The Commercial Astrologers
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I first heard about Lynne Palmer through a satisfied customer in New York City. By the time I caught up with her, she had moved to Los Angeles. When she sat opposite me in May of 1974, in my penthouse at the Continental Hyatt House in Hollywood, she didn’t look at all like the picture that graced — if that’s the word — her publicity release. She was much prettier and younger looking, which proved that photographers can be wrong.
      Palmer is a public astrologer who is not averse to tooting her own horn whenever an opportunity presents itself, such as a television appearance with Johnny Carson or Alan Burke. She has written several astrological books, all technical except one, the horoscope of showman Billy Rose. Anyone who knew Billy Rose, and I did slightly, must realize that a horoscope of such a genius would indeed be a challenging task.
      Her life is well organized, and all of her charts are now done on tapes, which are available to her clients according to a specific price list. She even accommodates those who do not have cassette recorders by doing her thing on a reel-to-reel machine, and they have a choice of various birth charts ranging from $33 to $70, depending on how many years’ interpretation you want into the future. So that her clients are not left in the dark as to what they are getting for their money, she explains that her forecasts contain approximately forty thousand words and may be on fifty typed pages. Frankly, if there are any questions left to ask after scanning Lynne Palmer’s price list, it would have to be her age and dress size.
      Living in Hollywood, she naturally   has   among    her   clients

such motion picture people as Mickey Rooney, Joan Bennett, and José Ferrer. Before I could even ask, she said, “In case you want personal information, I am single but dated Joe E. Lewis for eight and one-half years. I was with him when he died in 1971.”
      And what do her clients think about Lynne Palmer and her horoscopes? “I have had charts done in the past and this is the first one that has really hit home.” Or, “The chart that you did for me has worked out fabulously well. Its accuracy and insight are truly remarkable.” Here is how she does it:
      I have my own technique. I usually start by covering every house and aspect, and only then do I go into a complete reading, taking the dates when aspects start and when they reach the peak, which helps me to advise people what they can do with themselves; then I do the moon calculations for every single month. It is very detailed work.
      Other astrologers don’t use this technique; I have my own method putting up the progressions, the future, and what I call the final sheet form. I put all the progressions for one or two years on a large piece of paper, and then I color the aspect so that I can get an overall picture of what’s good. If a client phones me for information, I have it all in symbolic form and readily accessible. I don’t have to recalculate anything. Within seconds I can answer anything anyone asks me because I have it all handy. I do everything scientifically and I explain to each person what planet is causing what.
      I give dates, but I don’t make predictions. Sometimes people say it’s a prediction, because later it occurs.  But  it  is  the  trend,  and  it