[OG Question: How long have they been called astrologists?]

ASTROLOGIST: AFFAIR HAD ‘SIGNS' OF TROUBLE

By JOHN LEHMANN

August 12, 2001 -- Chandra Levy's love affair with Gary Condit was spiced with passion and intellectual debate, and tempered with disagreements, New York astrologist Susan Miller says.

Miller paints a picture of a determined but soft woman of high ideals drawn to "strong, self-made leadership types."

Levy, an Aries, was "attracted and repelled by powerful men" because she liked strong men but resented being "treated like one of their employees."

Condit, a Taurus, could fall in and out of love quickly, needed variety in his sex life, but tended to keep an "objective distance" mentally.

"They both tended to stick to their guns when they disagreed, which evidently was a problem in this relationship," said Miller, who has just completed a 20-city tour of the U.S. to promote her new book, "Planets and Possibilities." Miller's work can be accessed online at www.astrologyzone.com.

-- Anonymous, August 12, 2001

Answers

New word to me.

-- Anonymous, August 12, 2001

I agree that "harpist" is preferable to "harper," "contortionist" to "contortioner," and there are other similar examples. But plumbist? Carpentist, investigatist, dousist, drug dealist--well, you get the picture. Maybe they think the "ist" gives them artist status.

-- Anonymous, August 12, 2001

www.astrologyzone.com

I thought they had always been called that.

-- Anonymous, August 12, 2001

Noooooooooo. Never heard it and I used to cast charts in the 70s.

-- Anonymous, August 12, 2001

Barefoot, I'm not a pro but, I still compare transiting planets to my own natal chart and planets.

-- Anonymous, August 13, 2001