Astrological Practice and Controversies
It was towards the end of her career that Adams took to publishing books and raising her profile within popular media. For most of her working life, she ran a thriving astrological practice based on consultation by person or mail. This grew to employ several assistants and stenographers. For a number of years Adams employed Aleister Crowley as a ghost-writer. Their business relationship eventually turned into an acrimonious one, which brought copyright issues of 'who really wrote what', with regards to Crowley's General Principles of Astrology (now settled with the book being attributed to Crowley but with a recognised contribution by Adams).
Adams was arrested three times in New York for fortune telling, in 1911, 1914 and 1923. Although practicing astrology was not legalized at that time, all the cases brought against her were unsuccessful, and the May 1914 trial brought particular notability due to the Judge's acquittal "of all wrong doing" and praise of her skill, after she gave him an astrology reading describing the character of his son from his birth data.
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