Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | By Jupiter, the astrologers missed a trick

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | By Jupiter, the astrologers missed a trick

Why, many formerly trusting followers of horoscopes may be asking, was this colossal event ( the Asian Tsunami) not presaged in the stars? Or, failing that, in someone's palm, crystal ball, tea leaves or chicken's entrails? How, in the circumstances, are they to carry on believing? If an event such as this can go unpredicted by leading, professional astrologers, could it mean the whole edifice of astrology is an abject superstition? That the constellations are not, as previously advertised, heavenly guides to life on Earth, but as indifferent, and as meaningless as "a patch of curiously shaped damp on the bathroom ceiling" (as Richard Dawkins once, unforgettably put it) ...