Born under a lucky star!
Astrology, how do you write horoscopes?
Audio 29:00
Horoscope and signs of the zodiac (illustrative image).
© CC Pixabay / Mira Cosic
By: Pascal Paradou
30 mins
Horoscopes are blooming at the start of the year, favorable to good resolutions but also to various and varied predictions!
In France, the first horoscope was published by the magazine Marie-Claire in 1935. On a few lines, we read an often hazardous future, however not devoid of humor.
But how do you write a horoscope and why are readers so attached to it when it is often a simple writing exercise given to freelance editors?
Publicity
Arnaud ESQUERRE
, sociologist, researcher at CNRS.
Author of
Predict.
Astrology in the 21st century in France
(Fayard, 2013)
Marc ANGEL
, astrologer for
Femme Today
And the
chronicle Ailleurs
à Berlin with
Karin Fouledeau
, cultural attaché at
the French Institute of Germany
who will
tell
us about the
poetic consultations.
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