| Foreword |
xiii |
| introduction |
xix |
| 1. This is His Animal - the Ancient World |
1 |
| 2. Glad Hearts - the Dark Ages |
10 |
| 3. Mark of a Worm - the Middle Ages |
17 |
| 4. The Shepherd's Calendar |
25 |
| 5. Going Natural - the Sixteenth Century |
31 |
| 6. Wind and Fruit - Almanacs |
38 |
| 7. Astrology's Golden Age |
44 |
| 8. The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries |
54 |
| 9. The Nineteeth Century Revival |
61 |
| 10. No Less an Exact Science - the Theosophists |
66 |
| 11. Hated Virtues - Solar Biology |
73 |
| 12. Alan Leo |
81 |
| 13. Evangeline Adams |
86 |
| 14. Fencers and Bearwards - Astrology and the Law |
90 |
| 15. Popular Astrology in the 1920s |
105 |
| 16. Cheiro |
110 |
| 17. Popular Astrology in the 1930s |
117 |
| 18. Eary Sun Sign Columns |
123 |
| 19. The 1930s Boom in Sun Sign Astrology |
128 |
| 20. The Big Fight - Naylor Versus Barbanell |
143 |
| 21. Astrology and Popular Culture in the 1930s |
150 |
| 22. Entering the Age of Aquarius - the 1960s |
156 |
| 23. The Queen of Sun Sign Astrology - Linda Goodman |
161 |
| 24. Scientists Fight Back |
165 |
| 25. Thirteen Signs? |
173 |
| 26. Hall of Fame |
183 |
| Bibliography |
199 |
| Index |
221 |