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#154195 - 06/15/05 01:42 PM Calling Cards by the Signs -- what Linda said
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Hey all,

I got this question in e-mail, and it does ring a bell. I'm thinking it was in Star Signs? Can anybody help answer the question? I'll direct the questioner here. Thanks bunches.

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Dear friends,

For the last several months I've been trying to remember where I came across a passage by Linda Goodman. Can you help?

The subject had to do with leaving "calling cards." She was discussing what message the various signs would leave if they arrived at someone's home and found the person wasn't there.

I could have sworn this had appeared in my old edition of Sun Signs--maybe somewhere in the Introduction? Now that I have a different edition (I gave away the old one many years ago) I can't find it. Was I dreaming??? Does any of this sound familiar? Or might it have appeared in one of Ms. Goodman's articles?

Deepest thanks for any guidance you can offer. I am researching correlations between birth time and personality and would love to add Ms. Goodman's observations!

Cheers,




Maria
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#154196 - 06/16/05 01:39 AM Re: Calling Cards by the Signs -- what Linda said [Re: WriteOn]
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Yes, I remember reading that, but not where I read it. My first thought was that it's in Love Signs. May be a Virgo or Libra related chapter? Really lost on this one.
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#154197 - 06/16/05 02:04 AM Re: Calling Cards by the Signs -- what Linda said [Re: EagleOverTheSea]
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I think it appeared under "Libra" in Sun Signs. Under the "Female Libra" section.



OK, I'll go home and check, and get back.


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#154198 - 06/16/05 11:13 PM Re: Calling Cards by the Signs -- what Linda said [Re: Ani *]
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Exactly right, Ani! The friend with the question thanks you! And here's why it was in the Libra Woman section of Sun Signs:

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Perhaps the best way to get you to appreciate your Libra woman is to give you a quick rundown on what you would face with other Sun signs in a simple situation. Let's say you're discussing the subject of calling cards. Should people use them today, is it old-fashioned, and what should they look like? Take a fast flight around the zodiac. Pretend you're the only man in a room with twelve women. (That should be a pleasant supposition.) The discussion would run something like this:

Aries: Don't need them. I use the telephone.

Taurus: It's rare that I go calling. People visit me.

Gemini: Calling cards! Who has time for calling cards?

Leo: Well, if they were really wild, and impressive looking --

Virgo: I'll have to check Emily Post and see exactly what she says.

Sagittarius: My gawd! You mean people still take time for that junk?

Scorpio: If they're not home, they miss me. It's their loss, not mine.

Aquarius: I wonder if it's raining outside? I thought I heard thunder.

Cancer: Cards are so impersonal. I'd rather write a note.

Pisces: I always sense when people aren't there, and I only call on them when I get a subliminal message they want to see me.

Capricorn: The custom is perfectly proper. But there's no point in discussing the design. If it's not engraved, it's not a calling card.

Libra: Well, it all depends. If you want to do the correct thing, you should have them. It's a charming gesture. On the other hand, using them might seem pretentious today, and the modern woman is too busy to bother with them. Of course, you have to consider the reason behind the custom. Then again, there are people who can't afford calling cards. If it's a strain on the budget, they aren't really necessary. Looking at the other side of it, however, I can't help feeling the beauty and grace of yesterday is missing in today's frantic pace, so it might be money well spent. I suppose they should be engraved. Yet, it's true that something different would reflect the individual personality. A creative person could design his own. But such individual cards might be misunderstood by very social people, you know? I mean, the Rockefellers would think it was gauche. On reflection, who calls on the Rockefellers? Your own friends would love your being original, but plain engraving is probably more acceptable. At least I think it should be. But still -- well ...

Now she's run out of pros and cons, and she frowns slightly, under the strain of sorting out her own arguments and trying to dredge up an actual, firm decision from the lot.

You can see the Libran female is nothing if not fair, and committed to balanced judgment all around. You may get a little bored with her digressions on mundane subjects such as calling cards, but you'll sincerely appreciate her efforts at fairness, and her ability to judge correctly by weighing all sides, when it comes to something that really matters...




Maria
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#154199 - 06/28/05 11:43 AM Re: Calling Cards by the Signs -- what Linda said [Re: WriteOn]
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I knew that straight away, as I remember when I read Sun Signs for the first time - as a very young Libra lady - laughing and laughing at that part...And loving the ring of truth I felt at glimpsing all the reactions of all the signs.

(and I have secretly wanted to revive calling cards since then )

Love,
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#154200 - 07/09/05 10:13 PM Re: Calling Cards by the Signs -- what Linda said [Re: Terri]
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What fun!!!!

So is it a curse to be a Virgo running around checking the proper spelling, and exactly what to say and engraving and of course paper quality...and should they have a envelope????....or is it more of a curse to have so much Libra wondering if it is prudent....wise....what about the money?...and does anyone really read them ? or would they think I was all full of myself? No Virgo could take that.............

Ah..... I related to all of it......heeeheeeee

Dani



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#154201 - 07/20/05 04:14 AM Re: Calling Cards by the Signs -- what Linda said [Re: WriteOn]
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HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ALL I got this subliminal message someone wanted to see me !!!

