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REVIEWS © THE SABIAN SYMBOLS AS AN ORACLE additional insights for astrologers when they _ alleged to be the site of above-top-secret by Lynda Hill are placed into natal charts, and Lynda Hill investigations into time travel, mind control White Horse, USA, Special Edition 2002 is convinced the Sabian symbols are an and communication with extraterrestrials. ISBN 0-9580890-0-0 (360pp tpb + cards) amazingly accurate and intuitive tool. Yet, The Brookhaven Connection is the person- Price: A$30.00 + $5 p&h in Australia; acceptance of this rather valuable adjunct to _al story of Wade Gordon, who grew up in US$30.00 + $5 s&h in USA astrology has been slow. In her book, Hill the close-knit community around BNL. He Availability: Australia—Lynda Hill, PO develops the themes of each degree so that claims that in 1968, as an eight-year-old Box 172, Avalon NSW 2107, tel +61 (0)2 the symbols can be accessed as a type of with a curiosity for science, he was taken 9918 9539, email lyndah@bigpond.com, _-°acle or divinatory tool—like a Western under the wing of the director of the Phoenix website http://www sabiansymbols.com; astrological J Ching. She also provides a set Project—successor to Project Rainbow, the USA—Philip Sedgwick, tel (480) 451 3070 of cards to aid the reader and querent. secretive program that oversaw the so-called aaa The position of the Sun ora planetcan be —_ Philadelphia Experiment in 1943. With oa read as corresponding to a particular degree —_ input from Einstein, Tesla and von of a zodiac sign. For instance, the Neumann, it allegedly opened a portal to September 11, 2001 position for Mars corre- hyperdimensional space-time. sponds with the Capricorn 2 Sabian symbol: From what Gordon found out, the Phoenix "Three stained-glass windows in a Gothic brief was expanded to include involvement church, one damaged by war". Meaningful with alien technology retrieved from the to some, but obtuse to others. But as with Roswell crash of 1947 and with the 1980s- all divinatory systems, you get out of the era Montauk Project that was also related to symbols what you want or need to know. the Philadelphia Experiment. Only 32 years Hill, an experienced astrologer, includes a _Jater was Gordon, now a biopsychologist, chapter on Hitler's chart interpreted accord- able to piece together these sometimes ing to the Sabian symbols, and a section on frightening childhood memories: viewing a by Lynda [ill how to prepare and use the oracle cards. time-travel chamber once used to disprove the "lone gunman" theory of the JFK assas- THE BROOKHAVEN CONNECTION sination so as to secure another 20 years of e Sabian symbols comprise a set of by Wade Gordon funding for Phoenix; examining an alien word images that correspond with each Sky Books, USA, 2002 spacecraft teletransported to a cavernous lab of the 360 degrees of the circle—a zodiac ISBN 0-9678162-1-1 (243pp tpb) 10 storeys below BNL; and a meeting with a mandala. They were recorded in one day in Price: US$19.95 + US$10.00 p&h to spiritual, Nordic-type alien who could read 1925 as part of an experiment between an Aust/NZ; £16.99; Euro25.90 his mind. His story cuts out where he astrologer, Marc Edmund Jones, and a gifted Availability: USA—Sky Books, email sky- —__glimpes a "dinosauroid" alien, so we're kept clairvoyant, Elsie Wheeler, who intuited an books@yahoo.com; Adventures Unlimited, in limbo till the next book. image for each degree. The Sabian symbols, _ website http://www.adventuresunlimited- In any case, Wade Gordon believes he was says astrologer Lynda Hill, have roots in press.com; UK—Gazelle Book Services, tel shown these wonders so he would write ancient cultures of the Middle East. The 01524 68765; Europe—NEXUS Office about them at the right time—which would original Sabians lived in Harran, a city on he Brookhaven National Laboratory seem to be now. Peter Moon, one of the the Euphrates in Mesopotamia, but they (BNL) on New York's Long Island has researchers responsible for the Montauk inherited the system from the Chaldeans. been well known for decades as a top-notch books series, provides the foreword and The word images of each degree provide nuclear research facility, but it is also epilogue to this intriguing tale. additional insights for astrologers when they are placed into natal charts, and Lynda Hill is convinced the Sabian symbols are an amazingly accurate and intuitive tool. Yet, acceptance of this rather valuable adjunct to astrology has been slow. In her book, Hill develops the themes of each degree so that the symbols can be accessed as a type of oracle or divinatory tool—like a Western astrological J Ching. She also provides a set of cards to aid the reader and querent. The position of the Sun or a planet can be read as corresponding to a particular degree of a zodiac sign. For instance, the September 11, 2001 position for Mars corre- sponds with the Capricorn 2 Sabian symbol: "Three stained-glass windows in a Gothic church, one damaged by war". Meaningful to some, but obtuse to others. But as with all divinatory systems, you get out of the symbols what you want or need to know. Hill, an experienced astrologer, includes a chapter on Hitler's chart interpreted accord- ing to the Sabian symbols, and a section on how to prepare and use the oracle cards. NEXUS = 69 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com