The Shining Star- Linda Goodman Linda Goodman, who was born with the name Mary Alice Kemery, was born on April 9, 1925, in Morgantown, West Virginia. She was an American astrologer and poet who was notable as the author of the first The New York Times Best Selling astrology book. After graduating from Parkersburg High School in 1934, Linda started off her career as a radio host for a popular show called Love Letters from Linda, where she would read letters from soldiers to their loved ones. This would be followed by a corresponding popular song of the day. After that, she began writing for newspapers and even wrote speeches for black American civil rights leader Whitney Young. Linda had a huge role in the growth of the New Age movement with the success of her first astrology book, “Sun Signs”. Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs was a book on astrology for relationships. The book made it to The New York Times Best Seller list and set a record with $2.3 million paperback rights. She also published several other astrology books.
Linda proved her work by publishing another book ten years later Linda
Goodman’s Love Signs that also became a bestseller worthy piece. Linda had two marriages and was the mother to four children. Her eldest daughter, Sally Snyder disappeared in the 1970's and police eventually closed the case as a suicide. Goodman, however, refused to believe this after consulting her daughter’s astrological charts and continued to search for her daughter for the rest of her life. She spent a great deal of money and effort in this search for her daughter. Her down-to-earth nature along with her sharp insights and elegance is what set Linda Goodman’s book apart from the rest. Goodman used examples from the lives of celebrities, historical figures and friends to illustrate what she meant in her books. She elaborated how people’s personality traits would play out against their own tendencies. This often made Goodman seem more like a psychologist than an astrologist. Linda Goodman also founded a new religion, Manitou. This was a combination of teachings from certain Native American tribes and those of St. Francis of Assisi. She spent the later part of her life in Cripple Creek, Colorado and eventually passed away at the age of 70 due to complications from diabetes.
Goodman’s work played a huge role in inspiring people to consider all the realms of their Spirituality. Her work drastically pushed astrology from being viewed as something associated with occult culture into the mainstream culture. It encouraged people to actually make contact with psychics and many millions of people now enjoy doing this with regular online tarot readings and choose to consult phone psychic readings to do this. Visit our site to know more.