Linda Goodman

That is a big question.

Where do you start? Where do you start? Where do you start, Owen? Well, I mean, I started with Linda Goodman's Love Signs.

I was going to say,

I remember your starting

point.

Really?

Linda Goodman's.

Linda Goodman's Love Signs.

Those of us of a certain age really fell in love with astrology because of a very gushing high profile writer whose work hit the scenes nationally in the 1970s.

linda goodman and her first book sun signs i can't remember how it got into my hands probably somebody gave it to me inspired me to my first astrological writing i had a column in the high school newspaper in dallas texas think about this that was then called the bible belt and i'm still marvel that my um The teacher who was in charge of the newspaper let it happen and kept the administration from knocking it out.

But anyway, so I am thrilled that today we're being joined by Karen Christino, who is Linda Goodman's biographer.

She is a practicing astrologer with more than 20 years of experience, and she's written nine books on astrology, including an updated look at the life of another groundbreaking astrologer, Angeline Adams.

And now her latest book is Dazzled by Light, Linda Goodman.

Hey, little lady.

Hi, Kathy.

So I picked it up.

Before I started podcasting with you, that was absolutely the way I approached astrology was, I mean, obviously, I first started out being fascinated just with my own chart.

And then I went through the, you know, Linda Goodman's love signs, you know, era.

Yeah.

Around the same time as I was reading all those romance novels back in the day.

I've got things over there such as Lyndon Goodman's Goobers, which is her poetry book.

Yeah.

Much as I love Linda Goodman's Sun Signs and Love Signs, the poetry is, gosh, I finally get a massive yawn.

I don't know anyone who read that all the way through.

That's right.

You find the person's birthday and then you look up that like Linda Goodman sun sign.

So you're like, oh, my God, look at how compatible we are.

I will say like Vince is a pretty perfect Leo and which is like a steady fucking reliable, dependable person.

And I've inherited several of her witchy books.

She had like Linda Goodman's astrology books, like the old ones from the 60s.

So she was a very spiritual woman.

And when she came back from Sedona, she gifted me a lot of crystals.

So, it's been an interesting journey.

run it's been an interesting run and honestly though astrology since i was about 16 i read linda goodman's sun signs like many other people sort of got hooked on it loved it but the truth is while i was very much into the sun sign and the personality traits and the planets i I did not believe that the planets in the heavens, that this influence could have any influence over my life.

And so, fast forward, and I specialize, I'm a predictive astrologer.

So, one day I was just studying and I decided to look at transits.