Picardie's attitude to these well-heeled quacks ranges from affection (the Queen Mother's favourite astrologer is "roly poly") to something perilously near respect (Patric Walker is described without irony as "eminent"). Hardly respectable, but surely something must be going on when even the Independent on Sunday can devote two pages plus a double picture spread to the question of who would inherit the mantle of a dead charlatan. ![]() ![]() But when the late, great Patric Walker (Libra) died, it wasn't just his billion readers - or his income - that attracted his aspirant successors it was his reputation as the Henry James of horoscope writers, as the man who'd made the trade respectable." As the headline writer put it, "Astrology has never been so popular, or such big business. Frivolous tolerance, probably the dominant stance towards astrology among educated people who don't actually believe in it, ran right through a recent article in the Independent on Sunday by Justine Picardie, "Spinning after Patric's Star". I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun. No, I don't mean we should believe in it.
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