参考：Jessica Adams（杰西卡·亚当斯）的《2018.10-2019.1.的天蝎座气候》https://www.douban.com/doubanapp/dispatch?uri=/group/topic/126281205&dt_dapp=1
本文由4部分文字组成，来自四个不同来源对伊万杰琳·亚当斯这位19世纪末-20世纪初美国首位巨星级占星师的介绍。
1、维基：https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeline_Adams
2、英国天空注脚网站：http://www.skyscript.co.uk/adams.html
3、占星数据库：https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Adams,_Evangeline
4、美国圣路易斯市占星协会：http://www.aastl.net/evangeline_adams.aspx
Evangeline Adams
Evangeline Smith Adams (February 8, 1868 – November 10 or 12, 1932) was a late 19th- / early 20th-century American astrologer, based in New York City. She ran a thriving astrological consulting business, gained widespread notability for successfully defending her astrological practice in court, and wrote a number of popular books about astrology, including Astrology: Your Place in the Sun (1927), Astrology: Your Place Among the Stars (1930), and her autobiography, The Bowl of Heaven (1926). While Aleister Crowley ghostwrote her books on astrology, Adams is an acknowledged contributor to Crowley's own astrological text The General Practice of Astrology. She has been described as 'America's first astrological superstar'.[1]
Biography Edit
Adams was born on 8 February 1868 in Jersey City, New Jersey,[2] to a conservative family. Her father died when she was 15 months old. Before Adams began working as an astrologer full-time, she became engaged to a Mr. Lord, who was believed to be her employer. Although she said that she was initially in love with him, she lost any feelings that she had for him and subsequently broke the engagement.
She was the 'companion' of Emma Viola Sheridan Fry (educator, journalist, playwright, suffragist)[3] in the late 1920s to early 1930s. Thousands of subscribers to her astrological newsletter followed her advice to invest in stocks during the run-up to the Stock Market Crash of 1929.[4] Evangeline Adams died in 1932.[2]
Astrological practice and controversies Edit
It was towards the end of her career that Adams took to publishing books and raising her profile within popular media. For most of her working life, she ran a thriving astrological practice based on consultation by person or mail. This grew to employ several assistants and stenographers. For a number of years Adams employed Crowley as a ghost-writer. Their business relationship eventually turned into an acrimonious one, which brought copyright issues of 'who really wrote what', with regards to Crowley's General Principles of Astrology (now settled with the book being attributed to Crowley but with a recognized contribution by Adams).
Adams was arrested three times in New York City for fortune telling, in 1911, 1914[2] and 1923. Although practicing astrology was not legal at that time, all the cases brought against her were unsuccessful and the May 1914 trial brought particular notability due to the Judge's acquittal 'of all wrong doing' and praise of her skill, after she gave him an astrology reading describing the character of his son from his birth data.
Adams was well paid by her clients for her predictions. She was said to successfully predict changes in the stock market. However, author Carol Krismann noted that:
Skeptics point out that Adams had no knowledge of economics and that her predictions were always fuzzy, foretelling disaster but not specific disasters, and telling that the market would go up when in fact the country was in a period of remarkable growth in the stock market. People who believed often forget the erroneous predictions and used the ones that happened to come true to 'prove' that she was accurate.[5]
Adams' most imfamous failed prediction was that the 'stocks might climb to heaven' a few weeks before the 1929 crash. Investment analyst Kenneth Fisher has written that her few successful predictions were publicized whilst her misses were ignored by those desperate to believe. He described Adams as an 'obvious quack with no real investment knowledge.'[6]
Related to two United States presidents, Evangeline Adams capitalised on an upscale image to serve such clients as J.P. Morgan, Charles Schwab, Tallulah Bankhead and Joseph Campbell. Beginning her astrological studies in Boston in 1887, she was practicing professionally by the time of her first Saturn return. She claimed to have successfully predicted the Windsor Hotel fire in New York City in 1899, and moved there in 1905.
Adams was arrested for fortune-telling in 1911, and although the charges were dismissed, she gained great publicity as a result of the arrest. A reporter for the New York World interviewed her and confirmed seeing Lady Paget's 1910 note to Adams, which said, 'Wonderful woman, all you said about the King came too sadly true.' Adams always maintained she had foreseen King Edward VII's death, and also claimed to have seen that George Vs reign would be a bloody one, which, she said, led to her unpopularity in London that season.
