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Who was Isabel Hickey, the grandmother of missing farmer Jay Hickey on Bear Brook?

Answered from A Private Matter, Episode 3 · Bear Brook · 2026-10-28

Isabel "Izzy" Hickey was a prominent astrologer in the New Age movement of the 1960s and 70s, known as Boston's spiritual spark plug. Jason Moon reports she wrote books including Astrology, a Cosmic Science and It Is All Right, gave readings and lectures, and ran a weekly Boston University talk called the Friday Night Fix. She died in 1980 and raised her first grandson, Jay, largely as a son.

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