If you watched Celebrity Big Brother earlier this year, you'll have discovered things you didn't need to know about Jackie Stallone, but if you're interested in the development of astrology over the past century, there are some things you really ought to know about her
When she was 15 years old Jacqueline Stallone ran away from home and joined the circus. It's the way all good stories should start but, even before her stint as a trapeze artist, the young Stallone had already made a lasting impression on the famous psychic, Edgar Cayce. "When I was a kid my father was a prominent Washington DC lawyer and we had a summer home in Virginia. Edgar Cayce lived there, working as a carpenter and house painter and my dad was friendly with him. When I was abut 10 years old Cayce would hold my hand and tell me that one day the whole world would know about me. As I grew up he'd still say the same things and I wondered if one day I'd be a big movie star."
Stallone spent much of her formative years caught up in her father's obsession with physical fitness. One of her dad's clients was Charles Atlas, the famous bodybuilder. "He couldn't pay his bills, so in exchange for room and board he worked out with my dad. That's how I got into the fitness side of things. I despised it all but my dad was a fanatic. We lived next door to senators and important Washington politicians and there I was, tossing a medicine ball and wrestling when I'd rather have been sitting in the back seat of a car making love or going to the movies and having fun. Boys didn't like me because I looked kinda freaky. I got so mad at my parents that I ran away and joined the circus - I was well trained."
Stallone became the star aerialist on the rings and bars with the Flying Wallendas act in the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey's The Greatest Show on Earth.
Later she worked in television making her own fitness programmes and formed GLOW: the Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling. By the time she met her first husband, Frank Stallone, an Italian immigrant, she was working full-time as an aspiring tap dancer on Broadway.
"Frank was cute but my father couldn't stand him. At that time the Italians would have married a horse if it meant they could stay in the country. But I felt sorry for him and I had to have him."
But Stallone's lawyer father had guessed correctly that Frank was staying in the country illegally, and the young couple's relationship became increasingly strained and unhappy. A friend in the theatre suggested she visit a psychic astrologer for advice. "I didn't know what was going to happen. The astrologer asked what sign I was (she has both the Sun and Moon in irrepressible Sagittarius) and then had a look at Frank's chart. I was told to forget all about him and that it would never work. That's how I got interested in astrology."
Great names
For 15 years Stallone studied astrology and was tutored by great names like Dane Rhudyar and Marc Edmund Jones, protégés of Evangline Adams - one of the biggest influences on the development of American astrology. "Dane Rhudyar was very eccentric, a frumpy little old man wrapped up in his own little world, he was quite anti-social. But he knew his stuff. Very few people can interpret his books, which are very dense. Marc Edmund Jones was quite difficult to read too but Evangeline Adams you could handle, she was more colourful."
Stallone learned and taught astrology for 17 years and was responsible for introducing the subject into colleges in the U.S. "You really have to go to school if you want to do it properly." When asked what she looks for in a good astrologer she replied, "I want to test them. I want them to tell me what happened, say during my Saturn or my Jupiter return. I want them to tell me exactly what transpired. I don't want to hear all that 'nobody understood you but you're kind and sweet' nonsense, I want to hear facts and if they can tell me that, for example, '12 years ago you got a divorce and you didn't get any alimony', well then I'm going to buy it - I want to hear something major - these are major planets and major transits."
Every year she publishes a list of astrological predictions and when asked which ones she gets excited about, she replied, "I'm most intrigued by the medical advancements - how to stay young and beautiful.Women and men should have a full head of hair and at 100 years old they should be jogging and they should die when they get bored and they feel like it. And everyone should die in their sleep without having to be stretched out with all those tubes and things."
She's not the only one in the Stallone household who's in the prediction business. "Today at three o'clock my psychic dogs will be putting on a show - they're going to dance and they're going to make predictions. When presented with photographs or with images on a television screen, her three miniature Dobermans communicate their feelings on the subject to their mistress. During the November elections she put down two newspapers, one with Bush's picture and one with Kerry's. The dog peed on Bush.
The bottom line
Stallone has revived the obscure practice of rumpology, a divinatory technique used for determining a person's character and future according to the characteristics of their bottom, as once practiced by the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Stallone discovered the practice of 'body reading' when she lived in Philadelphia where she also studied palmistry. She even taught different forms of fortune telling to women inmates at the state prison. "They all walked out with new careers!"
But when questioned on whether it must be more convenient (though, undoubtedly, less fun) to read a person's palm, than have them present their backside for inspection, she relied earnestly, "No, there's a lot more to it than people realise. In the Middle East and Turkey they mix a powder with water and lay your whole body on it to form an entire body print. They use this as a diagnostic tool that they combine with chakra readings to determine where ailments are held in the body. Each side of the body represents different facets - you're either right or left brained. Left-brained people tend to live more in the past; they're creative but more introverted. For right-brained people it's all about what's ahead - it's all there spread out on the table. How do you determine who is right or left brained? Well just ask them to get up and walk across the floor - I'm looking to see which foot goes first and that's how you tell who's the extravert and who's the introvert."
Big brother
The more eccentric aspects of Stallone's character obviously didn't escape the makers of the T.V. reality show, Celebrity Big Brother. They astonished contestant Brigitte Nielson, Jackie's son Sylvester's ex wife, by introducing her mother-in-law halfway through the show. The pair hadn't spoken to each other for over 20 years and there was a river of unresolved conflict between them. So how does she feel now at how she was portrayed to millions of U.K. viewers? "You know, it all worked out fine. But I got trapped into that. I'd never heard of Big Brother and I'd have never have gone on it if I'd known what it was all about. They put me on to attack Brigitte but it worked out okay and we resolved our differences. The bottom line is that I like myself. I mean the pictures were ugly but you get your name out there and people discover what you're all about - I have a tremendous astrological following in the UK."
Celebrity Big Brother certainly made Stallone a household name in the U.K. but she probably wouldn't rate appearing on the programme among her favourite experiences. One of Stallone's most fulfilling moments was when she was invited to Russia to train a group of female wrestlers and gymnasts. But she's been summoned by prestigious names from all over the globe to give readings. "I was invited to the castle with Princess Diana, to Qatar to read for King Mohammed and to Holland for a consultation for Queen Beatrice. I don't know of any other psychic astrologers that have been invited around the world like that."
Stallone has lived a colourful, remarkable life with no signs she'll settle down anytime soon. When asked if she's thought about writing her autobiography she replied, "I wouldn't know where to commence - I mean which husband or with which event? Where the hell would I begin?" But in the end we agree - running away from home to join the circus is a pretty good place to start.
Further information
For more on Jackie's life and predictions, visit her site at www.jacquelinestallone.com
This article has been taken from the May issue of Prediction that also included features on: Cosmic Pets, Life After Death, Psychic Parties and Inspiring Communication Tips. For all back issues of Prediction call: 01733 385170 |
