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There’s an aromatherapy mailing list. To become a member, send mail to and in the body of the message, put         join aromatherapy – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >Dear All, >I’d like to pick your collective brains. A professional aromatherapist >and I (I’m an astrologer)are giving a 2 hour talk to a group interested >in ‘New Age’/Alternative/Spiritual/Esoteric topics (no professional >astrologers/aeomatherapists, tho’ some of them will have a knowledge of >the basics). We’re in the discussion stage trying to find linking >factors/points of contact between astrology and aromatherapy (anybody >out there know of any books linking the two?) Any ideas on books >(Culpepper?) to read or a subject for our talk? >One possibility is to talk about stress (her speciality) Anyone out >there care to proffer something on the astrological indicators of >stress.(Yes, I do realise that is rather a wide subject area but you >have to start somewhere!) >Many thanks in advance, >Neil Urquhart

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Dear All, I’d like to pick your collective brains. A professional aromatherapist and I (I’m an astrologer)are giving a 2 hour talk to a group interested in ‘New Age’/Alternative/Spiritual/Esoteric topics (no professional astrologers/aeomatherapists, tho’ some of them will have a knowledge of the basics). We’re in the discussion stage trying to find linking factors/points of contact between astrology and aromatherapy (anybody out there know of any books linking the two?) Any ideas on books (Culpepper?) to read or a subject for our talk? One possibility is to talk about stress (her speciality) Anyone out there care to proffer something on the astrological indicators of stress.(Yes, I do realise that is rather a wide subject area but you have to start somewhere!) Many thanks in advance, Neil Urquhart — You ask me why I live in the grey hills, I smile but do not answer, for my thoughts are elsewhere. Like peach petals carried by the stream, they have gone To other climates, to countries other than the world of men. Li Po We rise by kneeling; we conquer by surrendering; we gain by giving up. Advice given to Hercules before his Eighth Labour Things are not so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures. Rainer Maria Rilke, LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET, p17

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