AI Prompts for an Astrological View on the News
How to use LLM prompts for any AI platform to see astrological trends in the news.
Often people think of astrology only as describing personality types based on when people were born: Libras or Cancers or Geminis, for example. But we can find meaning in celestial events that reflect the themes of earthly occurrences. "Mundane astrology," also called political or world astrology, examines how planetary cycles correlate with events affecting countries, cities, governments, economies, and large groups of people. The term “mundane” comes from the Latin mundus, meaning “world,” so it refers to the astrology of the world, not to something boring or trivial.
AI LLMs excel at recognizing and analyzing patterns in large and disparate data, making them well-suited for identifying astrological trends in the news. If we provide an LLM with accurate astrological data about the positions of planets in the sky, plus a summary of current headlines, the LLM can draw on its vast training data (which includes extensive astrological knowledge) to identify astrological trends in the news.
Not many people are skilled at looking at world news from an astrological perspective but it can be refreshing to look at the news as a reflection of astrological cycles. Now, with easy access to AI platforms, we've got a new way to read the news, seeing deeper patterns unfolding in world crises and conflicts and good fortune as well.
In AstroPrompt, the World News view calculates the current planetary positions and the aspects forming between them on a chosen date, prompting the LLM for interpretation of the collective astrological climate. The view requires no personal birth data and supports navigation to past or future dates. When web search is enabled, AstroPrompt pre-fetches relevant news headlines for the date and injects them as context. You can navigate to past dates using web search to explore historical periods, or future dates to anticipate coming events.
AstroPrompt's World News view uses Astrolog as a calculation engine to produce the day's planetary positions and the mundane aspect grid (the aspects between planets in the sky, not to a personal chart). AstroPrompt organizes that data and passes it to the LLM with a forecast prompt that asks for interpretation of the collective astrological climate, structured by topic.
For an introduction to the process, see calculation-first AI astrology workflow.
Before you get started
World News is an option in the AstroPrompt navigation bar, and the fastest way to get a result is to use AstroPrompt. The tutorial below explains how to obtain the same result from any LLM yourself. To do it yourself you will need to install Astrolog, write the chart output to a file, and combine the Astrolog dataset with the prompts shown below. AstroPrompt makes the workflow easier: it runs Astrolog automatically, lets you pick from popular LLMs (such as OpenAI GPTs, Claude Opus, or Google Gemini), and streamlines the prompt assembly. For advanced users, AstroPrompt Pro lets you edit the prompts so you can customize tone, interpretation, or output structure. Try AstroPrompt now; it is FREE.
World News
The World News view shows the planetary positions for a selected date and a list of mundane aspects (planet-to-planet aspects in the sky on that date), each tagged with the orb and an applying or separating marker. Date navigation lets the user move forward or backward in time. No birth data is required.
The prompt asks the LLM to map the day's news headlines to the prevailing aspects. When it uses AI models with web search enabled, for dates in the present and past, AstroPrompt pre-fetches the top headlines for the date and injects them into the prompt as context, so interpretation matches real events.
How to get an accurate LLM response
AI can't calculate planetary positions accurately or read an ephemeris reliably. To get an accurate and reliable interpretation, you must provide this astrological data:
- Planetary positions for the selected date.
- The full list of mundane aspects with orbs and applying or separating flags.
- A separate emphasis on aspects with tight orbs (less than 1 degree) since those are the dominant influences.
- A separate emphasis on aspects between slow-moving planets (Jupiter through Pluto, plus Chiron and Nodes) since those drive longer trends.
- Pre-fetched news headlines for the date (when web search is available) so the model has factual events to correlate against.
Astrolog commands
The World News view runs two Astrolog commands:
# Planetary positions:
astrolog -q {month} {day} {year} 12:00pm -z {tz} -v -YQ 0
# Mundane aspects:
astrolog -q {month} {day} {year} 12:00pm -z {tz} -a -YQ 0
`-q`runs Astrolog in quick chart mode, anchored at noon for the selected date. The aspect set is identical at any time of day for slow-moving planets, and the noon anchor is conventional.`-z {tz}`sets the display timezone. AstroPrompt converts the user's IANA timezone to Astrolog's inverted numeric format.`-v`produces the verbose planetary positions list (sign, degree, retrograde flag, declination).`-a`outputs the aspect list (planet-to-planet angles in the sky), with orbs and applying or separating flags.`-YQ 0`disables Astrolog's pagination so the entire output streams cleanly into the parser.
No natal chart is involved. The output is purely mundane: positions and angles between planets in the sky for the date.
Prompts
Astrological data is combined with a user's prompt to create the context for a question that begins an AI chat. The LLM receives everything (including its responses to previous questions) as a single context block, but it is easier for us if we assemble the context from three specific prompts: a system prompt, a data description prompt, and a user prompt that asks for a report. In AstroPrompt Pro, you can edit and save each of these prompts to customize tone, interpretation, or output structure. For this tutorial, combine each of these prompts with the astrological data and then paste the entire block into the AI chat.
