There's a novel like this... Oh yes, Stranger in a Strange Land. I am pleased to find that this Joan Quigley character "was called on by First Lady Nancy Reaga

There's a novel like this... Oh yes, Stranger in a Strange Land. I am pleased to find that this Joan Quigley character "was called on by First Lady Nancy Reagan in 1981", twenty years after Heinlein's book was published. > [Alice Douglas][1] — (sometimes called "Agnes"), wife of Joe Douglas. As the First Lady, she controls her husband, making major economic, political, and staffing decisions. She frequently consults an astrologer, Becky Vesant [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land#Characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land#Cha... edit: Oh, I see other people have posted about this already. Well that's the character's name, anyway.