Mystical algorithms

When did our star signs start running our lives? According to horoscope app Co-Star, it has been downloaded by a quarter of all young women aged 18–25 in the U.S. Even if we are living in a material world, maybe the great horoscope renaissance is offering something that's missing from modern life? Via a cursed Capricorn necklace and some Tik Tok witches, Kasia and Dan tackle the weird, the mystical and the metaphysical, with help from Frankfurt School philosophers Theodore Adorno and Walter Benjamin - who had more to say about horoscopes than you might think.

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Theme music and production: Mr Beatnick