If I discovered astrology today, I would probably not be interested. But what exactly is it?

I was barely barely interested in the 1990s, but one writer got my attention. His warm-blooded, intelligent, soulful approach to the work — and his impossible-seeming accuracy — got my attention.

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Horoscope columnist Patric Walker, most likely in Lindos, Greece, though possibly in London. Photo by Ken Goff / The LIFE Images Collection.

“I look out across the slumbering sea of humanity and I whisper these words in the night. And I know that I address …