On Wednesday, January 13, 2010, astrologer, Jacob Schwartz left this earthly plane and is now among the stars. He was the best and will be sorely missed.
Jacob received a Master's Degree from the
As a young man, his profession was conducting survey research and public opinion polls, but in 1974 many were shocked when he left that world behind and became a full time astrologer.
Fascinated with the study of asteroids, Jacob published "The Asteroid Name Encyclopedia" and was the author of the "Asteroid Signatures" report for the Kepler astrology program. In addition to scores of articles relating to asteroids, he wrote columns for Horoscope Guide Magazine and the
A founder of the Philadelphia Astrological Society, Jacob was the first Western astrologer to lecture, teach, write and conduct an astrological business in what was then Russia.
Jacob had a PhD..He was a lot of fun but oddly enough said he wanted to reincarnate back as a retarded person so other people could take care of him (and he was serious when he said this).The surveys he did happened to be in Vietnam when he worked for the US information agency which was a fact-finding branch of the CIA and he knew this he knew who he was working for ..he told us this and one night at dinner showed us his passport for one of the years around maybe 1965 or 66 , he had been to pretty much every hotbed that the United States had its greasy fingers in ,from S.E.Asia to South and Central America and a few other places I can't recall. He said there was a bit of intrigue and that just like in the movies one night he found himself in danger and going out the back of a restaurant, hiding in under the garbage in an alley as he was being pursued by two men . Jacob went to an astrologer and was amazed at what they understood about him and he decided to study astrology and make a career out of it he said he must have been an embarrassment to the CIA and that they gave him a pretty good package to leave. He loved his cats and always had a gleeful look in his eye when he told people is religion was paganism . When he went to Russia he wanted me to go with him but I did not want to be away from my child so I did not go.. he stayed there at one point with the grandchildren of Madame blavatsky .. and when he was down near I think it was Azerbaijan he said the only way to blend in and not look like an American when you would take the train to go up north to get food was to look like it was the worst day of your life . Jacob was so good at asstrology with his readings,he said people thought he was a psychic . But insisted that you must allow the chart to simply speak to you . Jacob was a generous person and regretfully one of his students who was entrusted with all of Jacob's Client List when he went to Russia.. that student who was now a professional astrologer himself refuse to give The Client files back to Jacob when he returned to America.. I think he said the guy would not give the computer back and of course everything was stored in there..this was pretty long ago .. but it's hard to imagine someone being jealous professionally of Jacob and stealing his clients but this did happen as he told me so and it made me feel awful for him.. that student Tom R. was not a nice person and had tried to destroy other people in various ways. Jacob deserve so much better than to be treated like that . Jacob Swartz was not a common person and he did not just go along with whatever was the mainstream . Jacob was definitely an individual and will be missed and is missed by many who know and were delighted by him
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