Was Astrologer Jeane Dixon Truly a Psychic?

Remembered for Predicting Kennedy’s Assassination - She Didn’t

Sep 1, 2009
Jill Stefko

Dixon Saw Dark Clouds Over Kennedy - http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/209446

Dixon made many other false "prophecies," including one about the Scorpion, a nuclear submarine that sank during the Cold War. Despite this, she was a celebrity psychic.

Jeane Dixon was an advisor to many famous celebrities including President Ronald and Nancy Reagan until Nancy decided Dixon lost her powers and supported her rival, Joan Quigley. Dixon was a well-known Washington DC socialite who wrote seven books and had a syndicated astrology column. Respected mathematician John Allen Paulos coined the term, the Dixon effect, which is when self-proclaimed psychics make a few accurate predictions, but the general public ignores the hundreds of predictions that never happened.

Dixon Didn’t Predict JFK’s Assassination

After the assassination, some recalled a 1956 article in Parade that contained what Dixon said about the 1960 election. This was a broad prediction. She thought that it would be dominated by labor and won by a Democrat. The President would be assassinated or die in office, but possibly not during his first term.

Dixon was an astrologer. In 1956, every President who died or was assassinated was elected in a year ending in zero. All didn’t die in their first term. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in his fourth.

1840 – Harrison
1860 – Lincoln
1880 – Garfield
1900 – McKinley
1920 – Harding
1940 – FDR

Jupiter, planet of expansion, and Saturn, planet of limitation were in conjunction at an angle of 0 to 8–9 degrees which happens every 19.8 years and were in the earth signs of Taurus, Virgo or Capricorn in this cycle in years that ended in zero. Astrologers who accurately predicted the death or assassination of the President who would be elected in 1960 used the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction.

In 1960, Dixon predicted that JFK wouldn’t be elected. After he was elected she said she saw dark clouds over him, which was ambiguous and broad. It could be misfortune, illness, being caught in a blackout or anything negative or aligned with darkness.

Dixon’s False Prophecy about USS Scorpion (SSN 589)

Perhaps, most of the general public doesn’t remember this, but those affiliated with the submarine division of the US Navy do. The year was 1968. The Scorpion’s captain Commander Francis Slattery gave an estimated arrival date of May 27. She was returning to her home port in Norfolk, Virginia from the Mediterranean.

The Navy had a phone number people could call for ETAs. Families and friends of the Scorpion crew begin gathering at Pier 22 at Norfolk Naval Station to welcome their loved ones. Finally, they were told the ship was delayed. On June 6th, there was a public statement the ship was missing and the prevailing theory was that she was in the Bermuda Triangle.

Dixon was on Tom Snyder’s late night TV show and averred the Scorpion’s ninety-nine men were alive and well. She called the Scorpion a boat because it was so dear to her. Some people believed her and waited for the ship to return until that fall when the Mizar found the wreckage off of the Azores on October 30th.

Was Dixon Psychic?

High profile media psychics have staunch supporters and equally staunch skeptics. Sylvia Browne, one of the current celebrity psychics, has been proved to be wrong in her “readings” multiple times. Browne refused to be tested for psychic ability. TV psychic Noreen Renier was debunked and forced to declare bankruptcy. Although she claimed she was tested, there was no supporting evidence.

Dixon has been proved wrong many times. Her supporters, despite evidence to the contrary, still believe she predicted JFK’s assassination. Many of her predictions were so vague that, if an event happened that could fit her prophecy in any way, she’d claim it accurate. Her accuracy wasn’t as high as she claimed it was. Dixon's psychic abilities were never tested.