or more, depending on how long we agree in advance each “mini-reading” should be, and you, the host, gets to keep 40% for yourself, just for hosting the event at your home or business. Parties bring in many hundreds of dollars! When I was in California I twice performed at the annual Rambus Corporation Company Picnic on the San Francisco peninsula. $600+ can be made at such an event. YOU could earn a share of that for putting one together! Hey! Women have been doing Tupperware Parties, lingerie parties, etc., for decades, haven’t they? On EXACTLY this same basis!
NOT JUST ANYONE! YOU MUST BE A CLIENT!
I don’t want just ANYONE to try getting a party together. How will they know I am good? How will they know how to describe what happens in a Reading or Chart Interpretation? I want people who have experienced a Reading or Chart Interpretation with ME, people who KNOW how good I am, and that their time has not been wasted, to be the ones who will then be able to profit by making these sessions available to their friends, family, and business associates.
My most precious asset in business is the e-mail addresses of my clients. For many years, no such address existed. For many years, people began to have e-mail addresses but I never thought to ask for them, I assumed people wanted anonymity when they came to me for Readings! No, what people want, if I’ve done a GOOD Reading for them, is a good way for me to reach them, and for them to reach me! It is only during this past year that I have started accumulating e-mail addresses, prefering them even above phone numbers. In less than a year I was able to obtain more than 100 e-mail addresses, all from HAPPY clients who gladly gave me these addresses at the end of a session. Any of them, all of them that WANT to, now qualify to host a Psychic Astrology Party in their home or office. Most of them are local — here in Tucson, Arizona. But that does not mean that I can’t do Readings and Charts for people hundreds or thousands of miles away!
THE INS & OUTS OF HOW IT WORKS!
I need MORE clients and partners, and not just in Arizona but anywhere in the world where this message can be read! I want a person who may become a kind of “Junior Partner” with me to SEE the quality of my Readings and come to realize what a personal one-on-one Astro Analysis and/or Tarot Reading are all about, and how helpful and good they can be! My Readings range from mini-readings (15 to 20 minutes for $20), to half-hours for $30 to full hour sessions for $50. YOU, once you have a Reading with me and thus become my Junior Partner, will be able to bring any group together so they can ALL have Readings with me. You can talk with each person and find out if they want a short $20 reading or one of the longer sessions. I can do up to a one-hour Reading via any method your friend or associate would like to have. You forward me 60% and keep the rest. You can have one or two occasional readings every so often, or you can generate big parties with dozens of people, each having a short 15- to 20-minute session. Best is, if you get the birthdata for each party-goer and that way I prepare for the Reading in advance. This may not always be possible, nor is it necessary, because I can work “cold” as well, with no data at all in advance. Let me emphasize: My Reading YOU is absolutely essential so that, after the Reading, I think you’ll be motivated and stimulated to pass on the experience to others. You’ll also be informed as well as energized, you’ll have experienced one of my Readings and therefore be able to tell others what they might expect! You’ll be able to give testimonials!
My typical parties features 4 to 10 people who pay $30 each to see me for 20 to 30 minutes. Yep, that’s right! Some parties last 5 hours! You and your friends can choose to have longer or shorter sessions, for more or less money. You may find all of them want the same attention, the same length, but often one or two have more questions, are in the middle of serious situations that need more attention and thus more time. One thing… I need to be paid in advance at whatever kind of party it is. This means you, the host, may have to collect cash in advance, and send me a PayPal payment. This is for people at a distant location. I cannot do a party where I am working for hour after hour, unless I know I’m going to be paid, and, in fact, am paid by the time I start.
Now, let’s have a READING, after which I can give you all the details of how you can begin to “partner” with me so that we BOTH become more & more successful!
