 The family lived in the San Francisco Bay area for ten years before settling in the Los Angeles area where George Rodden worked for Ford Marketing Corporation and conducted youth symphonies as an avocation.In 1968, they separated, divorcing the following year.In addition to being editor/publisher of the long-running journal, "Data News" Rodden wrote five books of astrological data (the Astro-Data series), and three textbooks, "The Mercury Method of Chart Comparison"; "Modern Transits", and "Money, How to Find it With Astrology".