The Reagans and Astrology
from:
http://www.parascope.com/articles/0497/reagan02.htm
Fear for Ron's life leads her to Joan Quigley
Ronald and Nancy Reagan have a long history of involvement with
astrologers and psychics. As movie stars in 1950s Hollywood, they
were close friends with celebrity astrologer Carroll Righter, and
became a fixture at his glamourous monthly "zodiac parties."
Nancy's friend Merv Griffin told her about an astrologer he'd had
on his talk show named Joan Quigley.
For the first happy months after the landslide election, Nancy apparently
had little or no contact with Quigley.
But all that changed on March 30, 1981. John Hinckley, Jr.'s
assassination attempt nearly drew the curtains on the Reagan presidency.
"After March 30, 1981, I wasn't about to take any chances," Nancy
wrote in her memoirs.
Donald Regan would eventually blow Quigley's cover.
After being fired from his chief of staff post, Regan lashed back with a
tell-all memoir, which revealed -- among other things -- the truth about
Nancy's astrologer.
Months later Nancy made her only extensive public statement on the
Quigley affair, in the pages of [her memiors] My Turn.
"While I was never certain that Joan's astrological advice was helping to
protect Ronnie, the fact is that nothing like March 30 ever happened
again," Nancy wrote, thoroughly hedging her bets. "Was astrology one of
those reasons? I don't really believe it was, but I don't really believe it
wasn't. But I know this: It didn't hurt, and I'm not sorry I did it."
In response to the critics who decried Quigley's advice as an atrocity
and branded the First Lady a superstitious laughing-stock, Nancy
offered the following rebuttal:
"It didn't seem to matter that nothing other than Ronnie's schedule was
affected by astrology. Or that tens of millions of Americans really
believed in astrology. Or that almost every newspaper that ridiculed me
for taking astrology seriously also featured a daily horoscope column."
Quigley wrote a book in 1990: What Does Joan Say?: My Seven
Years As White House Astrologer To Nancy And Ronald Reagan
Her homepage says: "Joan Quigley, presidential astrologer" and
"Everything in the cosmos is interrelated. That's why astrology
works"
http://www.joanquigley.net/flashindex.html
Reagan, the Apocalypse, and Fundamentalism
from:
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/apocult.html
"We don't have to protect the environment, The Second Coming is
at hand."
-James Watt, Interior Secretary under President Ronald W. Reagan
from:
http://www.csicop.org/si/9901/apocalypse.html
Even President Ronald Reagan was quoted as saying in the 1980s:
"You know, I turn back to your ancient prophets in the Old
Testament and the signs foretelling Armageddon, and I find myself
considering if we're the generation that is going to see that come
about. I don't know if you noted any of those prophecies lately but,
believe me, they certainly describe the times we're going through."
from:
http://www.fountain.btinternet.co.uk/koresh/apoc.html
According to Lindsey in [the 25 million selling book] The Late Great
Planet Earth, the Bible prophesies a nuclear war in the Middle-East
caused by a military alliance between Soviet Russia, Iran and Africa.
This is taken from a text in Ezekiel 38:2 which refers to "Magog",
"Rosh", "Mesech" and "Tupal" (it is argued that Magog and Rosh
are tribal ancestors of the modern Russian people, Mesech=Moscow,
Tupal=Tobolsk etc).
Reagans Legal Secretary said Reagan had read and repeatedly
discussed The Late Great Planet Earth while Governor of California
(p.182). Reagan himself said "these prophecies certainly describe
the times we are going through" (p.182).
Reagans Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, said "I dont
know how many future generations we can count on until the Lord
returns" (p.182),
Reagans Secretary of Defence Casper Weinberger said "I have read
the Book of Revelation and, yes, I believe the world is going to end
-by an act of God, I hope - but every day I think that time is running
out" (p.273).
from:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/fitzgerald-blue.html
Though some associated him only with Hollywood, Reagan was in fact
supremely well equipped to preach this national revival. His mother,
Nelle, became a convert to born-again Christianity at the turn of the
century, and until he left college he was thoroughly immersed in his
mother's evangelical church.
In all the levity about Star Wars that followed a speech he gave on
March 8, 1983, when he called the Soviet Union the "evil empire," it was
generally forgotten that Reagan was talking to the National Association of
Evangelicals, and that, as the clergymen understood him, he was
speaking about evil. This was not the first time he had applied the word
to the Soviet Union. In a speech at West Point in May 1981, for
example, he had referred to the assembled cadets as a "chain holding
back an evil force." Yet the phrase "evil empire" had a much more
precise theological significance. To conservative evangelicals, such as
those in his audience, the phrase would trip-wire the whole eschatology
of Armageddon. According to fundamentalist doctrine, derived from the
Book of Ezekiel, the Book of Revelations and other sources, the evil
empire will appear in the end-times under the leadership of the
Anti-Christ; after a seven-year period of tribulations, Christ and his saints
will fight the evil empire and confederated nations in a great battle on the
field of Armageddon in Israel, and their victory will usher in the
thousand-year reign of Christ on earth. The evangelical clergymen would
not have been surprised that Reagan identified the Soviet Union as that
empire, for ever since the Bolshevik revolution, fundamentalists had
identified Russia as the Biblical "Ros," where the Beast would appear.
from Reagan's own homepage a passage from that speech::
http://www.ronaldreagan.com/sp_6.html
Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that
totalitarian darkness -pray they will discover the joy of knowing
God. But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the
supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual
man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth,
they are the focus of evil in the modern world.
[Me]:These were the people with their finger on the button
Kakki wrote:
> I'm stil not convinced. I've lived in Calif. all my life and heard about
> Reagan's doing before he was the Governor and before he was the president.
> He was never, ever considered some wacko far right religious fanatic. In
> fact, as you probably know, he was a activist Democrat for something like
> 30-40 years before he switched to the Republican party. It was always
> well-known and well-reported that he was a prominent member of Bel Air
> Presbyterian church for decades. Presbyterians are very mainstream and not
> fundamentalists, especially in the Bel Air/Hollywood area. If he talked
> about the Apolcalypse, so what? I've also had many discussions with people
> about the Apolcalypse story, along with Nostradamus, UFOs, ghost stories and
> the like. I also read my horoscope if it is in a newspaper or magazine as
> do probably most people. It doesn't mean anything. I do recall reading
> about Nancy Reagan consulting an astrologer, but I recall the source as one
> of the tabloids, like the National Enquirer and possibly a Kitty Kelley
> book. As for James Watt, I do recall reading about people being concerned
> about him - but if he was such a wacko, why was he allowed to head up the
> Interior Dept. for so long? If Reagan was such a wacko, why did he win two
> terms in landslides? Because most of the American people were sleeping and
> too busy counting their money in the '80s?
Yes.
Because he had professionals working for him. Because he was
an actor playing a part. Because we are gullible. Because we
have a narrow range of choices, ie Tweedledee or Tweedledum
to choose from. Because most of our leaders come from the same
pool of super rich elites. And some of them are crazy!
RR
> I didn't vote for Reagan, but
> thought he was a pretty genial guy and not the caricature that some like to
> portary him as now.
> Kakki
