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Queen Elizabeth I employed John Dee to pick the most astrologically lucky coronation day

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When you're inheriting a religiously divided country, you don't leave your coronation to chance. Queen Elizabeth I hired her personal astrologer and occultist, John Dee, to select January 15, 1559, as the mathematically perfect day to take the throne based on planetary alignments. Given she ruled successfully for 44 years, modern astrologers will never let us hear the end of it.

Queen Elizabeth I employed John Dee to pick the most astrologically lucky coronation day
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