Detractors dismiss it as utter folly. Yet roughly one-quarter of Canadians adults, and many more millions around the world, believe the changing position of celestial bodies affects their lives. In Star-struck: My Adventures in Astrology, feature writer Leslie Scrivener explores the practice, meeting the astrologers, getting her chart done and grappling with something that has no scientific backing but whose practitioners seem generous and humanistic.
Detractors dismiss it as utter folly. Yet roughly one-quarter of Canadians adults, and many more millions around the world, believe the changing position of celestial bodies affects their lives. In Star-struck: My Adventures in Astrology, feature writer Leslie Scrivener explores the practice, meeting the astrologers, getting her chart done and grappling with something that has no scientific backing but whose practitioners seem generous and humanistic.