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£690 a year for three terms of evening classes. The Faculty
of Astrological Studies (FSA) has 500 students while the
Association of Professional Astrologers International boasts
about 120 vetted qualified members. The Advisory Panel on
Astrological Education lists 14 accredited member schools.
The Daily Mail’s astrologer Jonathan Cainer, we learnt, has 30
staff and a turnover of £2m. “The intelligentsia or chattering
classes go through phases of liking or disliking astrology,”
he said. “Most regular folk just like it and nothing much has
changed, or ever will.”
The significance of the feature lay in its sober, not unbalanced
tone – a marked change from the usual banal rehashing of
ignorant prejudice displayed by many so-called serious
newspapers. Writer Sophie Morris gave space to insightful
commentary – president of the FSA, Cat Cox, for instance,
said: “Astrology is not deterministic. I think there’s a lot of
confusion and misunderstanding about this in our culture”.
Only towards the end of her piece did Morris decide to shore
up her sceptical credentials with a jarringly glib response to
Cainer’s lengthy astro ‘personal profile’ of herself. But much
useful ground had been covered before (what some cynics
might call) this “career-saving denouement”.
Independent gets serious about astrology
“What’s the future for astrology?” asked the UK newspaper
The Independent in its Saturday magazine supplement for 2
January 2016. The long feature that followed dodged anything
like a definitive answer but it took the opportunity to talk to
a number of leading astrologers - such as Cat Cox, Sharon
Knight, Frank C. Clifford, Jonatha