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How did Astrology become a Thing again? Since 2020, I've encountered it more and more IRL among the general population, even in people with undergrad degrees. I checked Tinder the other week before re-un-installing, and at least 1/3rd of the profiles had birth sign front-and-center. I honestly thought this was a slain beast.
Someone talking about capricorns really riles up my inner fedora.
It's interesting how different Russia and the US are, because it never went away here. Everyone knows their star sign (and often their Chinese animal as well, I am Sagittarius/Ox btw), most newspapers and magazines (other than explicitly business-oriented ones) have a horoscope section and every December the shops are flooded with the upcoming Chinese zodiac animal-themed calendars and knick-knacks.
However, interest in astrology, tarology and related crap has been dropping since 2024, likely because more people use LLMs instead of professional esoteric services.
Everybody here knows their star sign, but usually not their Chinese animal- although if you're male you probably don't know what it's supposed to mean. Interest in astrology doesn't seem to have ever gone away, either, although admitting to it might have been unfashionable in elite circles. Tarot and psychics and related crap is still for a) hardcore nuts and b) divorced women, though.
Monkey here. But I didn't know that pre Japan. I used to read a lot of Camille Paglia and I find her takes fascinating but her attachment to astrology was always weird. In your categories she's probably more hardcore nut, though she's also separated from her lady friend. To listen to her talk about starsigns with the same straight faced dogmatism and tachyphemic eloquence that she does with most everything else was an experience.
Women love those kinds of categorization things and take them way too seriously.
Do women actually take them seriously in the sense of believing them? All the women I've known that are into astrology/tarot/etc only take them seriously in the way "gamers" take video games seriously--they put in effort to do them well, but recognize it's just a form of social entertainment.
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