Jonathan Cainer Height, Age, Death, Wife, Children, Family, Biography

Jonathan Cainer

Bio/Wiki
Profession	Astrologer
Physical Stats
Height (approx.)	5' 8" (173 cm)
Eye Colour	Newborn Gray
Personal Life
Date of Birth	18 December 1957 (Wednesday)
Birthplace	Surbiton, South West London, England
Date of Death	2 May 2016
Place of Death	York, England
Age (at the time of death)	58 Years
Death Cause	Heart Attack
Zodiac sign	Sagittarius
Signature
Nationality	British
Hometown	Surbiton
School	Allerton Grange School, Leeds, England
College/University	Faculty of Astrological Studies, UK
Social Media	Twitter
Relationships & More
Marital Status (at the time of death)	Married
Family
Wife/Spouse(s)	Melanie (Deceased) Sue
Children	Son- Izaak Cainer (Actor) Daughters- Jemima Cainer (Astrologer), Minnie Cainer, Tia Cainer, Sofi Cainer, Jessica Cainer (Tarot Reader)
Parents	Father- David (Retired worker in the computer room at Barclays) Mother- Ruth Kaye Cainer (Retired Medical Secretary)
Siblings	He had 6 siblings

Jonathan Cainer

Some Lesser Known Facts About Jonathan Cainer

Jonathan Cainer was born into a Jewish family, but he didn’t like going to synagogues. His family roots are in the Jewish immigrants to England from Poland and Lithuania in the 19th century.

He once shared that when he was 12 years old, his father had to slap him and forcefully take him inside a synagogue. Angry Cainer stood up in the middle of the synagogue and shouted, “My father hit me because of you jews.”

Jonathan had a very difficult time growing up as his parents never got along well. He remembered how his father casually told him that his mother had a boyfriend.

Jonathan once stated in an interview that one day he came home from school and found a note next to the phone. The note said, ‘Dear Jonathan, I’ve left with the twins. I won’t be coming back. I’ll stay in touch. Best wishes, Mum.’

Within a day of Jonathan’s mother leaving the house, his dad had already moved his girlfriend into the house, and she had just given birth to their baby.

As a young teenager, Jonathan dreamed of becoming a rock star. He played the bass guitar, and once, when his math teacher, Mr. Ramsden, saw the name of a band, ‘Strange Cloud,’ written in big hippie-style bubble letters on his notebook, he scolded him, saying, ‘Cainer, you’re supposed to write your name on the cover, not your address.’

He dropped out of school at 15 without any qualifications. Jonathan Cainer then worked at a petrol station and later joined a band called Strange Cloud.

Jonathan Cainer’s real education started when he began going to rock festivals and hanging out with a group of free-spirited hippies who lived outside the usual rules of society.

He did many odd jobs to make ends meet, and some of them were working as a nursery assistant and later, a factory worker.

He ended up living in an abandoned building in London and helped bring back a well-known underground newspaper from the 1960s called International Times.

In the 1980s, Jonathan Cainer returned to Britain and enrolled at the Faculty of Astrological Studies in London.

Soon after, Jonathan went to Los Angeles to help his younger brother Daniel start a music career, and that’s where he first came across astrology. He noticed that, unlike in Britain, people in the California rock scene were really into anything unusual or offbeat.
Jonathan Cainer (right) with his brother, Daniel, playing guitar

In the early 1980s, with his big Afro and Afghan coat, Jonathan moved to America to run a nightclub in Los Angeles. While there, he met a psychic poet named Charles John Quatro, who told him that one day he would write an astrology column that millions of people would read.

Jonathan always thought that he got his strong gut instinct from his mother, who used to work as a psychic healer at St. James’s Hospital in Leeds. That intuition has also led him into a unique line of work.

He was working as a session musician when a friend read his birth chart. Surprised by how accurate it was, Jonathan Cainer decided to study astrology at the Faculty of Astrological Studies.

He only wanted to make detailed horoscopes based on a person’s exact date, time, and place of birth.

In fact, when he was first asked in 1984 to write a sun sign column, he said no and chose to write books to help students learn the meaning of planetary symbols instead. He also helped create one of the first astrology computer programs.

In 1985, he wrote a book titled ‘Jonathan Cainer’s Love Signs’ and a cookbook titled ‘The Junk Food Vegetarian.’

