Cainer's predictions were also published in Hello, the Auckland Sunday News, the Botswana Echo, and Misty Magazine (Japan).

[2] Cainer was born to a Jewish family and grew up in Surbiton[1][3] (then in Surrey), one of six children of David who worked at Barclays Bank and Ruth who was a medical secretary and spiritual healer.

He also played bass guitar in a band called Strange Cloud, attended rock festivals and helped to relaunch the 1960s underground newspaper International Times.

[citation needed] In 1985 he wrote Jonathan Cainer's Love Signs,[4] and a cookbook, The Junk Food Vegetarian.

Assured that he would also have the chance to introduce his readers to the deeper side of his subject, Cainer took the post, and his column proved a great success.

The change was the subject of a contract dispute with the Mail, leading to the newspaper group's unsuccessful legal action that year.

Promised a high-profile position on page 9 by Mirror editor Piers Morgan, Cainer's column was soon shifted to a more remote location in the paper.

[12] Following his death, his nephew Oscar Cainer, whom Jonathan trained as his successor, took over his newspaper column and astrology website.