Now these weren't the first horoscopes Psychic Jim ever wrote. Shortly after discovering his ability five years earlier, but reluctant to use it publicly due to his careers advisor's advice, he instead wrote his predictions in his top secret diaries that nobody was allowed to see. Some of these predictions actually made it into his first set of horoscopes above. This isn't because he recycled old predictions and changed the dates on them, but because of astrological coincidences which meant that for May 1998, the stars and planets were causing the same things to happen as Psychic Jim had predicted years earlier. I'm not sure if that last sentence made any sense, but I'm sure if it doesn't, I'll edit it when I reread this. After publication of his first set of horoscopes, Psychic Jim was pleased to see that everybody who read it liked it. Yep, they were both impressed by the spooky accuracy of the predictions. Spurred on by this success, Psychic Jim produced another set of horoscopes for June 1998. The first major difference is that whereas May's horoscopes were printed in portrait, the June ones were in landscape. In an exclusive interview that Psychic Jim did for Astrology Weekly magazine in 1999, when questioned about why he changed from portrait to landscape he said, "When I decided to write a whole new set of predictions, I was faced with a dilemma of epic proportions. Portrait or landscape? Vertical or horizontal? Lengthways or sideways? This decision troubled me for many hours, and I eventually decided to toss a coin to make the decision for me. The coin told me to type it out portrait, but due to me not being able to work my funky computer program properly, it was stuck on landscape. The rest, as they say, is history." So, June's horoscopes were printed in landscape, and once again, they were of the highest standards of accuracy, and only had a few spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in them.

It must be noted at this time (well, it doesn't have to be, but I'll note it anyway) that Psychic Jim's first two sets of horoscopes were not actually specific to the months of May and June 1998. They were only later matched to those months due to them being the months in which they were written. In fact, June's horoscopes feature a Tip of the Day for each star sign which kind of suggests that they were actually written for one day, not the month. Or something. Who knows?

Despite the success of May and June's horoscopes, Psychic Jim went into hiding for the months of July, August and September 1998. He doesn't actually remember where he was hiding or why but in October 1998, the Psychic One made his grand return with a brand new set of horoscopes for, erm, October. Although he displayed a rather scary obsession for Steps and their new single, his October predictions were once again well received. Also for October, he introduced his infamous Message of the Month for each star sign which gave an additional dimension to each prediction. Okay, so they were fairly similar to the Tip of the Day thingies that featured in June's predictions, but seeing as the Message of the Month reappeared on a monthly basis then, um, what was I going to say? Hmmmm, I dunno. Oh well. I'll continue with the rest of Psychic Jim's biography. One other element of Psychic Jim's October predictions was the inclusion of a numerology section. This was the only set of predictions that included something other than the predictions themselves. Due to this unique fact, an original copy of the horoscopes goes for thousands on eBay.

October's horoscopes were followed by November's, proving that Psychic Jim's calendar was working. They were once again a perfect example of Psychic Jim's amazing talents. Horoscopes about mango-flavoured milk (apparently inspired by the fact the Psychic Jim bought some from the shop at the university he went to while hungover/still drunk) and Fructis shampoo demonstrated Mr Jim's attention to detail. At the 1998 Astrologer of the Year awards, Psychic Jim was nominated for the award of Britain's Best Astrologer but was pipped to the post by Mystic Margaret, an astrologer who wrote for the Scunthorpe Gazette. Disappointingly, Mystic Margaret was unable to attend the star-studded ceremony and had to accept her award by satellite, technology that was still in its infancy back in 1998. It was later revealed that Mystic Margaret actually made up her horoscopes, but as the organisers of the Astrologer of the Year awards had left the country without a trace, nobody was able to force Mystic Margaret to hand over the award to its rightful owner.

