In the summer of 1941, delegates at the American Federation of Scientific Astrologers’ convention in Cleveland, Ohio, listened to a keynote address from an astrologer named Louis de Wohl. The bespectacled German-Hungarian—late thirties, rather corpulent, flamboyant in dress and confident in manner—told his rapt audience that Hitler was operating under advice from “the best astrologers in Germany,” who had plotted out the course for Germany to attack the U.S. The invasion, it seemed, would occur sometime after the following spring, once Saturn and Uranus, the two “malefic” planets, had entered Gemini, America’s ruling sign: “America,” he warned, “has always been subject to grave events when Uranus transits Gemini.” De Wohl’s [...]
Wait, there are new zodiac signs? But I'm still having so much fun feeling smugly superior to people who think the old ones actually mean anything! What does the future hold for me now?
"Last fall, when the designer Cynthia Rowley, a Leo, emailed Ms. Miller to invite her to her show, the astrologer convinced her to change the date, which was astrologically 'dreadful.' ('Who can argue with Susan Miller?' Ms. Rowley emailed The Observer.) Recently, Elle creative director Joe Zee, a Sagittarius, was cautioned in his forecast to be careful about retaining flood insurance. Not long afterward, 'I had a leak in my roof and my kitchen flooded,' he said." Astrologer Susan Miller, described herein as 'startlingly sane' (maaayybe), will tell you for $500 that you should get flood insurance. She also gets great reviews from everyone I know that's seen [...]
