Breakfast With An Astrologer - Walden Welch Astrologer

Walden at His Desk in 1973

Breakfast With An Astrologer

by Winn Murphy
'Slice of Life'
San Francisco Examiner
August 1973

I don't know if my horoscope for the day read: "Break bread with an interesting man," but I did just that anyway.

Walden Welch and I sat over coffee and doughnuts right after his fantastic new radio show on Marin's KTIM.

Newspaper Publicity Photo for Radio Show, "Walden Welch, Astrologer"

"I found today's show more than fascinating," I said to him. "I've seen you on television guest shows in the past. Your appearance with Betty Bethards on 'A M San Francisco' last month was just great!; I am always so busy I rarely get the time to listen to the radio or watch TV but whenever I see that you are on I make it a point to tune you in."

"You Leos are sure overworked with business pressures and too much to do lately," Wally said, in much the same manner he might say, "pass the salt." He continued with a laugh: "But Leos thrive on pressure."

I chalked up the fact that he was right-on about the overwork and pressure (not to mention the thriving) to coincidence.

It was when he said, "With your Moon in Taurus you should be very careful of your back during this cycle," that I gulped on my coffee.

My back! Good grief, I've been doing nothing BUT be careful about my back, seeing as how I recently pulled a muscle, had to undergo physical therapy, and still do back exercises to prevent a recurrence.

How he could find a tendency to a bad back in my horoscope was, and is, a mystery, but it sure seemed more than coincidence.

He also asked my husband's Sign and date of birth, then commented: "He'll be going through a sudden work change about this time." And seeing as how my husband had just that morning started work in a new department with the same company, all I could do was pick up my chin and blink a lot.

I asked Wally about some of the predictions he's made with astrology. He told me of a television appearance on Channel 3 in Sacramento in October of 1971 (for which he has a tape recording to prove it all), when he predicted the following: drastic weather changes for the nation, especially California, with extremes of hot and cold and extensive rain in California, breaking records·cutbacks on mental health finances·In the not so far future American cities will be besieged with homeless people· the price of food will begin a long steady soar.

In December of 1972, also on television, Walden Welch predicted extensive food cost increases with Americans joining together to refuse to pay these high prices. "The same will happen with gasoline," he said.

·Government scandals involving secrecy, bugging practices, and devices employed by government officials.

·Judy Garland's daughter Liza Minnelli, will win a multitude of acting awards, including the Oscar for "Cabaret," and Marlon Brando will be voted best actor for "The Godfather." (I guess the stars didn't know he would turn down the Oscar -- or care?)

"The American Indians will become prominent on the news this year. They will demand financial retribution from a government which they feel has betrayed them."

Amazing? It sure is, and it's all on record and all done through astrology according to this amazingly gifted man. I'm as skeptical as the next guy, but the more I delve into the psychic realm, the more it blows my mind.

As to the future, well, Wally had just done a program on KTIM wherein he read the astrological chart of this country to foresee events for the next few decades. He reads in the chart for America and also in the chart of the world:

"We are on the threshold on entering into The Aquarian Age, an age of great technological and electrical innovations. Computer technology will over take the world. In the not too far future all homes will have personal computers·new and improved inventions in technology will change the way all people live. Television antennas will disappear as satellite receivers replace them·television screens will become thin as books and hang from walls and shaped like Cinemascope screens· Vinyl records will become obsolete and will be replaced with long playing small metallic ones with needles of laser·. Everybody will carry their own wireless telephones with them·Laser surgery will become commonplace·Property taxes will be reduced here in California by 1979·Russia will turn away from Communism·The Royal family will undergo great personal scandals yet Queen Elizabeth (a Taurus) will continue to reign into the next century·Prince Charles will not become King, a son, the eldest of two, will replace him·Prince Charles will be either divorced or widowed·the next major war will come in The Arab nations, near the end, and into the oncoming century·oil and energy crisis will be of the worlds greatest concern·A horrible plague, a disease of the blood, not cancer nor diabetes, will kill millions throughout the world. This plague will occur when Pluto enters in the Scorpio in 1983·we will hear a great deal about The Muslims and their religion·The Catholic Church will allow marriage to priests and nun's so choosing within the first two decades of the new century·Science will take a new look into the possibility that a great continent named Atlantis once existed. Once proved our history books will be altered from how we once knew them·There will not be a Third World War, only the threat of one·"

Well, only time will tell if Walden Welch's astrological predictions for the future are as accurate as he's been in the past.

Meanwhile, why don't you have breakfast with Wally? He's on KTIM radio, 1510 on the dial, every Monday morning at 9:30.

You can even call him during the show and ask astrological questions. He may amaze you as much as he has amazed me. He's a friendly Capricorn.

Just tell him a Leo admirer of his sent you.

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The End

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