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I've worked as a copy editor for a small newspaper.
You wanna know how the horoscopes are written?
Lead editor pulls them out of his ass, often laughing while doing so.
They tended to be based on the plots of, or scenes in movies he'd recently seen, shows he was watching.
I'm not even kidding, this guy would also bombard me with variations of the GI Joe 'porkchop sandwiches' memes, in all likelihood was an editor by day, 4chan shit poster by night.
My god did that smell good
My wife makes a newspaper about me for my birthday every year. She makes the horoscopes too and that's one of the most entertaining parts for her.
Yeah and since we laugh reading them, we do full circle XD
Yep they are literally complete bullshit and you have to be an actual moron to take them seriously...
Also I edited in more to my original comment after you replied, did not expect you to reply so fast, haha.
He I see, yeah that what i though, their can't be science behind this. I wonder when we will start to get "AI" horoscopes.
(I am waiting to enter a music festival, nothing more to do than speak or argue with people)
There are various complex systems, calculations, tables and such that people use... but there is absolutely no actual empirical science that backs up any of any of them.
Therr are no plausible causal mechanisms.
There is also an immense wealth of scientific evidence showing how the predictions are uselessly inaccurate, as well as a bunch of other studies explaining how and why such vaguely worded predictions are convincing to certain kinds of people.
If there is any science to astrology, it is a science of being a scam artist, of psychological manipulation tactics.
As for the actual purported mechanisms of generating a horoscope, they often have psuedoscientific levels of complexity that fools rubes who cannot think critically:
Its complex, and I had to learn it, therefore it's true and worthwhile!
Nevermind that it often doesn't even make testable, falsifiable predictions, and when it does, they are not accurate, they are wrong.
Throw it out like we did with bloodletting, 'body humors', 'vitalism', trying to solve disease with sacrifices and prayer, Lamarckian evolution, etc...