On my 18th birthday, my mother, a woo-woo enthusiast, scheduled a chart reading for me with an eccentric septuagenarian astrologer named Fritz.
. Fritz opened a window into my troubled teenage psyche throughout the 90-minute session, revealing that everything about me
from my nerdy passion with manga comics to my unique fashion sense, appeared to be inscribed in the stars.
A few years later, when I discovered Linda Goodman's Love Signs, I realized that astrology could also help me navigate my romantic life.
The book, dubbed "the first astrological blockbuster," was primarily a self-help handbook for lovelorn astrology enthusiasts
Goodman examines each of the 12 sun signs and their love compatibility with the others in detail.
You don't have to delve too deeply into the nearly 1,000-page manuscript to realize Linda lived on her own bizarre planet
In the foreword, she reveals that she composed Love Signs over a decade while confined in a haunted suite at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel,
(It is worth mentioning that, four decades later, the book's conventional heteronormative framework has failed to stand the test of time.