The Heavenly Body

Astronomer Bill Whitley is a workaholic at the best of times, it now being the worst of times in he having worked every night for weeks at the Jefferson Observatory in doing research on a comet, newly discovered by him, with the work culminating in a public lecture and viewing party introducing the comet formally in showing its predicted collision with the Earth's moon. He hates it when his loving wife of two years, Vicky Whitley, mistakenly calls him an astrologer, what he considers nothing more than hocus pocus. Feeling neglected and thus troubled in their marriage, Vicky, in an effort for a better life and marriage, is convinced by their "believer" neighbor Nancy Potter to have her horoscope done by famed astrologer Mrs. Sybill, who is aware of Bill, his work, and his probable skepticism, and who will as part of the deliverables provide Vicky with a list of dos and don'ts. What Vicky infers from her reading is that she and Bill must separate as she will meet an unidentified man who truly loves her sometime between two specified dates. Complications ensue when Vicky believes she's met the man that fits the brief laid out by Mrs. Sybill, their neighborhood air raid warden Lloyd Hunter, Bill who has to figure out where saving his marriage fits within what is arguably the most important time in his career. Factoring into what Bill decides to do is Lloyd being up front that Vicky could be the woman of his dreams. What may also factor into the equation is Mrs. Sybill and her continued updates to Vicky's horoscope.