Astrology has increased, thanks to technology and young enthusiasts. Mint

Crossing Pluto Semisxtyl Netal Uranus in Capricorn. This response was co-star, an astrology app when your correspondent asked if he should work hard. This meant, plain (er) in English, that Pluto can spark creativity in the state of Uranus, reduce the need for “traditional functions corresponding to expectations” and highlight “personality, natural sense of rebellion”. However, your reporter’s editor will not please your correspondent, citing planetary movement to remember a time limit. The horoscope is damn.

Globally, more users are turning to astrology for advice. Co-female, an American firm, has a report to be more than 30 meters of users, for which it charges for questions ($ 2.99 you get five questions). Astrock, an Indian firm, connects more than 40,000 astrologers remotely with customers. Spending on astrology related products and services is estimated to increase to $ 22.8bn by 2031, above $ 12.8bn in 2021, a consultation firm underlines the allid market research.

Some 70% of Americans believe in either “to some extent” or “strongly”, according to a survey by Harris Poll, a research firm, in 2024. One reason for this attraction is the decline of organized religion, which has discovered meaning from gym to politics in other places. Another commonly quoted explanation is the stress of modern life: 61% of Americans say that astrology provides rest in indefinite times. Interest increased during the Kovid -19 epidemic. The Google global discoveries for the word “astrology” were ten years high in December 2020.

In particular, the youth are fascinated by it. More than 60% of the instasstro user, an Indian service that connects astrologers with customers, is General Z. Many people use the platform to seek advice. In China, young people are prepared for another app for CECE for similar reasons.

The development of technology weakens pseudo science, but in terms of astrology they have expanded its reach. In the early 20th century, astrology spread through the columns of the horoscope in newspapers; Internet and smartphone expanded interest for new Stargaging users.

AI is now making it easier even to predictions. While customers need to see an astrologer in the person to find love and their possibilities in life, today they can only input the details of their birth and location on digital services like Kundaligate. The firm produces reactions using a large language model that is trained on relevant data, including planetary positions and astrological materials obtained from websites and forums. Uses AI tools to combine data from co-stagger space (sour from NASA) to give personal reactions to users with insight from human astrologers.

AI and astrology may look strange bedfellow, but there is a millennium-old connection. In the “A Scheme of Heaven”, A History of Astrology, Alexander Boxer, a data scientist, argues that the ancient study of stars was the world’s first “Grand Data-analysis enterprise”. Planned methods to compile the dataset of planetary movements used to produce horoscope have affected large detta and machine-learning tools that generate today’s AI-fuel astrological predictions. This can be the last cosmic cycle.

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