I’m Ed Augusts! I’ve done thousands of Readings and Chart Interpretations. My Readings are valid, informative and usually quite enjoyable… I GUARANTEE my READINGS! If, half way through a Reading, a person is not enjoying it or doesn’t feel it’s valid, he or she is welcome to cancel AT NO CHARGE; I’ve always done that. I’d like to work with you for our mutual success! Write me! If you want to start making money faster, write me SOONER! To get started, get your birthdata (including date, year, place, and time of birth, if known, (so I can make a perfect chart — but not necessary!), and just write me at: ed@edaugusts.com —– T h a n k Y o u! —-Ed
Here’s a total change of pace… This is a look at some of the new, often very interesting “followers” who’ve linked-up with me in just the past twenty-four hours. I sure can’t feature ‘everybody’, though, since on some days lately I’ve been getting THIRTY new followers! ( I took out the silly “Britney”- related ones!)
http://twitter.com/ILAARIJA_KUNGS This one hasn’t even linked-up to follow me, yet. But someone who hooked-up today WAS following him, and I chanced to see the strange traveling squirrel this guy has. Maybe he is nuts. A lot of Latvians… well, you just have to wonder about them, sometimes! He’s had hits from 145 different countries, though! You can see a lot more of if you link up to his travelogues, at: http://ilaarijs.blogspot.com/ He has 84 followers at the moment, but is destined for many, many more…if his squirrel has anything to say about it!
http://twitter.com/lethebashar Wow, I’m impressed at the style & verve of “Escape into Life, Arts & Culture” webzine, which Lethe Bashar edits. I feel a real interest in his reviews of artists, and other categories beckon. The loving couple in the middle of the fruit on his home page makes me feel strangely asphyxiated for them… a kissing couple in the middle of a peach or something! SWEET, however! I re-tweeted this tweet of his: Impressive Installation Art http://bit.ly/nxltO [adding: That's amazing! Why does this make me think of..Donny Darko? --Ed]. Bashar has approx. 6,200 followers.
http://twitter.com/marcusrichter Marcus lives in Sydney… and I don’t mean Sydney, Nova Scotia. He muses about the 4 elements and says he’s “wet fire“, which matches the photos of surfers on his page. Says he would love to be a girl for 24 hours. He may very well be something of a character. His URL, not a personal one of his own, it appears, is: http://www.nutritionexposed.com/ He has 967 followers.
http://twitter.com/littlevixen2009 “Hi, Claire, thanks for following!” I said. “I love your “Cute but Psycho - Things Even Out” bunny!” That’s funnier than the Geico Gecko or the EverReady rabbit. I see she’s from the Midlands of England; ( I will have to Google Her Majesty the Queen for more recent information — because I just had a dream about her, at dawn, I was a visitor at Buckingham Palace!) Claire’s a “29 yr old, fun loving girl who likes to speak her mind! keeps herself to herself, works hard and just wants a good life for my little girl!” No URL given. Claire is just being discovered, she has a very small number of Twitter followers at this moment.
http://twitter.com/BrettGreene ” Change Agent | Marketer | Social Media Strategist | CMO | Psychologist | Proponent of innovation, humor, disruption and connection” He’s from Boulder, though his homepage on Twitter has palm trees. I wrote him: Thanks for Following! “The Real Blind Influence” has depths of fascination for me. The immediate “score” was Muppets “Ode to Joy”, however!” Here’s what I’m referring to: If you haven’t seen Beaker in “Ode to Joy”, you should do so, it will tend to ignite your day with enthusiasm: http://blindinfluence.com/ The rest of “The Real Blind Influence” is pretty cool, as well.
http://twitter.com/EdgarsFoto Edgar Pohevics lives and works in Liepaja, Latvian’s second port on the Baltic. (Liepaja is close to the smaller town of Durbe, where my mother’s family have lived for the past 100+ years,ao I have a special interest in the area. He has 286 followers from around the world, and I’ve noted he posts in Latvian, English and Russian. Here’s his site, which includes several galleries of his photos, including: photo sessions, fashion, reportage, nature, and children, as well as related links: http://www.edgarsfoto.lv
http://twitter.com/PsychicParanorm Rosemary Breen likes to do surveys; that’s what her university dissertation was based upon, and she’s involved in surveys en route to writing a book about psychics. Visit her and log in at: http://howtochooseapsychic.blogspot.com/ She mentioned her dismay that some psychics state their “readings are for entertainment purposes only”. I replied that she might not be aware of the fact that using this language can get a psychic out of possible legal difficulties in jurisdictions which still use the old “Witchcraft Law” to suppress & control psychics and psychic readings. Saying “entertainment purposes only” makes it appear they are not even claiming to have any real psychic abilities. Psychics do what they must to survive, alas! In other places, like Clark County, Nevada, they are both investigated, at their own expense, and then taxed to death with huge annual fees!