Despite the controversy surrounding the awards, Psychic Jim churned out another set of predictions, this time for December 1998. This first, and to date only, set of Festive Forecasts had a Christmassy theme, which isn't really a shock seeing as it was Christmas. But what made Psychic Jim even more jolly than just writing a festive set of forecasts was the fact that he'd made an important discovery. While messing around on his Windows '95 computer, he noticed that as well as having a funky publishing package on it, there was another icon on his screen which mystified him. Netscape Navigator it was called. Psychic Jim found that by clicking on it, he suddenly had access to the Internet and the wondrous world of the World Wide Web (you never hear it called that nowadays, do you?). Well, there was the small task of setting up an account through AOL first, but once that was done, by clicking on Netscape, Psychic Jim had access to the Internet. Up to that point, Psychic Jim's horoscopes had been printed on A4 sheets of paper and published by Caverswall Palace Productions and given out to anybody who wanted to read them - approximately three people. This method of publication and distribution severely limited Psychic Jim's audience. He believed he could harness the power of the Internet to spread his amazing talents to all four corners of the planet. He convinced Caverswall Palace Productions to produce a website and would publish his horoscopes on it. The site launched in January 1999 and became the new home of Psychic Jim's horoscopes, as well as other things that Caverswall Palace was involved in. All of the previous sets of predictions were uploaded and all new sets would go on to appear there too. Rather strangely, the prediction for Scorpio as published on the Internet for December 1998 is actually completely different to the original prediction on its paper A4 version. Psychic Jim states that the reason for this is that the stars and planets changed their mind about what was going to happen to people born under Scorpio, but there's probably a more sinister explanation for the change. He will not allow us to publish the original prediction here, probably because he wants to use it for the December 2009 horoscopes. Caverswall Palace's website itself has since been removed from the Internet. A spokesman for Caverswall Palace claims that it is because the company wanted to diversify, but it's actually because they forgot to pay the website renewal fees, but more about the website removal later. 

Psychic Jim's appearance on the Internet in January 1999 coincided with the publication of a brand new set of horoscopes which were rather spookily for the month of January 1999. Back then, anybody who was anybody accessed the Internet through AOL. You see, in the primitive days of the late 1990s, the Internet was a scary thing, only to be used by people who knew what they were doing with it. If you weren't one of those people, you were likely to break it. So AOL were there make the Internet less scary. And even though they hogged most of the space on your computer and their software seemed to interfere with everything, they made the Internet a friendly place. It was as if they had a little welcome mat for the doorway to the Internet, and even said "Hello" when you had managed to enter it. They even told you when you had email and said "goodbye" to you too when you were leaving, and quite often when you weren't leaving but they'd decided to disconnect you anyway. You don't get anything like that when you're on the Internet now, do you? Anywhoooow, Caverswall Palace and Psychic Jim, being representative of people that didn't want to break the Internet, placed their pages on AOL Hometown, a friendly little community of homepages for AOL members. With a whopping great big advert at the top of the page to let you know where you were, Caverswall Palace's presence on AOL Hometown meant that Psychic Jim's plans to dominate the world astrology market could begin. Shortly after publishing his horoscopes online, he received an email from a "neighbor" of his on AOL with the screenname "starwoman". She believed that Psychic Jim's stars were the best thing on the Internet, or something along those lines. What shocked Psychic Jim even more was the fact that her misspelling of the world neighbour suggested that she was from America. In a matter of days, Psychic Jim's Horoscopes had crossed the Atlantic and were enthralling Americans as well as Brits. OMG, thought Psychic Jim, using a new phrase he had learned while wandering around AOL's chat rooms. Psychic Jim had truly gone multinational! Despite this, the Psychic One was already looking to broaden his horizons, and he had decided that his January horoscopes would be his last for a short while so he could partake in other projects. However, he was unable to resist the temptation to unveil the mysteries that the stars held for February, and before long, a set of predictions for February 1999 were in the bag. Once again, these were quickly published to the World Wide Web and helped to expand Psychic Jim's plans for global domination. They were also slightly more explicit than previous months. Whether this is because they coincided with Valentines Day falling in February, or Psychic Jim had been watching dirty films on Channel Five before writing them, is something we'll probably never know.

