| Jonathan Cainer | |
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| Born | Jonathan Cainer 18 December 1957 (Sagittarius) Central London, UK |
| Occupation | Astrologer, journalist, author, festival promoter |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | UK |
| Genres | Astrology, philosophy |
| Notable work(s) | Jonathan Cainer's Guide to the Zodiac (Piatkus Books), Cosmic Ordering: How to Make Your Dreams Come True, Complete Book of the Zodiac, Jonathan Cainer's Guide to the Zodiac, The Psychic Explorer: A Practical Guide to the Magical Arts, and Psychic Explorer: A Down-To-Earth Guide to Six Magical Arts: Astrology, Auras, the Tarot, Dowsing, Palmistry, ESP |
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www.cainer.com |
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Jonathan Cainer (born 18 December 1957 in Central London, England) is a British sun-sign astrologer who writes a daily column on his website, which is reproduced in Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun newspapers in Australia and the Daily Mail newspaper in Britain, in addition to a variety of Internet sites in five or so different languages, including Japanese. He has also written for the (British) Daily Express and Daily Mirror newspapers. His website includes (among other things) daily and weekly predictions, contributions by other writers, and more recently, the weekly predictions for the first Saturday in each month include an overview of the coming month.
James Silver of The Independent newspaper on Jonathan in October 2005: "He's a self-declared touchy-feely liberal and 'unreconstructed hippie' who took his children on the anti-Iraq war demo". The same article, however, implied that the Daily Mail only liked him because he made them so much money.[1]
After a time in the United States, he worked through the diploma course of the Faculty of Astrological Studies in Britain. However, according to Cainer, when the final submission of coursework was due one Friday, his class were told that they need not hand their coursework in until the following Monday, thereby giving them the weekend to polish their work. This version of events, however, was disputed by the faculty at the time, and on the Monday in question, Cainer and three fellow students had their entries refused, as by then it was three days after the deadline.[2] The three other students re-took the year and went on to pass their diplomas, but Cainer left without the qualification and found his first job writing sun-sign columns.