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During the well known variety show, the host has talked quite a lot about the parody of horoscopes. With a sad face he announces disasters, epidemics, bankruptcy and multiple affairs, all fairlydistributed between Pisces, Aries, Capricorn, Gemini’s, Libras etc. And people will die from convulsing. It is like a Martian about to enter the television studio at any moment having said to himself“But look how these superstitions are exempt from this land, as people happily choose not to believe in us but instead believe in the trash which they see on the television or read in magazines every day.”On the other hand, no. People believe in horoscopes. Next years horoscope provided by telecom has had 16 million and a half callers. Subscribers were more interested in the interpretation of thestars by the psychics, che al servizio Borsa dei maghi delle finanze.Sociologists say that people are in desperate need of certainty and so they rely on what the stars tell them.

People who consulttheir horoscopes or psychics want to find out about their finances, unsure whether to invest in real estate or stock markets, girls who want to find out about the sincerity of their suitor, even tomake up their mind whether to choose a job as an under secretary of as a president of a bank.

In the Middle Ages, before founding a city, one cosulted the stars, Popes and Emperors had confidencein the astrologer. Do we want us to be less reliant? The monthly magazine “Astra” sells 150 000 copies and influences half a million people with the January issue, which provides a prediction of theiryear to come. The popularity boom of astrology responds to the necessity we have of wanting to know about the uncertainties of life, hoping that tomorrow things will be better than today, so we relyon the irrational, the occult, sending to hell with reason, che resta sempre la meno usata delle facolta umane.. Listening to what the horoscope says is good for nothing, but gives the illusion of...