Evangeline Adams

Evangeline Smith Adams (February 8, 1868 – November 10, 1932) was an American astrologer based in New York City.

For most of her working life, she ran a thriving astrological practice based on consultation by person or mail.

Her May 1914 trial was particularly notable due to the judge's acquittal "of all wrong doing" by Adams and praise of her skill, after she gave him an astrology reading describing the character of his son from his birth data.

However, author Carol Krismann noted that: Skeptics point out that Adams had no knowledge of economics and that her predictions were always fuzzy, foretelling disaster but not specific disasters, and telling that the market would go up when in fact the country was in a period of remarkable growth in the stock market.

Investment analyst Kenneth Fisher has written that her few successful predictions were publicized whilst her misses were ignored by those desperate to believe.