Almost Twenty Years Ago, Vanity Fair Published America’s Horoscope.
Social media users are latching on to the ominous accuracy of Michael Lutin’s horoscope about the United States,
published in the magazine's January 2007 issue.
Was It Prescient?
Editor’s note: Way back in the day—the day being 2007, when we used Motorola Razrs and wore True Religion jeans—Vanity Fair published this 2,500 word horoscope by our resident astrologer, Michael Lutin in our January issue. It wasn’t his normal star spiel: usually, he wrote a playful zodiac column called “Planetarium” where he gave unsolicited horoscopes to different celebrities. “You don’t have to be a billionaire to enjoy the finer things in life,” he wrote in October 2004 about Liv Tyler, alongside a cut out of her face. “All you need is Venus in the 2nd house to help you rationalize any purchases and pleasures you’ve denied yourself for too long. You deserve to indulge yourself once in awhile, damn it, no matter what the doctor or taxman says.”
But for our January 2007 issue, he wasn’t in the mood to write about Tyler’s hypothetical shopping habits. Instead, he wrote a chaotic and sometimes dark prediction for America. “For nations, like people, have horoscopes,” he said. “Are we, in the end, ruthless imperialists doomed to be brought down by our degenerate culture?”
Lutin’s essay is worth reading in its entirety. He begins in the 1760s, where he argues that placements of the stars sparked the revolution itself. (“Mother England, once the great protector, was beginning to be the great drag. She wanted payback for all the protection she'd provided. That was when the colonists, starting to exhibit the collective traits of a Cancer nation, came to resent their mother's hold on them. She was getting a little too bossy. And greedy,” he wrote, as he wove all the way up to the Bush era and beyond.
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