Let’s go back a few years. The pre-Millennial generation, such as Boomers and Gen X, grew up in very religious families. Religion provided structure, identity, and answers, but also rules, plenty of them.

So when Millennials grew up, they pushed back against the strictness. Religion began to seem old-fashioned or oppressive, and science and reason became the new pillars. Questions were OK, doubt was good, and facts were the only thing that mattered.

But Gen Z, and even younger Millennials, are now living in a world where facts are… well, everywhere – too many of them. We’ve grown up with the internet in our hands, with instant access to every possible explanation, every news headline, every crisis. We’ve lived through a pandemic, watched the world shut down, seen wars unfold on our phone screens, and felt the climate collapsing around us.

Amidst all this turmoil, things are not often clear. Control is a myth. And science, though vitally significant, doesn’t always provide emotional solace.

That’s where astrology steps in – quietly, gently.

The truth is — astrology never really disappeared.
For many of us, it first showed up quietly, in black-and-white ink on the back page of a newspaper. Remember those daily horoscopes printed next to the crossword and the TV listings? Every Indian household had someone, a parent, a grandparent, a curious teenager, who glanced at it “just for fun.” Whether or not anyone truly believed it, those little paragraphs had a strange power. They made you pause. Smile. Wonder what your day might look like. Some people even cut them out, circled the “lucky colour” or shared it with friends. It was harmless, familiar, and quietly hopeful. In hindsight, it was probably the earliest form of belief we interacted with that didn’t demand anything from us.

It’s not so much about believing all the words. It’s about feeling heard. It’s about reading your horoscope and thinking, yeah… that really does ring true. Perhaps it’s nebulous, perhaps it’s false, but it resonates. It calms. Also, it brings back those throwback memories of every household reading their sun sign over chai.