Staff and Contributors

Gregory Ellison is the founder and webmaster of ConsciousEvolution.com, a website that grew from the community spirit developed at LindaGoodman.net. He was co-founder of that site, which was the original and official site for Linda Goodman’s ideas, in its time. He has studied astrology, tarot, kabbalah, I Ching and other metaphysical subjects for more than 30 years and has followed Linda Goodman’s teachings since the publication of Sun Signs. He taught Kung-Fu and T’ai Chi Chuan for many years and is the author of Wisdom and Power: A Philosophical Approach to T’ai Chi. He retired from Microsoft as Senior Technical Writer for Programming Tools and Languages but continues to write professionally and develop instructional materials.

Cristina C. Santos is the newsletter’s designer and graphic artist. A publication and advertising designer for more than 20 years, she has incorporated designing websites into her business as the Internet expands. Inspired by Linda Goodman and Zolar, she has been fascinated with astrology and metaphysics since childhood. She is currently taking correspondence courses with the American Federation of Astrologers and the Clairvision School. She holds memberships with A.F.A. and with Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment.

Terri Smallwood is the newsletter’s coordinator. Currently of Toronto, Ontario, she began her study of astrology as a pre-teen, about the same time she began her love affair with creative writing. Two years of living on Canada’s west coast (on her Uranus line, according to an astro-cartography map) opened many doors towards spiritual growth, including the beginning of her involvement with the various Linda Goodman discussion forums. Currently employed as an administrative assistant, Terri is also working on a novel and happily shares her journey with her husband, Matthew, their 4-year-old son and brand-new baby girl!.

Maria Barron co-edits the newsletter with Gregory and Terri. She has a degree in journalism and was a newspaper reporter and editor for 15 years before becoming a stay-at-home mom. She has been fascinated since childhood with people’s heartfelt beliefs and how they move people to interact and mold the world we live in. She moved to Cripple Creek, Colorado, for a year of studies with an Indian medicine man in 1995, and since then has had the blessing of becoming acquainted with some of Linda Goodman’s friends in the area. She is married to a long-time resident of the district and is mother to a teenager and a pre-schooler.

Carrie Chesney is a student of psychology who is working on graduating and then plans to earn a master’s degree in psychology. She was born, one late August, to a wonderful family of four. She has been interested in the paranormal since she was 12, and in astrology, Linda Goodman, and all matters spiritual since she was 15. As a result, she has been studying bits and pieces of astrology, philosophy, psychology, the tarot, ghosts, angels, spirit guides, and other miscellaneous metaphysical subjects for several years, and she continues to see the connections in everything today. Aside from studying astrology and just studying in general, she enjoys a working on being a leader in her residence hall association, going to amusement parks, hanging out with friends, and overall just trying to enjoy life.

Anindita Basu was born one rainy full-moon night in late September 1969 in one of the oldest cities of North India. Eldest of three children, she spent her childhood reading anything she could lay her hands upon (including bits of paper the ground-nut seller wrapped his nuts in) and flying kites on her terrace in the evenings (much to the collective dismay of neighbourhood boys, since kite-flying is a “male sport”). In school, as a Mercury-ruled student, studies were hardly difficult. Her interest in astrology and related subjects was sparked long ago when an elderly uncle looked at her palm and declared “you should study law,” which she immediately dismissed, as in those days she wanted to become a doctor like her dad. Today, she holds a master’s degree in business administration and works as an officer in a government-owned company at its headquarters in South India. She still reads the bits of paper that the puffed-rice seller wraps his delicious mixture in.

Rena, as both student and teacher in the school of life, received a call to ministry from God and answered it through an ordination that allows her to legally perform weddings and baptisms, although she prefers to use the grace she received to assist the “church of humanity” in other ways. She is the facilitator for Healing Wave Patterns and the founder of “The Wave of Hope” Project. She describes the Wave of Hope as a consciously generated pattern written in the language of the brain, designed to gently inspire the spirit of humanity. Visual interaction with the art form, she explains, introduces and translates this bio-pattern through the viewer’s internal system. The natural rhythm of hope profoundly produces the energetic resonance necessary to actualize the expansive feeling of creative intention.

Sucheta Shetty hails from India and has been active in discussions on the Conscious Evolution forums for two years.