2 Geary Street – basically 2 or 3 blocks up Market Street from the giant Woolworth store. 0.6 miles, according to Google.

That’s a lot of Zynchronicity.

The Zodiac book by Bret Rohmer in 1968 (confirmed publication date of May 15, 1968)

Here is a list of all the poetry contained within it, with links to the poems where I could provide them. Each Zodiac sign also has an illustration in the book, an example under the Pisces link. Both the illustrator and many of the poets were involved in the "counterculture" and had been in the Bay area at some point in time. Many are ones I also could not find links to and are some of the most interesting, but if you are interested, PM me and I can provide more information, or for info on illustrations.

Prologue
“Astronomy”- (lines 973-978) by John Gower
http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/s … w-ast.html

Aries
“Permanent HeyDay” by Kenward Elmslie*

Taurus
from “The Wif of Bathes Prologue” (lines 603-618)-Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
a version posted here: http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/t … m#PROLOGUE

Gemini
last 12 lines of poem titled “Gemini” by Robert Creeley**
https://books.google.com/books?id=2jj-H … ey&f=false

Cancer
“Two Scraps for the Crab” by Bill Berkson

Leo
from “The Shepheards Calendar” (VII Julye) by Edmund Spenser
the line beginning And now the Sun Hath reared up, ending with line Pine, plagues, and dreary death as in The Zodiac book (many translations elsewhere have Pine translated as Pain) http://genius.com/Edmund-spenser-the-sh … -annotated

Virgo
from “Hymn on the Nativity” (Incorrectly titled in The Zodiac book. Should be “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” in a subsection titled “The Hymn”) by John Milton
found under The Hymn, sections XIII-XV at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_M … ty_(Milton)

Libra
from “The Poet’s Calendar” section SEPTEMBER by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
http://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=174

Scorpio
“A Poem for Scorpios” by Diane Di Prima**

Sagittatrius
“Sagittarius Hunting” by Helen Adam**

Capricorn
from “Astronomica”- section CAPRICORN by Marcus Manilius (the translation below differs from The Zodiac book)
https://books.google.com/books?id=qnYic … ed&f=false

Aquarius
no name, poet Joel Oppenheimer**

Pisces
“On Looking in the Mirror” by John Wieners**
http://library2.binghamton.edu/news/spe … the-month/

Epilogue
“Confessio Amantis
Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins
Chapter Incipit Liber Optimis” by John Gower (lines1281-1294)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/266/266-h/266-h.htm

*While not directly associated with the counterculture, was leftist and would later edit Z Magazine (sorry, just a zynchronicity- not founded until 1987- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Communications ).

**Poet associated with the counterculture movement/San Francisco Renaissance/Beat poetry/Black Mountain poetry

I decided to post the various possible influences for the name "Zodiac", besides the obvious connection to the astrological sign of the Zodiac:

1 – The "Zodiac" brand of Swiss watches;
2 – The murderer "Z" from a story in the 27th of August 1921 number of the "Detective Story Magazine", who left notes at his crime scenes and made phonecalls reporting his murders, saying according to the witnesses "This is Z speaking" or "This is Z calling" (possible influence for the "Z" on the "Bates had to die" letters?);
3 – "Dr. Zodiac", the villain from the 1939 movie "Charlie Chan at Treasure Island", who also communicated with notes he left at the crime scenes and who taunted police;
4 – "Zodiac Master", a masked supervillain who appears for the 1st time in 1963 in the N.323 of "Detective Comics";
5 – "Zodiac Crimes", a January 1967 episode of the "Batman" television series, where The Joker tries to commit 12 crimes based on the 12 astrological signs of the Zodiac
6 – A limited edition poetry book from 1968 titled "Zodiac", that included graphic and violent poems simmilar to the Riverside desktop poem;
7 – The Zodiac Alphabet, from the Middle Ages: some symbols of this alphabet were used in the 408 and 340 ciphers – since the 408 cipher was sent before Zodiac gave himself that name, I believe this is strongest possible influence for the name.

One more thing: in the same mentioned number of the "Detective Story Magazine" there appears to be a section of the magazine regarding fictional stories that involve ciphers titled "Under The Lamp". This section appears in other numbers of this magazine which are available online. More details about this are mentioned on the "Zynchronicity" topic in the "Zodiac MISCELLANY" section of the forum.

Here’s my take on Zodiac’s handle, which I’ve posted in the past: I believe CJB was Z’s 1st victim. She was stabbed with what was probably a pocket knife, which inclines me to believe Z was at least ambivalent about killing her. That he went through the effort to disable her car, yet killed her with a second-rate weapon makes me feel that, consciously, he intended no more than to talk to her; however, subconsciously, he considered killing her.
THE CONFESSION clued me to look at Cheri’s past, particularly high school. I soon found that Ramona High’s mascot, so to speak, was Aries, the zodiacal sign for Ram. I doubt many kids enter high school knowing Zodiacal signs. One of their obvious questions would have been, "What’s ‘Aries" mean?" The answer would be, "It’s a sign of the Zodiac that means, ‘Ram.’"
My POI has the initials, RH; attended Ramona High during Cheri’s freshman year; joined the Navy Reserve after graduation; and married, in September, 1966, a young lady who lived right around the corner from Cheri Jo. Further, in 1968 he and his wife moved to San Jose, CA where he eventually got a Bachelor’s in Graphic Arts.