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Renaissance Astrology and the Vagaries of Markets
J. P. Morgan is supposed to have said, “Millionaires don’t use astrology; billionaires do.” Morgan would have known. He hired the best astrologer money could buy, the famous Evangeline Adams, whose clients also included Enrico Caruso, J. Paul Getty, Wallis Simpson, and Mary Pickford. Operating out of a suite in the Carnegie Hall Building, Adams […]