The stars down to earth and other essays on the irrational in culture
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On being an astrologer
I taught myself how to be an astrologer in my teens. In Guernsey, with the endless summer holiday stretching ahead, I picked up a paperback about astrology. The book was, I think, my Grandmother’s. It should be noted she was not the normal sort of Grandmother, she claimed to have been a medium in her…