What people have said about the TO8

"..amazing really. I have a friend who was born on the same day and who appears to be very different. When we got down to it, we turned out to have all the essential stuff in common.." J. Sellars, Manchester

"This TO8 really rocks!" Alison Gregg, Santa Fe

"..I found it very interesting. Ordinary astrology has always seemed so arbitrary and kind of old fashioned. This theory appeals to my rational side as well as the mysterious side of me..." Luke Windle, Bristol

"..I think your analysis of my husband was absolutely spot on. Mine was pretty good but not quite so obvious - maybe it is harder to judge one's own personality.." C. Howard, London

"..I dig your TO8 website very much - the brand new astrology for the new age. Cool! I definitely recognized certain character traits and personalities.." Chris Brandon, New York

From RC, India, 16 September 2001, in response to a TO8 analysis

hi ank,

well you judged almost everything right about me.i consulted almost 20 persons in this (experts) site be it counsellors, phsycics,therapists.
i visited even counsellors in my city but to little avail.
ur absolutely right about me.....thanks a lot.

From AY, New Mexico, February 2002, in response to a TO8 analysis of new job prospects.

How do you always get it so right? ...Tomorrow, however, we have a meeting to outline a contract. I
was worried about it, and the timing of your letter was perfect. Thank you. It made me so happy, so relieved. ... You gave me the perfect leverage to use. ... That's why I was worried about how to negotiate in the meeting tomorrow. Now I have a better idea. You are truly amazing, I must repeat. I mean, how do you know? It was all dead accurate. If I had a lot of money, I'd pay to throw you dates of friends just so I could be impressed. Thank you, again. I'll let you know how the meeting goes.

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by Trevanian, best-selling author of The Eiger Sanction, Shibumi, Incident at 20-Mile, Hot Night in the City

I have another gift for you. A website.

Among those non-logical (perhaps sur-logical) things that I prefer not to batter my logical brain against, but nevertheless must accept on a certain level and to a certain degree because of personal experience or testimony from people whose judgement I admire and whose honesty I respect are accounts of mothers who have displayed extraordinary--indeed super-human—strength at moments of danger to their children, and stories of premonition and extra-sensory communication. I recently came upon a phenomenon of this extra-logical sort through a friend, a crisp-minded, no-nonsense playwright in Paris. It's called the TO8 (Theory of Eight), and it is new and all but unknown in the wider world. This TO8 provides insights into human strength and weaknesses, into character, into potentials for successful interactions with other people. ..all this based on the moment of your birth. At first glance, this is not unlike astrology. But those who have found the twelve pat, inadequate personality sets that are the basis of conventional astrology to be of little value, save as a device for losers in the Seventies to pick up other losers in singles bars, have found the insights offered through the TO8 to be rich, subtle, flexible, and above all, uncannily accurate. Often uncomfortably accurate, as I can affirm from experience. My playwright friend had heard about the TO8 from somewhere, and, happening to know the birth date of a man she was considering taking on as her agent (she had met him at a birthday party for him) she followed a caprice and sought to find out more about him by contacting the TO8 website. She also asked for an analysis of her own birth date and time, because she was interested to know how well, if at all, their two personalities would blend. My friend has always disclaimed any belief in the sur-rational nonsense, but what she discovered was sufficiently consonant with her own intuition that she decided to look elsewhere for representation, and she subsequently learned things about this man’s work and behavior made her thank Fortuna for having avoided him.

Some time later, this playwright was working up a group of characters for a play, a modern version of Arthur Schnitzler’s Reigen, a cycle of ten romances in which each character has an affair or at least a fling with the next, and the last in this chain of love meets and loves the first in a final, rather bitter scene. It was essential that her characters be colorfully different in personality, attitudes, values, etc., and she struck on the idea of pulling birth dates out of the air and getting a TO8 rundown on aspects of personality, emotional strengths and flaws, characteristics of mind and spirit associated with these birth times. She also discovered the likelihoods of warm romantic blending or of harsh antagonistic spark-striking latent in putting any given two of these characters together. On the basis of what she learned, she created the cast of characters for her most successful play to date. Piqued with curiosity, I looked in on the TO8 website and gave it my birthdate. What I learned about myself was astonishingly accurate and appallingly insightful. As though someone had private access to my soul. So accurate and insightful was it that I decided not to seek similar information about those close to me. I’d rather not know. How does this Theory work? No idea.

Š2000Trevanian reprinted with kind permission from the author.