{"id":2018834,"date":"2025-09-13T08:50:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2018834"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:50:29","slug":"12-historical-figures-and-celebrities-who-believe-they-owe-their-successes-and-downfalls-to-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/12-historical-figures-and-celebrities-who-believe-they-owe-their-successes-and-downfalls-to-astrology\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Historical Figures and Celebrities Who Believe They Owe Their Successes (and Downfalls) to Astrology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>Lady Gaga can consult astrologists all she wants. We\u2019d prefer our world leaders have more robust inner circles, though.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">12 <span>The Reagans <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>Ronald says it didn\u2019t have an impact on his governing, but he regularly consulted a celebrity astrologer. Nancy Reagan\u2019s astrologer <i>reportedly<\/i> helped avoid an assassination, which then opened the floodgates for Nancy to manage Ron\u2019s schedule entirely based on the stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">11 <span>Albrecht Von Wallenstein <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>He was a Catholic general during the Thirty Years War, and as a young man, got his charts read by none other than Johannes Kepler. He relied on his reading for his entire career, and a lot of it appeared to come to fruition \u2014 many great successes against Sweden, and several losses so disastrous, he got demoted and even his personal astrologer was like \u201cmaybe we shouldn\u2019t see each other anymore.\u201d He even died the year Kepler said he would.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">10 <span>Cleopatra <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>In her day, Egyptian astrology was akin to a hard science. As luck would have it, there was a lot of throne iconography swirling around the goddess Isis, which Cleopatra used to her advantage, commissioning prominent zodiac murals.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">9 <span>Rudolf Hess <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>One of Hitler\u2019s top advisers, his team of astrologers told him that it was a great time to engage in peace negotiations with Britain. When he attempted it, his plane crashed, and he was arrested and imprisoned.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">8 <span>Angelina Jolie <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>She\u2019s consulted astrologers for things like when to have medical procedures, when to release her movies and when to marry Brad Pitt. To solidify her astrology girlie bona fides, she\u2019s said, \u201cI think (Geminis are) mistaken for being of two faces, but we probably have 20, which is probably why a lot of us are actors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">7 <span>King Hammurabi <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>It\u2019s very possible that the study of astrology started during Hammurabi\u2019s reign, and as such, it seems to have featured heavily in his famous Code. He wrote the laws, which were whispered to him by the planet-gods, which people learned about from his laws. Pretty airtight legal system.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">6 <span>Alexander the Great <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>Alexander is credited with mixing Eastern astrology with Greek mathematics, creating an unholy amalgam that looks like modern astrology. And the fact that astrologers claimed to have used this new concoction to accurately predict Alexander\u2019s death made it irreversibly popular.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">5 <span>Queen Elizabeth I <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>After her astronomer John Dee accurately predicted that her murderous sister would actually <i>die<\/i> instead of <i>kill her<\/i>, he became her right-hand man when she ascended the throne. This guy was a practitioner of iatromathematics, or astrology-based internal medicine. He also dabbled in telescopes and talking to angels.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">4 <span>Lady Gaga <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>The timing of her \u201cBorn This Way Ball\u201d tour was, tragically, shaping up to take place at least partially while Mercury was in retrograde. She worked with a team of spiritual advisors to tiptoe through the unlucky season and, to their credit, it was an extremely lucrative and well-reviewed tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">3 <span>Isabel Peron <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>She became the president of Argentina after her husband appointed her VP and he promptly died. Having zero qualifications, she relied on the tutelage of a mysterious dork called \u201cThe Sorcerer,\u201d and together they ran their cruel and inept government based on astrology.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">2 <span>French Presidents <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>Francois Mitterand saw Charles de Gaulle consult astrologers in the \u201860s, so he did the same thing during his presidency in the \u201890s. Contemporary world leaders were horrified to see him working with his personal astrologer to help navigate the freaking Gulf War. But that turned out fine and nothing bad happened there ever again.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">1 <span>Indira Gandhi <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>She was a skeptic earlier in her life, but when an astrologer correctly predicted the death of her son, she went full zodiac mode. When she became the prime minister of India, she was very open about her reliance on astrology. She also became extremely paranoid, having her administration interview local astrologers who predicted bad things. All those bummer predictions seem to have piled up, because she was assassinated by her own bodyguards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Get more Cracked directly to your inbox. Sign up for Cracked newsletters at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cracked.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cracked News Letters Signup;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cracked News Letters Signup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Gaga can consult astrologists all she wants. We\u2019d prefer our world leaders have more robust inner circles, though. 12 The Reagans Ronald says it didn\u2019t have an impact on his governing, but he regularly consulted a celebrity astrologer. Nancy Reagan\u2019s astrologer reportedly helped avoid an assassination, which then opened the floodgates for Nancy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2018835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[370616,370618,25405,370617],"class_list":["post-2018834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-johannes-kepler","tag-king-hammurabi","tag-lady-gaga","tag-nancy-reagan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/12-Historical-Figures-and-Celebrities-Who-Believe-They-Owe-Their.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}