{"id":33002,"date":"2019-08-30T00:11:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T04:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=33002"},"modified":"2019-09-20T22:07:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T02:07:29","slug":"turning-30-happy-birthday-megan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=33002","title":{"rendered":"TURNING 30! Happy Birthday, Megan!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thirty years ago, on August 31, 1989, our daughter, Megan, was born. No C-section, no spinal, but a shot of Demerol for pain, and a very long labor – 30 hours. She\u2019d been due on September 4, but was born the day after a solar eclipse in Virgo. In Florida, any child born before September 1 of a given year can start kindergarten at 5. My sense is that Megan wanted to be sure she could start school at age 5, so she was born less than four hours before the midnight deadline.<\/p>\n

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Megan on Hopi reservation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three days after she was born, I drove over to a New Age bookstore and paid 5 bucks for a copy of her natal chart. In those days, there was no handy astrology software on phones or iPads. In fact, it would be 18 years before the first iPhone hit the market. My friend and astrology mentor, Renie Wiley, came over that evening, took one look at Megan\u2019s chart, and started talking. Now, 30 years later, I realize that just about everything Renie said has proven to be right on target.<\/p>\n

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When she was eight, we had her I.Q. tested. She falls into the MENSA range, so she entered a gifted program in third grade. She always had an affinity for animals – her first word, at 7 months, was – not Mom or Dad – but \u201ccat.\u201d She always loved listening to stories, being read to. Even before she could walk, she had a lot of books and enjoyed paging through them. By three or four, she was reading. By five, in kindergarten, she started keeping journals.<\/p>\n

By the time she entered the gifted program, her intuitive ability was full blown. It\u2019s described here, in one of early posts in 2009, about the golden retriever she was going to get.<\/p>\n

MEGAN’S DOG<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n