Opinion: The stars say the Dems will meet in Denver, but first come nearly 200 astrologers

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We should have seen it in the stars, but next month in preparation for the potentially rancorous Democratic National Convention in Denver in late August, nearly 200 ‘highly respected astrologers’ will gather in the same city.

There, they’ll discuss such things as business and financial astrology, Pluto’s entry into Capricorn and legal issues facing today’s astrologers.

Who knows they might even get into the business of predicting who the heck is gonna win this drawn-out Democratic Party primary process -- Princess Hillary or Prince Barack.

What’s happening just about three moons before the Democrats gather in the Mile High City is the United Astrology Conference, promising sessions that go way beyond standard newspaper horoscope fare, although here at The Ticket on LATimes.com we find absolutely nothing wrong with standard newspaper horoscope fare.

In fact, we consult the stars before we write every item. Honest.

A conference news release predicts some 1,500 attendees, although how they can say that with Leo rising stretches credulity.

There’ll be some 270 classes examining topics such as romantic and political compatibility, the future of the Iraq war and China’s role in the world as well as astrometeorology (predicting the weather by the stars) and predictions about 2012 which, The Ticket predicts, will see yet another presidential election.

According to Mark Wolz, an astrologer who’s also into yoga and meditation, the Internet has changed the business of astrology because it gives clients access to much more information and star charts and that kind of stuff. ‘People are dissatisfied with answers from traditional sources,’ he says, ‘and they’re looking more and more to the symbolic arts for insight.’

Somehow, we could have predicted he was going to say that.

--Andrew Malcolm