In 1914, Adams was tried for fortune telling in New York, but was acquitted of all wrong-doing. Many papers quoted the judge's decision that she 'had raised astrology to the dignity of an exact science'. Around the same time, Alan Leo's legal problems led him away from prediction (he was first arrested in 1914, and found guilty of fortune telling in London in 1917). Evangeline, while more circumspect, continued to forecast. In a January 2nd 1927 lecture she utilised the cycle of Uranus in the US chart and said 'the signs point to a war .... for religious, racial and political reasons, in 1942, 1943 and 1944'. Uranus aspecting Jupiter in the US chart, she said, also warned of impending financial difficulties: 'In 1928 and 1929... it behooves everyone to be extremely cautious in investment and money matters, and be prepared for this threatening configuration of planets'. The stock market crash occurred in October of 1929.
Adams worked on a book with Aleister Crowley in the teens; gossip has it that they were also personally involved. After they separated, however, Crowley published an attack of Evangeline's astrological skills and business methods, calling her 'a grey-haired old woman of exceedingly shrewd expression'. Adams' books, however, were not published until after her marriage at the age of 50 to promoter George E. Jordan, Jr., a man over 20 years her junior. The Bowl Heaven (1926) was a charming autobiography, but others were simple introductory texts. Astrology: Your Place Among The Stars (1930), Adams most ambitious book, had been co-written in parts with Crowley, and addressed the influence of planets in signs. Adams' 1930-31 radio show was said to be one of the most popular of its time
When homeopathic physician and medical astrologer Dr. Luke D. Broughton had arrived in the United States from Leeds in the 1850s, he counted only 20 people in the country who could calculate a birth chart, none of them American. By the twenties, after Adams had popularised it, thousands were familiar with and interested in astrology. But was this the blessing that it seems? The public learned only a watered-down version of the real thing, and eventually created the popularity of Sun-sign and psychological astrology. And Adams was never able to pass on her traditional techniques or detailed expertise.
Evangeline Adams was born on February 8, 1868 at 8:36 am LMT in Jersey City, NJ. USA (46N44/74W65). Her birth date is recorded in A Genealogical History of Henry Adams of Braintree, Massachusetts (1898): in 1910 Census records, and on her death certificate. Evangeline gives us the time of birth in her autobiography The Bowl of Heaven, citing her fathers diary. The chart below uses Placidus for the house cusps.
Evangeline's nativity
Recommended: Evangeline Adams' Decumbitures
See also: A Look at the Famous Astrologer Evangeline Adams by Karen Christino
Karen ChristinoKaren Christino is the author of Star Success and Foreseeing the Future: Evangeline Adams and Astrology in America. Her most recent book, What Evangeline Adams Knew: A Book of Astrological Charts and Techniques, (including the decumbiture charts), is available direct from StellaMiraBooks@cs.com. Email for ordering information and charge card instructions.
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© Karen Christino
This article is extracted from the larger article 'Evangeline Adam's decumbitures', first published in The Traditional Astrologer Magazine, Issue 14, May 1997. The rest of that article will be published next month.
Biography
American astrologer with a clientele of nearly 100,000 people including the Prince of Wales, Mary Garden, J.P. Morgan and Enrico Caruso. When she moved to New York City 12 March 1899, she took rooms in a hotel. She warned the hotel owner of danger and the following day on 17 March the hotel had a bad fire in which there were several deaths; a grim success. The newspapers picked up on the story and she became renowned.
In 1914 she was accused of fortune telling and taken to court. At the trial she demonstrated her vocation by reading the chart of an unknown person who turned out to be the Judge's son. The Judge dismissed the case, saying that 'Adams raises astrology to the dignity of an exact science.'
Adams married George Jordan, younger than she. She was the 'companion' of Emma Viola Sheridan Fry (educator, journalist, playwright, suffragist) in the late 1920s until her death. Adams died on 10 November 1932 at 4:00 AM in New York City.
Link to Wikipedia biography
Relationships
compare to chart of Mason, Margot A. (born 10 August 1936)
Events
Social : Great Publicity 13 March 1899 (Hotel fire, newspapers picked up her warning)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
Death, Cause unspecified 10 November 1932 (Age 65 (?))
chart Placidus Equal_H.