I moved to a different state and finally got back on-line. Had to wait a 1-1/2 weeks just to get an appointment with the cable guy. With all the flurry of moving and getting a bartending job my second day here...MAJOR SLEEP DEP. today only 6 hours of sleep in the past 48 hours

I just closed the bar and raced home to install the software for the modem...and couldn't resist a quick post to my beloved and much missed friends at CE

Here's some more from L.G. on calling cards while we're at it. Well, okay, business cards. But people do frequently use business cards as calling cards these days. Do they not? Well anyways I've slipped many a business card with a note quickly scribbled on the back under several Pisces friends' doors trying to fiqure out which way they darted into the algae

FROM STAR SIGNS:


But I had heard no sound of the door opening or closing. Shivering, I took the blue-flowered comforter folded across the bottom of the bed, sank down into the plump sofa chair by the window that looked out on the small white cross, planted on the far hill behind Graumann's Chinese Theatre across Hollywood Boulevard . . . tucked my feet under, and wrapped the comforter around me.

It was a disturbing experience, but as I sat in the chair, snugly enfolded in the soft clouds of the comforter, an errant thought swam through the floods of my fear, from childhood's vast ocean of memories . . . my Baptist Sunday School teacher mother's voice, quoting from the New Testament . . . "Be not afraid, for thy Comforter shall come." I smiled, then, to myself, at the in congruity of the play on words. Cosmic acuity aside, I was on the verge of believing it had all been a dream from the beginning. But there was the tape. And then I noticed, on the glass-topped table beside the chair, the small white card the stranger had handed me only seconds after I'd invited him to come into the room. I hadn't really looked at it before, assuming it was a business card. Now I saw that it was blank, except that printed in the center in small violet letters were the words: EXPECT A MIRACLE.

There was something else on the table beside the small white card I'd been given. An unopened box of Goober's peanuts, the kind sold in the lobby of every film theatre in America. This, the stranger had definitely not given me, and I knew I had not placed the box of chocolate-covered peanuts there myself. Where could they have come from, I wondered, unless the turbaned one had left them there when I wasn't looking ? That must have been what happened, I told myself. There was no other explanation. But . . . why would he have done so ?

The Goober's peanuts troubled me more than a little, because they were, in a complex way, associated with a traumatic relationship in my past. Back then, I had studied only the rudiments of basic numerology (I was later to be initiated into this art and science in more depth, during my predicted retreat in the mountains) . . . so I quickly scribbled down the numerical value of the letters in "Goober," and realized that the singular of the word must be spelled with three o's-as Gooober. The plural had to spelled with only two o's and a "z" instead of an "s"- as in Gooberz. The proper numerological vibrations of words make worlds of difference. Again, I reminded myself of my promise to the me-of-me, that I would learn more, when I had time, about this deeply mystical and powerful code of the Universe, taken from the Hebrew Kabala, and steeped in the traditional wisdom of the ancient Chaldeans.

For a long time I sat in the chair by the window, trying to memorize everything that had occurred during the stranger's visit, so I wouldn't later forget anything important, even the slightest nuance of his words. Some where in my metaphysical studies in the past I had heard of or read about those Rosicrucian Adepti (called by many other names as well) who were able to disappear then reappear before one's physical vision by changing their vibratory frequency of angstrom units per second . . . speeding up the rate to become invisible to the naked eye, and slowing down the rate to become physically visible.

I had heard-and read-of such magic, but that never prepares one for the actual witnessing of it. I had not hallucinated. There was, you see, the box of Goober's peanuts-and the small white card.

If the stranger had not been real, but merely an etheral vision I had in voked, then they could have appeared on the table only through what is called "telaportation," and it was easier to accept that I had met an Adept-after all, they most assuredly do exist-than to believe that I had "apported" the chocolate-covered peanuts and the card.

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Now it's my much needed turn to go curl up in my blue-flowered comforter. And thank the Lord I have the day off tommorrow...wait that's wrong. Not the thanking the Lord part, but the other part about having the day off. Technically I have to work tommorrow and have today off...coz I went to work yesterday, but got off from work today.

Peace, Love & Bobby Sherman

Much Love & Light,
Stephanie
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#154202 - 07/28/05 11:29 AM Re: Calling Cards by the Signs -- what Linda said [Re: HRH-FishAreFish]
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Hi Steph!

Welcome back. I hope you've caught up on your sleep. So you picked up and moved all of a sudden? Do you have some kind of major Aries point in your chart that just got triggered? Best of luck in the new locale.

Maria
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#154203 - 08/04/05 08:14 PM Re: Calling Cards by the Signs -- what Linda said [Re: HRH-FishAreFish]
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Hey Steph!!~!!

We were all just worrying about you......your email thru RLC has been bouncing back....we knew you moved......but then you just dropped off the Earth......

Ok...I'll let the girls know and now WE know that you'll be back up and running soon!

Congrats on the free flowing move and landing a job so fast!

Dani



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#154204 - 08/04/05 11:36 PM Re: Calling Cards by the Signs -- what Linda said [Re: searching]
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Yes and do send in your new email addy soon
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