9 Feb 2025

Astrology’s star is rising with Gen Z

From Sunday Morning, 11:06 am on 9 February 2025

Whilst technological advancements usually ring a death knell for pseudoscientific beliefs, astrology is having a renaissance through technology and in particular with younger generations. 

To look at what might be driving this, we’re joined by Alexander Boxer, the author of A Scheme of Heaven: The History of Astrology and the Search for our Destiny in Data. Boxer is a data scientist with a PhD in physics from MIT, a master's degree in the History of Science from Oxford and a bachelor’s in Classical Language from Yale.  

A splendidly illustrated apian from 1540 from the astronomical-astrological collection in the Marienbibliothek library in Halle/Saale, germany, 6 October 2016. The library that was founded in 1552 is a historical-scientific protestant church libraty. It is the oldest and with its 36,000 books also the biggest of its kind in Germany that has been open to the public without interruption. PHOTO: HENDRIK SCHMIDT/dpa (Photo by HENDRIK SCHMIDT / DPA / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP)

Photo: HENDRIK SCHMIDT