Susan Miller, America's most popular astrologer

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Fantastic puff piece (with a tiny soupçon of skepticism) from the once respected Guardian:

http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/jan/18/susan-miller-astrologer-interview

Make note:

Susan Miller has important news for us. "April's so scary that I'm giving classes on it," she says, tracing a series of points on her impossibly complicated astrology chart. "Look, we have a perfect square on 15 April – 15 April! You've got Jupiter at 12, and Uranus at 13, and Pluto at 13, and Mars at 16 – but wait! It's going to get a little bit worse." She furrows her brow while she studies the chart. "Look at 29 April!" I look. "Some people feel the stock market is…" She pauses for such a long beat that I offer to complete her sentence: "…going to crash?" She shakes her head. "This is even worse – we've not had this since the American Revolution."

Though there is this:

To the sceptic, astrology is a pseudo-science. I emailed the writer and famous window dresser Simon Doonan to see if he was familiar with Miller, and received a curt two-line email: "Do not really follow astrology. My grandpa was a professional astrologer who got up one day and shot himself."

The comments are great! Not too many believers in the Guardian's readership.

 

[Foolmewunz]

She furrows her brow while she studies the chart. "Look at 29 April!" I look. "Some people feel the stock market is…" She pauses for such a long beat that I offer to complete her sentence: "…going to crash?" She shakes her head. "This is even worse – we've not had this since the American Revolution."

Well, this'll be easy. First off, I want to emphasize to the British members that you've done much better in the past two hundred fifty years and we're not going to be shooting you from the hedgerows again. We've outgrown that sort of thing. (Unless you put your army in those silly red coats, again. No guarantees if you do that.)

So we just wait for April 29 and see what happens. Has to be something momentous - no cat in tree in Trenton stuff.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Well, this'll be easy. First off, I want to emphasize to the British members that you've done much better in the past two hundred fifty years and we're not going to be shooting you from the hedgerows again. We've outgrown that sort of thing. (Unless you put your army in those silly red coats, again. No guarantees if you do that.)

"shooting from the hedgerows"? How about "getting help from the French with real trained troops and military tactics"?

I expect the French to help you out again.

So we just wait for April 29 and see what happens. Has to be something momentous - no cat in tree in Trenton stuff.

(I know this is introducing severe thread drift. But I really had hoped for a few more comments. :sniff)

 

[CriticalSock]

Comment. Comment. Comment.

There you go!

Wait. American revolution? What? What's been happening in our colonies? I'm a bit out of touch...