Nick Campion’s childhood was defined by his interest in astrology.  He listened to his mother read the horoscopes each morning and was fascinated by the idea that planets, stars and alignments could determine an individual’s fate on that day.  He spent his pocket money on astrology books and taught himself to do readings and work out what all the symbols stood for. 

History was, and still is his first love and it was whilst researching the history of popular astrology that the name John Naylor came into his life.  He wrote to him as he learned it was his father who had published the first newspaper horoscope. As a result of this contact, John Naylor agreed to meet Nick in the Reading Room of the British Museum on his return from wintering in Spain.  All very bizarre but Nick duly turned up on the date and at the correct time.  John Naylor arrived with carrier bags full of predictions, writings and papers that he was anxious to unload on to Nick.  Within half an hour they were both outside his literary agent’s house ready to explain that a crowning had taken place.  John Naylor had decided that Nick Campion was going to be his astrological heir and take over all the publications that he wrote for, with the Daily Mail being the biggest at the time.

This began many years of being a society astrologer. These days he is often found at his home in Mallorca still interested in the world around him.  His name is still up there with Patrick Walker, Jonathan Cainer and Mystic Meg.  However, his predictions these days tend to be ‘pull yourself together and get a job’.  

Nick has, since those day, based himself at the University of Wales at Trinity St David in the Lampeter campus. He runs an MA Course on Cultural Astronomy and Astrology and has worldwide seekers of truth as his students.  

Mallorca is home to Nick’s writing time and deadlines and also to his early morning swims in the sea of the Port of Soller.

Nick Campion remembers his astrology days with great fondness and still can’t quite believe how it all happened.  Some might say ‘it was all in the stars’.