Madalyn Aslan
Madalyn Aslan | |
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| File:Photo Madalyn Aslan-2020.jpg Madalyn Aslan in 2020 | |
| Born | October 5, 1963 San Francisco |
| Occupation | Author Astrologer |
| Education | The Mirman School South Hampstead Girls' School |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
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Madalyn Todd Aslan (born October 5, 1963) is an American-British writer, astrologer, and palmist. She is the author of What's Your Sign?, Madalyn Aslan's Jupiter Signs, and the forthcoming Naked Mother. The New York Times, in its first cover page on a psychic, dubbed her "The Love Guru", and stated: "Ms. Aslan sees subtle detail that others don't...with the gently practiced air of a surgeon.".[1]
Madalyn has been featured on The Today Show,[2] The Oprah Winfrey Show, PBS, Biography, BBC, CNN and other specials.[3] Her horoscopes have been translated into seven languages, and she has published daily columns in The Washington Post, New York Daily News,[4][5] Daily Mail and others. She is included in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World and is the only psychic to have her readings auctioned at Christie's.
Early life
A direct descendant of Mary Todd Lincoln, Madalyn kept her surname of Todd until 1994. She is of Irish, Scottish, Iroquois, and Swedish descent. She was born a 'love child' in Haight Ashbury and did not know of her biological father until she was seven. She grew up in New York City, Hollywood, and London, moving frequently with her actress mother between squats in South London.
Madalyn became legally emancipated in England when she was sixteen, and moved back to the United States three years later. She put herself through university and graduate school with scholarships and by psychic readings.
In an interview Madalyn gave to the BBC in 2005, she claimed her psychic gift was developed as a means for survival in childhood. Madalyn called her mother "the love, and torment, of my life."
Education
Madalyn holds a B.A. from the University of London and Cornell University, (where she lived in Risley Residential College), and a Master's in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She is one of the "notable alumni" of The Mirman School for Gifted Children in Los Angeles, and of South Hampstead High School and of Kensington Preparatory School in London.
Early career
She acted opposite Rock Hudson in The Martian Chronicles in Malta at the age of fourteen. Offered the part of D. H. Lawrence's teenage crush the following year opposite Ian McKellen in Priest of Love, Madalyn was asked to wear a bikini during a romantic scene with him, which she refused to do and the scene was re-written.
She taught at New York University for three years, teaching Palmistry 101 in her English classes upon approval from her department. Channel 9 did a news story on this, as it was considered controversial at the time.
Notes
She had an adopted sister, Cathy Rice, who disappeared in 1974 in London.
She became a member of British Actors Equity Association in 1980.
Her aunt is Marcia Haufrecht.
She has never had a publicist.
She was a leader of Cornell University's Divestment Movement and was arrested five times during sit-ins and peaceful protests.
References
- ^ Hass, Nancy (February 14, 1999). "GURU: Madalyn Aslan: For Psychic to the Lovelorn, Valentine's Day Pressure Is On". The New York Times.
- ^ "The Today Show". NBC. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: America's Best Psychic. YouTube.
- ^ "The Psychics of New York". The New York Post. Retrieved July 26, 2012.
- ^ "The A-list exorcists". The New York Post. Retrieved April 7, 2009.
Further reading
- Aslan, Madalyn; Kalis, Jennifer (2002), What's Your Sign? a Cosmic Guide for Young Astrologers, Penguin Group USA, ISBN 978-0-448-42693-8
- Aslan, Madalyn (2003), Madalyn Aslan's Jupiter Signs: How to Improve Your Luck, Career, Health, Finances, Appearance, and Relationships Through the New Astrology, Viking Studio, ISBN 978-0-670-03149-8
- Aslan, Madalyn (2004), Madalyn Aslan's Jupiter Signs, Plume, ISBN 0-452-28590-9
External links
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- American astrologers
- 20th-century astrologers
- 21st-century astrologers
- American astrological writers
- 1963 births
- Living people
- People educated at South Hampstead High School
- Cornell University alumni
- Sarah Lawrence College alumni
- Writers from New York City
- 20th-century American women writers
- American women non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American women writers