Overview
- On January 16, BILD posted multiple weekly, sign‑specific horoscopes using a recurring three‑part format focused on love and friends, work and finances, and fitness and feeling.
- TAG24 offered free daily horoscopes for January 16 and promoted its January 17 edition with sign‑by‑sign guidance.
- Augsburger Allgemeine published daily horoscope pages that also emphasize the scientific consensus that horoscopes cannot reliably predict personality or the future.
- Coverage cites a Clearer Thinking study led by Spencer Greenberg and André Ferretti showing 152 astrologers matched personality profiles to zodiac signs no better than chance, averaging about 2.49 correct out of 12.
- Reports explain the Barnum/Forer effect and targeted, broadly phrased wording as reasons horoscopes seem accurate, and advise against using them for important life decisions.