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Christmas Week Horoscopes Flood German Sites as Skeptical Context and AI Notes Emerge

Editors present the festive forecasts as entertainment, citing research that finds astrologers' accuracy near chance.

Overview

  • On December 25, TAG24 and MOPO published daily horoscopes for all twelve signs, while BILD ran weekly forecasts for December 22–28 focused on relationships, work and wellbeing.
  • DerWesten highlighted a January 2026 career outlook that it says looks weak for Sagittarius, Scorpio and Pisces, advising caution and delayed decisions early in the month.
  • Augsburger Allgemeine reiterated that horoscopes lack scientific validation and referenced the Clearer Thinking study led by Spencer Greenberg and André Ferretti, where astrologers' assignments performed around chance.
  • Survey figures cited by Augsburger Allgemeine via YouGov, Statista and quarks.de show a substantial share of Germans see meaning in star signs, especially among women.
  • TAG24 disclosed the use of AI-generated imagery from Midjourney on its horoscope pages, and outlets commonly included standard zodiac date ranges to orient readers.