Altman also represents a new type of social media figure linked to the overnight success of TikTok, the app that’s arguably had the biggest breakout of 2020. Touted as “the new age of astrology”, social media has catapulted the zodiac out of our periodicals and into our phones, making it more accessible-and memeable-than ever. “When I got to NYU, I transferred from acting into philosophy and that created a basis for me to not just do something that I was passionate about, but have backing for it in a practical manner.” When Altman began to pursue higher education, she realized her love of history (she cites the “foundational forms of astrology, like ancient Hellenistic, Greek astrology,” as a good starting point for those looking to learn more) supported turning astrology into a full-time career. I wasn’t interested in the cartoons and I just wanted to read the words, and the horoscope section was right next to the comics,” she says. “As a really young child, my parents gave me newspapers to show me comics and cartoons as a way of learning to read through pictures. An NYU alumni and graduate student in philosophy, Altman has fostered a love of astrology since she was a toddler.
However, with her eerily accurate interpretations of the timing of world events and readings of Ben Shapiro’s and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s charts, not to mention hilarious astrology hot takes, it’s easy to see how Altman has garnered half a million subscribers. As such, it’s fitting that the 2020 election’s most accurate forecasting didn’t come from political pundits or polls, but from TikTok’s most prolific astrologer, Maren Altman.Īdmittedly, suspecting that Joe Biden would win the presidency and Donald Trump would refuse to leave office is hardly groundbreaking. With Millennials (and Gen Z) gravitating toward apps like CoStar and The Pattern to ascribe meaning to the latter half of a decade that feels like it’s spinning off its axis-or just to check to see whether Mercury is still in retrograde-astrology might be one of the defining trends of the 2010s.
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