Neville Lancelot Goddard

Neville Lancelot Goddard was an old soul who taught that the imagination itself is God, and that every one of us is the divine reawakening to its own nature. Born in Barbados in 1905, the fourth of ten children, he sailed to New York at seventeen to study drama and danced at the Hippodrome before metaphysics claimed him. Mentored by the enigmatic Ethiopian rabbi Abdullah, who opened the Kabbalah and Hebrew to him, he began lecturing in 1938, read the Bible as pure parable rather than history, and reached hundreds of thousands through his 1950s Los Angeles television broadcasts. His fingerprints sit on later teachers from Rhonda Byrne to Wayne Dyer.

His chart is beautifully suited to the work. A Pisces Sun in the third house is the walking, talking mystic who shines by communicating the unseen, the sponge attuned to the human condition. A Virgo Moon in the ninth grounds that mysticism in meticulous teaching and a mind fed by philosophy and lineage. Over it all sits a Sagittarius Ascendant, the jovial wandering preacher whose whole life was one long lecture. He was, quite simply, the dreamer who came to remind us we are dreaming.