This is the envelope for Myra Kingsley's 1935 horoscope for any Aries person born on April 8th of any year. Inside is an 11 x 17 inch sheet of paper, printed on both sides, folded down to make a 4-page 8 1/2 x 11 pamphlet, and then folded down again to make a 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 piece that fits inside the envelope. When unfolded, page 1 gives the birth date and one paragraph of predictions for clients born on April 8th with respect to trouble in financial matters -- this was during the Depression -- and hope for some "business advances" by the end of the year. The rest of the page gives lucky and unlucky days for the year, as well as "good years" and "bad years." 1938 would be a bad year, and the first good year would be 1940. 1945 would be a year of change, 1948 would be a good year, and 1952 would bring bad changes. Pages 2 and 3 are general Sun-sign readings for Aries. Page 4 contains Aries keywords and correspondences, nations and cities founded with the Sun in Aries, and compatible signs. An idealized and prettily retouched photo of Myra Kingsley, a beautiful white woman with a swan-like neck and blonde curls piled high on her head, accompanies a brief bio, in which it is noted that she is "a member of a prominent New York family, a college woman of unusual talent who has travelled widely throughout the world studying astrology." Her office was at 232 Madison Avenue, New York City, New York. The booklet was copyright 1935 M.K. and the envelope bore the name of the printer Engel - van Wiseman, Inc., New York, N.Y. Almira Kingsley, a lovely Libra, was born on October 1st, 1897, to Susan May (called Susie" or "Mary") Buek and William Morgan Kingsley. The couple divorced in 1921. In 1914, Mary, a Theosophist, had taken Myra to the noted astrologer Evangeline Adams, who predicted that she would develop her musical talent, but would find true fame as an astrologer. Myra studied music and also trained with the San Francisco astrologer Milton P. Ropp. By 1925 she was a professional astrologer. She married in 1921 to George Houston and divorced him in 1927. She then lived with her mother in a Berkeley house custom-designed by the famous architect Bernard Maybeck. When Evangeline Adams died in 1932, the columnist Lucius Beebe wrote, "The successor to Evangeline Adams as New York's court astrologer is Myra Kingsley, and the great world accepts her in this high office." In 1934 the New York Times announced her marriage to Howard L. Taylor, "Musical Manager;" in 1936 they lived at 136 E. 67th St. in New York City. They later divorced, with no children. Kingsley was by then a well-known celebrity astrologer, with a Monday-through-Friday radio show on the Mutual Broadcasting Network. Articles and photo spreads about her appeared in magazines throughout the late 1930s. She moved back to California in 1940 to live with her mother in Berkeley until her mother's death in the early 1940s. She then returned to New York. In 1951 Duell, Sloan and Pearce published her 240 page book "Outrageous Fortune: How I Practice Astrology." She died in Florida on November 20th, 1996 at the age of 99. (Photo by Nagasiva Yronwode.)
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