![]() “Hitler, I don’t believe, ever asked anyone to do his horoscope,” Kurlander told me. The führer kept his distance from these dark arts. Today, everyone agrees upon the basic facts of Hitler’s horoscope - Taurus sun, Capricorn moon, and Libra rising - but astrologers continue to agonize over their interpretations. Occultists used the stars as evidence for all kinds of fringe theories, including the Germans’ Indo-Aryan inheritance and their place at the top of some grand racial hierarchy. In Germany at the time, “strology was the supernatural solvent uniting virtually all occult and border scientific practitioners,” writes historian Eric Kurlander in his book, Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. That Ebertin’s chart was totally wrong - she placed Hitler’s sun in Aries, when in fact he is a well-known Taurus - didn’t dampen the public’s zeal for astrology (or fascism). She went on to predict the Beer Hall Putsch, the Nazi Party’s failed coup d’etat in Munich, writing that the “fighter” might soon “place himself in danger… start the stone rolling.” ![]() “he man must definitely be taken seriously and is destined for the role of a leader in future struggles,” Ebertin wrote. The interest began in 1923, when German astrologer Elsbeth Ebertin self-published her horoscope of an anonymous politician born ApHitler’s birthday. “Every time I seem to think it’s done and finally over, it starts again,” astrologer Michelle Young said of the endless intrigue around the führer's horoscope, which consistently ranks in the top 20 Astrotheme profiles, a few notches behind the son of God and Johnny Depp. In particular, Adolf Hitler’s chart has been an object of fascination for almost 100 years. Alongside Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, and the 14th Dalai Lama, you’ll find dictators, serial killers (Gary Ridgway was an Aquarius he probably turned to murder because it made him seem unique), and Nazis among the most popular charts. There’s a reason we call our stars “stars.” As an Astrotheme representative wisely wrote to me in an email, Jesus, who is somehow a Pisces, “is one of the most famous characters in the world.” Who wouldn’t want to see his natal chart? But a quick glance at basically any zodiac site reveals a darker side to our cosmic curiosity. Since I began perusing the site in middle school, Angelina Jolie has been the “favorite” woman and Jesus Christ the favorite man. The top profiles, arranged by categories like “Celebrities Clicked in Real Time” and “Celebrities by Country/Occupation,” shift with the news cycle and reigning zodiac sign, but Astrotheme’s “real popularity” index is fairly constant. With just the date, time, and place of a celebrity’s birth, the software can pump out a multi-page profile of a human soul you’ve only known through TV screens or history books. It also offers more than 57,000 computer-generated celebrity horoscopes. Astrotheme is an astrology site founded in 2002, offering the personalized horoscopes, compatibility charts, and other means of interpreting the stars that have become commonplace in our current astrology boom.
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