Jemima Kelly makes sense of astrology (or tries to)

“I can’t believe I’m saying this to someone who writes for the FT,” a wizard-like man with a bald head, black-rimmed glasses and a bushy white beard is telling me. “But I’m looking at your chart and – well, if you could just lean into your yin energy a little more… you probably would find something of the Goddess within you.” 

The man is Michael Geary, a 70-year-old vedic astrologer and “spiritual mentor” from Massachusetts now based in the Cotswolds, who was…