Jonathan Cainer got his first astrology job in 1986 at the Today newspaper. When the newspaper was launched, Jonathan was approached to write a daily sun sign column. This time, they promised he could also share the deeper side of astrology with readers. He agreed, and the column became very popular.

In 1992, he joined the British daily middle-market tabloid conservative newspaper named ‘Daily Mail,’ and even though they offered him £1 million to stay, he was lured away in 2000 by the Express, which was the same newspaper that had once listed him as one of Britain’s top 10 most dangerous anarchists back in 1975.

Jonathan Cainer didn’t like the opinions or positions the Daily Mail took in its articles, and he stated that he had never agreed with any of them.

He was also generous with his money, helping fund the Steiner School in York, which follows the spiritual and educational ideas of Rudolf Steiner.

In January 2000, Jonathan left the Daily Mail and started working for the UK-based newspaper named ‘Daily Express.’ This led to a contract disagreement with the Daily Mail, and the paper even took him to court that year, but lost.

The Daily Mail’s bosses thought his move could cause them to lose about 4% of their readers to the Express.

After Richard Desmond became the proprietor of the Express titles, Cainer joined the British national daily tabloid newspaper named ‘Daily Mirror’ in March 2001, which felt like a dream come true to him at first. But things didn’t go as planned.

In an interview, Jonathan Cainer claimed that the editor of ‘The Mirror’ newspaper, Piers Morgan, made a big deal about hiring him and compared it to Arsenal signing David Beckham, but then didn’t give him much work for two years.

The Mirror editor, Piers Morgan, had promised Jonathan Cainer a prime spot for his column on page 9, but it was soon moved to a less noticeable part of the paper. In June 2004, Jonathan Cainer went back to the Daily Mail.

In the 1990s, his first wife died suddenly in a car accident, leaving him to raise their young children on his own.

In the early 2000s, Jonathan Cainer bought a 650-year-old building in Stonegate, York, England, to start something he called the ‘Museum of Psychic Experience.’ He first started out by selling horoscopes. He owned the shop till 2014.

At his ‘Museum of Psychic Experience,’ visitors could learn how to spot things like their energy points, chakras, and aura, and how to connect with their inner intuition.

However, some visitors felt there were three or four ghosts in the building. One was in the back room, and some people said it almost pushed them. Others said they saw ghost children at the top of the stairs.

Talking about the paranormal presence in his building, Jonathan was quoted as saying in one of his interviews that
I think, and I could feel them. I’ve been into every room and every cupboard, and there was something there, so I thought I’d open it up to be public.”
Jonathan was always afraid the ghosts might not like the idea, so one night he went there and spoke out loud in every room, asking if they were okay with people visiting. He felt they gave a friendly answer.

Early in his career, he realised it’s better not to tell people very bad predictions, even if he sees signs of them. This happened after he once told a female friend about a big event that might happen on a certain date, and she ended up breaking her leg in a strange accident.

Reacting to the incident, Jonathan Cainer said that the problem is that if you give such warnings, people may start acting differently and accidentally make the prediction come true.

He was used to dealing with people who don’t believe him, but he said it’s especially tiring when he used to meet those who are sceptical about everything by nature.

In 2006, Jonathan Cainer published a book titled ‘Cosmic Ordering.’ He often appeared on British TV and radio to share his views whenever astrology was being talked about. While working at the Daily Mail, Jonathan was the highest-paid journalist in the country.
The cover of Jonathan Canier’s book titled ‘Cosmic Ordering’ (2006)

Jonathan Canier was also a regular guest on the UK-based TV show titled ‘Jools’ Annual Hootenanny,’ giving his opinion on what might happen in the up-and-coming New Year.

On 2 May 2016, his wife Sue found him dead in his home office, where he had likely died from a heart attack.

An investigation found Jonathan Cainer had used cocaine shortly before he died, which may have damaged his heart and led to the heart attack. The cause of death was officially left as “unresolved.”

After his death in 2016, the ‘Today’ newspaper termed Jonathan Cainer as “arguably the only hippy ever to write a leading column for the Daily Mail.”

After Jonathan Cainer passed away, his nephew Oscar Cainer, who Jonathan had trained to take his place, took over his newspaper column and astrology website.