http://twitter.com/writingarticles I visited TRCB, which is the home page for this author, who is personally not identified. http://trcb.com/writing-and-speaking/writing-articles.htm I think if he posted an extensive series of updates on Twitter he’d get lots more followers!
http://twitter.com/brandon_morton Here’s a Christian Father of 3 in Utah, “husband of Heidi_Morton”. He says he has his PHD “that is post hole digger” and that he’s a certified network marketer from the Univ of Illinois. Very popular, with more than 19,000 followers, I finally found the text of “The 7 Laws of Attraction” deep down on his front page, which is: http://www.marketingthenewway.biz/
It’s occurred to me that there are several little ‘niches’ where astrology could really help people! One might be in doing charts for the parents and other relatives of newborns or any young children, a report that could be put away indefinitely and viewed at a much later time — a veritable “Time Capsule”. I reported on these during the past few days here.
But then another idea emerged! I saw a little 4-page handout from a funeral home for someone who’d passed away. Although it had some basic information about the person, the special qualities which made that person unique were missing. What was needed for that occasion was a well-written “Portrait in the Stars.” What I visualized is something that would combine a well-written documentation, from “the record”, as well as an astrological life portrait based on birth information. A good astrologer can do a great job at describing someone’s life and this can become a story that can be handed on from one family member or friend to the next. I am the perfect candidate to write such celestial remembrances, since I have done thousands of natal charts and, in a separate side of my life, written a number of books, e-books and short stories. The ability to combine skillful astrology with good writing talents is certainly there.
The use of astrology has never been fully used in this country. People do, sometimes, have astrology charts cast for a child, to better know what to expect, and to be better prepared. Young people, especially in countries like India, are often paired-up using Astrology which examines all the planetary aspects that make them either more or less likely to be compatible with each other. In this country, as well, many people seeking guidance and a “second opinion” about various questions, ask the advice of an astrologer.
But why stop with having charts cast at the start of life or the midst of life? Even at the end of life, and beyond, a good chart interpretation might be a great remembrance of that person’s personality, special characteristics, and contributions! “Astrological Closure” could be another name for this service, and it indicates that this is NOT merely to memorialize someone who’s passed away, but applies as well to missing and broken marriage partners. I know how often, at the end of a marriage, it seems as if the spouse or partner might as well have died; it’s often worse than suffering someone’s death, especially if a rejection is involved.. I want to help provide some “closure” I want to inject some life, charisma, and happiness in these “Portrait in the Stars”. On the other hand, if one has just obtained a divorce from a monster, that WILL show in the astrological aspects and the synastry (comparison of charts). If you want me to paint a “no holds barred” portrait — just let me know! Otherwise, almost always for someone who’s passed on, I tend to be very forgiving of the faults that are often seen in a natal chart. I do try to keep on a positive path and only lightly mention things I see which are negative. In the event of a life that was cut short for any reason, I do determine the astrological factor that may have contributed to such a thing happening.
It takes at least 2 to 3 hours for me to prepare a good “Portrait in the Stars”. I do not use computer-generated paragraphs or lists of qualities, as you might see in one of those awful 30-page computer charts. I do start with the birth date and death date, if the person’s already passed away, and look at all the aspects between the planets and what they mean, along with signs and houses — in the event of someone for whom the birth time is known. I take bio materials and recollections supplied by friends or family members, and weave everything together into a narrative, using my abilities as a writer (I’ve written and published more than 30 books and e-books, as you can see by perusing http://www.edaugusts.com ). I offer a 48-hour turn-around. You can choose to receive it via e-mail as a .pdf or .odt file, or as a printed text on high quality paper. The price for this product and service, is $95. Payment is 50% in advance, 50% upon completion, and PayPal can be used, or a check dropped in the mail to: Ed Augusts P.O. Box 18475, Tucson, AZ., 85731. Please feel free to contact me personally for more information by e-mailing me at: edaugusts@yahoo.com and/or, give me a call at: (520) 409-0370. I’m right here in the University of Arizona area near downtown Tucson.
