Overview

• On August 16–17, watson published two satirical “Miese Horoskope” by Dr. Klaas Kugel forecasting five signs prone to August misbuys and five signs facing September love decisions with AI-assisted imagery.
• DerWesten’s mid-August series links zodiac groups to specific planetary alignments, predicting energy surges for Scorpio, Pisces and Cancer, career boosts for Virgo, Leo and Sagittarius, and a rabenschwarze Woche for Capricorn, Cancer and Aquarius around Aug. 16–25.
• MOPO’s daily horoscopes for August 17 and 18 deliver sign-by-sign advice on setting boundaries, managing tasks and navigating relationships based on that day’s celestial influences.
• Across outlets, articles uniformly attribute emotional shifts, professional opportunities and consumer tendencies to movements of Pluto, Mars, Neptune and other planets for late-August and early-September periods.
• All pieces include transparency notes on AI usage and explicit disclaimers positioning astrology as entertainment rather than scientific fact.