King Charles II employed a famous astrologer named William Lilly who actually managed to successfully predict the Great Fire of London in 1666, almost fourteen years before the city burned to the ground.

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King Charles II employed a famous astrologer named William Lilly who actually managed to successfully predict the Great Fire of London in 1666, almost fourteen years before the city burned to the ground. Lilly published a cryptic pamphlet containing a woodcut illustration of a city engulfed in flames with twins falling into the fire, symbolizing the sign of Gemini which was traditionally associated with London. When the fire actually happened, Parliament naturally assumed Lilly must have started the blaze himself to prove his prediction right and aggressively hauled him in for questioning. He managed to successfully talk his way out of a treason charge by arguing his stars only showed the timing of the disaster, not the exact cause, proving that being incredibly vague is the absolute most important survival skill for a professional psychic