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Jonathan Cainer (18 December 1957 – 2 May 2016) was a British astrologer. He wrote astrological predictions six days a week for the Daily Mail, and forecasts for three Australian newspapers: the Sydney Daily Telegraph, the Melbourne Herald Sun, and the Perth Sunday Times. Cainer's predictions were also published in Hello, the Auckland Sunday News, the Botswana Echo, and Misty Magazine (Japan). It has been estimated that over twelve million people read his predictions.[2]
Jonathan Cainer | |
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 Cainer on stage at the 2013 Latitude Festival | |
| Born | Jonathan Cainer 18 December 1957 Surbiton,[1] England |
| Died | 2 May 2016 (aged 58) |
| Occupation | Astrologer, journalist, author |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | UK |
| Genre | Astrology |
| Notable works | Jonathan Cainer's Guide to the Zodiac Cosmic Ordering Complete Book of the Zodiac Jonathan Cainer's Guide to the Zodiac The Psychic Explorer The Junk Food Vegetarian |
| Website | |
| www | |
Early life
editCainer was born to a Jewish family and grew up in Surbiton[1][3] (then in Surrey), one of six children of David who worked at Barclays Bank and Ruth who was a medical secretary and spiritual healer. Aged 13, he followed his mother to Leeds where he attended Allerton Grange School which he left at 15 without qualifications. He then worked as a petrol pump attendant, school nursery assistant and factory worker. He also played bass guitar in a band called Strange Cloud, attended rock festivals and helped to relaunch the 1960s underground newspaper International Times. He then managed a nightclub on the outskirts of Los Angeles.[1][3]
Career
editHe was working as a session musician when an acquaintance read his birth chart to him. Amazed by how accurately it summed him up, Cainer went on to study with the Faculty of Astrological Studies. He was interested only in drawing up full horoscopes, based on people's exact date, time and place of birth. Indeed, when first approached, back in 1984 to write a sun sign forecast column, he turned down the offer, opting instead to write books designed to help students learn the language of planetary symbolism. Cainer also co-designed one of the first astrological computer programs.[citation needed] In 1985 he wrote Jonathan Cainer's Love Signs,[4] and a cookbook, The Junk Food Vegetarian.[5]
In 1986, when Eddie Shah launched Today, Cainer was approached once more to write a daily Sun sign column. Assured that he would also have the chance to introduce his readers to the deeper side of his subject, Cainer took the post, and his column proved a great success. He left Today in January 1992 and joined the Daily Mail in December of the same year. His Times obituary said that he was "arguably the only hippy ever to write a leading column for the Daily Mail".[6] Cainer disliked the editorial stances of the Daily Mail, he "never once agreed with an editorial they have published".[6] Cainer was a philanthropist who supported the Steiner School in York, a school based on the spiritual and philosophical principles of Rudolf Steiner. In January 2000, he moved from the Daily Mail to the Daily Express. The change was the subject of a contract dispute with the Mail, leading to the newspaper group's unsuccessful legal action that year. It was believed by their executives that Cainer's switch might lead to a loss of 4% of the Mail's circulation to the Express. After Richard Desmond became the proprietor of the Express titles, Cainer joined the Daily Mirror in March 2001. Promised a high-profile position on page 9 by Mirror editor Piers Morgan, Cainer's column was soon shifted to a more remote location in the paper. He returned to the Daily Mail in June 2004.[6][7] Cainer's book, Cosmic Ordering,[8] was published in 2006.[9] He made frequent appearances as a pundit on British TV and radio stations, whenever astrology was in the news. At the Mail, he was the highest paid journalist in Great Britain.[6]
He was also a regular guest on Jools' Annual Hootenanny giving his opinion on what might happen in the up-and-coming New Year.