Anyhow, February's horoscopes did turn out to be his last for a few months, and Psychic Jim didn't return until July 1999. The introduction to July's horoscopes mentioned the fact that during his absence, Psychic Jim had been filming Psychic Detective with his Psychic Sidekick, Mystic Morag. This gritty drama series, set in the North East of England, featured Psychic Jim solving crimes using his astrological skills. Unfortunately, the show was filled with numerous plot holes and inconsistencies and, despite many attempts to get it broadcast, it failed to be bought by any of the major US networks or British broadcasters. However, another unrelated programme with a similar name has since been broadcast. Psychic Jim was tempted to sue the producers of Psychic Detectives for copyright infringement but seeing has he has no evidence that he ever starred in or produced a show of a similar name, there were no grounds for his claim. You see, every episode of Psychic Jim's Psychic Detective series was recorded onto VHS tape, as back in 1999, the invention of the DVD recorder was still many many years away. However, Psychic Jim was also a big fan of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire in its early years and recorded each episode religiously. One day, faced with the fact that he had no blank tapes remaining, he decided to do the unthinkable. He taped over every episode of Psychic Detective, replacing each of them with episodes of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. This means that no evidence of Psychic Detective actually exists. But, Psychic Jim does have the Millionaire episode when Judith Keppel won the jackpot, so it's not all bad.

Anyway, the horoscopes for July 1999 marked a return to form for Psychic Jim, not that he had actually lost form in his previous predictions. One thing that is rather bizarre about July's horoscopes is that some of the predictions on the original A4 printed sheet correspond to different star signs to the ones on Caverswall Palace's website. Psychic Jim explained in Publishing Discrepancies Monthly that the reason for this was due to him getting the Sun and Moon mixed up after getting sunstroke on one hot summer's day. The correct predictions were the ones available online. In July, we also saw the removal of the famous Message of the Month and the introduction of Destiny. Yes, Destiny provided a cryptic clue as to what else may happen during the month of July. "It's something that Mystic Meg does," said Psychic Jim in an interview for Teletext page 342. The horoscopes for July 1999 were also significant in that they were the final set to be originally published on an A4 printout. All future horoscopes would now get published exclusively online, after Psychic Jim had signed a three-figure Golden Handcuffs deal with Caverswall Palace to publish his horoscopes for their website only.

Part of Psychic Jim's deal with Caverswall Palace Productions was also to analyse dreams. This came about after Mr Jim accurately interpreted a dream that one of his university colleagues had had. The dream involved the aforementioned colleague wanting to beat somebody up. Psychic Jim correctly deduced that the person having the dream didn't actually like the person she dreamed about beating up. "I take it you don't like her then," he said to his university colleague. "Oh my gosh!" said aforementioned. "How on Earth did you work that out by me telling you that I dreamt that I slapped her across her face after our English tutorial?" "I don't know," replied Psychic Jim. "I must be able to analyse dreams as well as be able to see into the future. I'll have to let Caverswall Palace Productions know about this. I'll see if I can get an extra figure on my three-figure Golden Handcuffs deal."

Unfortunately, Psychic Jim didn't have an extra figure added to his deal, since it stated in a contract that he had apparently signed that "Caverswall Palace Productions hold all intellectual rights over Psychic Jim's psychic skills and any other skills that he happens to find out he has, including but not limited to interpretation of extinct languages, composition of orchestral movements and analysis of dreams." This meant that Psychic Jim's discovery of being able to interpret dreams meant that he was contractually obliged to do so for Caverswall Palace's website. Somebody at Caverswall Palace quickly conjured up a wibbly-wobbly dream-like animated GIF as a logo and a cloudy background and there we had it: Psychic Jim's Dreams Analysis. Unfortunately, due to the fact that the dreams and their corresponding analyses are situated somewhere on a floppy disc in a dark and dusty cupboard, they aren't currently available for publication on this site. But, here is the wibbly-wobbly logo:

Although a very popular part of Caverswall Palace's website - in fact it was the most popular section for a while - Psychic Jim only ever published three dream analysesises, although reportedly received dozens of emails containing dreams of people from all around the world. "I received dozens of emails containing dreams of people from all around the world," said Psychic Jim in an interview for edreams.com.org.net website. "Some of them were quite freaky, some were even a little bit rude, and some were quite scary. There were lots about teeth falling out and bananas." So, armed with the source material, why didn't Psychic Jim publish more? We probed him for an answer, but he didn't appreciate being probed and left the room.

