A Student's Text-Book of Astrology Vivian Robson Memorial Edition
In the years before WWI, Vivian Robson, son of a surgeon, was trained as a geologist. He got a job as curator in Bristol but left after three years to take employ at the Admiralty in London. While there he chanced upon astrology, which became his life's passion.Quickly mastering Alan Leo's Correspondence Course, Robson was editor ofModern Astrology, from 1918 to 1929, when, as part of the controversy surrounding Jiddu Krishnamurti's dissolution of the Order of the Star, he left.For a time he edited Sepharial's section ofThe British Journal of Astrology. In 1937-8 he was part of the short-livedWeekly Horoscope. In 1939 he moved to a basement flat in Fulham (London), where he died on December 31, 1942, at the age of 52. As Charles Carter and many other contemporaries have stated, Vivian Robson was the most brilliant astrologer of his age. In his life he published a total of six books, four of which are available from Amazon.