Statistical Test Supports Astrological Premise
Study Inspired By Star-Crossed Lovers Burton And Liz Reveals Celestial Pattern That Strengthens Marriage Bond
Chicago, IL - October 7, 2009 -- As star crossed lovers go, Romeo and Juliet had nothing on Burton and Liz, the charismatic motion picture stars who sizzled on the silver screen in Joseph Mankiewicz's Cleopatra, Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? before flaming out in a real life romance as spectacularly incendiary as any Tinsel town has seen.
The attraction between them was so strong that two of Elizabeth Taylor's eight marriages were to Richard Burton. And the actors each believed the other to be the love of their lives.
Research astrologer and couples expert Alexandra Mark says a study she conducted years ago with the late Harvard University statistician John P. Gilbert, PhD, linked Burton and Taylor to a celestial pattern that turns up more frequently than expected by chance in married couples with staying power. Couples with this particular planetary combination are in marriages that end in divorce less frequently than couples that don't have it in their compared birth charts (horoscopes).
