Astrology Sucks

I've always wondered why astrologers couldn't pick winning lotto numbers. Then, I remembered that, like preachers, they don't have to, even more so than pastors.

Some of the most popular figures in the field, such as Russell Grant, Mystic Meg and Shelley von Strunckel, can earn £600,000 or more a year.

A single profitable astrology website can be worth as much as £50 million.

When the Daily Mail discovered that its expert on the zodiac, Jonathan Cainer, was about to leave the newspaper in 1999, it reportedly offered him a £1 million salary and a £1 million bonus to stay. He still preferred the offer at the Daily Express: no salary but all the money from his telephone lines.

From a paying the bills perspective, I sometimes wish I was crooked enough to do one or the other of those "professions." It looks like a sweet life if you don't mind having no integrity at all, that is. It is very sad that so many people would rather imagine there to be spirits and spiritual supernature rather than to actually think and demand it of others.