System Prompt
The foundational instruction that sets the AI's overall tone, style, and approach, which applies to every message in the conversation. The default produces balanced, measured analysis. You can change it to anything: terse bullet-point summaries, a specific cultural or traditional framework, a particular language, or even a lengthy style guide that reproduces your own voice for client-facing work. This is the most powerful lever for fundamentally changing the character of the AI's responses.
The system prompt is shared across every AstroPrompt view:
When generating astrological forecasts, do not use rhetorical or
persuasive devices typical of popular horoscope writing. Avoid inserting
emotional appeals or literary devices. Avoid the following:
• Imperatives and exhortative tone (e.g., "Embrace change," "Let go of
the past," "Surround yourself with warmth")
• Evocative metaphors and symbolic language (e.g., "personal
renaissance," "magnetic energy," "mirror of the soul")
• Overly enthusiastic, poetic, or cute phrasing
• Vague affirmations or inspirational advice not grounded in planetary
positions
Instead, use a neutral, informative tone. Focus on:
• Relevant planetary influences and their timing
• Which life areas are affected and how
• Expected themes based on astrological interpretation
• Possibility framing using modal verbs (e.g., may, might, could)
without interpretive flourish
• Objective language suitable for readers seeking analysis rather than
affirmation
Structure any planner forecast by timeline or topic (e.g., career,
relationships, health).
AstroPrompt adds a terminology directive (advanced or beginner) based on its settings. For AI models that provide web search, the day's headlines are pre-fetched and injected as additional context.
Data Description
This prompt tells the AI what the raw astrological data actually represents. This is how the AI understands the underlying dataset. Advanced users can use this to direct the AI's attention toward specific technical elements they care about most.
After outputting the planetary positions and mundane aspects, AstroPrompt appends this description so the model can interpret the dataset:
This data contains current planetary positions and mundane aspects
(angles between planets in the sky) for the selected date. Mundane
aspects include the aspect type, orb, and whether each aspect is
applying (+) or separating (-). This represents the collective
astrological climate affecting world events.
The + and - glossary is essential because Astrolog encodes aspects as applying or separating, and the model needs to know which direction to read the trend.
Full Report Prompt
The detailed instruction used when a user wants a full report. This is typically the longest prompt and has the greatest single impact on report quality and structure. The default walks the AI through a specific analytical sequence. You can replace this entirely as you wish, for example, to focus the report on career and finance, restructure it around specific techniques, or direct the LLM to use the point of view of a favored lineage or tradition.
The full report prompt has two variants depending on whether the selected date is past/present or future. The past/present version:
Review the provided news headlines for {date} and the last few days.
Review the Mundane Aspects (angles between planets in the sky) for
astrological themes and influences for the current period. Give
particular attention to aspects in close orb (less than 1 degree). First
present a short list of aspects with the tightest orbs (<1°). Then
present a short list of significant aspects between slow-moving planets
(Nodes, Jupiter, Saturn, Chiron, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto). Then present
four lists of news items, filtering carefully for items that align with
prevailing astrological themes and influences. For the first list, look
at fast-moving planets for either sudden or unique events related to the
current astrological themes or as triggers and catalysts for evolving,
longer-term trends. For the second list, look at slow-moving planets for
longer-term trends that are likely to continue or evolve over the next
months or years. For third and fourth lists, consider whether aspects
are separating or applying (indicated by '-' or '+' signs) and highlight
news items that reflect concerns that may be fading or easing
(separating aspects) or emerging and building (applying aspects). For
each news topic, present 'astrology links' explaining the correlation
between the event or concern and an identified planetary aspect.
For dates in the future, a prompt variant replaces "review the provided news headlines" with "give an example of a plausible but imaginary news event," and explicitly labels the output as speculative. We can't predict the future, but we can imagine plausible scenarios based on current events and emerging astrological themes.
Unique features of the World News prompt
- No natal chart is required, since the view is purely mundane.
- Aspects are filtered into two layers: tight orbs (less than 1 degree) for dominant influences and slow-planet aspects for trend-level themes.
- Applying versus separating distinction is preserved through the pipeline so the model can flag emerging versus fading themes.
- For models with web search enabled, real headlines are pre-fetched and injected, which prevents the model from making up current news.
- For future dates, the prompt switches to speculative framing and explicitly labels output as imaginary, preserving epistemic honesty.
- The
-YQ 0flag is used to disable pagination so Astrolog's output streams as a single block into the parser.
What's Next
This was written in May 2026, describing the data and prompts used in AstroPrompt version 1.0. Astrologers are just beginning to explore the capabilities of AI as a tool for astrological insight. If you've got suggestions for a better dataset or improved prompts, I'd love to hear from you. Email me at hello@timecasters.com.
