Astrología

Astrology in Three Books: From Publishing Phenomenon to Historical Perspective

Astrology returns to bookstores along very different paths: the publishing phenomenon of Kiara Rios, academic research on the Romanesque, and a curious experiment that hands an astrological book to ChatGPT. Three doorways into an ancient body of knowledge.

By Pedro J. Pérez · 3 October 2026

Introduction: Astrology Returns to Bookstores

Astrology is returning to the centre of cultural conversation along three paths that, at first glance, have little to do with one another. An author who fills venues with her new book, an academic volume on the Romanesque cosmos, and an experiment that hands an astrological treatise to an artificial intelligence. Three recent events that confirm something simple: interest in the stars and their symbolic reading does not fade—it transforms and seeks new formats.

Anyone who approaches these works will find something more than predictions. They will find history, art, language and a persistent question about how human beings have looked at the sky in order to understand themselves. This article proposes a journey through those three books and through what each one offers the curious reader, without reducing them to a fashionable label or to easy prejudice.

Context: Three Books, Three Doorways

The first event comes from Salta: Kiara Rios, presented as the new phenomenon of astrology, visits the city to present her new book. The news places her as a figure capable of drawing an audience and generating publishing expectation, a symptom that there is a reader willing to buy and read astrology today, beyond specialised circles.

The second event comes from Palencia: the Fundación Santa María la Real brings together the research of six experts in the book «Observando el cosmos: astronomía y astrología en tiempos del románico». Here astrology is not presented as a personal promise, but as an object of historical and artistic study, linked to astronomy and to the medieval worldview. Two distinct registers of the same field.

Explanation: What Each Work Proposes

Kiara Rios's book belongs to the tradition of popular astrology: a text designed to bring the contemporary reader closer to keys of interpretation, cycles and symbols. Its value, in this terrain, depends on the clarity with which it translates an ancient language into current questions, and on whether it offers the reader tools for reflection instead of closed certainties.

The volume from the Fundación Santa María la Real operates on another scale. By bringing together six experts, it proposes a reading of the Romanesque in which astronomy and astrology appear intertwined in stone, the calendar and iconography. It is a book of interest both to the art historian and to the astrology enthusiast who wants to know its European cultural roots.

Relevance: Why These Books Matter Now

The coincidence of these publications shows that astrology today occupies several spaces at once: the commercial shop window, academic research and the technological laboratory. That diversity is good news for the reader, because it broadens the map and allows for choosing with judgement among very different proposals, without confusing the historical essay with the practical manual.

Moreover, the third event—handing an astrology book to ChatGPT so that it «learns about us»—reveals just how far the subject has become a cultural mirror. It is not only a matter of believing or not believing, but of observing what we seek in astrology when we consult it, study it or program it into a machine.

Useful Information: How to Read Astrology Profitably

It is worth distinguishing genres. A popular manual such as Kiara Rios's is best read as an invitation to introspection and symbolism; a study such as «Observando el cosmos» is read as cultural history, with attention to sources, dates and contexts. Mixing both registers without noticing tends to generate mistaken expectations and unnecessary disappointments.

It also helps to ask oneself what one is looking for: personal guidance, historical knowledge or simple intellectual curiosity. Astrology, like any symbolic tradition, gains when it is studied with honesty about what it can and cannot offer. The experiment with ChatGPT adds a nuance: astrological interpretation depends on the framework from which it is read, human or algorithmic.

Conclusion: Reading the Sky, Reading the World

The three books sketch a rich panorama: an author who connects with the public, a team of experts who rescue the Romanesque past, and an experiment that places astrology before artificial intelligence. Together they remind us that looking at the sky has been, for centuries, a way of looking at the world and at ourselves.

Reading astrology rigorously does not require renouncing wonder or adopting a faith. It requires, rather, curiosity and discernment: knowing what each text promises, what evidence it handles and what place it occupies in our life. These three recent works offer, each in its own way, a reasonable doorway for that journey.