Tigerlilly - Lobsang Rampa

ous and soul-destroying having to wear the same old clothes
for too long. In those days I was very fond of nice clothes, and
one found various ways of supplementing one's wardrobe: I
happened to come into contact with a fashion editor of one of
the London Sunday newspapers who accumulated a certain
number of garments to be used in her job of reviewing. Since
my size was average, the same as hers, I managed to obtain
some of these articles which the lady was happy to dispose of
and which boosted my ego tremendously. Finally, Miss
Editor annoyed me somewhat by offering an attractive red
woolen coat which she ‘just needed to keep a few days for a
showing’, while in the meantime having second thoughts and
withdrawing her offer. Just a little thing perhaps, but for a
moment it angered me somewhat.
T. Catt was very fond of flowers and we used to tease him
about looking like Ferdinand the Bull, who just sat and
smelled them. One day he and I had a session of seed plant-
ing—we worked energetically and interestedly, and then we
left them to nature so she and her helpers might bring them to
fruition. At the appropriate time our efforts were rewarded,
and we found ourselves with a glorious array of various-hued
and over-sized pansies, in shades of blue, purple, orange and
yellow; and some were the color of a Tiger Lily.
Some people seem to be luckier than others in obtaining
good results from their efforts at growing flowers; but then one
wonders, ‘Is it perhaps not “luck” but something else alto-
gether?’ Those people who have given a little thought and
perhaps a little research on the subject may have something to
say about the ‘green thumbs’ theory. What are green thumbs,
and what is the reason for them?
Were we to go into the subject ourselves we would realize
that certain types of people have greener thumbs than the rest
of us; and they are usually of the earthy type, such as the solid
Taurus—born in May, a Virgoan whose birth date is in Sep-
tember, or the January Capricorn. These people are in greater
harmony with Mother Earth; and as they lovingly go about
their horticultural activities their particular etheric emanations
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