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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 professional assessment, nonetheless, was that the stars portended eventual disaster for Hitler. “We can’t predict a date for his defeat,” he said, “but if the United States enters the war before next spring, he is doomed.” READ MORE

A series dedicated to explaining Britain's manufactured celebrities to an American audience. READ MORE

A series dedicated to explaining Britain's manufactured celebrities to an American audience. READ MORE

A series dedicated to explaining Britain's manufactured celebrities to an American audience. READ MORE

A series dedicated to explaining Britain's manufactured celebrities to an American audience. READ MORE

A series dedicated to explaining Britain's manufactured celebrities to an American audience. READ MORE

A series dedicated to explaining Britain's manufactured celebrities to an American audience. READ MORE

A series dedicated to explaining Britain's manufactured celebrities to an American audience. READ MORE

A column dedicated to explaining Britain's manufactured celebrities to an American audience. READ MORE