Do you know someone, or remember someone, who deserves a “Portrait in the Stars”? —-Ed Augusts
It occurred to me that Readings for newborns, like the kind I described in my most recent blog on the subject, would be best, if I offered them as “TIME CAPSULES”. I will describe what those are, in just a minute. Ordinary “readings”, however, meant to be given the lucky Mom & Dad soon after the blessed event, would probably not “fly”, since this might be a very delicate subject for several reasons. One thing is that a percentage of newborns arrive, or soon develop, serious health problems, and some don’t survive. It would be tragic for an Astrologer to tell the family the many good points the child likely will have, what kind of career, interests, hobbies, marriage, etc., might be in store for the child when he or she grows up — but then, the child dies! That would just be very, very sad.
Another reasno for an astrologer NOT to do a chart for a newborn is because mothers very often go into a state of port-partum depression. Sometimes, the seemingly least little thing will upset such a mom terribly, and there is no need to wave any red flags or take any pokes against a vulnerable mom by saying anything the least bit critical of her child. Let’s say the mom is anticipating that her little girl is going to be a ballet dancer, like she was. But the astrologer says the child will be a somewhat withdrawn book-worm, instead. We don’t know, but one comment like that could put a woman suffering from post partum depression ‘over the edge’ into contemplating taking an anti-social or self-destructive action.
I do think the “TIME CAPSULE” idea works! Early on, in my career as a professional astrologer (in the mid-1970’s), a friend of my brother’s, the dad of a newborn, commissioned me to do a birth chart for his daughter. When I arrived with said birth chart on its ‘wheel’, and interpretation printed out, the dad thanked me, paid me, but surprised me by saying he would put it away “like a time capsule” for 18 or 20 years –at a minimum– because he didn’t want reading the description to color his thinking in any way about the child. In 18 or 20 years, he would retrieve it from the Safe Deposit Box and he and his wife would have a good ‘read’. What a great way to get around possible post partum depression!
The parents must have read something stimulating, because their child went on to be a movie actress in Hollywood, and by 20 years of age, had appeared in a number of films and TV episodes for several years. I knew this would be prominent kid, and she is!
Maybe the Astrological Time Capsules should be placed in brown manilla envelopes, sealed with lots of tape, and display some stamps that read: “Time Capsule! Secret Information! Not to be Opened for Twenty Years!” —-Ed
E f f e c t i v e I m m e d i a t e l y, I will begin including a lively, up-beat, helpful & personal “Chart That Baby!” Natal Astrology Chart for Baby — $50.00 value – same as an hour-long Astrology consultation with me — FREE with any purchase from the homepage (Page 1) of my friend Suzanne’s http://cli.gs/uqQ607 — included in the shipment, OR sent in an e-mail, as purchaser prefers —
These are items that may be useful to NEW MOTHERS… exactly the same Moms who may enjoy the “Chart That Baby!” Natal Astrology Chart for Baby.
What’s on that page are: The VersaPed Universal Breast Pump Pedal, ($40.00), the VersaPed Foot-Powered Breast Pump (non-massaging model), ($93.00), or the VersaPed Foot-Powered Breast Pump - massaging model, ($97.00).
Purchase of any of these three items, by following instructions on the breastpumpmama site, will entitle purchaser to obtain his or her personal Natal Chart for Baby. All that’s required is to REQUEST the “Chart That Baby!” chart, and include the DATE of Birth, TIME of Birth, and PLACE of Birth, so that the Chart can be absolutely accurate and therefore specific for that baby!
Mothers, Moms-to-Be, Grandparents, Dads… anyone who wants this wonderful gift, an entertaining way to see what this Baby might be like according to Astrology… is free to take advantage of it! Just place your order by choosing which item you want, and following the instructions on : http://cli.gs/uqQ607 –or–http://www.breastpumpmama.com
A “Chart That Baby!” Natal Astrology Chart is also available for anyone, any baby (or child!), by ordering one by e-mailing me, Ed Augusts, at: edaugusts@yahoo.com and then, or after an exchange of e-mail messages with me, including $50.00 by clicking the “Send Money” tab at http://www.PayPal.com , using “edaugusts@yahoo.com” as the payee. Please specify in the notes, or an e-mail, whether you want a printed-out version, or in e-mail text format.
This is a Limited Time promotion, subject to change or cancellation at any time.
Thank You! —-Ed Augusts
Affiliate Marketing Does Not Benefit the Purchaser — Quite the Opposite!