Source Notes
Time given in her autobiography 'Bowl of Heaven' (p.27, quotes her dad's diary.) Date given in astrological literature; Karen Christino quotes same date (1868) in 'A Geneological History of Henry Adams of Braintree, MA' (see also Christino's blog entry [1]): same date on her death certificate: same date ('Feb 1868') given by Adams in the 1900 Boston census.
Other sources suggest different years of birth, giving rise to a question of the accuracy of the date. In the 1910 Boston census she claimed to be 47; in the 1920 census, 49. On her marriage certificate in April 1923, she gives age 50 (her husband also gave a wrong birth year). Her obit in the NY Times gives age 59 at her death in 1932. The NY Library catalog lists '1872?' Catherine V. Thompson wrote to Modern Astrology 7/8-1933, 'I notice that the Director of the Evangeline Adams Studios states that she was born in 1868. That is officially contradicted by the record in our Public Library which says that Evangeline Smith Adams was born in 1859..... I met Miss Adams in Boston in 1898 and have friends who knew her there and we cannot understand why 10 years have been taken off her age. Records in our State House say that her husband, Mr. George Edwin Jordan, Jr., was born June 20, 1890 at Foxboro, MA, and his mother who lives here stated that his wife was 30 years older than himself.' Joan Lenert reported that she had a chart for Adams for 1868 but for 9:30 AM EST. Lina Accurso reported that her mom, born in 1871, was a contemporary of Adams.
Starkman rectified to 8 February 1868 8.31.40 LMT Asc 22Pis49'
“This is my method. I note the degree that is rising at the moment my client enters. I then adjust his chart so the corresponding degree in the chart will be an 'Accidental Ascendant,’ and proceed to read the horoscope as if it were the radix.”
—Evangeline Adams, The Bowl of Heaven (1926)
FAMOUS ASTROLOGER
EVANGELINE ADAMS
Evangeline Adams
Evangeline Smith Adams
Photo by Carnegie Hall Archives
Andover, Massachusetts-bred, Phillips- and Dartmouth-educated parents and family members gave Evangeline Adams a sense of pride at her level of literacy in the world of late nineteenth-century America. During a prolonged adolescent illness, her physician and, later, mentor, Dr. J. Heber Smith, taught her astrology and left her with the advice, “Your horoscope denies you offpring of your own. But it indicates that you are better able to rock the cradle of the world than the cradle of one child” (recounted in Karen Christino’s Foreseeing the Future, Evangeline Adams and Astrology in America).
Adams was born in Jersey City, NJ, where her father moved his family in order to begin manufacture of paper railroad-car wheels, an idea far ahead of its time. Unfortunately, the family funds were lost, and George Adams died shortly thereafter.
Her mother’s death released Evangeline for her move from Boston to New York City. At first turned away from the family’s regular hotel because of her wish to pursue astrology on the premises, she and her secretary found themselves on the pavement walking toward the Windsor Hotel. When she checked in and gave a horoscopic reading to the manager, she warned him to be cautious.
The next day’s headlines screamed that Evangeline Adams had predicted the great Windsor Hotel fire only the night before. Thus began her career as the foremost “astrologist” in America.
Self-promotion made her famous, and with this came the inevitable for many astrologers of her and Alan Leo’s generation: arrest and imprisonment under heavy bond for “fortune telling.” Upon her second arrest, she stated that she wished to legalize astrology in New York State. Many argue the point, but basically she did so, going on to run an astrology empire consisting of private consultations, mail-order horoscopes, newspaper press conferences, and interviews, reaching a point of total national exposure with her own radio show, “Your Stars,” introduced by “Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life!”
Her husband and business manager, George Jordan, responsible for her meteoric public rise in visibility and wealth was claimed by many (according to the page-turner by Christo) to be a “convenient” husband, somewhat ruthless in business practices, and with several personal habits that made enemies for Adams.
Her body of work in print is small, much of it contested by her “ghostwriter,” Aleister Crowley, a little known fact until many years later, whose own The General Principles of Astrology (Red Wheel/Weiser, 2002; reprinted from Ordo Templi Orientis) bitterly satirizes Adams as a “fraud,” cleverly disguised as an “essay” on the subject of faked horoscopes.
Evangeline Smith Adams died November 10, 1932 (of a cerebral hemorrhage) at 4:00pm in her office/home in New York City. She was 64 years of age.
by John Waluska
Bulletin of the AAStL, Vol. 16, No. 3
May / June 2006
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