Carlos Orsi

They separated the astronomical phenomena from the purely meteorological phenomena.

Perhaps they noticed that the stars and planets had regularities and cycles and were much more predictable then.

other things that happen in the atmosphere, like birds and clouds.

And they separated it from religion.

The stars and planets sort of stopped being seen as gods or messengers from the gods and started being seen as things from nature, but that had some kind of connection with the real world, with things happening on Earth.

But at some time, some 2,500 years ago, we find in the archaeological register in the libraries of Babylon, the first personal horoscopes that describe the position of the stars at the moment of a birth of a child.

and say that because of these stars, this child will have a life that will be such and such.

So the first personal horoscope that we know of was made in Babylon around 400 BC.

Well, we don't have these numbers exactly, but there was a Pew Research published in 2025 saying that there is a very considerable proportion of the American population that follows otoscopes.

It's less than 50%, mainly women and LGBT people.

and the astrological apps for for cell phones and and things like that they are a huge economical success they're one of them received a few years ago an investment and it wasn't an investment from wizards or astrology it was an investment from people really interested in making a profit investment from the investment fund of more than 50 million dollars so it's big business

Well, yeah, there is this common argument that there is what people may call the recreational use of astrology.

People just read it for fun or for laughs, and they aren't really taking it seriously.

And even if the majority of, let's say, astrology users are recreational users,

First, it still may have some influence.

And there was a research, a scientific, social, science, and psychology research conducted in China, of all places, where Western astrology became a big thing.

And they found out that HR professionals there are really less prone nowadays to hire people from Virgo, for instance.

The most interesting part of this research was that one of the scientists, he made three different profiles in a very popular Chinese dating app.

And the only difference between the profiles...

was the sign of each profile.