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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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