From 1999 until 2014, Cainer owned 35 Stonegate in York, initially selling horoscopes from the shop. In 2004, he worked with Uri Geller to relaunch it as the Museum of Psychic Experience, but the venture was not a success. In 2007, he transformed the building into Haunted, a haunted house attraction, which closed in 2014.[10]
Cainer had six children. In the 1990s his first wife was killed suddenly in a car crash leaving him alone to care for his young children. On 2 May 2016 he was found dead in his home office by his wife Sue, of a suspected heart attack.[11] An inquest found that he had taken cocaine shortly before his death, the cardiotoxic effects of which may have contributed to his heart attack. An open verdict was returned.[12] Following his death, his nephew Oscar Cainer, whom Jonathan trained as his successor, took over his newspaper column and astrology website.[13] Since Jonathan Cainer had prepared his parting years before his death, I doubt very much that his death was accidental. He was very ill years before his death, and preparing the digital library and archive of astrological predictions, for decades to come, recording his voice in all readings, and did it with the help of Oscar that he always named as being his brother and not his nephew. He has self declared on his site to all his customers, that he will soon be gone and that his brother will keep taking care of the website and that he will keep giving predictions prerecorded and done by him by following the charts and planets movements who can easily be calculated in advance. That's how Jonathan Cainer is still giving predictions from beyond the other side. The intake of cocaine might suggest that he ended his own life to avoid a long agony due to illness. But J. Cainer knew at least 2-3 years before his death, that he was about to die. How do you explain that he created a digital vocal and videos library of astrological predictions, still used today in December 2024, since 2016, allowing his brother (or nephew) to keep him virtually alive, if his death occured unexpectedly? Jonathan Cainer was also astrologer of the queen and now King of England, which he told and wrote about on his site, but this information is missing form his life here. It is peculiar and important enough to be mentioned in his Wikipedia side. Jonathan Cainer was very ill. Probably cancer the way the disease was progressing and affecting him and his voice. It was visible in his monthly videos, long before his death. Something is missing from this site. It's like only a poor half of his life and end was written. I hope that my contribution will have help to shed some light on what really happened to Jonathan Cainer.
He keeps living and counseling and predicting and guiding people, 9 years after his death, through the fantastic astrological archive he created, and his voice keeps being heard by millions people worldwide, listening to his weekly and monthly predictions.
Beyond death, Cainer still spread words of wisdom, kindness, humor, and love to all his silent followers. Nobody before him had done that, and its a pity that the person who wrote this site about him on Wikipedia wasn't even one of his friends or one of his customers, never heard his astrological predictions, and didn't knew much about him, and therefore gave a poor description of his work and career, and didn't even mentioned his website nor gave the link to it, thus the Jonathan Cainer astrology website is his biggest contribution to astrology, thanks to the huge library he created, who is consulted everyday by millions people. The website has existed since 2001. Since the beginning of internet.
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Guardian Comment June 2004 Retrieved 3 May 2016
- ^ The Observer Profile
- ^ a b Lucky Stars I Didn't Foresee a Career in Astrology The Yorkshire Post Retrieved 3 May 2016
- ^ Hardcover: 64 pages Publisher: Piatkus Books (24 January 1985) ISBN 0861883152 ISBN 978-0861883158
- ^ Paperback: 96 pages Publisher: Piatkus Books (27 June 1985) ISBN 0861883438 ISBN 978-0861883431
- ^ a b c d "Jonathan Cainer". The Times. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 25 March 2017. (subscription required)
- ^ The Guardian, Monday 19 January 2004
- ^ Jonathan., Cainer (2007). Cosmic ordering : how to make your dreams come true (1st U.S. ed.). New York: Collins. ISBN 9780061253744. OCLC 86075047.
- ^ Daily Telegraph 8 April 2006
- ^ "Haunted to close: Astrologer gives up the ghost on spooky attraction". York Mix. 14 August 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
- ^ Jonathan Cainer dead aged 58
- ^ Criddle, Cristina (31 August 2016). "Astrologer Jonathan Cainer took cocaine before he died from a heart attack, coroner told". The Telegraph. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
- ^ "Jonathan Cainer had taken cocaine before he died, inquest hears". 31 August 2016.