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 and developing 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 living in southwestern 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. A stay-at-home mom, Terri is also working on a novel and happily shares her journey with her husband, Matthew, their 6-year-old son and baby daughter.
Maria Barron is editor-in-chief of the newsletter, and also helps with graphics and page design. She has a degree in journalism and was a newspaper reporter and editor for 15 years before becoming a stay-at-home mom and freelance writer. Her freelance work has won awards from the Colorado Press Association and the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada. 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 6-year-old.
Sucheta Shetty lives in India and is a student preparing to enter the “big bad world” of making a living, hoping to find the unique way in which she can make a difference in the world. As a cynical, pessimistic and irritable teenager, she was introduced to the Celestine Prophecy series by a friend of her mother. That started a journey of learning and evolving that led on to discovering Reiki, feng shui, Linda Goodman and astrology. She looks forward to more wonderful and enlightening discoveries on her journey, a lot of which come from avidly following the varied discussions on the Conscious Evolution forums. A chronic bookworm, she also loves dancing, listening to music and learning more about life in different parts of the world in different time periods. Metamorphosis has given her a chance to do something she always wanted to try — writing to share, to inform, or for the sheer pleasure of stringing words together.
Anindita Basu was born one rainy full-moon night in autumn in one of the oldest cities of North India. She spent her childhood reading anything she could lay her hands upon (including bits of paper the ground-nut seller wrapped his nuts in). Today, she holds a master’s degree in business administration. When not working to earn her bread, she likes to read (fiction mostly), listen to music (Hindi mostly) and shoot (with a Canon SLR mostly). She has been interested in astrology for many years. And she still reads the bits of paper the puffed-rice seller wraps his delicious mixture in.
Frances Firesong Ellison was already a practicing astrologer when Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs was published in 1968, and her astrological thought and practice has been heavily influenced by Linda’s ideas ever since. As one of the original astrologers for the official LindaGoodman.net website, Firesong wrote the popular weekly lunar transit reports received by thousands of website subscribers. She lives with her husband Gregory and their two big mutts Casper and Mystery in a log cabin on the wooded slopes of Washington state’s Cascade mountains.
FishKitten is a historian and archaeologist, with university degrees in both disciplines and years of professional experience. As a writer, her work has included a weekly newspaper column recognized by the Colorado Press Association as a runner-up for Best Weekly Column. For the past two years she has been writing and editing a documentary television series directed at environmental, social, and economic sustainability in western Canada, but she still finds time for one or two archaeological digs each year. She has been on the path of spiritual evolution for several decades and has found many amazing and astounding things.
Blain Bovee is a practicing astrological and philosophical counselor living in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Possessing graduate degrees in philosophy (existential and phenomenological thought, Greek philosophy) and Far Eastern studies (Tibetan Buddhist thought, ancient Chinese thought), Blain also brings experience with archetypal psychology, myth, fairy tale and storytelling to each session. Specializing in the I Ching, and in Sabian Symbols, Blain has written The Sabian Symbols in Astrological Analysis: The Original Symbols Fully Revealed, which will be published by Llewellyn Worldwide Publishing in November of 2004. He has a website at www.blainbovee.com.
Stephanie Lindquist is a newsletter graphics contributor. She is also a writer and astrologer in the Twin Cities and Wisconsin, and a work-at-home mother of four girls: a Taurus Calf, two Fishes, and a 14-year-old Scorpio Eagle who helped write this bio. She enjoys encouraging her young children to read mountains of books and pursue their dreams. Stephanie and her Taurus husband live by a creek on Colorado Avenue in the Land of 10,000 Seas. They share their “crook-ed” little house with a menagerie of companion animals including a chocolate lab named Clifford, a 15-year-old black cat named Minor (Ursa Minor is his namesake), two Siamese cats named Isis and Simon, and a noisy blue and yellow macaw who is very goober-motivated.
The Peace Every Day organization was founded by Rav Gabriel, who describes himself as a rabbi, senior Essene and Kabbalistic teacher, yogi, world peace-worker, holistic physician, and author of several books on spirituality, nutrition, and peace. He is the director of the Tree of Life Foundation, Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, and Essene Order of Light in Patagonia, Arizona, where he celebrates life with his sacred partner, Shanti Golds Cousens. His website is at http://www.treeoflife.nu.
