 
  
I was struck by the stars in my 13th summer, while wandering through Woolworths with my big sister Anne. A shiny weight scale called to usand offered up a zodiac scroll, my first. And I'll never forget what it said: "Your perfect mate is Gemini." Johnny Halvatzes' birth sign! And I knew I'd found the Holy Grail.   Six months later, Johnny was long forgotten and Anne brought home Linda Goodman's Sun Signs. Eloquent and so brutally true it's laugh-out-loud funny. Sun Signs ignited the New Age and my fledgling self-awareness and it should be required reading for all tortured teenagers.  ....... I clung to that book for two years and read to anyone who indulged me, maybe hundreds between school and the city buses alone. Later, as luck would have it, I fell for a Goodman, who joked that I married him for his name. Not true. It was triple-Aries love bombing and I didn't stand a chance. But I'm getting ahead of myself..      The early 70s were a heady time, with the best lectures just bus stops away. Then kismet when New York astrologer Paul Guercio moved to our town, a radio personality who grilled the Cosmic Muffin and dazzled David Brudnoy. Too cool to us Somerville townies. We learned of Paul's intimate classes, with incense and floor pillows, so Anne and I sauntered to 83 Sycamore Street, to expand our minds in cozy comfort. Life was good.   
In the early 80s Paul ahem mentored me for four instructive years and Anne went off to make babies. And in the mid-80s I went off to make babies,because that's what townies do. Paul said so. In the early 90s a government physicist approached Paul to collaborate on a forecasting tool and a few months later TimeTraks was born. The two made political forecasts at all the hot spots for over 20 years as the Merlin Project. 3x on Larry King.  
In the early days I'd witnessed Paul's emotional burnout after most readings and knew it wasn't for me. Too much dependence. Better to demonstrate. Bake a fish or teach a fish, right? And no one's more qualified to analyze abirth chart than its owner, who knows where astrologers can only speculate. So in 1994, pregnant with my third blessing and ignited by my first Mac, the BirthPrint and FutureGraph were also conceiveed. Trifecta!     
While raising a blended family, I wrote a little, made a website and builta small customer base. In 2016 I began to work with Paul again, returning calls and booking appointments for his podcasts. Who says you can't go back? But time marches on and in 2019 Paul died suddenly, before it was all the rage. His partner departed with the TimeTraks and it's all terribly tragic, but Paul left the world a little wiser. 
Paul was my mentor, tormentor and friend and I'm fortunate to have known him. He taught his students to keep it simple and inspired my approach.He and his coattails are sorely missed. Thank you for visiting. I hope you find something you like.     
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