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because of the placement of the planets in your chart. It’s why astrologers say that a particular time is propitious for a certain activity and not for another.” She smiled warmly at him again. “You said you had a question—”
    “It has to do with my girlfriend. We’ve been dating for two years. I’m thinking about asking her to move in with me.”
    “I’ll need her date, time, and place of birth, too. Do you know it?”
    “I saw it on her birth certificate when she applied for her passport. She was born in Forest Hills on December 26, 1989, at three p.m.”
    “In Queens?” Kelly asked as she took notes.
    “Yes. Her parents still live there.”
    “She’s a Capricorn, but of course you know that. I’ll have to check her rising sign, her moon, and her other planets, especially where her Venus is located, and compare them with yours. I’m sure you care for each other a lot or you wouldn’t be considering living together.”
    She watched to see how he’d react to this and saw his face break into a smile; just thinking about her seemed to make him happy. “We do … At least I do. I’m not sure how Laura feels. She’s very quiet.”
    “That’s not unusual with Capricorns,” she said reassuringly. “They’re not always big on talking about their feelings.”
    He nodded again.
    “It seems to me you may not really be wondering whether you want Laura to move in with you. You may just be anxious about asking her because you don’t know how she’ll answer you. And you’re anxious that even if she says yes, it may not work out.”
    Now it was Lewis Farrell’s turn to sigh deeply. “That about sums it up.”
    “I’m not going to tell you that you should ask her or that you shouldn’t. I’ll tell you what your charts tell me about your personality, character, and needs, and Laura’s. I’ll tell you about the areas where you’re most compatible and the areas that will be challenging. And I’ll tell you approaches for resolving those challenges. If that’s all right with you, I’ll do your charts. If not, we’ll just say goodbye and wish each other well.”
    Her dark blue eyes were still on him. They didn’t display the least suggestion of judgment or impatience. He wondered why he had found her intimidating.
    “I’d like you to do the charts,” he said.
    “Fine. I’d like that, too.”
    She stood up and shook his hand again before showing him into the waiting room, where Sarah would have him write a check for $550 for the two charts she would be preparing.
    Alone in her office, she wrote down her impressions of him on the same sheet on which he’d written the information she’d asked for. She had a feeling that she could help him. While she was studying psychology, she’d read that the psychoanalyst C. G. Jung, one of Freud’s disciples, had used astrology as well as psychology to help his patients. Jung had said that astrology contained all that the ancient world had learned about human psychology and behavior. She’d already learned astrology from her grandmother, and she believed that Jung was right; there was wisdom in astrology just as there was in contemporary psychology.
    A true astrologer didn’t focus only on identifying the influence of the planets’ positions at a given time on the different parts of a person’s life—love and work, to use Freud’s famous words—or on looking at future potentialities in those areas; a true astrologer used the positions of the planets and moon at the time of a person’s birth as a tool to analyze personality and character, to learn about that person’s potential talents, strengths, and weaknesses. As Jung had put it, “We are born at a given moment in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born.”
    Astrology and psychology were both means of helping people. And that was what Kelly loved doing; helping people gave her life purpose, and she needed purpose,