Another creation produced by Psychic Jim for Caverswall Palace's website was his Prediction Generator. This enabled you to produce your own horoscope. Basically, you chose words from several drop-down lists which when inserted into a paragraph, produced a horoscope. Unfortunately Psychic Jim never completed the prediction for his generator, so a half-complete Prediction Generator horoscope remained on Caverswall Palace's site until the website was eventually removed from the Internet.

Despite his additional projects, Psychic Jim produced another set of horoscopes for November 1999, the final set for the year and the first website-exclusive set. Rumour has it that Psychic Jim wasn't too pleased with this set of predictions. "I blame the stars and planets," he said in an interview for Jumping the Shark magazine. Despite this, November 1999's set of horoscopes included some gems representing some of the Psychic One's best work. As the predictions were now published only for Caverswall Palace's website, they didn't have the space constraints that sometimes hampered the paper versions. This meant that they could go slightly more in depth. Whether this was a good or a bad thing is down to personal opinion but it certainly resulted in a change in style. Regardless of public opinion, Psychic Jim began writing a new set of horoscopes for December 1999 but while doing so heard rumours that Caverswall Palace Productions would be expanding into the astronomy sector in 2000. Sensing an obvious conflict of interest on Caverswall Palace's part, Psychic Jim's displeasure was clearly evident and he decided to go on strike. December 1999's horoscopes would never see the light of day and the incomplete set is now hidden away in a secret vault somewhere in Psychic Jim's house.

In early 2000, Caverswall Palace Productions confirmed that the rumours about expanding into the scary world of astronomy were true. After a secret meeting with an alien named Bob who spent his time exploring the Solar System, Caverswall Palace signed him up to put his discoveries online. Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System made its online debut in March 2000. However, unlike Psychic Jim's horoscopes, dreams analysis and prediction generator, which were all sections of Caverswall Palace's website, Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System was an individual website with its very own domain name. What's more, Caverswall Palace also attempted to market Bob the Alien's site, something they never did with any of Psychic Jim's sites. As a result, it was noticed by AOL UK who awarded it their Homepage of the Month award, thus providing it with prestige and a source of visitors. Psychic Jim was incensed. "I don't know what they were thinking!" he exclaimed in an interview for Angry Astrologers Weekly magazine. "The stars and planets are not to be explored for scientific reasons. They should not provide us with an insight into the formation of the universe and knowledge of our place in it. The celestial objects merely exist to allow us to see into the future. Astronomy is an evil science! Astrology FTW, whatever that means!"

However, what Psychic Jim didn't realise at the time was that Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System contained links to Caverswall Palace's website, and thus to his horoscopes. While he was sulking, his previously published horoscopes received more visitors than ever before, at least twenty unique visitors a month. Spurred on by his renewed popularity, he put together a brand new set of predictions for July 2000. To compete with the technical superiority of Bob the Alien's website, the horoscopes for July 2000 also included pictures of signs of the zodiac. Psychic Jim was now well and truly a Twenty-First Century astrologer. Unfortunately, some of the pictures didn't correspond with the correct star sign. Even so, it was a step forward. Reintroduced for July 2000's horoscopes was the Message of the Month. And, er, there you go. One horoscope that did actually prove Psychic Jim's psychic abilities was the prediction for Capricorn, in which Britain's Best Astrologer™ describes the creation of a video game called Chilécon Carnage, supposedly to cash in on the Pokémon craze of the time. In February 2007, a video game called Chile Con Carnage was released for the Sony PSP. Ok, so Psychic Jim's prediction was for the wrong month and wrong year (he was about six and a half years too early), but at least it was a prediction that came true and not at all a coincidence.

