Astrology regained mainstream relevance specifically during the Trump presidency

Evidence

After a long lull in mainstream popularity, astrology found new relevance in the Trump years. “There’s something that’s happened in the last five years that’s given it an edginess, a relevance for this time and place, that it hasn’t had for a good 35 years,” one Los Angeles astrologer told The Atlantic in 2018. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 603