Madalyn Aslan

Helen Gurley Brown was an early supporter of her astrology work. A decade after Madalyn declined her offer to be Cosmopolitan astrologer, choosing Redbook instead, Helen Gurley Brown wrote to her publisher: “Madalyn is astonishing! A treasure. I’m all for self-improvement, and helping others get on with it — BEAUTIFUL!!”

In an interview Madalyn gave to the BBC in 2005, she claimed her psychic gift was developed as a means for survival in childhood. Madalyn called her mother “the love, and torment, of my life.” She is currently writing a memoir titled Naked Mother.

A direct descendant of Mary Todd Lincoln, Madalyn kept her surname of Todd until 1994. She is of Irish, Scottish, Iroquois, and Swedish descent. She was born a ‘love child’ in Haight Ashbury and did not know of her biological father until she was seven. She grew up in New York City, Hollywood, and London, moving frequently with her actress mother between squats in South London.

She became a member of British Actors Equity Association in 1980.

She had an adopted sister, Cathy Rice, who disappeared in 1974 in London.

Madalyn Todd Aslan (born October 5, 1963) is an American-British writer, astrologer, and palmist. She writes the internationally syndicated column “Bigar’s Stars” in over 100 newspapers, and is the author of What’s Your Sign?, Madalyn Aslan’s Jupiter Signs, and the forthcoming Naked Mother. The New York Times, in its first cover page on a psychic, dubbed her “The Love Guru”, and stated: “Ms. Aslan sees subtle detail that others don’t…with the gently practiced air of a surgeon.”.