ASTROLOGER Jonathan Cainer, who lived in York, has died.

The newspaper horoscope writer was found dead at his home today, following a suspected heart attack.

Mr Cainer's death was announced on his own website today, in a statement which says: 

"It is with great sadness that we have to announce that Jonathan passed away last night. 

"Jonathan was a Sagittarian and the forecast he wrote for his own sign today is uncannily prescient: 

'We aren't here for long. We should make the most of every moment. We all understand this yet don't we forget it, many times? We get caught up in missions, battles and desires. We imagine that we have forever and a day. In one way, we may be right - for are we not eternal spirits, temporarily residing in finite physical form?'"

Mr Cainer, 58, began writing horoscopes for national newspapers in 1986.

Today the Daily Mail, for whom he had written since 1992, reported that Mr Cainer had been found by his wife, who raised the alarm, but was pronounced dead at hospital.

He is survived by eight children while his nephew Oscar, a qualified astrologer himself, is set to follow in Mr Cainer's footsteps.

The statement on Mr Cainer's website also says: "He was well aware that one day he might not be physically present to supply the predictions that so many people rely on. Jonathan has already written forecasts and predictions well in advance so we shall keep on publishing them here and you can still carry on reading his remarkable and incisive forecasts and insights."

Mr Cainer owned and set up a Museum of Psychic Experience, later the Haunted visitor attraction, in a historic building on Stonegate in the centre of York until it closed in 2014.