October 2000 saw the publication of a new set of horoscopes for, um, October 2000. For this month, the pictures of the astrological symbols matched with the correct star signs and the horoscopes once again demonstrated the Mystic Genius' astrological brilliance. But, this set was to become the last for almost seven years. Psychic Jim did come close to completing his set of horoscopes for December 1999 and passing them off as December 2000's, but his morals got the better of him. To prove how close he came, here is the logo he'd had designed for the horoscopes:

What you may also have noticed if you decided to take a look at the Year 2001 predictions is a comment in the introduction regarding an appearance that Psychic Jim nearly made on a radio station in New York. Yep, that's right. Towards the end of 2000 or beginning of 2001, Psychic Jim received an email from a New York radio station inviting him to appear on a show. However, Psychic Jim unfortunately turned down the request. "I had a feeling I'd have to analyse the dreams of crazy Americans live on air," said Psychic Jim in an interview with the magazine Missed Opportunities Monthly. Psychic Jim promises that he will have a look for the email he received from the radio station to prove that he was legitimately invited to appear on it.

Having failed to get his Year 2001 predictions off the ground and turning his back on fame in the United States, Psychic Jim did begin writing a new set of horoscopes in March 2001 but as he was on an all-inclusive holiday in Gran Canaria at the same time, alcohol appeared to get the better of him and again, he failed to complete a full set of twelve horoscopes, or at least twelve horoscopes that made any sense. Later that year in September, Psychic Jim returned to Gran Canaria to reattempt to complete a set of horoscopes, but once again succumbed to the temptation of the all-inclusive bar. On the right is a scan of a page from Psychic Jim's notebook containing one of his predictions. The incomplete set of horoscopes that Psychic Jim had begun writing in 2001 stayed incomplete for several more years. Every now and again, over the next few years, Psychic Jim returned to add to them, but never completed them. He was still reeling from being spurned by Caverswall Palace Productions in favour of a green alien and his dog. At the same time, Caverswall Palace Productions continued to pool all of their resources (about 34p) into Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System in preference to continuing to develop their own website. Although Caverswall Palace's site received a revamp around August 2001, new additions to it were few and far between until all new development ceased. The last update to the site was in April 2005 although the site remained online until late 2007 when Caverswall Palace decided to ignore the emails reminding them that their domain name was up for renewal. By then, Caverswall Palace were concentrating solely on Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System and let their own website disappear. However, Psychic Jim, who had been spending the last few years doing nothing of any importance, was not informed of the disappearance of Caverswall Palace's website. One day in 2008, when browsing eBay for a Sega Master System, he suddenly recalled the presence he once had on the web. He did what so many people do on the internet and searched for himself to try to find out what the internet knows about him. And, what he discovered was that, according to the internet, he didn't exist. Psychic Jim decided that this situation needed to change. He needed to re-establish his online presence. He got hold of the CEO of Caverswall Palace Productions and convinced him to let him have his own website, promising to provide new horoscopes for them. Although Caverswall Palace were now making money from Bob the Alien's site, they refused to let Psychic Jim have any of it, instead obtaining some free webspace for him. However, even though the website would be down more often that it was up, this new site would become Psychic Jim's new home. He would no longer have to share it with other 'features' and would have the freedom to do with it what he would like.

The first addition to the new site was a brand new set of horoscopes. Psychic Jim's Horoscopes for August 2008 were basically the completed version of the horoscopes he had begun writing in 2001. Of course, you may be thinking that this makes Psychic Jim a cheat. How can he pass off horoscopes he wrote in 2001 as horoscopes for August 2008? Psychic Jim states that he never claimed in 2001 that the horoscopes were for then and that he always intended for them to be for August 2008. He also republished his old sets of horoscopes on his new site. Since his online return in August 2008 up to now (August 2009), Psychic Jim website hasn't been the greatest of successes. This may be down to the fact that no new content has been added to the site since its launch. But Psychic Jim promises us that he is working on new horoscopes and is considering bringing back his dreams analysis. He is also thinking about adding a blog to the site. Caverswall Palace has also bought back its domain which it uses as a way of linking to the products and services that it offers, including this website. Maybe this is a sign of Caverswall Palace's renewal of faith and confidence in the Psychic One.