………………………….Inept Affiliates and Affiliate Programs
I am evolving a breakthrough method of marketing which avoids the silly and ultimately unprofitable “affiliate marketing” system of sales. I would rather reward the purchaser — not some intermediary affiliate and the oft-times faulty, inefficient company which pairs-up affiliates and merchants. Besides, who says affiliates can sell? Just because someone signs-up to sell a product doesn’t mean he or she is going to do a thing! Case in point, a lady friend. Nearly 200 affiliates conjured-up by a company I won’t name, signed up over a several-month period to sell her product. Although she sells her products all the time, none of these so-called affiliates could sell one of these items, even for a low, competitive price. Why? I guess because: Affiliates join… get distracted… get discouraged… and go on to some other money-making idea. So, to heck with affiliates and affiliate marketing!
I always feel I'm about to run-out of books!
I had a somewhat similar, embarrassing experience, which I DON’T want to ever repeat! Someone talked me into the silly idea of agreeing to price one of my E-Books at $20.00, the same price as a real paperback edition of the same title, on the premise that if I pay the affiliates who ‘ring-up’ a sale $12.00 and the go-between service $2.00 I will still have a sale and maybe $6.00 profit. That theory fell apart as soon as one purchaser who went through an affiliate to buy this e-book, then visited my site and realized I had E-Books of the same title available for just $7.00. I had forgotten to remove the $7.00 version when I took on the affiliate marketing program… He promptly demanded (and I immediately paid!) the $13.00 difference! He felt cheated, and I agreed! (Actually, we became friends because I paid him back so quickly, and he said he enjoyed my book “Get Rich Buying at Yard Sales” enormously; he tried out some of my theories and made a killing his first Saturday!) But aside from that — What a lesson to me about affiliate marketing!
The question occurred to me, WHY SHOULD the retail customer, the end-user, end up paying MUCH HIGHER price for an item just because it is sold by someone who’s affiliated with the seller? That’s ridiculous! So, my policy ever since has been — stop thinking of affiliate marketing as a path to success! It isn’t. Not when the retail customer pays too much, and not when the affiliate and the middleman take a lion’s share of the profits.
That’s why I worked-out this much better strategy in which the RETAIL CUSTOMER is the one who BENEFITS. I believe I can reward the retail customer with rewards of savings through combined acquisitions of products and services, at low prices, as well as “bonuses” which the buyer can obtain just by purchasing a product or service.
……….Much Better Idea! Combining a SERVICE With A PRODUCT! ….Or MORE!
Savings For You = Savings For Me!
The philosophy that has evolved into a working strategy over here at this branch of what I sometimes like to call the Tucson Think Tank, is that if a person is offering a SERVICE which is also being offered by God Knows how many others, across the nation or around the world, it would do well to couple that service with a PRODUCT that can be offered as an incentive. Or perhaps with another SERVICE that it is possible for me to provide to the buyer, as a kind of “BONUS”, on a cost-effective basis. When I was a little boy, S&H Green Stamps and (in California, at least) Blue Chip Stamps were all the rage! When you bought something at a participating grocer, you were given a couple of dozen perforated, colorful stamps. It’s amazing how fast these stamps piled-up over a period of time. Redemption Stores made it simple to trade-in one’s full stamp books for wonderful prizes. In fact, I got a Daisy B B Rifle as a special present, that way! I still like that idea! Reward the purchaser with something nice! Well, I don’t have a whole catalog, at least not yet, and I don’t plan on issuing any special ’stamps’, but I do have a variety of goodies to offer. And almost any system of marketing beats what I (and so many others!) have gone through the last 10 or 12 years trying to sell collectibles such as used & rare books.
………………………..Among the Big Boys of the Used & Rare Book Business
I am not happy with the “big boys” of the used book business. I used to sell books on Interloc which was absorbed into Alibris, whereupon I listed more than a thousand books with Bibliofind, which was soon bought by Amazon. Then I ‘got’ with the Advanced Book Exchange, a great little Canadian company, which devolved into ABE Books (another example of a stupid, do-nothing acronym!), and was recently purchased by their one-time competitor, Amazon. I also sold books on E-Bay for a number of years, but found all the little charges added up to one big headache. Now I sell my own books on my own site and don’t have a middleman to have to pay — I pass the savings on to you! I also developed a stock of LP record albums and I’ve always been in a world of art, curios and knick-knacks. All this, I realized one day, is available material for me to trade or give as bonuses for those collectors, readers, intellects who like this kind of material, as I market other things such as my astrology readings or related products and services.
