“William Butler Yeats combined tarot card readings with astrological predictions (sometimes casting a horary chart for the moment the cards were read) and at the age of sixty-eight, five years before his death, was still calculating his own secondary progressions for the following year. Virginia Woolf noted in her diary: “[Yeats] believes entirely in horoscopes” and “will never do business with anyone” unless he first examines their chart. After his marriage in 1917 to Georgie Hyde-Lees, Yeats also became interested in automatic writing, but it is astrology that most permeates his work.”
