Horoscope Review: Best Choice for Weekend Forecasts, U.K.'s Jonathan Cainer

Much unlike other astrologers, Jonathan Cainer is most worth reading on the weekends. A nice long general forecast for your coming week appears on Saturday, and on Sunday, a weekly "Love Focus" forecast. Have you never heard of him? Click in his site's menu and watch Cainer's monthly video forecast (available ahead of time to premium subscribers). You will feel as if you'd had a personal interview, and find it to be four minutes well spent.

Jonathan Cainer writes his satisfying daily, weekly, monthly, and annual Sun-sign horoscopes for London's Daily Mail newspaper and it appears almost everywhere but in the U.S. Although a few critics whine that Cainer never got a diploma in astrology, he has earned his international popularity by evolving and improving his website and approach. Clearly a commercial enterprise, www.cainer.com is still, after fifteen years, one of the most complete and consistent astrology sites. Daily and weekly 'scopes are free; monthly 'scopes are available free on the first Saturday of the month.

Fans almost unanimously declare Cainer's written forecasts "spot on," probably because they first tap the reader's imagination with metaphors or chatty openers such as, "Let's say you've gone into a pub and ordered a drink --." The reader's mind opens -- priceless -- and then the forecast's above-average length raises the chances that you can apply what he says to your personal situation. One online interview said Cainer writes 25,000 words per week. There's no question he writes quickly and airily. But I wouldn't call his work sloppy or irresponsible. Writing at that speed and volume the best an astrologer might do is describe the drift of things. At this he succeeds.

Cainer is online astrology's top dog because he's a talented writer and businessman, and always staking out fresh territory. His site was among the first to have phone-in horoscopes and an Android app. He might not please everyone. But his online horoscopes are not fake, and have pleased readers since 1994 (they're in Spanish, too; click on the little Spanish flag). When someone is that successful, it is usually because he deserves to be. Accuracy: four stars out of five.

Sylvia Sky, experienced astrologer, monitors 70-plus online horoscopes and psychic sites for quality and accuracy. Copyright 2010 by Sylvia Sky.