I realized… If I have a PRODUCT, why not couple it with a SERVICE, too? What could be more entrepreneurial than that? Fortunately, I am in a position to do both…I have both products AND services at my fingertips, and I hope people join me in this venture. Let me tell you how I am monetizing this idea with a special friend or two, as well.
…………Here are the Interchangeable Components of Our Products and Services
spin & win!
*EdsList is just that… my list (I’m Ed!) of hundreds of my various paperback and hardcover books. That’s EdsList — Books. I also have EdsList – Art, and EdsList — Music. This is not “pie in the sky”, the merchandise actually exists; most of it can be seen at my Tucson studio. The books range in price from about $4.00 to $500.00, the music (chiefly LP’s) is in about the same price range, and the Art, much of it by myself or my brother, is in the $300 to $2,000 category. If someone buys $50.00 or more in any of these 3 categories, I will be glad to give them a free “mini-reading”. (see below!) If someone purchases an old oil painting, the free reading will be proportionately more extensive.
Obscure & Bizarre Books by Yours Truly
*I have both books and short stories that I have written over the years. Some of the books are paperbacks or hard covers, for sale on a pay-to-print basis with lulu.com and many others are available as downloadable ‘E-Books’. The Lulu.com paperbacks and hardcovers range from $12 to $75. I can’t do much when it comes to “deals” with Lulu, because there is a high cost basis there. But I can give away an E-Book, which is generally priced at $7.00 each, to anyone who purchases $20.00 or more of any other products and services from our wide-ranging selection! This MAY be one of the best and least expensive ways to get an up-to-date collection of Ed Augusts books and stories!
*I do Astrology and Combination (Tarot + Astro) Readings. I’ve done this for 30+ years. I charge LESS than my local competition, and MUCH less than almost all the “charge per minute” phone and internet readers. I can do this because I have stripped-away all the middlemen. You deal with me direct! $50.00 / hour, $30.00 / half hour. Several clients have ‘put me on a retainer’, like a lawyer, at a fixed price per week or month, and then feel free to call me anytime. I also do shorter mini-readings that answer a question and take only 10 or 15 minutes. If someone has an hour-long Reading with me, they can choose $20.00 in books or music. (Buyer pays shipping).
* Kimonos! Robes! One of our family members has been a creative genius since childhood. She turns out incredible kimonos, robes and other fashions… I and her mother have been trying to get her interested enough in the EdsList project to come aboard and offer some of these spendid creations on-line! MORE ON THIS in the near future — I hope!
*A wonderful female friend invented and patented a product of great usefulness to new mothers, something that pregnant women should avail themselves of when they’re about to give birth. It is a light-weight, adaptable, easily-cleaned, non-electric, portable breast pump. This can be seen at: http://www.breastpumpmama.com . It sells for $93.00 + shipping, and can be shipped anywhere. If someone buys one, they can choose through my EdsList for $20.00 in books or music. (Buyer pays shipping). She also has the footpump for $40. 00. $10 in free books if someone buys that!
* Another product is also available to use in combination with any of the above: Web Site development and Web Pages, with a specialty in ultra-sleek and useful Word Press technology, offered by Sun Web Studio here in Tucson. The owner has a nice track record of sites for musicians (pianists, composers) and orchestras (traditional music, Balalaika, etc.). but she can do ANY kind of site — for example, this site you are looking at here (edaugusts.com) was created by Sun Web Studio. A person purchasing $300.00 in website work with Sun Web Studio can choose $100.00 in books, etc. from EdsList! $600.00 in website work? Make it $200.00 in books, art, or music! (Buyer pays the shipping!)
The creative idea here, is very simple: Anyone who purchases a product or a service is offered to please go choose a “bonus” which consists of low, low prices, discounts, or “FREE” merchandise or services from any other part of the galaxy of products and services which our group can provide and share with the buyer! I think the illustrative message is clear… Anyone who has family members and/or very good friends who can be counted upon to fulfill an order in a timely fashion, with fine quality goods and services, (like I know my group can!) might be able to do the same thing we’re trying to do with EdsList and the other, related companies! We are still adding to our line, and evolving the best ways of offering the buyer an exciting array of products and services so that he or she will come back and do business with us, again and again! TRY IT OUT! Best, —-Ed
