Linda Wolf, the astrologer best-known for the daily horoscopes she gave at the end of Radio Rai2’s 07.30 news bulletin every morning, died in Rome yesterday at the age of 85.
Renowned for her professionalism and scholarly dedication to her subject, Linda Wolf was also well-known for the brevity of her predictions: “Leo – be careful; Sagittarius – no big projects today” were perhaps just enough for a harassed Italian commuter to take in at that time of the morning – hence Wolf’s popularity.
Linda Wolf was born into an Italian-Swiss family and her father was a journalist. She went to university in Rome and soon became interested in astrology and eastern philosophy, becoming a follower of Paramhansa Yogananda. She admired the astrologists Marceline Sènard and Alan Leo. In the 1970s she was personal astrologer to the singer Patty Pravo.
Wolf wrote several books which were published by Fabbri, Rizzoli and Sonzogno. In these publications she explained what she thought was the correct approach to astrology, which, she wrote,
“… is an ancient science which is continually evolving. There were ancient, almost ‘magic’ ways of predicting the future and these are combined with precise details on the movement of planets. This is a way to teach man that his path is not determined by Fate but by an attitude of mind.”
She also wrote that the answer to man’s eternal questions about the future will not be found in astrology, though astrological predictions can be made about good and bad periods for an individual and their duration. She concluded,
“But it is not possible to know what will really happen.”
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